Community Building Institute

Encouraging asset-based community planning by the community instead of outside agencies, the Community Building Institute (CBI) works to improve communities and the way of life of the people who live in them. CBI helps facilitate and support many community-based initiatives, but the push for these projects comes first and foremost from the community residents themselves. Projects include developing community investment plans on behalf of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati for a recently launched the Place Matters Initiative, aimed at achieving change in certain Cincinnati neighborhoods, and assisting citizens planning process with the extensive use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - land mapping and other geographic analysis.