This study is the result of several years of research on the Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs), its appearance, performance and more recently on the results achieved through their actions. Given its proximity to the object we see that currently there are a lot of NGOs that would territorialized from an activity centered on the development they want. Then depart in search of understanding of how different notions of development may interfere in the relations of a community, trying to understand whether those development projects, the way they are usually implemented, are capable of meeting the real needs of these communities. For this we use authors as Cornelius Castoriadis (1987, 1992), Edgar Morin (1999), Antonio Gramsci (1991, 2002) and Marcelo Souza (1996 and 2006), we will provide the basis and assist in the understanding of the issues presented.