community participation
Neighbors joining in
Community participation is the involvement of ordinary people in decisions and activities that affect their lives, especially at the local level.
The phrase appears constantly in contexts like urban planning, public health, and development work: The project requires meaningful community participation, not just token consultation.
It implies that affected residents should have real input, not merely be informed of decisions made elsewhere.
- public forumSpace for collective discourse
- block partyNeighborhood outdoor celebration
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- public consultationFormal gathering of community views
- show of handsVoting by lifting arms
grassroots organizing · door knocking · town hall meetings · civic education · diversity initiatives · policy-making · cultural integration · housing equity · environmental cleanup · park cleanup · voting · petitions · coalition · volunteer drive · charity work · neighborhood watch · open mic night · partnerships
- social groupsdemographic groups, clan, ethnic groups, age groups, minority groups
- paradesparade, marching bands, parade floats, floats, parade float
- arts fundingarts funding, art funding, grants, federal funding, patronage
community participationdisengagement
Withdrawal from involvement
withdrawal · passivity · absenteeism · opting out · dropping out
community participationindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
self-isolation · atomization · solitude · insularity · social isolation
community participationapathy
Absence of feeling
indifference · political apathy · free riding · disinterest · alienation