Neighborhood Development Center Builds Community Capacity -- in San Jose, California...

If I ever get around to relaunching the Citizens Planning Coalition in a focused way (including block-by-block canvass city-wide to build the constituency and membership on every block, in every neighborhood of the city) this is the kind of stuff it would do...



Neighborhood Development Center of San Jose

The mission of the Neighborhood Development Center (NDC) is to assist all neighborhood associations, emerging and existing, in achieving their desired neighborhood quality of life. The NDC is the initial point of contact for residents to mobilize and organize their neighborhoods. The services provided by the NDC are designed to build the leadership and capacity of residents to attain their neighborhood goals.

Community Connections Spring 2004 Edition

The following are services provided by the Neighborhood Development Center:

Leadership Development and Neighborhood Organizing Trainings
Neighborhood Organizing Assistance
Technological and Information Resources

We have nothing like this in DC.

The level of informed discourse on a wide-variety of local issues demonstrates the impact of the dearth of such.