Due to a lack of investment in local leaders, communities worldwide are not able to adapt to address their own challenges.​ Mountaintop proposes the "Community Flourishing Model" to turn the tables.

 

The Community Flourishing Model proposes that, for a community to reach its fullest potential, a community should invest in strengthening the "human infrastructure" of their community: right abilities, right mindsets, right relationships, right activities, right places, and right power.

 

To this end, Mountaintop cultivates human infrastructure that promotes community flourishing through fellowships, education and training programs, policy advocacy, field building, media campaigns, and academic research.

 

Mountaintop is a proud member of the People First Community, which is a community of exceptional organizations prioritizing collective leadership as a path for sustainable development.​

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Mountaintop credits Isata Kabia, a former minister and parliamentarian in Sierra Leone, for the term "human infrastructure" and for much of the related framework.