Cheryl Honey spearheaded a national movement "Community Weaving America" to re-engineer a social safetynet to foster a more caring, just and civil society. In the process a method for democratic reformation emerged as people and systems collaborated in an effort to save our children's future. Cheryl Honey, is president of Excel Strategies, Inc., and founder of the Family Support Network, International an all volunteer organization started by a group of neighbors in 1993. Volunteers developed a web-based technology to re-weave the social fabric of community by connecting neighbors together to help one another and provide a system of support for the system itself. Community Weaving has been recognized as an exemplary model for poverty reduction, asset-based community building, wrap-around and collaboration. Cheryl is an Ambassador for Peace and advisor to the Alliance for Human Empowerment. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts & Transformative Community Building from Antioch University, Seattle. She authored Community Weaving chapter in The Change Handbook 2nd Edition. She's published articles on transformative community building, community organizing and volunteerism. Communities tap her expertise to develop innovative approaches to build and bridge social capital. She's the recipient of the distinguished Jefferson Award (the mini-Nobel Prize for public service). She’s been awarded the Excellence in Leadership Award and the Giraffe Award, for sticking her neck out. Most recently she was awarded the Daily Points of Light award for volunteerism. Cheryl believes the more resources we are among ourselves the more valuable a resource we become to our families, our communities and our world. 

Links:
 
The Change Handbook

Family Support Network, International

Community Weaving

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