Asset-Based Community Development Institute

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The ABCD Institute, in partnership with the ABCD Center and Communiversity, will present an ABCD training, "From Scarcity to Abundance: Asset-Based Strategies to Build Community and Organizational Capacity" in Chicago from September 23 to 25, 2010. The strongest communities have discovered their inner strengths and resources, and neighborhoods, organizations, agencies and groups can learn from this program. Click here to register.

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First Lady and ABCD faculty member Michelle Obama mentions the Asset-Based Community Development Institute and partner organization Public Allies in a speech at a conference hosted on June 16, 2009, by Greater DC Cares. Visit Michelle Obama's faculty page to read her speech.

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Deborah Puntenney was awarded a grant by the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities for a partnership building grant in North Chicago, beginning July 2009. Read the press release.

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In partnership with ABCD, Coady Institute colleagues Gordon Cunningham and Alison Mathie have just published an edited volume titled From Clients to Citizens: Communities Changing the Course of Their Own Development, which features case studies of asset-based community development efforts around the world.