Asset Based Community Development Institute and its affiliated faculty have created a library of community building workbooks, published scholarly articles, books, and chapters oriented to an array of audiences, and developed training curricula and other materials associated with the asset-based community development approach. Many of these resources can be downloaded for free from their website.
Resources
Tools
Asset Based Community Development Institute Publications
Building Community: A Tool Kit for Youth and Adults in Charting Assets and Creating Change
Filled with concrete activities and real-life case studies, this 234-page facilitator’s handbook provides practical information about creating youth-adult partnerships, mapping assets, creating community visions and plans, and mobilizing local change.
Building Powerful Community Organizations
This new book, with stories, personal exercises and lessons learned, provides detailed information to help you build a new group or strengthen an old one to solve problems in your community, workplace or the world.
Price: 19.95
Evaluation Tools for Racial Equity
Evaluation tools for racial equity is organized around the typical stages that a community group or coalition working on racial justice issues might go through in planning, conducting, and using evaluation. It includes tip sheets, worksheets, issue briefs and real life stories
The Collective Leadership Framework Activities
This toolkit of activities, developed by the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change, is designed to help users of the Collective Leadership Framework Workbook navigate the framework process.
The Collective Leadership Framework: A Workbook for Cultivating and Sustaining Community Change
This workbook, developed by the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change, is intended to help organizations use community-based collective leadership as a tool for making community change. Along the way, you will also increase individual participants’ leadership ability and increase their life choices and opportunities.
The Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is a global resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement.
The Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center
The Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC) offers training and technical assistance to help grassroots neighborhood organizations address issues that impact the quality of life in their neighborhoods. INRC provides support and resources to neighborhood-based organizations to strengthen, develop and empower neighborhoods. You can download free tools from the INRC organizers workbook under their resources section.
Viable Futures Toolkit
The viable futures toolkit contains a range of resources for building sustainable communities for all ages including planning worksheets, organizational self-assessment forms, tips sheets, issue briefs, communication guide and resource development strategies.
Price: 59.00
Readings
Organizations that Inform and Inspire Us
Generations United
Generations United (GU) represents more than 100 national, state, and local organizations and individuals representing more than 70 million Americans. Since 1986 GU has served as a resource for educating policymakers and the public about the economic, social, and personal imperatives of intergenerational cooperation.
Insitute for Community Peace
Insitute for Community Peace (ICP) promotes a safe, healthy and peaceful nation by mobilizing community resources and leadership to support strategies that emphasize civic empowerment. ICP partners with communities and facilitates their movement toward community peace and away from inaction over social problems.
Just Partners
The mission of Just Partners is to provide practical consulting solutions, products, and services for the optimal performance and measurable impact of government agencies, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. Their diverse team of experts enable clients to establish a successful nonprofit presence, achieve racially equitable organizational results, create sustainable age-inclusive communities, and promote international community development.
The Centre for Intergenerational Practice
The Centre for Intergenerational Practice in the UK aims to support the development of intergenerational practice throughout the UK and to promote an understanding of the potential of intergenerational practice to address social issues.
The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund works collaboratively to improve education for Connecticut’s children by supporting school change, informing the public debate on educational issues and strengthening the involvement of parents and community in education.
