Diversity and Inclusion   

• Creative and equitable responses to the needs of our changing communities.
• Building workforce assets for the 21st Century: a new look at undeserved, under-paid and under-employed workers.
• Fostering full participation in community building process
• Sharing best practice across racial, religious, ethnic, and geographical boundaries.

• Creating international networks to share solutions.
• Developing international opportunities (including markets) to strengthen our natural resource based economies.
• Maintaining a vibrant local economy and culture in a global society.
• Strategies for creating and retaining wealth locally.
• Learning from innovative rural and community development practices in the Third World.

Human Services   

• Maintaining effective health care systems in areas with declining populations.
• Welfare reform - whose welfare versus whose reform?

• Finding common ground between rural and urban constituencies.
• Models for managing growth/change in rural-urban interface.
• Examples of the "livable" community in both rural and urban settings.

Technology  

• Applying technology in rural/urban contexts
• the 'Last Mile' connectivity dilemma: providing access to hard-to-reach populations.
• Technology as a community building tool.
• Youth mentoring of technology - challenged adult community leaders.

• Addressing the building blocks of communities: health, education, housing, justice, environmental concerns, etc.
• Role of private sector in community development.
• Intergenerational issues and assets.
• Arts as a community building tool.