Transcript Slide 1
The ABC’s of ABCD
Presenter:
Cindy Hallman,
Executive Director, Desert Mission
& Vice President,
John C. Lincoln Health Network
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What We’ll Discuss Today:
• Assets vs. Needs
• Where to Find Assets
• What Is ABCD?
Asset-Based Community Development
• Putting It Into Practice
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Assets vs. Needs
• The ABCD point of view encourages
people to recognize that their community
is a glass half full of assets, not a glass
half empty with needs.
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Two Paths; Two Solutions
Client:
anyone under the
patronage of another;
a dependent.
What Is NOT There.
(Needs)
Services to
Meet Needs
(Programs Are the Answer)
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Citizen:
an inhabitant of a city
or town, esp. one
entitled to its privileges
or franchises
What IS There.
(Assets)
Connections &
Contributions
(People Are the Answer)
Two Paths; Two Solutions
Assets
Problems
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Strength Comes From:
• Discovering local assets
• Connecting these assets to work
together, and then
• Creating opportunities for these assets
to be productive and powerful together.
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ABCD is rooted in the belief that…
• When people discover what they have,
they find power.
• When people join together in new
connections and relationships, they build
power.
• When people become more productive
together, they exercise their power to
address problems and realize dreams.
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The Challenge
• How does a community develop a wider
circle of people working together to
address important problems and realize
ambitious goals?
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5 Building Blocks of Community
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Individuals
Local Voluntary Associations
Institutions
Local Economy
Physical World
Individuals
People’s gifts are the
most fundamental
building block of
community.
Every person has many
gifts to contribute if
given the invitation and
opportunity.
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Voluntary Associations
Allow groups of
individuals to act
together out of care.
•Effective in action
•Amplifier of gifts
•Creative
•Reach large numbers
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Voluntary Associations
• Allow groups of
individuals to act
together out of
care.
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Effective in action
Amplifier of gifts
Creative
Reach large
numbers
The Marketplace on Central: Before
Below - Panoramic View – Before Construction
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The Marketplace on Central: After
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Institutions
•Every institution
can support local
individuals and
their associations
•Organized for
efficiency,
consistency &
reliability
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Local Economy
Economic exchange
circulates money,
goods, and services
through a community
as people buy, sell,
hire and invest.
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The Physical World
Both natural and constructed:
•Landscapes
•Buildings
•Preserves
•Streets
•Transportation infrastructure
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Qualities of Effective Community Development
• Asset based: focus is on discovering
what can be productive in a community
• Internally focused: recognize that the
people who live in a community are the
key contributors to community
development that works
• Relationship driven: reminds that
relationship building is the fundamental
action of community building
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People In Every Community Care About Something
• Care remains invisible without intentional
conversations about what people care
about.
• People may not care about what those
with a particular agenda want them to care
about.
• Care must be discovered through
relationships that are built on purpose.
• Learning conversations are the way to
make care visible.
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If It’s the Rats, It’s the Rats!
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If It’s the Rats, It’s the Rats!
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People In Every Community Care About Something
• What are we doing to make care visible?
• Are we surrounded by people who care
about the same thing we care about?
• How are we building our team?
• Whose perspective is missing?
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Never Do Anything Nobody Wants
•Less Successful
• More Successful
Start with the answer
Start with learning conversations
Recruit people to implement the
answer
Discover what people care about,
how they see the situation &
what they want to offer
Look for answers to the
additional problem of “lack of
motivation.”
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Mobilize assets
Putting It Into Practice
• Where is the opportunity for us to practice
Asset-Based Community Development
more?
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How can we use ABCD to assist the Arizona
Association of Food Banks?
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