Asset Based Community Development
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
-
Level
City or Town, Other Boards and Agencies, State
State(s)
All States, North Carolina
Policy Areas
Community Development, Data & Technology
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) as a concept for building community capacity, emphasizing the importance of local assets as primary building blocks for sustainable community development. The seven distinct assets considered are financial, political, human, cultural, built/infrastructure, natural/environmental, and social. The Asset Mapping process, described in the report, involves creating a community asset inventory to identify and leverage these assets.