Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is about bringing people together with a shared goal and common purpose to make something possible.

 

The ABCD approach is built on four foundations:

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1. It focuses on community assets and strengths rather than problems and needs.

2. It identifies and mobilises individual and community assets, skills and passions.

3. It is community driven – ‘building communities from the inside out’. It is ‘for the people, by the people’ in the community.

4. It is relationship driven.

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The foundational truths of the ABCD approach:

1. Everyone has gifts.

2. Everyone has something to contribute.

3. Everyone cares about something and that passion is their motivation to act.