Excerpt from Building Communities, Together: Guidebook for Community-Based Strategic Planning for Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities A key part of the initiative is its emphasis on community strategic planning. The planning pro cess in the initiative is a catalyst that can help a community create a better tomorrow. Strategic planning creates ari Opportunity to assess where a community is, where it is now going, and where it would prefer to be in the future. Its focus is on aspi rations, strengths and capacities, not just on prob lems and distress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.