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Questions presented to the neighborhood association members are stated in bold followed by their answers during a brainstorming session.
Neighbor asked me
Recently moved here--wanted to meet new people
Learn more about the community
Improve neighborhood/Help build a safe neighborhood
Newletter shared information about event and I was interested in learning more about the event
What are the goals of the neighborhood association? Why do you want more volunteers?
Want block captains to disseminate information/raise $
Phone trees
Volunteers for traffic reduction activities: if the same people do it they face burnout
Generate new ideas
Help maintain greenspace
Build cohesive community where people support each other
Do more projects in general
Get to know neighbors/know more people
More people reinvest in neighborhoods in new ways—new spark
What are the strengths of the neighborhood association, volunteer program—specific and general?
Good committed neighbors
Good newsletter
Good website
Great free meeting place
Free e-mail list
July 4th
picnic
Yard sale
Winter party
Momentum
Ambition
New officers
Different generations
presenting ideas
Talented individuals
Connections/have liaisons
with other organizations to build bridges/ e.g St. Marks and Baha’i
Connections to city
government
Neighborhood itself has
great qualities—we need to preserve and be aware/great location/lot assets
Great location
Neighbors could use
neighborhood association as resource as what is happening in community (e.g.
tree cutting example—one person in neighborhood association goes to meeting and
can tell everyone else)
Core group of volunteers/can only do so much/many activities competing for their time
Not a lot of diversity/racial/age
No one comes to meetings from the other side Park Street and John Nolen and from Romnes
Have volunteer opportunities, but no volunteers
Struggle to get volunteers for projects
No have welcome mechanism (e.g. how will we deliver welcome pamphlet?)
Need more connections to existing organizations in neighborhood
Not a lot of links with businesses
Rely on newsletter to do too many things(e.g. need to use newsletter and other methods to promote volunteer opportunities)
A small group makes too many assumptions about how to get people involved, but it is not bringing in people
Survey idea/huge undertaking
Don’t have enough social events.
What they felt their next steps should be to make a stronger neighborhood association.
Co-sponsor events (neighborhood association can get involved with other group events—coordinate group planning—e.g. Bay Creek N.A and St. Marks coordinating Yard sale event)
*Block Captains
Raise money (e.g. like did door to door with neighborhood sign)
*Different opportunities for people based on what people want to do--survey needs and assets (e.g. What issues might be see as important to get them to volunteer?)
Advertise in newsletter, but also advertise in different ways
Phone-tree
Collect voluntary dues
Fill vacant officer spots
Welcoming mechanism/system
*Different ways to volunteer/need many ways for people to get involved
(e.g. One event you may need some people to do recruitment, others bake cookies others do setup etc.)
The *’s are the top three steps the neighborhood association feels that they should take to strengthen their neighborhood association.
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