Provides guidance to not-for-profit organizations on utilizing and strengthening community assets for mutual benefit and on enhancing the proposals submitted to major program funders. Section one presents a series of questions evaluating community assets to include: residents, voluntary associations, institutions, physical space, and economic conditions. Section two provides discussion questions which guide organizational assessment of personnel, expertise, networks, constituents, materials and equipment, and economic power. Section three provides worksheet tools to create partnerships between the community and the organization. Section four describes the Asset-Bases Community Development Institute (ABCD) at Northwestern University, which works to spread knowledge and devise strategies to effectively develop struggling communities through publications and training using a diverse “adjunct faculty” across the United States, Canada, and Italy
