Read our blog 'Place Matters – But It’s Only One Asset' by Dee Brooks and Fiona Miller

"... Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), place is just one part of a much bigger picture."

https://ow.ly/UkXf50XWuVb

#JederInstitute #Blog #ABCD #CommunityAssets #Community #PlaceMatters #NewRead

You’re Not Antisocial, But Your Neighborhood Might Be When the physical form of a place supports proximity, routine encounters, and a diversity of public life, civic engagement doesn't need to be engineered; it emerges.

You’re not #AntiSocial, but your #Neighborhood might be. #PlaceMatters #CleanSweep #NeighborhoodInvestmentInitiative #BowlingAlone @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social bit.ly/49aCZTD

Leveraging Place in Practice Place Speaks Before We Plan

Leveraging Place in Practice

Autumn teaches what continuity really is:
mountains feeling nearer, light bending gold,
a landscape you recognize before you name it.

#PlaceMatters #SantaFe #LandscapeLogic #Continuity

All we want to address is

#HealthEquity
#SocialDeterminants
#UpstreamCauses
#PlaceMatters
#StructuralRacism
#EnvironmentalJustice
#HousingStability
#FoodSecurity
#CleanAir
#SafeNeighborhoods
#EconomicOpportunity
#EducationAccess
#TransportationJustice
#HealthInAllPolicies

#HealthEquity
#SocialDeterminants
#UpstreamCauses
#PlaceMatters
#StructuralRacism
#EnvironmentalJustice
#HousingStability
#FoodSecurity
#CleanAir
#SafeNeighborhoods
#EconomicOpportunity
#EducationAccess
#TransportationJustice
#HealthInAllPolicies

Thanks for sharing, Pete. Really glad to hear the video resonated with you!

#PlaceMatters #GreaterManchester #CommunityAction #SystemsChange #Sustainability

“The true essence lies in the spaces between.”
Explore the quiet power of Ardnamurchan’s western fringes.

The 2nd piece in my new series of inspired writing & photography:

www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/7/...

#SannaBay #Portuairk #CorrachadhMòr #EdgeOfTheMap #PlaceMatters #DeepTime #Liminal

Really exciting to see the latest Urban Health Index launch today!

It shows us that health is not random - but built in people's environments.

We're calling on professionals to use the UHI to target interventions, inform local strategies and drive equitable policies.

#UrbanHealth #PlaceMatters

Chicago isn’t just historic—it’s instructional.

As a social worker, I see cities like Chicago as living texts on race, resistance, and community care.

We need to ground our work in the places we serve.

#SocialWork #UrbanJustice #MacroPractice #PlaceMatters

Places aren't passive. They’re built from biography, history, memory, and struggle.

A park bench, a church, a town square—none of these are neutral. They carry the weight of who used them, who was excluded, and how people remember.

#Placemaking #Sociology #PlaceMatters

a poster for queen city real estate investments ALT: a poster for queen city real estate investments

What does it mean to feel "at home"? Is it #comfort, #routine, #memory, #performance? My research traces how people come to inhabit #place not just physically, but #emotionally and #symbolically. #SociologyOfEmotion #Belonging #PlaceMatters

#MCRP #UNMGrad #UrbanPlanning #CommunityPower #DesignForJustice #PlaceMatters

June’s nearly here—and so much is on the way.
📍 Liverpool Hub launching
🏫 More schools joining in Cardiff, Blackburn & Cheshire West
👥 Our director team is growing too

Big steps, grounded in local stories.

#LocalHistoryHub #PlaceMatters #CommunityLed

„Einsamkeit“ von loranger ist lizenziert unter CC BY 2.0. Zu sehen ist ein Graffiti auf einer grauen Wand, das Graffiti ist ein Porträt eines älteren Menschen in Negativ gesprayt, unterm Porträt steht das Wort "Einsamkeit".

Nimmt Einsamkeit zu?

Die beiden Corax-Redakteur*innen Vicky und Richard haben sich gefragt, ob Einsamkeit in unserer Gesellschaft in den vergangenen Jahren möglicherweise zugenommen hat und welche Gründe es dafür geben könnte. Diesbezüglich haben sie mit […]

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@jennifermusial.bsky.social #njcurj #PlaceMatters Neighborhood matters: studies by Pawar et al. (2023) indicate that poorer maternal health outcomes are associated with lower neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES). Communities are at stake here, not just individuals.

Buscada | 
Imagined Geographies
An atlas from the minds of New Yorkers. If you could, where would you take me on a guided tour?
buscada.com/projects/ima...

#ImaginedGeographies #Buscada #UrbanStorytelling #NYCVoices #ParticipatoryMapping #ArtAndCities #AtlasOfMeaning #JustCities #PlaceMatters

Place: It’s Not an Afterthought – The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation A place, its people, and its context—from its history to its geography and the political landscape at the time—played a significant role in shaping the course of a strategy or initiative and its outcomes. Even though funders and evaluators frequently emphasized this, the significance of place was rarely considered systematically in practice. Instead, it was often addressed in retrospect to explain the outcomes (or lack thereof). Imagine if, before designing and implementing an initiative, people had taken the time to truly understand a place, including its residents’ readiness to engage in change, and had tailored resources and support to strengthen leadership’s capacity to effect change. More than ever, place-based efforts had been critical for creating and strengthening bonds among people, bridges between groups, and linkages to systems that were meant to respond to their needs and provide them with resources and opportunities to thrive. In this webinar, panelists shared different...

