“…Community capacity, in turn, is a function of a community's physical, financial, human, cultural, and social capitals (see Kusel 2001 for definitions). Put another way, community capacity is a function of a community's foundational assets (e.g., physical infrastructure, natural resources, and other attributes of a community) and mobilizing assets (e.g., civic and organizational infrastructure, social processes and interactions) (Donoghue and Sturtevant 2007). Building on these concepts, Beckley et al (2008) defined community capacity as the collective ability of a community to combine various forms of capital within particular institutional and relational contexts to produce desired results or outcomes.…”