Neighborhoods, USA 38th Annual Conference

Neighborhoods, USA 38th Annual Conference

Representatives from RNeighbors attended the Neighborhoods USA Conference on May 22 – 25, right in our own home state of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Along with getting to learn from the over 600 neighborhood and city leaders from all over the United States and even farther, we presented a workshop to a room full of interested and enthusiastic attendees.

To those of you who attended our workshop, we thank you for letting us share the story of Rochester neighborhoods with you. As promised, a PDF of the entire PowerPoint presentation is posted here, along with direct links to specific projects and resources at the bottom of this post. We’ll also be posting photos taken at the session on the RNeighbors facebook page. Once again, thanks for your well thought out questions and excitement. It was a fun session to give and I’d love to answer any further questions you may have via email.

Workshop Title
RNeighbors, Growing Great Neighborhoods

PDF of Presentation

Workshop Presenters

  • Bob Nowicki, RNeighbors Board member and City Council member
  • Mark Bilderback, RNeighbors Board member and City Council member
  • Rene Lafflam, RNeighbors Executive Director

Workshop Summary
Established as a nonprofit in 2001, RNeighbors assists neighborhoods with tools and resources to keep their organizations strong and healthy. Learn about how each of our programs and partnerships creatively work toward the goal of getting neighbors out of their houses to develop relationships and create strong neighborhoods.

This session will be an overview of what makes this nonprofit work, being a neighborhood resource for the diverse populations of Rochester.

  • Programs that creatively get people out of their houses to develop relationships
  • Volunteers and partnerships that collaboratively enable a little nonprofit of one to accomplish big things
  • Communication efforts between city departments, city officials and neighbors. This bridging effort includes social media, websites, calendars and email.

Links Covered in Presentation

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