Community Building Institute

The Community Building Institute (CBI) "was founded by Bill Potapchuk to strengthen the capacity of communities to conduct public business inclusively and collaboratively in order to build healthy, sustainable futures. Our work ranges from catalyzing, designing and guiding large-scale community processes to skilled facilitation of retreats, workshops, and summits. Services include facilitation and mediation services; creating peer-to-peer learning environments; assisting public agencies with the development of strategies to become more collaborative; and research and writing.

"The founder, Bill Potapchuk, has been working extensively on education issues in the District of Columbia and environmental issues in the Washington Metropolitan region. He also has authored and co-authored numerous publications including Building Community: The Role of Social Capital and Local Government, Systems Reform and Local Government: Improving Outcomes for Children, Families, and Neighborhoods, Community Development: A Guide for Grantmakers on Fostering Better Outcomes through Good Process, and chapters in the Consensus Building Handbook, Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook, and the Deliberative Democracy Handbook.

"CBI has a rich and diverse network of partners that are mobilized to build teams to respond to the unique needs of the clients. Regular partners include Adam Kernan-Schloss from KSA-Plus communications and senior consultants Yvonne Green, Bill Schechter, and Margaret Yao."