abcd workshop habitat international conference 2015

Building on Strengths:Understanding Asset Based Community Development

Host: Angela Bills – Trinity Habitat for Humanity

Presenters: Ron Dwyer-Voss – ABCD Institute

Sabrina Kelley – Habitat for Humanity Fresno County

Leslie Voiles – Habitat for Humanity Genesee County

Neighborhood Revitalization

Mission

Neighborhood Revitalization affiliates serve

more families by responding to community

aspirations with an expanded array of products,

services and partnerships, empowering residents

to revive their neighborhoods and enhance their

quality of life.

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Top 5 Reasons to visit Booth #138

5. You want to buy a Neighborhood

Revitalization t-shirt.

4. You want a free gift.

3. You are NOT a Neighborhood Revitalization

affiliate, but want to learn more and

possibly win $1,000.

2. You ARE a Neighborhood Revitalization

affiliate & want to do the Scavenger Hunt &

possibly win $1,000.

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Pick up the postcard in the back of the room and visit our booth, see #3!



QUIZ

ABCD stands for:

A. The 1st four letters of the alphabet

B. Asset Based Community

Development

C. Advisory Board on Cat Diseases

Workshop Agenda I. Welcome

II. Agenda, Learning Goals & Agreement

III. What is ABCD?

IV. Where do I Start? Getting Started with ABCD Using

Collective Impact

V. Group Insights

VI. Why Should I Care?

VII. Recap – Prep for Monday Morning Plan

VIII.Closing Circle / Evaluation


Course Objectives

• Provide foundation for understanding the traditional

model of community development

• Share the fundamentals of Asset Based Community

Development

• Present a look at ABCD and collective impact, and

why we should care about using an ABCD approach

• Provide guidance and tools to integrate ABCD

approach in to your affiliate’s work

The Dilemma . . .

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People and Communities

have deficiencies & needs

Individuals and Communities

have skills and talents

Ron Dwyer-Voss

Faculty ABCD Institute

Consultant

Habitat for Humanity International

Neighborhoods Needs Map

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Lead Poisoning Dropouts

Unemployment

Gangs Illiteracy

Truancy

Broken Families Slum Housing

Welfare Recipients

Child

AbuseCrime

Graffiti

Mental

Disability

Consequences of the Needs Map

for Local Residents

• “We are deficient”

• Our local relationships are damaged

• Most money comes into our community for

programs – often narrowly defined

• Money can get misdirected towards

professional helpers, not residents

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• We place focus on leaders who magnify deficiencies

• We reward failure and foster dependency on systems

• Our community has a poor self-image

• We experience hopelessness

Consequences of the Needs Map

for Local Residents

Community Assets Map

Local

INSTITUTIONS

Citizens’

Associations

Gifts of

INDIVIDUALS

Youth

Cultural

Groups Community Colleges

Labeled

People

Artists

Libraries

Block Clubs

SchoolsBusiness

Churches/

Houses of Worship

Income

Older Adults

Parks

Hospitals

Six Types of Assets to Connect

1. Talents and skills of our people

2. Associations, and our network of relationships

3. Institutions and professional entities

4. Physical assets

• Land, property, buildings, equipment

5. Economic assets

• Productive work of individuals, consumer

spending power, local business assets

6. Culture/Stories

How is the Community Building Model

Different From the Social Service Model?

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In subtle, but very important ways…

Community Building

Model

Social Service Model

Focus on ASSETS Focus on NEEDS

Builds from OPPORTUNITIES Responds to PROBLEMS

Investment Orientation CHARITY Orientation

Emphasis on ASSOCIATIONS Emphasis on AGENCIES

Focus on COMMUNITY Focus on INDIVIDUALS

Goal is EMPOWERMENT Goal is SERVICE

Power comes from

RELATIONSHIPS

Power comes from

CREDENTIALS

PEOPLE are the answer PROGRAMS are the answer

People are CITIZENS People are CLIENTS

Resident Power Progression

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NEED-ER/VICTIM

ADVISOR

ADVOCATE

PRODUCER… VISION

… OUTCOMES

The Shift

Moving from Needers to Producers

In Milo-Grogan

Guidelines and Principles

• We are motivated by what we don’t have, to use what

we do have, to get what we want.

• Never try to do anything nobody wants.

• The answer to every question is a learning

conversation.

• Never do for anyone what they can do for themselves.

