This book provides eleven clear examples of capacity inventories developed and used by different communities across the United States as well as practical reasons and valuable tips for conducting and using capacity inventories in your community.

Among the groups featured in this book are the Family Support Network of Seattle; Interfaith Action, a church-based community organization in Minneapolis; the rural-based Sierra County Children's Health Collaborative in California; the Neighborhood Pride Team in Portland; the Mutual Partnerships Coalition of Seattle; and Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association in New York. Each has created its own special tools and methods of mapping and mobilizing the capacities of its local residents. These stories represent just a few of the creative ways that community groups around the country are making the asset-based development process work for them.

The book also contains the individualized capacity inventories that each group designed.

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(Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 1997)