ABCD: When People Care Enough to Act

In this book, Mike Green and Henry Moore point the way toward creating a powerful citizen-centered local democracy. They are wonderful guides. This is a book by two of North America's master practitioners of Asset-Based community Development - Mike Green and Henry Moore. Their work has advanced the field of ABCD by focusing on the fact that citizens are the primary asset and activators of assets in local communities. ... --John McKnight, co-founder, ABCD Institute

Mike Green is a community organizer, affiliated with John McKnight's Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute in Chicago. Mike learned what works and what does not work. Mike helped found the ABCD Training Group. Henry Moore (deceased) was the co-founder of ABCD Training Group, a sharecropper's son, city manager in Savannah, GA, and a great organizer. John O'Brien is a leading thinker/creator of precedent setting innovations that help to create full lives for people with disability labels the world over.