Tag: Place-Based Practice

Stronger Together Three ABCD lessons on why competing in the public and community sector is a dead end

Mar 2, 2026

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by

dsoulgen

in Frameworks for Change

In the public, community, and NGO sector, competition has quietly become normal.Organisations compete for funding, visibility, territory, influence, and expertise. We often accept this as “just the way it is”, even though it feels absurd and misaligned with why many of us entered this work in the first place. From an Asset Based Community Development…