Community Management

Community development evolved from the Progressive Movements on collective action on social issues.

Managing the community towards sustainable development focuses on interconnections of issues in the long term.

Sustainable development considers the role of communities and the organizations within those communities.

Functionalism presupposes a set of resources intrinsic to social relations that include trust, norms, and networks.

Community-based organizations are parts of a broader community to consider and manage in addressing holistic issues.

Social capital assumes finding appropriate rewards and minimizing risks to those involved in community initiatives.

Theory serves as a guide to understanding the complexity of community life and social and economic change.

Social entrepreneurship is a development strategy that proposes social values to communities beyond financial gains.

Community refers only to people who live within a geographically defined area.

Management of community involves the creation of community image towards local support and economic development.