Community Assets and Community Mobilization

In 2002 Dr. Susan Jakes and Dr. Lisa Shannon created several tools to measure existing community assets and both individual and community mobilization to effect change in the community. The theory of change is as follows:

Flowchart showing Jake's and Cassidy’s model for citizen development and community change, linking community assets, human capital, empowerment, participation or mobilization, and community change with feedback arrows.

Tools to measure Community Assets and both Individual and Community Mobilization can be found on the following Google Drive. Permission must be granted as a way to track usage. Please email me at susan_jakes@ncsu.edu to explain how you will use this work. Preference given to educational and research purposes.