Neighborhood Institute is a civic education program that provides the tools and resources for residents who are committed to the future of their neighborhood. The Neighborhood Institute program first began in 1987 for emerging neighborhood leaders. Today, this 12-week program continues to equip emerging neighborhood leaders with the knowledge, resources, and leadership skills to effect positive change in their neighborhoods by acting as individual citizens or by mobilizing their neighborhood associations.

What it’s all about:

The Neighborhood Institute is a neighborhood leadership-education program established in 1987 by the Center For Neighborhoods, a non-profit civic organization. The Neighborhood Institute equips neighborhood leaders with the resources necessary to effect positive change by acting through and with their neighborhood groups.

Each semester of Neighborhood Institute begins by identifying and assessing what class members view as being their most pressing issues. Topics often requested include:

Part of the Neighborhood Institute curriculum includes a self-directed project in the community. Through the class projects, people become engaged in the community as they branch out and apply the information and knowledge from the class to real-life situations.

• Getting Your Message Out
• Increasing Neighborhood Participation and Land Use Issues
• Code Enforcement
• Neighborhood Quality of Life
• Block Watch & Public Safety
• Conflict Resolution
• Working with Public Officials
• Consensus Building
• Accessing Resources
• Working with Local Government Agencies
• Organization Building
• Strategic Planning
• Planning, Zoning

For more information on the program, call 502-589-0343 or email education@centerforneighborhoods.org.”