Gary Paul Green is Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author, most recently, of Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road.Ann Goetting is Professor of Sociology at Western Kentucky University.  She is the author or editor of three previous books, including (with Sarah Fenstermaker), Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology (Temple).

“Green and Goetting begin Mobilizing Communities with an excellent overview of the strategies employed by needs-based and asset-based community development [ABCD] efforts.... accessible to most audiences…Mobilizing Communities is a welcome addition to the community development literature." -Journal of Urban Affairs

• 1. Community Assets: Building the Capacity for Development – Gary Paul Green 2. Investing in the Double Bottom Line: Growing Financial Institutions in Native Communities – Sarah Dewees and Stewart Sarkozy- Banoczy 3. Asset- Based Community Development in Alabama’s Black Belt: Seven Strategies for Building a Diverse Community Movement – Emily Blejwas 4. The Politics of Protected Areas: Environmental Capital and Community Confl ict in Guatemala – Michael L. Dougherty and RocÍo Peralta 5. Linking Cultural Capital Conceptions to Asset- Based Community Development – Rhonda Phillips and Gordon Shockley 6. Neighborhood Approaches to Asset Mobilization: Building Chicago’s West Side – John P. Kretzmann and Deborah Puntenney 7. Natural Amenities and Asset- Based Development in Rural Communities – Gary Paul Green 8. Implementing Community Development in the Mississippi Delta: The Effect of Organizations on Resident Participation – Mark H. Harvey and Lionel J. Beaulieu 9. Lessons Learned – Gary Paul Green Contributors Index