Community organizing can, however, bring strength to a community that lacks the resources to adequately care for its citizens.
Advocacy is the methodology of working on another's behalf.
Advocacy often takes place when an individual or community lacks the power, resources, or access necessary to mitigate structural problems or overcome challenges. Community development differs from organizing and advocacy by reflecting back the abilities, values, strengths, creativity, and ideals of the community. And in reflecting back the abilities and capabilities of the people, provides them with the personal support and validation necessary for continuing growth and change. Community development combines the components of successful programs into a framework that seeks new ways to combine resources, ways to acknowledge community assets, utilize community strengths, while encouraging self-determination and leadership. Community development recognizes and builds on the community's need for self-determination.