Bill Potapchuk

Bill Potapchuk is President and founder of the Community Building Institute (CBI), an organization created to strengthen the capacity of communities and organizations work collaboratively, inclusively, and equitably healthy, sustainable futures. His work over the past three decades has spanned a wide array of policy arenas and work with nonprofits, community groups, philanthropy, and every level of government.  In recent years, his work has focused on community development, early childhood education, democracy reform, and large landscape conservation.  Potapchuk has been affiliated with all of the previous incarnations of the Carter School starting with the Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution in 1987. Potapchuk is widely published. He has co-authored chapters in significant textbooks for the field, including the Deliberative Democracy Handbook, Consensus Building Handbook, and theCollaborative Leadership Fieldbook, and a wide array of monographs and journal articles.