As a leader, you want to make a difference in your community and figuring out where to start can be overwhelming. Leadership Indianapolis in partnership with the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center (INRC) present: Intro to Asset Based Community Development.This workshop will introduce attendees to the ABCD system and provide an interactive, practical experience to empower participants to implement what they’ve learned.

Through a series of exercises that build community, participants learn how to reach out to neighbors, bring them together to address problems, work toward shared goals, and build strong and organized communities. The mapping portion of the session will assist participants in identifying and discovering the obvious and hidden assets within their communities. Participants will begin to work on individual, associational, institutional, and community mapping tools for their neighborhoods and learn how to apply this information to connect issues and needs with assets.