A library to play around in

The book that named asset-based community development. The capacity inventory in the back is still the best first exercise for any team.

What neighbors can do that systems cannot. Short, readable, and the argument behind reading the rings from the outside in.

The clearest academic statement of why starting with assets changes who holds power in a project.

Twenty minutes on the difference between doing to, doing for, and doing with. Good for a first meeting with a new partner.

Our own framework: recognize, reorganize, sustain, inside an open and reiterative system.

Education as something people do together, not something done to them. The root of youth-led work.

The nested systems a child grows inside. The rings, in developmental psychology.

What it takes for adults to share real power with young people, and what happens when they do.

Honest about the limits schools put on student-led research. Required reading for HPAC advisors.

The talk behind self-organized learning environments, which we tested in Cleveland classrooms.

Eight minutes on relationships as the first condition for learning.

Our own guide to planning a proposal, and the backbone of the grants course in the Incubator.

The place to research foundations: who they fund, how much, and what they ask for. Free training on proposals and budgets.

Every foundation's tax return is public. Reading the grants list tells you more than the website does.

Why overhead ratios starve nonprofits, and what to measure instead.

Start with why. Useful when a board is writing its first mission statement.