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The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) is at the center of a large and growing movement that considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development. Building on the skills of local residents, the power of local associations, and the supportive functions of local institutions, asset-based community development draws upon existing community strengths to build stronger, more sustainable communities for the future.


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ABCD Institute Higher Education Story Sharing Session: CONNECT - Connectivity Through Community Asset Mapping

ABCD Institute Higher Education Story Sharing Session: CONNECT - Connectivity Through Community Asset Mapping

Tuesday May 2 2023, 12:00 PM CST
@ Virtual

Join us for our Spring 2023 Story Sharing Session - New Date

Description:

CONNECT represents a horizontal, iterative process between an Iranian graphic designer and educator and students/staff at Project YouthBuild, a Gainesville, Florida, branch of an AmeriCorps program devoted to high school degree completion and career training for youth forced out of public schools. Our project seeks to facilitate sustainable communication and collaboration between local East Gainesville community members and Project YouthBuild students whose campus is in East Gainesville.

Presenters: Samira Shiridevich, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Department of Art and Art History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Facilitator: Byron White, Associate Provost of Urban Research and Community Development, University of North Carolina, Charlotte and ABCD Institute Steward

To register for this free event please visit our Eventbrite page.

Visit our YouTube channel to view recordings of past stories in the series 

About the Series

The ABCD Institute Higher Education working group is pleased to host a series of virtual story-sharing sessions on "ABCD in Higher Education." The series showcases examples of how faculty, staff, and students at universities and colleges are intentionally doing - or trying to do - their work using an asset- or strengths-based approach, within their institutions or in their work with community partners.

Stories might include programs, initiatives, or short-term projects that illuminate successes and challenges. This is not limited to best practices and could include efforts that have been difficult at best.

Stories - along with associated tools and resources - will then be compiled and shared through an ABCD Institute publication, edited by the ABCD in Higher Education Work Group. All storytellers and session participants will be invited to join the workgroup moving forward.

About the ABCD Institute

The ABCD Institute is a nonprofit organization located in Chicago at DePaul University’s Irwin W. Steans Center. The Institute’s origins go back to the early 1990’s when John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann published their best selling community development book, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Towards Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets. Their original research at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois began a global movement to shift  the lens through which communities were often viewed - from broken places to places of possibility. The stories of local change they discovered was happening under the radar and their analysis of how it was happening changed the understanding of community building. The ABCD Institute is at the center of a large and growing movement that considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development. Building on the skills of local residents, the power of local associations, and the supportive functions of local institutions, asset-based community development draws upon existing community strengths to build stronger, more sustainable communities for the future.

The ABCD Higher Ed working group is a work group of the ABCD Institute that focuses on promoting the use of ABCD principles within the context of higher education with particular emphasis on how universities can be assets to their local communities.

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