Neighboring Tip of the Week - Make a list of some of your favorite things in your neighborhood.

It’s crazy, but July is almost upon us, friends!

All of our neighboring tips are simple, but it’s been a little while since we’ve kept our explanations of them short and sweet, so that’s what we’re doing this week. This week’s tip doesn’t need much explanation, and it’s perfect for neighboring in the midst of this pandemic, as you can experiment with it without even leaving your home or having to think about distancing! This week, we propose that you make a list of some of your favorite things in your neighborhood.

As an asset-based community development organization, we do what we call “asset mapping”. But here’s the thing: anybody can asset map! You don’t have to be an abcd organization or even abcd-trained to do it! “Asset mapping” is basically just a fancy way of saying “making a list of awesome things in your neighborhood”. It’s that easy, and this week, we encourage you to make a list of some of your favorite assets in your neighborhood.

Making a list like this is just fun, and it also gives us a chance to remember awesome things in our neighborhoods that we might not think about on a daily basis, puts these awesome things at the front of our minds so that we can tell others about them, and helps us discover the deep love we have for our neighborhoods!

Happy neighboring!