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Building On Strengths Asset Based Community Development Principles in Academic Libraries Laura M. Ponikvar ALAO Conference Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library November 2, 2018 Cleveland Institute of Art CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART Overview What

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Building On Strengths

Asset Based Community Development Principles in Academic Libraries

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Laura M. Ponikvar Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library Cleveland Institute of Art ALAO Conference November 2, 2018

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Overview What is ABCD?

How does this apply to libraries?

Let’s try it out! Questions and thoughts?

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Before we start…

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Is anyone familiar with ABCD? Strengths Finder? Ever participated in an asset mapping exercise?

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What is ABCD?

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McKnight & Kretzmann

https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/about/founders/Pages/default.aspx

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Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology for the sustainable development of communities based

n the strengths and potentials of

the community.

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Steps of ABCD

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assessing existing assets

rganizing around issues that motivate and inspire action

determining actions with intent to move forward identifying + linking micro-assets to the macro-environment using the identified assets for development empowering the community

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Everyone has gifts Relationships build community Citizens at the center Leaders involve everyone People DO care Listening > telling Ask, ask, ask, ask Inside out organization Institutions as servants

ABCD’s Guiding Principles

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How we’ve used it at CIA

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Questions?

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“Communities can only be built by focusing on the strengths and capacities of the citizens who call that community home. Those who have escaped the lures

f deficiency, therefore, have been drawing up a new

map based on old truths, an ‘Assets Map’... At the center of the map, and of the community building process, lie the ‘gift’ of individual residents, their knowledge, skills, resources, values, and commitments.” John Kretzmann,1997

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(Two of) ABCD’s tools

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There are other tools, like time shares, but they’re not as relevant to our work.

Personal Capacity Inventory Community Asset Mapping

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Personal Capacity Inventory

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Personal Capacity Inventory

aka “Gifts of the Head, Hands & Heart”

Knowledge
Information

Head

Practical skills
Talents

Hands

Passion
Listening

Heart

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Activity #1

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Personal Capacity Inventory

aka “Gifts of the Head, Hands & Heart”

List out YOUR gifts in each category on the sheet.

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What are your assets?

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Discover

everyone’s gifts & passions

Ask

them to share their gifts

Connect

people with the same passions to act collectively

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People Physical structures or places Community services Businesses Institutions Associations

Community Assets

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Understand your community Better understand community needs Identify possible partners and funding Empowering for community members

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Why?

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Mapping is the most common way that groups identify community assets. Asset maps can take many forms…

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Asset_map_.jpg

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https://saadaqeelalzaroonimapping.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/picture41.png

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http://www.uniteforsight.org/community-development/abcd/chicago.png?h=640&w=752 CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART

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http://creativecitizens.co.uk/files/2012/05/streetpartymap-full.jpg

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Activity #2

Asset mapping as a group

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How can we connect these assets to move our libraries forward?

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Better libraries

Strong community based projects Your community member’s personal assets Your community’s assets

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Questions?

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Thank you!

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For more information…

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Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD) https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/Pages/default.aspx Building communities from the inside out: a path toward finding and mobilizing a community’s assets. Kretzmann & McKnight. 1993.