• You can’t see what you aren’t looking for.

• Not about me without me!

• There has never been a need that solved a problem.

• Start with a question, not an answer.16

Guidelines and Principles

Getting Started with ABCD Using Collective Impact

• CI: The “Wheels of ABCD”

• Nuts & Bolts of CI

• What You Need to Get

Started

• Maintaining the Integrity

of CI

Sabrina Kelley

Community Development

Manager

Habitat Fresno

Getting Started with ABCD using

Collective Impact 1. Who are the partners and

what role do they play

2. What do we propose to do?

3. How can we use what we

have?

4. What are the quality-of-life

conditions we want for our

neighborhood?

5. What would these

conditions look like?

6. How can we measure these

conditions?

7. How are we doing on the

most important measures?

C I

ABCD

Nuts & Bolts of Collective Impact

1. Common Agenda

Strategic plan for neighborhood

development

2. Shared Measurement

SMDS and other tools that help track

impact

3. Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Actions support and coordinate with

others

Each one focuses on what they do best

4. Continuous Communication

5. Backbone Support

Collective Impact – What’s Needed to Start?An Influential Champion – An

individual or small group who command

the respect necessary to bring CEO-level

cross-sector leaders together and keep

them actively engaged over time

Adequate Financial Resourcing

AmeriCorps, Grants, CB funding,

Donations

A Sense of Urgency for Change - A

new opportunity or crisis that convinces

people that a particular issue must be

acted upon now and/or that a new

approach is needed

Maintaining the Integrity of Collective Impact

Necessary Mindshifts

Compliance What’s Possible?

Scarcity Leveraging Existing Resources

Choosing 1 or 2 key projects Choosing a framework

for engagement that addresses resident / community

priorities

“They Should” Understanding our own biases

What can I do “How Might We”

“How Might We Work Together to Improve the

Quality of Life of the Families Who Live Here?”

Maintaining the Integrity of Collective Impact

Challenges and Solutions

Implementing ABCD / Collective Impact

1. Gather together according to your

colored animal.

2. Challenges noted on flip chart

3. Each group will discuss a

challenge and create a solution

using an ABCD / Collective

Impact approach.

4. Report out.

ABCD & Collective Impact

Why Should I Care?

Leslie Voiles, Volunteer Coordinator

Genesee County

Habitat for Humanity

ABCD & Collective Impact . . . Why Should I Care?

•ABCD = engagement model

•Collective Impact = structure and “the wheels”

•Cross-sector perspectives

•Creates accountability- decision making and

problem solving are shared

•Strong relationships and trust = collective

visioning and learning

•Social Capital!

A diverse

collection of

partnerships joined

together with a

single common

thread. RESIDENTS

Use to Tell Your Story

Download CI tip sheets and templates from My Habitat.

Tell your story:

• FREE tool!!!

• Easy to insert photos or video clips

• Easy to record audio and adjust photo/text slide length to

match

• Uploading to YouTube is simple-just takes a few clicks!


ReCap – Session Objectives / Resources

• Looked at the foundation/traditional model of

community development

– Dilemma

– Needs Based

– Consequences

• Shared the fundamentals of Asset Based Community

Development

– Paradigm shift

– Assets and Asset Maps

– Power Progression

– Guidelines and Principles of ABCD



• Learned about getting started with ABCD Using

Collective Impact

– Nuts & bolts of Collective Impact

– What we need to get started

– How to maintain the integrity of Collective Impact

• Shared and why we should care about using an

ABCD/Collective Impact approach

– It is an engagement model and provides structure

– Provides cross-sector perspectives, plus by-in/understanding

– Creates collective accountability

– Develops strong relationships and builds trust

– Brings in new people / resources



• Explored our group’s insights

– Factors/assets we have to employ ABCD/CI

– Assets we have to create authentic engagement

– What could be/has been most effective re: ABCD/CI

• Shared ideas and tools to integrate ABCD approach

in to your affiliate’s work

– Asset Map example

– CI model (common agenda – shared metrics visual)

– Timeline and Phases of Collective Impact

– ezVid resource (and incentive to make a video)

– And finally, resources like: ABCD Resource Kit on

my.Habitat and samples documents /resources

(handout/back table)

Closing Circle

• Shout Out – feeling about YOUR Monday

Morning Plan?

• Thanks for Joining Us!

• Check out the ABCD Resource Kit on My

Habitat.

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