Cormac Russell, Founding Director of Nurture Development (photo: Georg Lulich)
The importance of working with local communities’ resources and creating sustainability
Sustainable community development: from what’s wrong to what’s strong, or rather, how can we help people to live a good life? Instead of trying to right what’s wrong within a community Cormac Russell argues that we need to start with what’s strong. We need to help people discover what gifts they have and to use those gifts to enrich those around them.
Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago.
Cormac Russell on Socialchefsdagarna’s stage 2014 (photo: Georg Lulich).
Over the last 25 years, Cormac’s work has demonstrated an enduring impact in 35 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other community-based approaches in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe and North America.
His most recent books are The Connected Community- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Coauthor John McKnight); Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022, and Rekindling Democracy – A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space; Cascade Books, 2020.
Du hör Cormac Russell på förmiddagen, torsdag 2 oktober
Socialchefsdagarna 2025