An important part of our neighborhood work is bringing together community members to learn from one another, discuss and share community priorities, and plan and participate in local actions to improve neighborhood health and sustainability.  Many of our ongoing activities such as street-level surveys and meeting with city staff help to foster greater connections within neighborhoods, across neighborhoods, and between citizens and city government.  We also organize specific community trainings, conversations, and events to help move from data to action and change.  

The Neighborhood Dialogue

On August 10, 2005, we convened a Neighborhood Dialogue, which brought together community leaders from our 10 partner neighborhoods to identify top neighborhood priorities and suggest indicators to measure these concerns.  To learn more about what we learned, visit our Neighborhood Dialogue page.

Asset-Based Community Development Training

On April 16 & 17, 2005 we worked with three of our neighborhood partners to organize an Asset-Based Community Development Training as part of a grant from the City of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods to support our Asset-Based Community Development work.

Healthy Business District Workshops

On February 3, 10, & 24, 2007, we offered workshops on the community priority of healthy business districts in three partner neighborhoods: Wallingford, Lake City, and North Beacon Hill.  These workshops are offered free to anyone interested in creating a more sustainable, healthy, and thriving neighborhood business district.  Some of the topics to be discussed will be how to use sustainability indicators to help establish priorities, get attention of City government, and develop strategies to make neighborhood improvements. 

A final cross-neighborhood workshop was held on March 29th, 2007 at Safeco Jackson Street Center.  To learn more about the outcomes for each neighborhood workshop, please visit our Healthy Business District Workshop page.