Building Better Communities provides comprehensive services to partners across Indiana by connecting them with Ball State University’s expertise and resources.

We offer practical solutions to your local challenges. Our experts are here to help you with community, economic, and business development. Whether you are a community organization looking to revitalize downtown or an economic developer needing a strategic marketing plan or a corporation needing to train employees to be more productive—Building Better Communities can get you started. Let’s work together to enhance your programs and build Indiana…one community at a time.

Through our Building Better Communities Fellows program, teams of students work with communities, businesses, and government agencies to develop real-world solutions to real-world problems. We call this immersive learning, the hallmark of a Ball State education.

Building Better Communities is Ball State’s front door to community partners seeking to benefit from our experts' scholarship and experience of our students’ knowledge, skills, talents, and energy.

Check out the calendar of events for upcoming training offerings.