Draft of Contents for Better for Us BlogtoBook
Intro Post 1: Why
trust me on this?—
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40+ years of paid experience in community development
and education with local and national government, state and national
foundations, private sector
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Academic background: B.A. English, M.Ed., Adult
Education, PhD. Education and Rhetoric
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Training and certification from NeighborWorks,
The Kettering Foundation, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
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Published writer (fiction and nonfiction)
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Executive Director of a local nonprofit
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Community Volunteer with entrepreneurial,
educational, literacy, and social justice organizations
Post 2: Why is this
information important?—
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Communities currently face economic and cultural
divides, mirroring national and global divisions
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Cite local example(s)
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Negative, fear-based approaches to community
development continue to deepen the divisions and limit productive, growth and
well-being.
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Cite local example(s)
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Globally a movement has started to measure and
implement happiness, health and well-being tools in communities, states and
nations.
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Cite global and local (Santa Monica) examples
Posts 3-5: Focus on Happiness
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Global rankings and indicators of change
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Example of localized/global and national efforts: Action for Change, Kindspring, Happiness
Sprinkling, Live Happy and Do Happy Today
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Focus Facts (repeat image)
Posts 6-8: Focus on
Health/Well-being
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Global rankings and indicators of change
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Example of local efforts: Healthy Pima (many
partners), research at UA and ASU
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Focus Facts
Posts 9-11: Focus on Creative Class
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Data on culture of entrepreneurs and importance
of the Creative Class (Richard Florida)
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Example of local efforts: LocalFirstAz, Startup Tucson, Tucson Young
Professionals, Innovate Arizona
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Focus Facts
