Community Engagement Courses
& Professional Certificate Program

Building Communities and Organizing Residents

Building communities requires more than creating affordable housing, understanding the market, or being able to read a financial statement. Organizing is based on the belief that people have the ability to name their problems and identify the additional information and resources they need to solve them. It is more than mobilizing and service work — it involves leadership development, building relationships and consolidating thoughts and ideas into structures creating sustainable change.

Courses in Community Engagement

Community engagement is a people-focused process that increases the collective financial and human capacity of neighborhoods to improve the quality of life for the individuals who live and work in that community. Community building includes incremental and measurable projects, programs and activities that lead to positive, long-term systemic change.