The Organization of Hope: A Workbook for Rural Asset-Based Community Development MORE Published by the Asset-Based Community Development Institute and the Blandin Foundation. This workbook is written for ordinary citizens in small towns and the countryside who are looking to strengthen your community. Full of success stories and good ideas.

	Community Transformation: Turning Threats into Opportunities MORE Published by the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Bethel New Life, and the Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations. This is a nitty-gritty, how-did-they-do-it workbook featuring some of the most exciting community-based economic development projects from across the nation.

	The Power of Asset Mapping: How Your Congregation Can Act on its Assets A Quick and Simple guide to asset mapping; An in-depth look at open-sum dynamics for asset-based facilitators; An exploration of the connections between faith and community A testimony to the power of abundance, affinity, and release Just Published! MORE

	Asset-Based Strategies for Faith Communities MORE Susan Rans and Hilary Altman wrote this excellent book for the Asset-Based Community Development Institute. It provides lay and clergy leaders with a set of models and lessons to show how churches and faith-based organizations are building on our assets. I contributed the report on my demonstration project with 7 churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

"Empowered to Act:  Faith and Rural Assets."  Catholic Rural Life Magazine, Spring, 2004, volume 46, number 2.  http://www.ncrlc.com/crl-magazine-articles/vol46no2/Snow.pdf

"Economic Development Breaks the Mold: Community-Building, Place-Targeting, and Empowerment Zones," Economic Development Quarterly, May, 1995.

"The Community's Perspective on the Land Development Process," in Challenging Uneven Development: An Urban Agenda for the 1990s, ed. by Philip W. Nyden and Wim Wiewel, Rutgers University Press, 1991.