On Saturday, March 21, I had the opportunity to spend some time with participants in the Southeast (Indianapolis) Leadership Development Initiative being organized by the Purdue Extension, Marion County. We spent the morning talking about some of the processes that can be helpful in community development work, specifically how to (1) build community by building networks and (2) practice the art of "strategic doing" to get things accomplished. The presentation from this session is available here.
We also talked a little about the great resource, Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding & Mobilizing a Community's Assets by John Kretzmann and John McKnight. You can find more about Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) here.
If you would like more information on this great Indianapolis neighborhood, go here.
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