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The article discusses some data from a master's research where it was investigated how the temporal vitality of community associations located in peripheral neighborhoods of Belém-Pa is guaranteed. The ethnographic technique was used, with daily interactions, interviews, observations and bibliographical surveys on the subject. The associations studied coexist with a continuous scarcity of financial, material and human resources, and they develop activities in the areas of social assistance and education for a public considered in situation of social vulnerability. The community leaders and local residents were interlocutors who showed themselves as agents full of inventions and strategies in order to guarantee resources to the associations in which they participated. The analysis supported by Bourdieu (2000, 2007) and Putnam (2006) allowed unveiling and understanding facets of this dynamic from the analysis of the social capital of local agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]