Questions about applying?
Join our Q&A zoom session on 4 April at 13:00.
Or contact helen lenda at helen.lenda@nadacevia.cz
Welcome to the Community Alphabet Online Resource!
These resources are for those of you encouraging community activities and building a stronger sense of community in your locality or neighbourhood.
There is no perfect manual on how to do this complex work, no cookbook that lays out failproof steps that we can follow to create community. We have to find our own way based on what we learn as we try things and use our experiences and reflections to refine our approach.
What can be helpful in this process is gaining insights from other people’s experiences and ideas. Take a look at what we have gathered:
CA is an international peer learning program of the Via Foundation (Czech Republic) that broadens practical knowledge of inclusive, participatory community development approaches among community leaders and active residents, primarily in Central Europe & Southern Europe. Two rounds of the program were held between 2020 and 2024, and the next round will begin in March 2025.
Our vision is to ensure that community initiatives in Central & Southern Europe have the knowledge, tools and support to confidently pursue inclusive participatory processes so that they can play a meaningful role in developing places where:
To move in this direction, we explore listening to community in its diversity, inclusion, paying attention to our roles as active people in communities and how we can help facilitate the activation of others, viewing community in terms of its capacities rather than its needs, working with the tensions or conflicts that inevitably arise in communities.
To learn more about the program, contact us using the form below or see the CA webpage.
