Asset-based community development Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology that seeks to uncover and use the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable development. The first step in the process of community development is to assess the resources of a community through a capacity inventory [1] or through another process of talking to the residents to determine what types of skills and experience are available. The next step is to support communities, to discover what they care enough about to act. The final step is to determine how citizens can act together to achieve those goals.[1] Basis of the Idea[edit] The Asset-Based Community Development Institute[2] is located at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Applications to Health Systems[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b McKnight, John; Kretzmann, John. Further reading[edit] External links[edit]
Peter Block - Welcome Towards a More Transformative Community Economic Development | Practical Visionaries By Ian Adelman, Emily Earle, and Penn Loh [Note: This article is based on Adelman and Earle's 2012 Masters Thesis for the Tufts Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning. To download: Earle Thesis - FINAL Adelman Thesis Final] Why transformative? At the global level, it is easy to see the excesses, if not the fatal flaws, of neoliberal capitalism. For lower income communities (predominantly communities of color) who never enjoyed trickle down, even in boom times, real community economic development remains an enigma. If we believe in the need for deep transformation of the global economic system, then how does that transformation translate down to the local level? This question was taken up by Emily Earle and Ian Adelman, two recent graduates of Tufts Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning’s masters program and alumni of the Practical Visionaries Workshop. Transform from what and towards what? We believe that it is well past time to think outside of the neoliberal box. Regional Equity
Participatory rural appraisal PRA ranking exercise being carried out by members of a Farmer Field School in Bangladesh, 2004 Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is an approach used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other agencies involved in international development. The approach aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in the planning and management of development projects and programmes. Origins of participatory rural appraisal[edit] By the early 1980s, there was growing dissatisfaction among development experts with both the reductionism of formal surveys, and the biases of typical field visits. Chambers acknowledges that the significant breakthroughs and innovations that informed the methodology were not his, but that development practitioners in India, Africa and elsewhere were responsible for this. Overview of PRA techniques[edit] A 'new professionalism' for development[edit] "The central thrusts of the [new] paradigm … are decentralization and empowerment. See also[edit]
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Theaster Gates What is asset-based community-driven development (ABCD)? | Sustaining Community Engagement Asset-based community-driven development (ABCD), or just asset-based community development, is a bottom-up way of working with communities that focuses on community strengths and assets. In another post I spoke about two communities. One was a ‘community in crisis’; the other was one with strong community relationships and bonds. Of course these two communities were the same community – it all depends on what we decide to focus on. If we ask people to look for deficits, they will usually find them, and their view of situations will be coloured by this. ABCD focuses on the half full glass. ABCD is built on four foundations (Kretzmann, 2010; Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993; Mathie & Cunningham, 2003): It focuses on community assets and strengths rather than problems and needsIt identifies and mobilises individual and community assets, skills and passionsIt is community driven – ‘building communities from the inside out’ (Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993)It is relationship driven. We can ask: References
Forever Manchester leads with the ABCD of community building A conference last Friday about Asset Based Community Development gave me some terrific insights into on-the-ground principles for People Powered Change (PPC), and also some directions for thinking about the ways that Big Lottery (BIG) and other funders could in future support both action and learning. (Here’s a summary of explorations so far). The event was organised by Forever Manchester – which is the Community Foundation for Greater Manchester – with the ABCD substance provided by Comac Russell and Jim Diers of Nurture Development UK. I arrived on the second day of the event, to hear Jim talking about the seven principles of ABCD, which he summarised for me afterwards. Over lunch I reviewed the notes, and found two people using some string to demonstrate how the dots might be joined up: Cathy Ellliot, chief executive of the Community Foundation for Merseyside, and Corrina Milner, a community mobiliser from Milton Keynes. Update: headline change to “Forever Manchester …”
Photography in an Age of Smartphones Is photography dying? No, not exactly. Getting a fix on the state of photography demands an improbable combination of the skills of both a social scientist and an aesthete, but people can’t help trying. Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York Michael Abeles. Any attempt to grapple with photography must begin with its ubiquity. The interesting thing about the old Aperture—with a design that was as elegant and ascetic as the new magazine is brash and bold—is that White and an inner circle that included the photographer Ansel Adams and the historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall were always grappling with photography’s ubiquity and how they might discover within that ubiquity something unique. Jason Bailey/The Aperture Foundation The re-launched magazine features close-up studies by Christopher Williams. The new issue of Aperture is certainly not without its flashes of stirring intelligence.