By Om Dhungel, 2020-07-30
ABCD in Action – Strength Based Approach to Refugee Settlement
By Om Dhungel
As a practitioner of ‘Strength Based Approach’, I often get told that people working with refugees cannot...
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By Robert Francis, 2020-07-27
Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Anti-Racist
Most of us in the ABCD world might consider ourselves pretty advanced in the world of anti-racism but I came away from reading How to be an...
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By Mark Chupp, 2020-06-30
Ten Days that Changed the World
Mark Chupp June 22, 2020
Words create worlds. The power of narrative affects the future. The one that controls the narrative controls the future. We...
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Confronted by unanticipated expenses and greatly reduced revenues due to COVID-19, local governments are searching for a way to balance their budgets. Fortunately, Black Lives Matter is showing...
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By Dee Brooks, 2020-06-10
Inventing Organisations: an emergent response to growth
Power and Participation As community development workers, we invite community members in to discover ways of working together...
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By John Hamerlinck, 2020-06-10
The goal of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) is to leverage a group’s collective strengths to engage in action that leads to change. ABCD reflects an inclusion-embracing worldview, and...
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By Allison Lourash, 2020-06-04
Posting this from a Facebook conversation where some students were seeking articles- specifically for assignments and such. Here is a working document that is from the Literature Review of my...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-06-01
Recently, I was asked if Community Building, in particular, Asset Based Community Development, could reduce or prevent crime. My candid response was yes. The look on the questioner’s face...
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By April Doner, 2020-05-08
Since COVID-19 erupted, I've been trying to find the "right" way to be useful. My attempts to help connect my neighborhood in Indianapolis, which I've moved from for now so my family can have...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-05-01
Spend any time around community organisations, community services, educational facilities, health facilities and government agencies you will stumble across the term Social Justice Principles....
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By Robert Francis, 2020-04-27
An Occasional Book Review -- Michael Mather, Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: finding abundant communities in unexpected places
My friend and fellow ABCD faculty member...
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By Bruce Anderson, 2020-04-13
Covid-19 Cannot Harm Your Gifts
Where do gifts come from? Whether you believe your gifts spring from your genetic makeup, a scientific phenomenon like a “big bang”, or as a gift from a...
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By Paul Schmitz, 2020-04-08
We are living in an unprecedented, unpredictable, and scary time. It is hard for all of us. After several conversations with colleagues and much reflection on how collective impact efforts...
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By John Hamerlinck, 2020-04-06
I work at a university. Students, faculty, staff and administrators are all waist deep in trying to navigate the new normal brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We are not alone. This is a...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-04-01
Introduction
Over the last two or three years I’ve spent time considering leadership and management models/styles that are compatible with leading teams of Community Development workers....
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By John L. McKnight, 2020-03-23
At the start of any asset-based initiatives, the identification of local assets is the essential starting point. Nonetheless, in many neighborhoods, most of these local assets are not...
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By Anthony Giambroni, 2020-03-18
Hey friends,
I am not sure how I missed this element of the ABCD Institute & community, but I am glad to be here now! I started my work in faith communities from 2013-2018 and towards...
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In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, public health officials are warning us to practice social distancing. That seems like good advice given the contagious nature of the disease, but it is...
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By John L. McKnight, 2020-03-03
It’s my understanding that in chemistry, a precipitant is a reagent that produces a reaction of which it is not a part. It is analogous to one form of institutional action in relationship to a...
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By Alan Blackshaw, 2020-03-01
In 2018 the International Association of Community Development (IACD) released International Standards for Community Development Practice. The release of the standards was the result of...
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