Principles of Community Building

CRI’s Community Building efforts will be: (further descriptions of all of these are available)

Pillar #1:  Establishing quality standards based on a Biblical worldview

Pillar #2:  Breaking through cultural and institutional barriers

Pillar #3:  Focused on specific initiatives to improve the community

Pillar #4:  Designed for the scale of the neighborhood – the village concept

Pillar #5:  Asset-Based

Pillar #6:  Community driven with broad resident involvement

Pillar #7:  Comprehensive, Strategic and Entrepreneurial

Pillar #8:  Collaboratively Linked to the Broader Society