United States Area Offices
- Southsiders Patch Their Own Roads, Billings, MO Gazette, June1975
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- “ICA History”, Lucas Bensley, August 2019
- “Impact of ICA’s Uptown 5 Program: 1973-1979“, Lucas Bensley, June 2019
- “Reflection on ICA as an Organization’, Jeanette Stanfield, June 2015
- Living Legacy Event, October 2007
- Appreciative Inquiry: An action research method for organizational transformation and implications for facilitation, Jim Troxel, August 2002
- “The ICA as a Learning Organization”, Patricia Porter Scott, 1995
- Finding a Path with Heart: Global Social Change Organizations (including ICA), Pamela Johnson and David Cooperrider, August 1993 – Summary of learnings from Appreciative Inquiry project of Case Western University
- Organizations as “Texts”: Hermeneutics as a Model for Understanding Organizational Change, Tojo Thachanakary, August 1992
- “ICA History: 1984-1992: A journey of transformation”, Jim Troxel, June 1992
- Results of Appreciative Inquiry of the ICA, Jim Troxel, April 1992
- “Wonder and Affirmation in Discovery and Transformation: A case study of the ICA“, written by Srivastva, Cooperrider and Thachankary for Case Western Reserve, November 1989
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Appreciative Inquiry, November, 1989
- Appreciative Organizational Analysis of the ICA: Executive Summary, October 1989
- Wonder and Affirmation in Discovery and Transformation: A case study of the ICA by Suresh Srivastva, David Cooperrider, Tojo Thachankery, Xisoping Tian and the ICA Team, October 1989
- ICA: The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Tojo Thachankary, September 1989
- Provocative Propositions of the ICA, August 1989 – Appreciative Research
- How the ICA Serves Community Development, 1987 – Sue Marley interviews Ted Wysocki and Jim Capraro
- Cultivating Strategic Thinking in Local Economic Development. This report to the Chicago Department of Economic Development highlights the impact of ICA’s planning with 29 of the DED’s network of delegate agencies, (Jim Troxel, 1986)
- The ICA: A 25-Year Profile, 1954-1979
- Functions of five global Centrums:(August 1977)
- “Experiment in International Engagement“, 1976
- Elders Trip Report #1 (June 1974)
- The Purpose of the ICA” (in 100 words)
People ask me, “Who is the Institute of Cultural Affairs?” “What makes you tick?”
“We are part of those around the world who care about this world, and care about what’s happening in it. They care about the past journey, not only just of their own people, but of all people. They care about the long journey of all mankind and all of the effort and suffering, and they care about the future. They don’t know more than anyone else, or have any easy solutions to anything! but just care. Economists in our country call this the “invisible college.” Those Who Care