Miss our webinar "When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy"? Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Catch it here: https://bit.ly/3FnjQTc #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Buscada 
Imagined Geographies
An atlas from the minds of New Yorkers. If you could, where would you take me on a guided tour?
buscada.com/projects/ima...

#ImaginedGeographies #Buscada #UrbanStorytelling #NYCVoices #ParticipatoryMapping #ArtAndCities #JustCities #PlaceMatters #NewYorkNarratives

Place Matters are active on other channels!

We’re sharing stories, ideas, and updates about place-based work and community impact in new places. Join us on Instagram: @Placematters_UK and LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/place-matters-uk/

#Community #PlaceMatters

#LocalHistory #HeritageSites #Storytellers #CommunityRoots #MuseumEducation #HistoryInTheMaking #PlaceMatters #LocalHistoryHub

An ink and watercolour sketch of a red wood-panelled building with a simple wooden fence, a door and a window, and homes up the hill in the background.

Borrowed colleague’s travel photo from Upper Island Cove, NL. #dailydoodles Day 1841
#placematters #NL #watercolour

Place: It’s Not an Afterthought – The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation A place, its people, and its context—from its history to its geography and the political landscape at the time—played a significant role in shaping the course of a strategy or initiative and its outcomes. Even though funders and evaluators frequently emphasized this, the significance of place was rarely considered systematically in practice. Instead, it was often addressed in retrospect to explain the outcomes (or lack thereof). Imagine if, before designing and implementing an initiative, people had taken the time to truly understand a place, including its residents’ readiness to engage in change, and had tailored resources and support to strengthen leadership’s capacity to effect change. More than ever, place-based efforts had been critical for creating and strengthening bonds among people, bridges between groups, and linkages to systems that were meant to respond to their needs and provide them with resources and opportunities to thrive. In this webinar, panelists shared different...

Miss our webinar "When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy"? Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Catch it here: https://bit.ly/3FnjQTc #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Place: It’s Not an Afterthought – The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation A place, its people, and its context—from its history to its geography and the political landscape at the time—played a significant role in shaping the course of a strategy or initiative and its outcomes. Even though funders and evaluators frequently emphasized this, the significance of place was rarely considered systematically in practice. Instead, it was often addressed in retrospect to explain the outcomes (or lack thereof). Imagine if, before designing and implementing an initiative, people had taken the time to truly understand a place, including its residents’ readiness to engage in change, and had tailored resources and support to strengthen leadership’s capacity to effect change. More than ever, place-based efforts had been critical for creating and strengthening bonds among people, bridges between groups, and linkages to systems that were meant to respond to their needs and provide them with resources and opportunities to thrive. In this webinar, panelists shared different...

Miss our webinar "When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy"? Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Catch it here: https://bit.ly/3FnjQTc #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Exciting day yesterday @royalsociety.org! Prof. Sandra Leaton Gray attended the @DCMS College of Experts Awayday, helping 2 shape future Gov't policy. Key focus: the importance of place in thinking about innovative policy 4 culture, media & sport. Vital discussions ahead! #DCMS #Policy #PlaceMatters

Webinar: Place: It’s Not an Afterthought The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation How can a funder support mobilizing and sustaining collective resident-driven action throughout a city or state at a scale that will make the systems that are supposed to serve them more equitable?

When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy. Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Join our webinar on Monday, 3/3, at 1 pm. Register Here: https://bit.ly/4borAjW #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Webinar: Place: It’s Not an Afterthought The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation How can a funder support mobilizing and sustaining collective resident-driven action throughout a city or state at a scale that will make the systems that are supposed to serve them more equitable?

When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy. Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Join our webinar on Monday, 3/3, at 1 pm. Register Here: https://bit.ly/4borAjW #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Webinar: Place: It’s Not an Afterthought The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation How can a funder support mobilizing and sustaining collective resident-driven action throughout a city or state at a scale that will make the systems that are supposed to serve them more equitable?

When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy. Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Join our webinar on Monday, 3/3, at 1 pm. Register Here: https://bit.ly/4borAjW #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Webinar: Place: It’s Not an Afterthought The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation How can a funder support mobilizing and sustaining collective resident-driven action throughout a city or state at a scale that will make the systems that are supposed to serve them more equitable?

When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy. Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Join our webinar on Monday, 3/3, at 1 pm. Register Here: https://bit.ly/4borAjW #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Webinar: Place: It’s Not an Afterthought The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation How can a funder support mobilizing and sustaining collective resident-driven action throughout a city or state at a scale that will make the systems that are supposed to serve them more equitable?

When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy. Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Join our webinar on Monday, 3/3, at 1 pm. Register Here: https://bit.ly/4borAjW #PlaceMatters #Evaluation

Webinar: Place: It’s Not an Afterthought The Missing Piece in Effective Strategies and Evaluation How can a funder support mobilizing and sustaining collective resident-driven action throughout a city or state at a scale that will make the systems that are supposed to serve them more equitable?

When it comes to evaluation, place shapes strategy. Learn how to integrate it into evaluation & initiatives for real impact. Join our webinar on Monday, 3/3, at 1 pm. Register Here: https://bit.ly/4borAjW #PlaceMatters #Evaluation