WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Defining
​ASSETS, Value, & Risk?

We have developed and employed a new paradigm to augment the traditional SWOT analysis, in order to get at deeper value and uncover risk using an ABCD model to run parallel with asset-based community development.​

Assets

Strengths and advantages defined broadly to include not only financial resources but individual, intellectual, social, cultural, natural, built, political and financial.  Ask yourself: What does our community have that can built upon and mobilized?

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Best Bets

Based on assets and competitive advantages, strategies and actions that could have the most upside or contribute to a region's well-being.  Ask yourself: What would you go all-in on?

Challenges

Weaknesses or significant problems or widespread concerns affecting a community's quality of life.

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Downside Risks

External threats whose risk needs to be understood and factored in that could lessen the probability or extent of the impact of a best bet.

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Identified ASSETS

• Agriculture and Local Food Systems
• Arts and Crafts Industries
• Construction
• Green Energy Resources
• Industrial parks
• MainStreet Programs
• Mining and Quarrying Industries
• Regional Community Development Corporation
• Regional Retail Shopping Hub
• Safeshoring
• Tourism Assets
• Transportation and Logistics
• Education and Workforce Development Programs

Identified Challenges

• Limited Job Market
• Education and Training Deficits
• Infrastructure Deficits
• Poverty
• Lack of Collaboration
• Changing Demographics
• Jurisdictional Complexities
• Poor Quality of Life
• Lack of Access to Capital
• Inadequate Housing