She'll set the scene for our journey into its history, uses

and different practices.

In this first episode, we want to lay the foundation for the journey ahead.

You may have heard of asset mapping, maybe even used it in your work, but where did it come from and what was it originally meant to do? Asset mapping became popular through a movement known as Asset-Based Community Development, or ABCD, which was introduced by Jodie Kretzmann and John McKnight in the early 1990s.

In a now classic text, Building Communities from the Inside Out, they made a simple but radical point.

Every community has something to offer.

The problem is, we've been trained to see only what's broken.