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The Connected Community

Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods

Neighboringneighboring
Neighborhood Project Planner

This resource will help you build a team and think through all the elements needed for your project.

Neighboring, Organizingneighboring organizing
Light in the Night Handbook

How communities can transform public spaces to prevent violence

Peacemaking, Placemaking, Organizingpeacemaking placemaking organizing
Night Walks Resource Guide

The purpose of the Night Walks is to touch and transform lives for Christ to the Glory of God through witnessing, evangelism, and discipleship.

Peacemaking, Organizingpeacemaking organizing
Neighborhood Mapping

How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community

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The Art of Neighboring

Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door

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People’s Plan for Community Safety

A community-led initiative that unites Chicagoans from all walks of life to address historic disinvestment, work toward healing our communities and make all of Chicago safe for everyone.

City Resourcescity-resources
Church Forsaken

Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods

Neighboring, Placemakingneighboring placemaking
Neighborhood Mapping: Appendices

Survey examples and best practices for listening to and learning from your community

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Who Is My Neighbor?

Lessons Learned From a Man Left for Dead

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The New Parish

How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

Neighboring, Placemakingneighboring placemaking
Market Cities, People Cities

The Shape of Our Urban Future

Placemakingplacemaking
The Abundant Community

Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

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Place Matters

A podcast about the intersection of race, place, and poverty

Placemakingplacemaking
The Embedded Church

Sharing stories about reweaving the connections between place, the built environment, and the mission of God

Placemakingplacemaking
The Neighboring Movement

The Neighboring Movement Podcast shares stories, interviews, and resources about the power and importance of neighboring. It is hosted by the staff team at The Neighboring Movement.

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Redemptive Placemaking Toolkit

Transform your church property into a vibrant community hub

Placemakingplacemaking
CPD Find My District, Beat or Station

Search for an address to learn more about the location and its surrounding area.

City Resourcescity-resources
The New Neighborhood Block Club Manual for Constituents and Organizers

A block club is the backbone of an organized neighborhood

Organizing, Block Clubsorganizing block-clubs
M3 Block Club Program

Block Clubs are one of the pillars of safe and healthy communities. That is why we’re doing all we can to support leaders starting new block clubs and block club presidents that need help reinvigorating their block.

Organizing, Block Clubsorganizing block-clubs
The political power of being a good neighbor

Michael Tubbs is the youngest mayor in American history to represent a city with more than 100,000 people — and his policies are sparking national conversations.

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The Rise, Fall, and Power of Block Parties, Explained

A block party is more than just a party. Bottom-up actions, like block parties, can transform your community.

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Join or Die

A film about why you should join a club… and why the fate of America depends on it

Organizing, Civic Engagementorganizing civic-engagement
You don’t have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one

Low-status neighborhoods in the US are often stuck between stagnating assistance from the government and gentrification at the hands of real estate developers.

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Faith Communities Can Help Build Vibrant Neighborhoods

Communities of faith stand in an important position to support vibrant, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods. And in recent years, some have stepped up to the challenge at a variety of different scales.

Neighboring, Placemakingneighboring placemaking
The Importance of Third Spaces Amidst America’s Social Isolation Epidemic

While creating social connections may not be as easy as it used to be, a special kind of place makes it more likely.

Placemaking, Third Spacesplacemaking third-spaces
Block Clubs – Office of Community Policing

Traditional block clubs are groups of people who have homes and families on any given …

Block Clubs, Civic Engagementblock-clubs civic-engagement
Start With Hello

You want more. You want to belong to a community that looks out for each …

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My Parting Prescription for America

So, what makes community possible? Three core elements: relationships, service, and purpose. And one core …

Civic Engagement, Communitycivic-engagement community
Asset-Based Community Development at a Glance

“Asset Based Community Development” or ABCD looks for, and starts from people’s gifts and strengths (assets)

Organizing, Asset-Based Community Developmentorganizing asset-based-community-development
Frame Your Issue – Organize Your Community

The way you frame an issue determines who can embrace your cause.

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Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being

Why do some populations thrive and prosper while others struggle and suffer? The Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being is a framework that addresses this question in a way that is at once understandable, relatable, and actionable.

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