The reader is provided with an overview of the limited amount of literature dealing with the topic of community development, showing how as the community development sector has evolved over time, increasing its impact, funding and professionalism, so too have the institutions of that sector abandoned their missions and gone from institutions bound and accountable to the people they serve to institutions that are bound and accountable to outside funding sources. In essence, the institutions of the community development sector, the so-called “Community Development Corporations,” or “CDCs” have gone from responding to crises as vehicles of community empowerment to being paid for “managing the crisis” and in the process accepting funds from private and public sources of support to manage the very people they were set up to serve.