Community development assessment and community asset mapping
Building off J. Vincent II Community development assessments and Gary Green Community asset mapping and surveys
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1 min readOct 13, 2016
1st: Outline the stages of conducting a community assessment and the justifications for doing one.
How might an assessment benefit a community? How are communities defined in order to conduct an assessment?
What sort of data would you collect? Why and in what circumstances? Sources of data: the Internet, fieldwork, photography (and video?), interviews, community meetings, focus groups, community surveys and questionnaires.
Think back to the two community organizations we profiled last week — Fenway CDC and the All Dorchester Sports League. How would you go about assessing community assets in these neighborhoods/communities? How would you start? Who would you talk to? Why? Where would you go to do so?
