This article delineates Benedict College's strategies for transforming the community to foster a strong sense of connectedness and inclusivity to the institution. Reciprocal partnerships between the college and the community have served as a vehicle for achieving the mission of the college and addressing critical community issues. Benedict College has collaborated in such community development endeavors as renewal of the area surrounding the college, including improved housing for underserved local families. In its efforts to holistically organize college and community, Benedict College has institutionalized service-learning as a sustainable method of integrating community partnership into higher education. Information presented in this article focuses primarily on the methodical partnership between Benedict College and its surrounding community to collaboratively address the issue of economic and community growth through unified, sustainable plans and decisions.