Ron Dwyer-Voss believes a focus on assets, rather than needs, is the best way to foster community-driven change. Dwyer-Voss, the owner and founder of Pacific Community Solutions, gave a guest ...

Communities across the world have been transformed through Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), a strength-based approach to change. ABCD builds community from ...

According to social entrepreneur Zita Cobb, “the answers are always in the place.” Cobb is renowned globally as a true innovator in place-based economic development. She has been recognized for her ...

The CRA encourages financial institutions to use intermediaries to expand their capacity for delivering community development services; and faith-based organizations have long been recognized as one ...

A group of volunteers showed up Wednesday to the Corpus Christi residence of Luther Singleton, whose roof was severely damaged during Hurricane Harvey. They quickly got to work fixing it. The group, ...

Over the next two weeks, we’re all going to be subject to a tidal wave of messages that will fit in a framework of “us vs. them,” “winners and losers,” and playing on a fear of losing control or power ...

Too often, communities focus on what they don’t have. And it is true that many community leaders struggle due to insufficient funding, limited resources and inadequate infrastructure. But it is also ...