Watch the TEDx Talk to gain a better understanding of Asset Based Community Development principles: Sustainable Community Development: From What's Wrong to What's Strong by Cormac Russell, Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organization in Europe, and faculty member of the ABCD Institute at DePaul University.
Recommended reading for Asset Based Community Development:
Alexander, Michelle, "The New Jim Crow," The New Press, 2012
Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Esther Duflo, "Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty," Public Affairs 2011
Berry, Wendell, "The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture," Sierra Club Books 1996
Block, Peter, W. Brueggemann, J. McKnight, "An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture," Wiley and Sons 2016
Brooks, Jonathan and Sho Baraka, "Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods," IVP Books 2018
Castellanos, Noel, "Where the Cross Meets the Street: What Happens to the Neighborhood When God is at the Center," IVP Books, 2015
Cayley, Daniel, "The Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich," Anansi 2005
Evans, "Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective," Third World Press 2006
Evans, Mari, "I am a Black Woman," Morrow 1970
Evans, Mari, "Continuum," Just Us Books 2015
Galdamez, Pablo, "Faith of a People," Orbis, 1990
Gawande, Atul, "Better: A Surgeons Notes on Performance," Metropolitan Books 2007
Green, Mike with Henry Moore and John O’Brien, "ABCD in Action: When People Care Enough to Act," Inclusion Press 2006
Illich, Ivan, "Deschooling Society," Harper and Row, 1970
Illich, Ivan, "The Right to Useful Unemployment and its professional enemies," Marion Boyars (republished) 1996
Kendi, Ibrim X., "How To Be An Antiracist," One World 2019
Kretzmann, John P. and John McKnight, "Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets," The Asset Based Community Development Institute 1993
Mather, Michael, "Having Nothing, Possessing Everything: Finding Abundant Communities in Unexpected Places," Eerdmans 2018
McKnight, John and Peter Block, "The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods," Barrett-Koehler Publishing 2010
McKnight, John, "The Careless Society: Community and its Counterfeits," New York: Basic Books 1995
McKnight, John, "The Future of Low-Income Neighborhoods and the People Who Reside There: A Capacity Oriented Strategy For Neighborhood Development," Center For Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University 1997
Miller, Mauricio, "The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty Is Wrong," Lulu Publishing 2017
Rich, John, "Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men," John Hopkins University Press, 2011
Ross, Rupert, "Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice," Penguin Canada 2006
Schaper, Donna, "A Book of Common Power: Narratives Against the Current," LuraMedia 1989
Smith, Patricia, "Incendiary Art: Poetry," Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award 2015
Sirolli, Ernesto, "Ripples From the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies," New Society Publishers 1999
Villaneuva, Edgar, "Decolonizing Wealth: The Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance," Bennett-Kowhler 2018
Vitek, William and Wes Jackson, "Rooted In the Land: Essays on Community and Place," Yale University Press 1996
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