WEBINAR | Principles and Practices of Asset Based Community Development

Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) emphasizes strengths, connections, citizen leadership and recognizes that individual gifts become powerful when they are connected together.

In this webinar, Howard Lawrence joined John McKnight and Cormac Russell in a discussion about their newest publication, The Four Essential Elements of Asset-Based Community Development. In their discussion they explored the significance of the four elements - Resources, Methods, Functions, and Evaluation - in an effort to determine what is distinctive about Asset-Based Community Development.

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Take Your Learning Further:

• Read The Four Essential Elements of Asset-Based Community Development
• Learn more about Cormac's work at Nurture Development
• Learn more about the Abundant Community Initiative
• Check out some of Cormac's writing on the to/for/with/by matrix
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  • Off the Roundabout
  • Bridging the Gap - Expert to Alongsider
  • Four Models of Change: To, For, With, By