Browse a collection of written works documenting our discoveries. FRAMEWORK In Search of Informal Capital of Community (2011) The Wildflowers Lens for Seeing Self-Organized Activities of a Sustainable Community (2006) Statement on the Concept of Premises Underlying Our Efforts to Develop Personal Networks (1992) APPROACH A Strategy for Sustaining the Social Ecosystem (2021) Strengthening Local Leaders and Self-Organizing Structures in Vulnerable Communities (2010) The Vision-building Tool in Action (2004) Vision Building™: Discovering Invisible Cultural Premises (2002) CASE STUDIES The Sacred Code of Chinatown (2023) Stories of the Tenderloin (2019) The Power and Purpose of Informal Community Leaders (2018) Cultural Strategies and Maps of the Ethiopian and Mayan Community (2012) Twenty-Year Trend in Household Income (2007) An Evaluation of Wildflowers Institute’s Programs in the United States (2004) Cultural Assets for Latino Community Building in East Palo Alto (2003) Studies 2000 (2000)