Regional Community Building: The Kalamazoo, Michigan, Experience

This report discusses techniques to involve community leaders as well as incorporate grassroots concerns, all with the goal of building a regional outlook. The authors of this report recount the specific steps they took to create cohesion, purpose, and action. This report details objectives at each stage, what needs to happen, how the participants made it happen, and how other communities have made it happen. Lists of dos and don’ts help apply lessons learned to local challenges.