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Neighborhood Services Provided By CharMeck

Jun 12, 2007

Neighborhood Development, through the Neighborhood Services Division, offers a number of vital services that increase neighborhood stability.

Working hand in hand with residents and community leaders, Neighborhood Development gears its efforts to support their concerns.

Neighborhood Services utilizes the following programs to strengthen neighborhoods:

Neighborhood Capacity Building provides leadership training that enhances residents' ability to identify and prioritize problems, organize around solutions and manage long-term results. The training takes place through the following initiatives:
Good Neighbor Program
Community University
12th Annual Neighborhood Symposium
Neighborhood Organizing and other customized trainings
Neighborhood Matching Grants Program awards funds to neighborhood-based organizations for projects to make their neighborhoods better places to live, work, play and shop.
Neighborhood Development works intensively with revitalization neighborhoods. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission develops Action Plans to guide those improvements and Neighborhood Services specialists facilitate the plans' implementation.
Model Neighborhood Standards are intended to serve as an information tool that residents can use to access City service delivery to their neighborhoods.