One of the most significant distinctions between community-driven planning and conventional public planning is the element of community power building. Building community power is inherent in a community-driven approach in that community members are working together to drive the planning process, which flips top-down approaches on their head through the practice of deep democracy - bottom-up visioning, priority-setting, and solutions development. To do this effectively, it is important that community-driven planning processes be anchored by community organizers or base-building groups. Community-driven planning is not about engaging individual community members, it is about building the capacity of community members to collectively carry out their own planning process, co-develop shared visions, priorities, and solutions that they are willing to organize around together. A critical part of any community-driven planning is a power-building strategy that seeks to answer the question: What political, economic, and/or cultural power is needed to advance the solutions in our plan?