John L. McKnight & Cormac Russell (2018)
The primary goal of an Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) process is to enhance
collective citizen visioning and production through a process that combines four essential
elements:
1. Resources
2. Methods
3. Functions
4. Evaluation
This paper discusses each of these elements in detail in an effort to answer the following question: “what is distinctive about an Asset-Based Community Development process?”
