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  • Topic index to ABCD Publications
     
  • The Basic Manual Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets (1993)
     
  • Video Training Program
    Mobilizing Community Assets (1995)
    A six-session video training program based on Building Communities from the Inside Out
     
  • The Workbooks
    A continuing series of guides that offer step-by-step directions for mapping community assets and mobilizing community capacities. Currently there are 12 workbooks that may be purchased.
     
  • Downloadable Publications
    A complete list of papers written by John McKnight, John Kretzmann and members of their research team on community development issues.
     
  • The Careless Society
    A series of essays written by John McKnight over the past 30 years that offers insights into why "professionalized services" have destroyed the very communities they are there to help. Instead, he shows how local citizens can restore and revitalize their communities by drawing on their own talents and strengths.
     




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