Community development integrates the elements of modern civic culture edification, based on the understanding of each citizen of the role he plays in society, on the understanding of the importance of responsibility assuming in daily activity and the manifestation of personal attitude towards real problems. The experience of countries that have implemented the principles of community development proves that a central element of their development was helping citizens think freely, inoculation of self-confidence, the promotion of the spirit of participatory democracy. The most relevant example’s the United States of America. Data showing how the phenomenon of community development has evolved in United States of America is a chronology of assertion of the roles that community members, community organizations, educational institutions and government play, showing their influence on the development of the country at regional and national levels. This experience is of a real use, in the context of the realities of our country.