In many communities, social service organizations and governments tackle community change by asking what is wrong, what has to be fixed ABCD takes a totally different approach to community change. ABCD starts by looking at what a community has that it can give/contribute to desired change.
Continue reading →Asset-Based Community Development as a strategy for Community Driven-Development
Continue reading →Kettering Foundation
The Kettering Foundation is an operating foundation rooted in the tradition of cooperative research. Kettering’s primary research question is, what does it take to make democracy work as it should? Established in 1927 by inventor Charles F. Kettering, the foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that does not make grants but that engages in joint research with others.
Continue reading →Alison Mathie, Coady International Institute
Panel Discussion for the International Association of Community Development
CIVICUS conference, Glasgow, June 2006.
The following list includes examples of the wide variety of ways—some quick and some more involved— you can use knowledge of a person’s core gift to help them build internal resilience and healthy participation in their community.
Continue reading →The Method of the Abundant Community Initiative in Edmonton, Canada
Inspired by the work of John McKnight and Peter Block, and motivated by their recent book, “The Abundant Community,” Howard Lawrence undertook a pilot project called the Abundant Community Initiative in Edmonton, Canada in January 2013.
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Asset Based Community Development
Traditional approaches to community development often involve top-down or outside in approaches. A consequence of using these approaches is the support of “needs-based” solutions to community problems that emphasize policies and programs that focus on the perceived deficiencies of residents and their families.
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