This guide summarizes lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighborhoods across the U.S. It outlines what local communities can do to start their own journies down the path of asset-based development.
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Building Communities from the Inside Out guides readers to a new, asset-based approach to community building that proves everyone has a gift to share. The book offers practical advice, helpful tools, and powerful stories that help us see communities in new ways--as treasure troves of talent. Kretzmann and McKnight's front-line experience working with neighborhoods across America has created a vital tool for transforming city blocks into neighborhoods and isolated residents into change agents. For anyone who longs to make a difference, this book is a MUST! I am a partner in a consulting firm that guides healthy community initiatives across America--this book is one of my most valued resources.
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Graphics a little clunky. Besides that, this is an outstanding book, with outstanding success stories and ideas, on building local "capacity" to handle projects. Everyone in the field, in my area, is excited about the ideas in this book. The authors are even better in person. You cannot understand the field without the ideas in this book.
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This book may seem mundane. It isn't. It is Systems Theory in community healing, in creating healthy communities, even with few resources. I have seen people who put the ideas to work. 5 stars for ideas, I wish it had been organized a little differently, but it's still very, very good. I have used his ideas on a small scale, myself, in my own city, and gotten results better than I thought possible. My favorite kind of review, however, is one where similar books are cited, that maybe fill in holes, or supplement the main ideas. The first book I might suggest is Ending Violent Crime Cheaply and Permanently: A Vision Of A Society Free Of Violence. For many inner city communities, significant sectors of the minority male population are cycled through a school of violent crime, where the gangs do their corporate training, at Ivy League tuition costs. This is not useful. We need a better way. This book doesn't just talk about incrementally handling a small portion of the population, no, it is ending violent crime, cheaply and permanently. RETURN TO CREATION and The Original Instructions: Reflections of an Elder on the Teachings of the Elders, Adapting Ancient Wisdom to the Twenty-First Century are also useful, they describe an important level of creating healthy community that BCFTIO couldn't cover. The Chicago Church that was down to a handful of members, and then changed their intent and now are a huge housing developer- part of what they did is described, in theory at least, in The Intenders Handbook; a Guide to the Intention Process and the Conscious Community. Healthy community is the result of intent. The forthcoming book Blossoming the Child, on removing trauma from child-raising, would be useful also, however it is currently only available in German. Kretzmann's stuff is fascinating.
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I received this book the week it was ordered. Great Service! The book's in excellent shape. No marking, hightlighting, missing pages or damange of any kind. Thanks
Published 7 months ago by Angle
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This item was in great condition and looked as though it had hardly been used. This is a fantastic book for community workers and I can highly recommend it! Read more
Published on April 12, 2011 by Cassie Powell
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Good Starter
You see how one community moves through the process of asset mapping and it gives good ideas of "oh, yeah I never thought of that connection". It is very applied. Read more
Published on January 12, 2011 by Dave Garvey
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Could not be improved.
Book arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Could not ask for more at full price.
Published on August 30, 2009 by A. Gallagher
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Community Building Asset
This is the fundamental, timeless guide to constructing a community out of factions that might not otherwise coalesce. Read more
Published on August 28, 2009 by A. Oakey
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Very useful information in a variety of settings
Asset-based analysis of communities can be used in working to fortify a variety of underfunctioning or dysfunctional environments. Read more
Published on July 15, 2009 by Writer44
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