“Are you looking to make an impact in your community?” asks author Robert Balmes.  “A Balanced Approach: Key Insights for Communities to Realize Their Dreams will serve as a resource and guide to help fulfill your highest aspirations.”

Balmes’ book provides an integrated and straight-forward method for achieving long-term success for any type of community project – from a pocket park, to a community center, to an urban garden, to a revitalized downtown, to a commercial development. Readers will learn how to take a balanced approach based on two key components: The Foundation and The Process.

Readers will learn the Foundation for creating success by understanding the emotional and intellectual capacities necessary for pursuing any type of community endeavor.  Then they’ll learn the Process, a structured and comprehensive approach that includes an emphasis on visioning, empowerment, collaboration and decision-making.

161 pages in length, A Balanced Approach: Key Insights for Communities to Realize Their Dreams is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on helping community leaders and planners to meet all challenges along the pathway to realizing their dreams.  When a community takes a balanced approach, anything and everything is possible, says Balmes.

About the author:

Robert D. Balmes, AICP CTP, has worked extensively with local communities, regional organizations, state governments, non-profits and private sector clients in over a dozen states across the United States.  His book website is:  www.InsightsForCommunities.com