ABCD Defined

We were interested in Asset Based Community Development and how it compares to community asset mapping, so I contacted Alyssa at Second Stories, who hosted the event. She describes ABCD as the principle and asset mapping as the tool, and sent me a pdf to further describe the principles. I pasted the outline below.



TWELVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ABCD IN ACTION
By Mike Green (mike-green.org)

1.) EVERYONE HAS GIFTS.
2.) RELATIONSHIPS BUILD A COMMUNITY.
3.) CITIZENS AT THE CENTER
4.) LEADERS INVOLVE OTHERS AS ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
5.) PEOPLE CARE ABOUT SOMETHING.
6.) MOTIVATION TO ACT
7.) LISTENING CONVERSATION
8.) ASK, ASK, ASK.
9.) POSING QUESTIONS RATHER THAN GIVING ANSWERS INVITES STRONGER
PARTICIPATION.
10.) A CITIZEN-CENTERED “inside-out” ORGANIZATION IS THE KEY TO COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT.
11.) INSTITUTIONS HAVE REACHED THEIR LIMITS IN PROBLEM-SOLVING.
12.) INSTITUTIONS AS SERVANTS.