1. Identifying Community Assets

2. What is a community asset?
A physical structure or place
A business
You
Everyone living in the community

3. Why should you identify community assets?
A physical structure or place
A business
You
Everyone living in the community 3

4. When should you identify community assets?
When you don't know what those assets are
When talent is underutilized
When you are unable to provide traditional services
When you want to encourage pride among residents
When you want to strengthen or build relationships 4

5. How do you identify community assets?
Answer the following:
How big is the community?
Who can do the work?
How much time do you have?
How much money do you have?
What will you do with the results? 5

6. Why should you identify community assets?
A physical structure or place
A business
You
Everyone living in the community 6

7. How do you identify the group's assets?
Get out a pad and start writing what you know
Add other sources of information to your list
Check for other information sources
Refine and revise your list 7

8. How do you identify individual assets?
Answer the “starting questions”
Decide on the geographic area you want to cover
Decide how many people you will ask
Draft some questions you want to ask
Design a method by which these questions can be asked
Try out questions on a sample group
Collect your data 8

9. How can you use the assets you have identified?
Publish the assets
Target a particular area for development
Tackle a new project
Find new ways to bring groups together
Create a school curriculum 9

10. How can you use the assets you have identified? (cont.)
Consider creating a "community coordinator"
Keep records
Set up a structured program for asset exchange
Establish a review process for assets 10