The process planner helps you choose participatory methods that are suitable to your situation. It also helps you plan your process. You answer a series of questions which are compared to a database of methods to determine which methods best fit your needs.
The process planner will suggest a list of methods. It is often a [...]

In Empowering Neighborhoods and Restoring Play, Psychology Today columnist Peter Gray asked his readers to help him develop a proposal to build a neighborhood play and learning center “that could serve as a model that communities everywhere might emulate”. I said I’d help, and after putting in a few hours, recommended that he check out [...]

Source: Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity | The Habitat Exchange.
A. From Greyrock Commons Co-Housing Community
GIFTS I CAN GIVE MY COMMUNITY

GIFTS OF THE HEAD
Things I know something about and would enjoy talking about with others, e.g., art, history, movies, birds.
GIFTS OF THE HANDS
Things or skills I know [...]

Bill Traynor is a leading theoretician and practitioner in the field of community development. He is currently the Executive Director of Lawrence Community Works, an initiative that’s rebuilding the struggling city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, his hometown. He was the Director of Community Development for the Boston Community Training and Assistance Center, and the Executive Director [...]

Reflections on Community Organizing and Resident Engagement in the Rebuilding Communities Initiative.
Bill Traynor. Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Reflections of a community’s struggle with resident engagement and community organizing. The report’s focus in on understanding the role and practice of community organizing and resident engagement in the context of a comprehensive community change initiative.
Highlights:
We tried many things; [...]

Notes from Building Communities From the Inside Out, by John P. Kretzmann

In distressed communities across the United States, savvy organizers and leaders are rediscovering ancient wisdom about what builds strong communities.
Serious community builders have no choice but to return to basics, to the communities themselves to rediscover and mobilize the strengths, capacities, and assets [...]

Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity (2005) is a workbook developed by the Asset Based Community Development Institute which aims to strengthen community-based projects by enhancing both project design and proposal preparation. Based on the premise that “your community’s assets plus your organization’s assets produces strong community-based projects,” [...]