• Establishing communication among neighbors throughout the neighborhood , such as setting up Nextdoor , a neighborhood Facebook , Twitter and / or Instagram accounts .

• Clean up and beautification projects

• Establishing or enhancing Neighborhood Watch and promoting crime prevention .

• Social events , block parties , National Night Out parties , walker ’ s club , Halloween trick or treating parties .

Placemaking is an important foundation when you are working on community organizing . There are a lot of materials and research available on the subject . The NICE Program will always work on furthering a sense of identity in our neighborhoods .

The following pages list initiatives and programs that will help get your group started . Determine what your interests are . Are you passionate about something ? Whatever you do , let us know about it so we can keep each other informed .

Neighborhoods – whether in cities , suburbs , or small towns – are the level of social organization at which people interact most regularly and naturally , providing a ready-made forum for tackling problems that arise in a community . Even in places where there are no pressing troubles , the neighborhood remains the ideal setting for getting important things done , like restoring a park , enlivening a business district or boosting the sense of community .