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Simple steps to follow when you spot a makeshift, illegally posted sign in your neighborhood By Mohammed Nuru (@MrCleanSF)   Homemade, handmade, and hastily posted signs posted all over the City contribute to blight, distract from the natural beauty of the neighborhoods, and are illegal. I encourage you to act now with this simple solution: rip ‘em down and recycle ‘em as you see them. Standing at a bus stop [...]

by Elisa Chavez I recently had dinner with some college friends, all of us in our early twenties and fresh out of school. We met up at a cozy restaurant, hugged, and proceeded to eat cozy comfort food and get extremely riled up about the state of the world. Campaign finance, giant corporations, media representation of the Arab world, we covered it alland eventually, as the social analysis reached a [...]

Every month the Department of Public Works (DPW) dives into each of the eleven Supervisorial Districts around San Francisco to rally volunteers and partners to make San Francisco residential districts, commercial districts, schools, and parks safer and cleaner through our Community Clean Team program. Created over 10 years ago, by then Public Works Director, San Francisco’s current Mayor, Ed Lee, Community Clean Team has become a mainstay in the DPW’s operations. [...]

You probably understand community as knowing your neighbors, helping each other out, feeling a sense of commonality and connection, and so forth. But how does one actually begin building community? In this writing, I focus on one element – an element without which full community cannot happen: Bringing civic life back to the streets. Why is the street so important? Whereas the street was once the place for connection and [...]

On June 2, 2011, hundreds of people who are passionate about their communities – from local government to neighborhood activists to nonprofit leaders – will gather for Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp to connect with one another, grow their skills and expand the tools and resources they use to strengthen and enrich their neighborhoods. Boot Camp includes keynote presentations, more than 20 workshops and discussions, and interactive sessions where attendees get to [...]

Happy New Year! We are pleased to announce the second of four Park Town Halls . We invite you to join us on Saturday, January 29, 2011 from 10am to noon atSoMA Gene Friend Recreation Center to share your thoughts and potential solutions with city decision makers regarding your parks! This meeting will be citywide in scope and will help to inform park budget decisions that are on the horizon. [...]

2010 Youth Leadership Award – Mitzi Chavez from NENtv on Vimeo. Congratulations to the 2010 Neighborhood Youth Leadership Award winner Mitzi Chavez for her work as a youth mentor, educator and peer leader. “She is truly a positive role model. Her intellectual curiosity and intelligence, open-heartedness, and her communication skills are three of her greatest attributes. This combination shows through in her work both in and outside of Peer Resources. [...]

Communication—or to be more precise, miscommunication—is at the heart of almost any dispute.  When there’s an issue at hand, something that troubles or annoys one person, getting it to stop requires some type of communication with the other person (or persons).  I think we’ve all been here.  You can try talking to him, or maybe leaving a “nice” note on her windshield, or possibly even involving the authorities like calling [...]

Developing a consensus amongst neighborhood organizations is vital if they wish to succeed.  Professor and long time community organizer Jim Diers discusses his past work in the Seattle Office of Neighborhoods, the incentives of strong planning and how he’s bringing a back bone to the Democratic party. Download this episode (right click and save)Show Information Guest: Jim Diers, Professor, University of Washington Related Event: Santa Rosa Community Summit Related Organizations: Seattle [...]