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A Guide to Mapping Local Business Assets and Mobilizing Local Business Capacities
This workbook outlines a plan for understanding what businesses exist in a community, what kinds of resources they possess, and to what extent they are, or could be, mobilized toward community development efforts.
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A Guide to Mapping Consumer Expenditures and Mobilizing Consumer Expenditure Capacities
It presents a model for exploring how individual make choices about the purchase of products and services, and about how much they spend on specific kinds of items.
A Guide to Evaluating Asset-Based Community Development: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
This guide is written primarily for community-building practitioners from the point of view of an experienced evaluator, but it should also be useful for funders and others who would like to be helpful to community builders. It provides guidance about how evaluation strategies can actually improve the work of community builders, identifies and clarifies the most important issues and dilemmas in evaluating community-building projects, and suggests 10 important principles for those wishing to implement evaluation strategies which are appropriate for this work.
A Guide to Creating a Neighborhood Information Exchange: Building Communities by Connecting Local Skills and Knowledge
This book presents a simple, inexpensive method for discovering untapped local resources that can be shared among community members. It shows how to design and operate a capacity-listing-and-referral service utilizing volunteers, donated space and a minimal budget. This model can be modified and expanded for larger groups with greater resources.