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Our Background
The Community Building Institute (CBI) was
founded by William Potapchuk to help communities improve the way they conduct
public business to be more inclusive, more collaborative, and more effective.
CBI believes that efforts to build vibrant, sustainable, and healthy communities
must involve citizens and a wide array of public and private institutions to
achieve real change. CBI works directly with communities as well as with federal
and state agencies and national foundations with efforts that serve multiple
communities.
CBI offers a wide range of services that are
often "bundled" to support the needs of the client. These include:
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Providing facilitation and mediation
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Providing training and technical assistance
and creating peer-to-peer learning environments; |
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Assisting public agencies with the
development of strategies to become more collaborative; and |
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Engaging in research and reflective practice
and assisting with program implementation and design. |
Past projects of CBI’s president include:
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Providing a wide array of services for the
Annie E. Casey Foundation including research on strategies to strengthen the
role of local government in collaborative efforts, technical assistance to
their grantees, and service as a member of the design team for their major
new initiative. |
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Assisting the Maryland Governor’s Office
for Children, Youth and Families and their local partners in efforts to
build results driven community partnerships. Efforts included designing a
state-local negotiation process in lieu of a traditional RFP process,
facilitating local efforts in Baltimore City and Garrett County, and
developing a statewide technical assistance plan. |
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Co-authoring the strategic planning and
performance measurement guidebooks for second round Empowerment Zone
applicants to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. |
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Providing multi-faceted assistance to the
Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative in Hampton, Virginia. |
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Developing guidebooks on the use of
collaborative processes in regional transportation planning for the Federal
Transit Administration. |
CBI is building a web site at
www.communitytools.org that will provide resources and support for community
leaders and practitioners.
Contact Information
- Telephone
- 703-425-6296
- FAX
- 703-425-6297
- Postal address
- Community Building Institute
- 8718 Mary Lee Lane
- Annandale, VA 22003-3659
- Electronic mail
- General Information: bill@communitytool.net
Webmaster: webmaster@communitytools.net
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