Working to make the Austin community a better places to live, learn, grow and succeed.
Since 1974
Circle Urban Ministries is working to make the Austin community a better place to live, learn, grow and succeed. We take a four-pronged, asset-based approach to community development.
Circle Urban Ministries' 4-Pronged Approach to Community Development
Asset-Based Community Development
For more than 30 years Circle Urban Ministries has used an asset-based community development approach (ABCD) to neighborhood transformation. ABCD is built on four foundations (Kretzmann, 2010; Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993; Mathie & Cunningham, 2003):
- It focuses on community assets and strengths rather than problems and needs
- It identifies and mobilizes individual and community assets, skills and passions
- It is community driven – ‘building communities from the inside out’ (Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993)
- It is relationship driven.
Our strategic decisions are filtered through our strong belief in this approach. See our partners below…
Our Partners
6 different organizations are united on the 5-building campus to form a wholistic, strategic partnership to meet the needs of God’s people in the Austin Community. These organizations are: