Community Building: How to Do It, Why It Matters

This report describes what community building is, why it is important, and how to achieve it. In so doing, it defines the various roles of local government in building community and presents concrete examples of those roles as well as listing some of the lessons that have been learned along the way. Through this report, you will come to understand not only the power of community building but also the way that community building relates to the reasons why many of us were drawn to the profession of local government management in the first place.