The more that community members share, or at least understand and tolerate, each others values and attitudes, the stronger their community will be. The more that members have access to needed communal facilities, the greater their empowerment. As a community gets better communication, it gets stronger. Poor communication means a weak organization or community. . Positive attitudes, willingness, self motivation, enthusiasm, optimism, self-reliant rather than dependency attitudes, willingness to fight for its rights, avoidance of apathy and fatalism, a vision of what is possible.
Increased strength includes increased confidence. .
The legal environment. . When politicians, leaders, technocrats and civil servants, as well as their laws and regulations, take a provision approach, the community is weak, while if they take an enabling approach to the community acting on a self-help basis, the community will be stronger. Communities can be stronger when they exist within a more enabling context. . More than just having or receiving unprocessed information, the strength of the community depends upon the ability to process and analyse that information, the level of awareness, knowledge and wisdom found among key individuals and within the group as a whole. . When information is more effective and more useful, not just more in volume, the community will have more strength.