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Community Building
The Urban Land Institute’s Community Outreach Program addresses community building and land use issues by working with ULI members and District Councils at the national, state and local levels to help influence policy and practice. The Institute does not lobby, but its community outreach program enables ULI leaders to identify challenges to better land use and development, highlight best practices from across the country, and develop new solutions to improve land use patterns. By engaging land use professionals and other stakeholders to resolve complex land use, development and redevelopment problems, ULI members are making a difference in their hometowns.

ULI members and District Councils collaborate with other stakeholders to implement consensus-based solutions for better communities, in areas such as smart growth, workforce housing, regional cooperation and visioning, public sector outreach, and urban initiatives. To further these activities and programs, ULI in the Community publishes "Case Studies for Action ," profiles of replicable ULI District Council outreach activities. Additionally, to encourage entrepreneurial projects at the state, regional and local levels that build community consensus for action and change, the Urban Land Institute administers the Community Action Grants program, funded by Urban Land Institute Foundation.
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Contact Community Building
Marta Goldsmith
Senior Vice President, Community/Education Provost
Phone: 202-624-7107

E-mail: marta.goldsmith@uli.org

Tom Eitler
Vice President, Advisory Services
Phone: 202-624-7000
E-mail: teitler@uli.org

Heidi Sweetnam
Vice President, Community
Phone: 202-624-7170
E-mail: heidi.sweetnam@uli.org

David Mulvihill
Vice President, Professional Development

Phone: 202-624-7122

E-mail: Mulvihil@uli.org