Ron Dwyer-Voss believes a focus on assets, rather than needs, is the best way to foster community-driven change. Dwyer-Voss, the owner and founder of Pacific Community Solutions, gave a guest ...

Over the next two weeks, we’re all going to be subject to a tidal wave of messages that will fit in a framework of “us vs. them,” “winners and losers,” and playing on a fear of losing control or power ...

According to social entrepreneur Zita Cobb, “the answers are always in the place.” Cobb is renowned globally as a true innovator in place-based economic development. She has been recognized for her ...

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is transforming itself into the nation’s first comprehensively bilingual public university. Francisco Guajardo is director of an initiative to help enable ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Dr. John "Jody" Kretzmann will lead a workshop on Building Strong Communities: Asset-based ...

A group of volunteers showed up Wednesday to the Corpus Christi residence of Luther Singleton, whose roof was severely damaged during Hurricane Harvey. They quickly got to work fixing it. The group, ...

The partners in strengths-based service are students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community. Influenced by the fields of asset-based community development and positive psychology, especially the ...

Too often, communities focus on what they don’t have. And it is true that many community leaders struggle due to insufficient funding, limited resources and inadequate infrastructure. But it is also ...