About CDI East

CDI East was created to train community officials and volunteers in the techniques of modern leadership and management of community development efforts. The Institute focuses on building alliances and infrastructures to increase a community's economic and social growth by expanding an individual's ability to identify community and economic problems, set goals, encourage liaisons with outside agencies, stimulate community interaction, and bring groups together to respond to a wide range of economic and quality of life issues.

The comprehensive program curriculum is designed to meet the increasing challenges facing community developers in today's fast paced society and is applicable for community leaders from towns and cities of all sizes. CDI East approaches community development as both a process and a program. It seeks to:

• Develop an individual's ability to identify community problems.
• Set goals
• Encourage liaison with outside agencies
• Stimulate community interaction
• Bring groups together to support competitive economic development, human resource development and quality of life issues

The CDI East is an affiliate program of West Virginia University. The total program consists of three one-week long training seminars that are endorsed by the Community Development Council (CDC), a professional certification organization.

About the Institute

The Community Develop Institute offers an educational and training experience in which a person can develop knowledge and skills to facilitate community planning and development.

Created in 1987, the Community Development Institute is a program endorsed by the Community Development Council, a professional certification organization, and consists of three one-week seminars that offer a comprehensive curriculum of professional knowledge and skills in grassroots economic development and capacity building.