Asset-Based Community Development
(From Neighborhood Leader, Spring 2006 issue)
Neighborhood tours highlight community assets. Since we started Neighborhood Leadership Cleveland in 1994, we have made use of the work of John Kretzmann and John L. McKnight of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research.
ABCD’s Web site includes several useful workbooks and publications that demonstrate how to identify and map community assets. We also have copies of some of the workbooks here in the office if you would like to borrow them.
