Community Responsibility & Engagement
Community development is about helping people to improve the quality of their lives. It refers to communities and public organizations working together to achieve social justice and bring about change by identifying and meeting the community’s needs.
Neighborhood organizations, councils, and HOAs can assist in engaging citizens to maintain a balance of community and neighborhood goals and interests. However, residents should work among themselves to increase citizen involvement. Local governments are unaware of many community issues and cannot solve problems alone. Residents often have information that officials need in order to design a sound plan or program.
Sometimes, a community might lack the
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However, all efforts will pay off in the long run for the community at large. Community involvement provides an environment in which we develop the skills and acquire the knowledge that can help us make a difference in our rapidly changing society.
Serving others and giving back to our community is everyone’s duty. You don’t have to have money to give back. Nevertheless, the more you have the more you feel you have to give back and a sense of thankfulness for what you have achieved.
When you can feel your services and contributions are making a difference in other people’s life and when positive changes in the quality of life for people improve, you will feel a connection between being successful financially and the need to serve others by giving back.
Not just big projects are relevant, you can make a difference in the community by doing small things like becoming someone’s mentor, changing a child’s life by giving time, assisting an elderly person to make a difference in their life, finding time to share a simple smile to cheer someone up, or giving hope to a grieving parent just by