Relationships are the building blocks for all community organizing activities. Community building occurs one-to-one: you need to build relationships with people one-to-one if you want them to become involved in your group or organization. Often building relationships is the groundwork that must be laid before anything else gets done on a project. The bigger the project, the more relationships you will usually need as a foundation. When you plan a project, you need to include the time it takes to build relationships into your plan. People need time to build trust. Whenever people work together, they need to have trusting relationships. When trust is missing, people usually have a difficult time functioning cooperatively. Here’s an 11-step program to building trusting relationships: build relationships one at a time; be friendly and make a connection; ask people questions; ask people questions; go places and do things; accept people the way they are; assume other people want to form relationships, too; overcome your fear of rejection; be persistent; invite people to get involved; enjoy people.