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Asset-Based Community Development
Building Communities From The Inside Out

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KEY ELEMENTS OF THE TRAINING
PRINCIPLES OF ABCD

  • What is ABCD--beyond the introduction?
  • Foundation Ideas of ABCD--where did it come from?
  • Asset based vs. Needs Based--effects on a neighborhood.
  • Why build a citizen centered initiative-benefits?
  • What is "Inside-Out" citizen centered work--why does it work?
  • Why does community building work often fail?
  • Keys to ABCD community building success.
  • The process of ABCD.
  • The potential of ABCD work.
 

Thursday & Friday to 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
 COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR ABCD

Mobilizing citizens and their associations and congregations

  • What are associations?
  • The unique power of local associations
  • The tradition of social change organizing--methods and principles
  • A new kind of organizing for ABCD: people and their associations acting together
  • Initiating a neighborhood organizing group that will succeed
  • Barriers, threats, challenges to ABCD organizing
  • What kind of institutional roles will really help organizing?
  • Building an organizing group
  • Engaging new members
  • Leadership
  • The role of the ABCD organizer
  • Mobilizing assets; strategies, tactics, issues
  • Technical assistance
  • Sustainable community organizations
  • Whole community organizing
  • Building an "association of associations"
  • Powerful resident centered community partnerships

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Friday – 9:00 – 4:30pm
  INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
  The role of government, non-profits, and business

 
  • What is the potential of institutions and agencies for community building
  • What is the different capacity of associations/ citizens groups
  • Strong community need both institutions and citizens working effectively
  • Why many community partnerships fail
  • What can government do?
  • The unrecognized capacity of non-profits: beyond service provision
  • Businesses can have great community building power
  • Building a strong local economy: the role of institutions
  • Finding the capacity of institutions
  • Gappers: The role of community builders inside institutions to work with community members
  • Gappers: What works and what does not work
  • The special capacity of local foundations for community building
  • Individual capacity inventories
  • Association mapping
  • Institutional self inventories
  • Economic asset mapping
  • Small grants initiatives
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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SATURDAY—9am to 2:30pm 
 Principles for Back Home Application
  • What is your plan for action back home?
  • Future resources from the ABCD training group and the ABCD institute
  • Evaluation of the conference
  • Closing Circle

SATURDAY---BUS TOUR OF ABCD IN ACTION—
GUIDED BY COMMUNITY LEADERS

  • Workshop concludes

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Revised: December 24, 2006

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"Remember what the real goal is: developing leadership and power within the community"