For years, community leaders have been turning to outside help to fix local problems. The process begins by looking at the community's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, better known as ...

Traditional financial training fails the vulnerable; asset mapping builds on community strengths to fight debt and empower ...

MIDDLETOWN — Middletown Works, a Working Cities Challenge Initiative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is well into its third year, and has recently taken the lead on developing an interactive ...

Community asset mapping is an essential tool for emerging public health professionals who seek to engage communities in working collaboratively to identify existing resources already available in the ...

A new piece of software is helping Goshen city departments view their data and assets in a dynamic new way. It’s called a geographic information system (GIS), and it is already beginning to streamline ...

HAMDEN — The Hamden Public Library. Best Video Film & Cultural Center. Congregation Mishkan Israel. Some of the places should be considered “cultural assets” in Hamden, according to initial responses ...