# Community project

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{{Short description|Project focused on a community group}}
A '''community project''' is a term applied to any [community](/source/community)-based project. This covers a wide variety of different areas within a community or a group of [network](/source/Social_network)ing entities. Projects can cover almost anything, including the most obvious section of concern to any community, the [welfare](/source/welfare_spending) element. Welfare community projects would for example be, a locally run and locally funded orphanage; a Christmas dinner kitchen for the homeless. Another important sector of importance to the community would be [charity](/source/charity_(practice)). Charitable projects in the community can include, but are not limited to, [ecological](/source/ecological) charities concerned with either the maintenance of [green spaces](/source/Urban_open_space), or in some cases, the prevention of the reduction/removal of green spaces. An old [clothes collection](/source/clothes_collection) service would also be a community-based charity project. One important subdivision of community projects, and at times overlooked, is those of an economic nature such as [LETS](/source/LETS). The highlight of economic community projects is what is known as [Transition Towns](/source/Transition_Towns). Most economic community projects are designed at creating some sort of economic [autonomy](/source/autonomy).

It begins when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: ''how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of [peak oil](/source/peak_oil) and [climate change](/source/climate_change)?''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.transitiontowns.org/ |title=Home |website=transitiontowns.org}}</ref>

==Scope and size==
All community projects are different in some way; the size and scope of these projects is determined firstly by the community they cater to.

According to the definition of a community,<ref>{{wiktionary-inline|community}}</ref> a community could be the entire [human race](/source/Human) or parts of it anywhere on the planet. However, because of phenomena like [distance decay](/source/distance_decay) or [demographic](/source/demographic) factors such as age group, gender and income that determine [social identity](/source/social_identity) of [groups](/source/social_group), the extent of community-based projects is usually much more limited.

== References ==
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