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Contact Us:

5340 Palmer Lane, Suite 1A
Williamsburg, VA
23188-2674

Hours of Operation

8:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Monday-Friday
ph: (757) 259-5422
Fax: (757) 229-4688 Neighbors@
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Connected Neighborhoods

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Neighborhood Building

We can help your neighborhood:

  • Start or rejuvenate neighborhood, homeowner or condominium associations.
  • Educate board members on topics of interest.
  • Facilitate neighborhood strategic planning.
  • Facilitate a profile project. Neighborhood profiles are studies of a neighborhood’s composition to provide a better understanding of its strengths, challenges and opportunities.
  • Organize special neighborhood events and projects to bring people together and offer opportunities for neighborhood enrichment through matching grant programs.

 

Improve communications between neighbors by providing:

  • “Neighborhood Meeting Tonight” signs
  • Meeting space
  • Onsite copier service

 

Neighborhood Planning

We can help your neighborhood:

  • Cultivate responsible leadership to develop skills to problem solve.
  • Increase awareness of community resources.
  • Link neighborhoods to neighborhoods.
  • Increase citizen awareness of County government and how to interface with decision makers in setting the public agenda for a true partnership in contributing to a quality community.

 

Offer educational opportunities:

  • Trainings, Conferences and Meetings
  • Reference and Lending Library
  • Connect to County government and community resources through liaison teams.
  • Communicate/Market via:
  • Newsletter
  • Citizen Training Catalog
  • Neighborhood Connections Brochure
  • Annual Report
  • JCC TV48 – Stream Line
  • Neighborhood Connections Directory
  • E-News – JCC
  • Utilize technology resources:
  • Interactive web database
  • Neighborhood Connections web site

 

Neighborhood Partnering

We can help your neighborhood:

Identify and address overlapping concerns and encourage a cohesive response through an interdepartmental communications team.

 

Maintain effective relationships with the Board of Supervisors, County administration, neighborhood associations, homeowners’ associations, citizen groups, and the business community.

 

Foster new partnerships and collaborations with other neighborhood outreach programs, local government officials, community organizations, and local businesses from other localities to enhance networking opportunities regionally and statewide.