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Germán Quiñonez is the Neighborhood Development Director for Every Neighborhood Partnership, with a 16 year history of addressing the social disparities that directly impact the most vulnerable populations in Fresno’s south neighborhoods, through civic engagement, capacity building, health advocacy, and community revitalization. His specialties include asset based community development, creative place making and community based planning. Germán serves in some capacity as a local urbanist for community development, proudly boasting of no direct affiliation with institutions or any academia but rather acting as an emerging leader of creative thinkers who are fighting for the third space, by rediscovering the gifts and assets that exist in every neighborhood, and reclaiming those geographies for spatial liberation. In his free time, Germán loves to read books (and buy books for no other reason than to plan to read them one day), he also loves to travel, listen to 80-90's hip hop, get tattoos and spend time with friends and family!

DRIVE Initiative and Civic Infrastructure

Diciembre 8, 2022 Germán Quiñonez
DRIVE Initiative and Civic Infrastructure

What a better way to end the year than by clarifying some important questions about ENP’s neighborhood development role in our city. For example, many have asked, please explain the DRIVE initiative to us in plain terms and in more interesting ones; what the heck is civic infrastructure?

The Fresno DRIVE Initiative is a 10-year investment plan to develop an inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable economy for residents in the greater Fresno region. It is sponsored by the Central Valley Community Foundation with support from the James Irvine Foundation.

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Asset Based Community Development and How Organizations Implement It for Neighborhood Transformation

Abril 15, 2022 Germán Quiñonez
Asset Based Community Development and How Organizations Implement It for Neighborhood Transformation

Every Neighborhood Partnership is rooted in a framework called Asset Based Community Development or ABCD for short. Any Community Based Organization that believes in Asset Based Community Development starts with a basic premise that local communities can do more together by choosing to focus on what they have — their gifts, talents, and community assets — instead of what they are missing.* Imagine how you view a glass of water that is half-way filled up. Is it empty or full?

ABCD is a way of both strengthening community social capital and organizing community change. While this serves as an initial baseline for how asset-based inspired organizations approach the work of community engagement, not all organizations that adopt the ABCD methodology end with the same goals. 

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Luis Palau Serie 2: Teología del lugar

13 de junio de 2018 Germán Quiñonez ,
Luis Palau Serie 2: Teología del lugar

Every Neighborhood Partnership se ha asociado con el grupo Luis Palau National para crear una serie de seis meses que describe nuestro trabajo en la ciudad. A continuación, el segundo post de la serie del Director de Desarrollo de Barrios, Germán Quinonez.

Teología del lugar: La labor de desarrollo vecinal de la PEV

El mes pasado Artie Padilla estableció una plataforma sobre nuestro trabajo en Fresno y cómo usamos la Iglesia como palanca de anclaje para todo el trabajo en el que estamos activamente involucrados. Este mes nos centramos en el trabajo que está ocurriendo en nuestros barrios a través de la Teología del Lugar.

Primero veremos nuestra metodología y luego compartiremos algunos ejemplos prácticos de cómo se desarrolla.

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Vecinos como Jesús con Shalom

19 de enero de 2018 Germán Quiñonez
Vecinos como Jesús con Shalom

Con el ajetreo de las fiestas navideñas a nuestras espaldas, quiero animarnos a parar y reflexionar. Muchos de nosotros nos movemos a la velocidad de la luz con nuestros propósitos de Año Nuevo. Por eso, hagamos esta reflexión para no perder de vista las implicaciones de la historia de la Navidad. En particular, reflexionemos sobre el advenimiento de Jesús, tal y como se recoge en el evangelio de Juan 1,14 donde dice "vino a habitar entre nosotros". Jesús entra intencionadamente en la historia de la humanidad y reintroduce el concepto de shalom. El shalom puede describirse mejor como la idea de justicia y paz. Es la justicia y la paz que abarca la realidad de la restauración y la reconciliación de la humanidad. La base de esta teoría radical del shalom es el amor, que une todo esto para una verdadera transformación.

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