Embrace Communities offers three levels of training in Asset-Based Community Development:

Embrace is excited to announce the first ever Empowered Communities Network sponsored Power Shift Training Series. 

When I started Embrace more than 15 years ago, we were an all-volunteer organization made up largely of my suburban neighbors and individuals transitioning out of homelessness.  We had very little organizational structure and even less financial resources.  What we had was each other and together we did some amazing things.

In this video we discuss the goals, partner roles and timeline of the Embrace Chesterfield EDU project. 

Next Tuesday, October 6th 2020, we are launching our first ever online Youth Power Shift for Educators training!  When we developed our online training portal last year through a grant provided by The Community Foundation of Greater Richmond, we never dreamed this would become our primary means for delivering our training.  We finished the online portal, which is hosted through Coaching Cloud in December of 2019, just in time for COVID 19!

Over the past several weeks I have been engaged in numerous conversations with faith leaders who are seeking to figure out how they can support families who are now facing the demands of virtual learning.  

As we shared earlier this year, Embrace turned 15 years old on March 30th of 2020.  To celebrate we are giving away $15,000 in awards to community builders who are using the Empowered Communities Framework to strengthen communities from the inside out using Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) principles and pract

Over three years ago, after a training with Belmont United Methodist Church, the church made a commitment to strengthen the co

On March 30th, Embrace will officially turn 15 years old!  You gave us 15 Years, so to celebrate we are "Paying It Forward" with $15,000 in Great Neighbor grants.

In the very early days of Embrace, all we had was a dream.  We were so poor as an organization, we literally rationed toilet paper and there was no pandemic! 

In 2013, as Embrace was turning 7 years old, our board of directors participated in a strategic visioning process.  During that season of discernment, we made the decision to shift from being a practitioner of Asset Based Community Development (doing the work) to being an intermediary (training and coaching others in how to do the work).  We made this shift because we wanted to fuel an Asset-based Community Development (A