SUMMARY
This study aims to examine the implementation of village fund in Bone Bolango Regency, Gorontalo Province, the factors determining the effectiveness of the village fund policy, and the development of a community empowerment model through the use of village funds. This study was conducted for three months and employed a qualitative method to answer those three problems. The informants that were selected from the purposive sampling technique consisted of the recipients of village funds, the village head, the sub-district head, the division and sub-division head of rural community empowerment as well as the head of Community Empowerment and Rural Development Office (henceforth called as DPMD) of Bone Bolango Regency. The results reveal that 1) the implementation of the village fund comprises six stages; 2) there are three supporting and obstructing factors in implementing the village fund policy; 3) the implementation model development of the village fund policy is based on an empirical study on determining factors in Bone Bolango Regency.