Foster positive and productive interactions with the community and extend your program's reach and effectiveness by identifying, nurturing, and mobilizing neighborhood assets. Following are some of our most relevant resources related to this topic.

• Community Engagement and Strengthening Resources
• Creating Change: How Organizations Connect with Youth, Build Communities, and Strengthen Themselves
• Strategic Factors for Building Community: The Five C’s Community, Connections, Control, Cash, & Collective Action

Online Courses

• Strengthening Your Organization, Your Community, and Your Projects
• Activating Asset Mapping

Effective Practices

• Collaborating to develop service programming to address community needs
• Identifying community needs with an informal opinion poll
• Improving neighborhoods with web-based community mapping

Lending Library

• Building Community: A Toolkit for Youth and Adults in Charting Assets and Creating Change
• Community Transformation: Turning Threats into Opportunities
• Cultivating Community: Principles and Practices for Community Gardening as a Community-Building Tool

Related Websites

• The Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute
• The Leadership Practice
• Community Toolbox

Related Topic: Community Partnerships