The 360 ° Project is a community empowerment and organizing model that utilizes social network theory and analysis to promote strategies that advance community self-sustainability. Network Theory offers important insight into how interpersonal connections matter, [i] and how knowledge in any and all groups grows, and it explains the effects of the gaps in both connection and communication. [i] Read: Connection Is a Core Human Need, But We Are Terrible at It by Brianna Wiest ht486a48