Empowering Local Communities and Building Social Capital

This chapter emphasizes the significance of empowering local communities through small change projects and grassroots initiatives, showcasing examples like Detroit Soup. It critiques top-down systems that hinder bottom-up solutions and discusses the need to uplift entire communities rather than focusing on individual issues. The conversation also touches on creating models to encourage social capital, restructuring government around neighborhoods, and incentivizing preventive approaches in sectors like healthcare.