Community Leadership Social Capital plus ABCD

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Community Leadership Social Capital plus ABCD

• Leadership Atlanta Community Day November 10,
  2005

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Our Work Today

• Objectives
• Understand what social capital and asset based
  community development are and how to they can be
  applied
• Be familiar with a community in Metro Atlanta
  with which they were previously unfamiliar.
• Encounter new situations and stretch your comfort
  zone
• Reinforce interpersonal bonds through small group
  interaction.

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Our Work Today

• Agenda
• Arrival/Continental Breakfast
• Welcomes
• Opening Exercise
• Stretch Break
• How things add up
• Keynote Speaker Alicia Phillip
• Community Visits
• Afternoon debrief Café LA

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Leadership Atlantas Learning Cycle
Individual Work Real World
Stage 4 Implementing
Stage 1 Generating
Program Days Sharing Experiences Information
Transformation Personal Change
Stage 3 Optimizing
Stage 2 Conceptualizing
Study Group Work Reflection
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Opening Exercise You and Your Communities
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Social Capital
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Social Capital Defined

• Networks that help you engage other people in
  getting things done.
• Elements of Social Capital
• Trust
• Reciprocity and mutuality
• Shared values
• Sense of commitment and belonging

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Social Capital Styles
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Social Capital Styles
Organizational
Bridging
Intellectual
Status/Prestige
Personal Support
Political
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Todays KeynoteAlicia PhilippPresident, Metro
Atlanta Community Foundation
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How leaders use social capital

• Effective leaders use and generate social capital
  by
• Building trusting relationships
• Giving and receiving help
• Participating in local networks of support
• Nurturing a sense of shared commitment and
  belonging
• Promoting shared values

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• Introducing
• Asset Based Community Development
• (ABCD)

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ABCD Basic Principle

• Every person, group and community has existing
  gifts and abilities social capital or assets
  that can be identified and used to build stronger
  communities.

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New Model for Mobilizing Assets
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Looking for ABCD

• Themes to Listen for and Observe
• Inclusion
• Exclusion
• Preservation of heritage vs. pressure to
  assimilate
• Successful organizing
• Home grown goals

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Community Visits
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Community Visits

• 10 AM Travel to visits
• Visits include Lunch
• For the Return Be on the bus by 230 PM
• Community Day concludes where it began at My
  Sisters House here at Atlanta Union Mission.

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Guiding Questions for Visits

• How did you see the value of community reflected
  in your visit?
• What assets did you observe in the communities
  you visited?
• What types of social capital did you observe in
  the communities you visited?
• In what ways do your primary communities connect
  to the community you visited?
• What reasons (if any) do you see to strengthen
  this connection?
• What might you do differently as a result of what
  you learned today?

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Community Cafe
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Welcome to Café LA Where Conversation Matters

• Todays Specials
• Focus on what matters
• Contribute your thinking
• Speak your mind and your heart
• Listen to understand
• Link and connect ideas
• Listen for insights and deeper questions
• Play, Doodle Draw
• Have fun!

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Whats cooking today?

• Appetizer -- Rounds 1 and 2
• What common lessons grow out of todays diverse
  experiences in community?  How can this purpose
  be translated to effective action? What are the
  natural next steps out in this process?
• Entree Round 3
• How has todays experience changed your sense of
  community?  How has todays experience changed
  your sense of yourself as a leader? 
• Dessert Debrief in Community