Empowering Local Communities: Through Leadership Development and Capacity Building

This publication's 10 chapters feature 5 examples of successful initiatives that teach leadership skills to individual community residents and 5 examples of successful efforts to build the capacity of community- based organizations. The stories reveal how the HUD USER Office of University Partnerships grantees are succeeding in revitalizing communities by offering individuals and organizations the skills and resources they need to take ownership of local assets and challenges--and then to initiate their own efforts to build better communities.