Community

n. pl. Communities (#).

1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.
3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
4. Common character; likeness.
5. Commonness; frequency.

In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community.