NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNER PROJECT

 

Neighborhood Partners is a collaboration of more than 20 nonprofit, government and corporate organizations that work alongside people who are creating a positive social, economic and environmental change in their neighborhoods.  Their vision is for a vibrant and resilient Fox Valley, built neighborhood by neighborhood, by people at the grassroots.  Their pilot neighborhood, located just north of downtown Appleton has partnered with St. Therese Parish to make community gardens plots available to more than 40 parish and neighborhood families.  They are learning about the gifts and skills neighbors have to share, and connecting people in the community.  They have launched the Historic Central Neighborhood Food Hub where gardeners learn and share.  They have renovated the Columbus Elementary/Appleton Bilingual School playground.  They are training kids in learning lawn care skills and matching them with property owners needing those services.  Neighbors are teaching neighbors how to save energy and money and there is community planning for the future.  All across the Fox Valley, citizens have tremendous potential to self-organize to create new ways of meeting their needs in our local communities.  Most just need organizational support to get started.  By providing support- applying methods, models and organizational assistance this project hopes to help other communities as they did their own and will continue to do.  If you are looking to get involved with this project please check out their website at http://sustainfv.org.  The Neighborhood Partner Project would like to thank all of you for the donation they received last year from our club.