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Cities Offering Grants for Block Parties
Minnesota
- Duluth, MN – Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth, Inc. offers financial support for a variety of community services and programs, including commuity development and organizing initiatives.
Colorado
- Arvada, CO – Know Your Neighbor Grants are small grants for improving neighborhood relations/communication and intended to facilitate people getting together and getting to know one another.
- Golden, CO – The i-Golden Neighborhood Grants program is a part of City Council’s Year of the Neighborhood.
- Wheat Ridge, CO – A program to help neighbors get to know one another and to strengthen Wheat Ridge neighborhoods.
Recommended Reading
- Making Room for Life: Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships by Randy Frazee
- The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods by John McKnight and Peter Block
- Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith by Bill Hybels
- The Jesus of Suburbia: Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle? by Mike Erre
- Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
Links – Great Resources About Neighboring
- Abundant Community (http://www.abundantcommunity.com/) – On this website associated with the book of the same name, authors John McKnight and Peter Block build upon their ideas about what it means to live in an Abundant Community.
- HandsOn Network (http://www.handsonnetwork.org) – HandsOn Network inspires, equips and mobilizes people to take action that changes the world. It includes a powerful network of more than 70,000 corporate, faith and nonprofit organizations that are answering the call to serve and creating meaningful change in their communities.
- Neighborhood Resource Center of Colorado (http://www.nrc-neighbor.org/) – NRC-Colorado is a strong vibrant organization recognized statewide for creating strategic partnerships, providing technical support, and increasing the capacity of residents, neighborhoods, local governments, businesses, and other community- or faith-based organizations to resolve emerging community issues.
- Strengthening Neighborhoods (http://www.strengtheningneighborhoods.org/) –
Strengthening Neighborhoods (SN) is The Denver Foundation’s grassroots neighborhood development program. SN helps residents of ten partner neighborhoods use their existing strengths and assets to make their communities better places to live. SN makes grants directly to residents for projects that the residents develop and lead.
