{"id":346,"date":"2009-10-20T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedscd.wordpress.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-10-20T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:12:06","slug":"alternatives-to-tireless-exertions-and-passionate-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/alternatives-to-tireless-exertions-and-passionate-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Tireless Exertions and Passionate Concern&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">These days it seems that every step towards the goal of social justice requires a government policy and an associated funding stream. \u00a0We expect the state to sort this stuff out for us. \u00a0Well, it hasn&#8217;t and I suspect it can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And given how the funding climate is\u00a0likely\u00a0to shape up over the next few years, even if the state did know how to sort this out it won&#8217;t have the money. \u00a0So instead I\u00a0think\u00a0we need a return to community development work that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is rooted in\u00a0communities\u00a0rather than\u00a0government\u00a0departments<\/li>\n<li>embraces affordable and human\u00a0scale\u00a0interventions\u00a0rather than national projects and the rolling out of grand plans<\/li>\n<li>honours the integrity of individuals over the narrow outcomes being purchased by funders<\/li>\n<li>that attracts investment from venture philanthropists as well as the public purse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Perhaps it is time to invest less in state funded mangerialism and more in &#8216;tireless\u00a0exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"City of Dreams\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/26\/city-of-dreams\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">City of Dreams<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; us&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/08\/09\/an-imaginary-open-letter-to-those-who-would-engage-us\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">An imaginary open letter: To those who would &#8216;engage&#8217; us&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Patient Opinions on NHS Services in Leeds\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/07\/patient-opinions-on-nhs-services-in-leeds\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Patient Opinions on NHS Services in Leeds<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some Barriers to Engagement\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/13\/some-barriers-to-engagement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some Barriers to Engagement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable&#8230; Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr. These days it seems that every step towards the goal of social justice requires a government policy and an associated funding stream. \u00a0We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,118,214],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-community-development","tag-leeds","tag-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}