Community Assets

Community Assets = the collection of human and organizational skills existing in a community, and which can be inventoried for common enrichment.

It is the name of a movement that aims to inventory such assets.

URL = http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd/abcdbackground.html

Description

"Community assets are key building blocks in sustainable urban and rural community revitalization efforts. These community assets include:

• the skills of local residents

• the power of local associations

• the resources of public, private and non-profit institutions

• the physical and economic resources of local places."

(http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd/abcdbackground.html)

Asset-Based Community Development Institute

"The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD), established in 1995 by the Community Development Program at Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research, is built upon three decades of community development research by John Kretzmann and John L. McKnight. The ABCD Institute spreads its findings on capacity-building community development in two ways: (1) through extensive and substantial interactions with community builders, and (2) by producing practical resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets." (http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html)