For years, community leaders have been turning to outside help to fix local problems. The process begins by looking at the community's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, better known as ...

Map to Buried Treasure with a lot of extra elements... sets a nice visual story. Great for Pirate or Adventure Themes... For decades, financial literacy programs have promised transformation.

Every community has assets and potential within it – even communities with the most challenging needs. But we don't always recognise all that we have in terms of land and buildings, people, skills, ...

In difficult economic times people often worry about what they do not have or what they might have to give up. The Berkeley Heights Environmental Commission is taking a different approach by asking ...

Communities across the world have been transformed through Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), a strength-based approach to change. ABCD builds community from ...

A highlight of last week’s Neighborhoods USA (NUSA) conference, for me, was a presentation by community asset mapping guru John McKnight. McKnight proved to be one of the most engaging speakers at the ...

Next time you go for a walk through your neighborhood, make a list of every place where food is grown or provided and where it’s not, such as the 20-block stretch that has no grocery store or food ...

The Warren Township Green Team is revising the Community Asset Maps. These maps detail township businesses, facilities, and streets. Residents are invited to attend the June Green Team meeting to ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Social Development Commission (SDC) has completed the asset mapping of communities in Clarendon in order to identify the resources of the parish. The entity will be ...