Nobody comes to meetings

Start with these

1. Visitor question

   Why won't people come to our community development meetings?

   Visitor Question: When you ask people what is best about our little suburb close to the city, often they say it's the variety of people. When poked a little

2. Visitor question

   How to renew interest in a neighborhood association

   Visitor Question: Our neighborhood used to have a very active neighborhood association, and I think we need to have one again. The incorporation papers

3. Visitor question

   Involvement Is Still Everything

   Reviewed: June 4, 2024 Website Visitor Says: We blogged, we texted, we e-mailed, we animated on our Web site. Still we had 9 people show up at our meeting

4. Visitor question

   Renter involvement in the neighborhood

   Visitor Question: We seem to have a great deal of difficulty in involving any renters in our neighborhood association and meetings. They are always welcome,

5. Visitor question

   How to get people interested in our neighborhood plan

   Posted: September 29, 2024 Visitor Question: Several of us who are very active in our neighborhood association have finally managed to convince the city

6. Guide

   Volunteerism Fulfills Community, Individual Needs

   Volunteerism meets many community service and service learning needs, while also fitting goals of teens, senior citizens, scholarship seekers, and job seekers.

Original guidance from A Good Community: How to Make and Keep It, owned and edited by Nancy Thompson (formerly Useful Community Development), shared with permission. Community Compass notes and updates are our own and have not been reviewed by Nancy Thompson.