This tool might help you with Step 2: Create a plan of action with your community
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a community development tool that focuses on identifying and using the assets, talents and strengths in a community, rather than emphasising the problems, needs and deficits. It starts with what is present in the community and not what is problematic or absent. Focusing on assets helps to build your community in a positive way.
ABCD recognises that everyone in the community – including individuals, organisations and businesses – has skills, abilities, talents and experiences that they can use in order to make it a better place to live. Additionally, every community has natural resources of space and physical resources.
An ABCD toolkit can be downloaded here: www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/Making_Headway_ToolKit.pdf
It draws from the work of the Asset-based Community Development Institute in Illinois, USA. www.abcdinstitute.org
A Tasmanian example, “Local voices: Enquiry into community assets in Circular Head” from May 2011 is available from the Publications section at tascoss.org.au