Taking Action

Identify community assets and resources

Use Idealist.org to Find Community Groups

Use Idealist.org to find Idealist groups,volunteer opportunities,campaigns, nonprofit organizations, and people in your area.

• Mapping Community Capacity

  Written by John L. McKnight and John Kretzmann, co-directors of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, this paper offers a much more in depth explanation of community mapping and how it can be used as a community development strategy based on identifying capacity and assets in a community, rather than deficiency and needs.

• Community Mapping

  This resource, part of PolicyLink's Equitable Development Toolkit, is a step-by-step guide to mapping your community with specific attention paid to using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. GIS is a powerful mapping tool for analyzing many layers of data and allowing users to see information in new ways.

• Neighborhood Link

  Neighborhood Link provides neighborhood and community organizations with their own free, interactive website. You can search their database to find neighborhood associations and other organizations in your community.