Economic Profile

Community Economic Project Profile (Part B)

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CRESCENT TOWN

Student name: Mohammed R Hasan

Student no: 300772540

Submitted to: Prof. John Carey

Importance of abundant community theory:

John McKnight coined the term Abundant Community where community members stay together, work and care each other, raise their children together and collectively work to create and produce their future and abundant communities are vital, productive and important for social change. According to John and Peter, “There are things that people can do only as families and neighbors that are vital to a good and satisfied life”. The responsibilities of an abundant community are to ensure health, safety, environment, economy, food, children and care and no business, agency or government can fulfill these seven community functional responsibilities. We must become citizens rather than consumers and good thing about the abundant community that it tells us to act like a responsible citizen who can bring success within the community. According to Abundant Community theory, our resources are abundant in the community and we have to work together as citizens to create our future by using these resources. So, Abundant Community is very significant to ensure effective community change. In the Abundant Community, local people feel empowered and they work together to bring positive social changes. Like all other communities in the world, Toronto neighborhood communities need to implement the theories of abundant community by which we can bring effective social change. Abundant community is not a system but recognition of the relationships among the community members and this will bring an effective community development.

Universal Properties in my selected community (The Crescent Town):

The crescent town community can be an ideal place to practice abundant community. The universal properties of the abundant community are visible in my community.

Skills: Most of the community members...