NeighborWorks Week
National NeighborWorks Week — is a celebration of the accomplishments of the NeighborWorks America network and an opportunity to increase the network's visibility and build partnerships. During NeighborWorks Week, local NeighborWorks organizations mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers, businesspeople, neighbors, friends, and local and national elected and civic leaders in a week of neighborhood change and awareness. They rehab and repair homes, paint and landscape properties, conduct neighborhood tours, recognize successful partnerships, and host events that educate, train and inform. In addition, NeighborWorks organizations are eligible for grants and technical assistance to support their NeighborWorks Week activities.
NeighborWorks Week was conceived in 1984 as a way to draw attention to the often-unacknowledged work of what was then a network of 182 local NeighborWorks organizations working in 360 neighborhoods. As the network has grown to its current level of more than 240 community development organizations working in more than 4,400 neighborhoods, so too has NeighborWorks Week. Now, nearly the entire NeighborWorks network embraces the week as a way to demonstrate its solid work in local communities and the cumulative effect of this work on a national level. This historical impact is captured in an interactive map presentation that features a photo slide show as well as imbedded television news spots and newspaper articles.
