**1. Introduction**

A condensed version of this research was published by Kammer-Kerwick et al. [1], where two economic development theories, Sustainable Local Economic Development (SLED) and Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), were connected to address sustainability across multiple objectives and decision-making criteria. SLED integrates community perspectives into the development process with an emphasis on equitable and sustainable solutions, while ABCD views the community as a system of subsystems with the economy being one component that needs to be developed to maintain system equilibrium. Our human-centered, participatory approach builds on SLED and ABCD by starting from community needs to assess projects that serve the broader well-being of the community. The previous study only presented models for three of the six community development intervention concepts, but this chapter includes all six intervention concepts with models that predict interest and investment amount compared to other concepts. The chapter also includes modeling analysis of the connections among entrepreneurial intention, its antecedents, and community member priorities for asset-based, human-centered, sustainable development to improve community wellbeing. Additionally, the research presented here connects to related research by the authors exploring collaboration in a variety of other community and business settings, including large and small capital improvement projects [1, 2] as well as a study that uses empirically grounded simulation to generate synthetic data as an approach to studying collaboration in complex sociological systems that are difficult to observe [3]. We frame our study in this chapter with a focus on mapping various types of capital to community systems. More specifically, we previously connected location and human, social, and community capitals to the built environment, health system, and communications system. In this chapter, we extend the examination of capitals to include business capital and we add additional systems for civic, education, and business.
