unity. This means that their solitary habits need to give way to interaction. Becoming involved in their community at the outset, while it is still being built, is the best time for them to make this transition. This allows a sense of community, a sense of common identity, to form, making the new community much more likely to succeed than the old one where no one knew other people or engaged them in everyday life. Finally, participating in the planning of the community is an exercise in self-interest; it ensures that the inhabitants will end up with the type of community they really want, thus fostering its success.
There are two types of community organizing, grassroots organizing and coalition building. Grassroots organizing builds community groups ôfrom scratchö and develops leadership where none existed before. Essentially, grassroots organizing organizes the unorganized. Coalition building, on the other hand, attempts to unite existing groups such as church groups and civic associations to pursue a common agenda (ôCommunity Organizing,ö 2 2005
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