Assets & Needs Assessment

Recommended Books
A Guide to Mapping Consumer Expenditures and Mobilizing Consumer Expenditure Capacities: This practical guide explains how to map the consumer expenditures and capacities of those living in a particular neighborhood and utilize this knowledge to benefit the local economy.
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Communities First: Communities First offers a coherent vision and description of asset-based community development, including practical steps to aid ministry leaders in improving the effectiveness of their community-based programs.
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A Guide to Mapping and Mobilizing the Economic Capacities of Local Residents: Another home run by Kretzmann and McKnight! Concise, understandable, and easy to use, this workbook gives you the tools you need to unearth the talents and skills that lie hidden in local residents and harness their potential for local economic development.
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Community Ministry: New Challenges, Proven Steps to faith-based initiatives: In this comprehensive and practical book, Carl Dudley provides you with a step-by-step plan to help you develop a mercy ministry that brings hope, healing, and love to the lonely and hurting.
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Asset-Based Strategies for Faith Communities: Successful community development is asset-based, internally focused, and relationship-driven. This workbook seeks to encourage congregations in their community development efforts by giving examples of faith-based organizations that have successfully utilized these principles to revitalize their local communities.
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A Guide to Mapping Local Business Assets and Mobilizing Local Business Capacities: Vibrant local businesses are an essential ingredient in any healthy community. This workbook sketches a game plan for discovering what local businesses already exist in your community and how you can help mobilize their full economic potential to revitalize the community.
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Building Our Future: A Guide to Community Visioning: In this exhaustive, systematic, and practical guide, the authors take the principles of strategic planning and apply them to community development.
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The ABC’s of Community Ministry: Theory and practice come together in this practical workbook examining the Biblical basis for effective, holistic outreach among lower-income families in distressed neighborhoods.
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Recommended Links
Center for Enterprise Development: The Center for Enterprise Development (CFED) promotes ideas, programs, and practices that aim at ensuring that everyone can participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the economy.
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The Asset-Based Community Development Institute: Co-directed by John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann, the Institute publishes workbooks and practical tools for community developers subscribing to the philosophy of ABCD. The Institute’s faculty work as consultants and seminar leaders.
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