MONROE — The authors of the brand new e-book “Pulling Collectively — A Handbook for Group Change” are happy to announce the autumn tour of Wisconsin by Jeff Yost of the Nebraska Group Basis (NCF).
After a lifetime of working to make communities higher locations to stay, co-authors Mike Breininger and Tom Mosgaller teamed as much as write a e-book to assist aspiring neighborhood members make change occur. The e-book, “Pulling Collectively: A Handbook for Group Change”, launched in 2025, is a lifetime of experiences and successes with a couple of failures blended in, bringing about constructive change in communities.
Breininger is a small-town conservative evangelical pastor from Richland Middle. Mosgaller, a self-described progressive neighborhood builder and farmer, lives in Verona. These two have collaborated for greater than a decade. Their shared imaginative and prescient for stronger communities transcends ideological divides and emphasizes the facility of affection, belief, and relationships because the antidote to polarization.
Pulling Collectively has real-life tales of how communities have been modified by sensible and passionate individuals who labored collectively to make constructive issues occur. Sprinkled among the many tales are classes realized and actions that may assist folks with good concepts remodel these concepts into ends in their communities.
One of many tales within the e-book is the wonderful revitalization of Pink Cloud, Nebraska, Jeff Yost’s hometown. Pink Cloud went from being a small, struggling rural neighborhood with a declining inhabitants to a vibrant, hopeful instance of what occurs whenever you Pull Collectively.
Yost is the president and CEO of the Nebraska Group Basis, a community of over 270 communities throughout Nebraska that has change into an internationally acknowledged instance of what occurs when financial, social, and philanthropic leaders work collectively. Jeff and the authors of Pulling Collectively shall be sharing the instruments and tales in a “Pulling Collectively Wisconsin” tour October 8-17.
“The Nebraska Group Basis story has change into a nationwide mannequin for excellence, demonstrating how native communities can work collectively to study and result in a greater future whereas on the identical time sustaining their native independence as hometowns, backside up, domestically led, and construct on the assumption that we every do higher once we all do higher,” stated Mosgaller.
“The story of the Nebraska Group Basis is a wonderful instance of Pulling Collectively, bottom-up, community-led, and asset-based,” Mosgaller explains. “The neighborhood periods we’re planning will stimulate the creativeness of Wisconsinites to the facility of what may be carried out when philanthropy, financial improvement, and neighborhood builders work collectively.”
This occasion is being dropped at Inexperienced County by Inexperienced County Improvement Company, the Group Basis of Southern Wisconsin, and UW Extension Inexperienced County.
To study extra about Pulling Collectively, go to pulling-together.com.
For questions, electronic mail gcdc@greencountydevelopment.com or name 608-328-9452.
