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Abcd Mapping: Contributed by Mike Green - ABCD Institute Faculty

ABCD mapping is a guide for relationship building and not just data collection. It involves four key questions related to who is doing the mapping, the purpose, how data will be collected and analyzed, and how the data will be used. There are different types of asset mapping including individual assets, associations, institutions, physical spaces, and neighborhood economies.

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Abcd Mapping: Contributed by Mike Green - ABCD Institute Faculty

ABCD mapping is a guide for relationship building and not just data collection. It involves four key questions related to who is doing the mapping, the purpose, how data will be collected and analyzed, and how the data will be used. There are different types of asset mapping including individual assets, associations, institutions, physical spaces, and neighborhood economies.

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Contributed by Mike Green | ABCD Institute Faculty

ABCD MAPPING
FOUR KEY QUESTIONS:

1) WHO IS DOING IT?

2) WHAT IS THE PURPOSE?

3) HOW WILL YOU COLLECT AND ANALYZE THE DATA?

4) HOW WILL YOU USE THE DATA TO MAKE CONNECTIONS


FOR CONTRIBUTION?

ABCD MAPPING IS A GUIDE FOR RELATIONSHIP BUILDING


—NOT JUST DATA!

TO USE A “MAP” EFFECTIVELY; YOU NEED “AN ORGANIZATIONAL


VEHICLE” CAPABLE OF GOING DOWN THE ROAD!

Asset-Based Community Development Institute® ◆ www.abcdinstitute.org ◆ [email protected]

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Types of Asset Mapping

Individual Asset Inventories:


● Gifts, talents, dreams, hopes, fears

Associational Mapping:
● Associations you know
● Associations you don’t know
● What do they currently do?
● What have they talked about doing but haven’t done yet?
● What might they do if they were asked?

Institutional Mapping:
● Gifts of employees & volunteers
● Physical space & Equipment
● How money is spent - supplies, services, hiring, etc.
● Current relationship with community

Physical Space Mapping:


● What is in the neighborhood - parks, schools, libraries, community

centers, hospitals and clinics, apartments, single family homes,


neighborhood businesses, bike and walking paths, green spaces,
vacant lots...
● What happens where - block club activity, recreation/sports,
crime, senior activities, youth activities, clean-ups, code problems,
housing type, etc.

Neighborhood Economy Mapping:


● How money flows in (and out) of the neighborhood
● Neighborhood business development

Asset-Based Community Development Institute® ◆ www.abcdinstitute.org ◆ [email protected]

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Community Capacity Inventories
Questions to Ask Before You Start
PURPOSE:

● What is our goal? What do we hope to achieve?


● What specific goals can we name that will help to make the general goal
more concrete?
● What kinds of questions need to be asked in order to generate the kind
of information necessary to meet both the general and specific goals?
● How will we use the information that we collect to accomplish our
goals?

METHODS:

● What is the most effective way to collect information that we need,


given the resources at our disposal?
● How many community residents do we want to interview?
● How will our interviewers be educated and trained in the capacity
inventory approach and process?
● What will happen to the information once it has been collected? Who
will be responsible for analyzing and maintaining it, and making sure it is
available to be used toward meeting the organizations goals?

Thanks to Geralyn Sheehan, ABCD Institute Faculty


[email protected]

Asset-Based Community Development Institute® ◆ www.abcdinstitute.org ◆ [email protected]

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