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Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology for the sustainable development of communities based on their strengths and potentials. It involves assessing the resources, skills, and experience available in a community; organizing the community around issues that move its members into action; and then determining and taking appropriate action. The ABCD approach was developed by John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. They co-authored a book in 1993, "Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Community’s Assets," which outlined their asset-based approach to community development. The Community Development Program at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research established the Asset-Based Community Development Institute based on three decades of research and community work by John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight. ==Guiding Principles== Asset-based community development (ABCD) differs from needs-based community development in that it focuses primarily on honing and leveraging existing strengths within a community rather than bolstering community deficiencies. Related to tenets of empowerment, it postulates that solutions to community problems already exist within a community’s assets. Principles that guide ABCD include: 1. Everyone has gifts: each person in a community has something to contribute 2. Relationships build a community: people must be connected in order for sustainable community development to take place 3. Citizens at the center: citizens should be viewed as actors—not recipients—in development 4. Leaders involve others: community development is strongest when it involves a broad base of community action 5. People care: challenge notions of "apathy" by listening to people's interests 7. Listen: decisions should come from conversations where people are heard 8. Ask: asking for ideas is more sustainable than giving solutions 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Asset-based community development」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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