Details (and feedback welcome, as well as prospects from many of you for partnering into the future, where our ideas intersect for enriching communities nation-wide): In addition to a ground-up assessment of the needs (‘participatory mapping explains both the needs and skills map and its methods) assessment, we also work to do a community-wide ‘asset map’ of the skills, talents and knowledge of the people in the area. We then work with the local residency, from youth to elder, with CBOs, small business and community leaders, facilitators, and lifetime residents actively involved, to tap into the ‘pulse of the community’ and link the needs with the resources. The communities’ veterans from all generations are included, in work projects, training as well as cost-free skills apprenticeship. The outcome is locally defined by what people need and want most for their communities – this can be paid work, skills training, and a wider platform of ‘skills and idea exchange’ like never before. The main point is that it is done by ‘Zero-Based Design’ – this is a rarely-used process of asking the right questions, rather than imposing one’s own assumptions and ideas of what the area supposedly needs. We help co-create project plans, vetted by the community itself, and let them decide what they want and how they want to fund it, with a ground-up approach. This is a combination of several well-documented success stores which can be eagerly referenced and are outlined in the real-time project plan, spanning from the Niger Delta to US case studies