Texas Neighborhoods Together

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Texas Neighborhoods Together

Texas Neighborhoods Together

Texas Neighborhoods together empowers neighborhoods through:
Education
Networking
Serving and protecting neighborhood interests at all levels of government.


Founded and chartered in 1989, Texas Nieghborhoods Together (TNT), a Texas nonprofit corporation, serves as a permanent state-wide organization for non-governmental community-based organizations which represent neighborhoods on a city-wide or larger basis. An all-volunteer organization, TNT empowers neighborhoods though education, networking and serving and protecting neighborhood interests at all lelves of government.


Texas Neighborhoods Together's mission is to advance neighborhood interests on the local, state, and national levels by:
improving communication and coordination among neighborhood organizations in Texas
advancing the concept of neighborhood self-determination
encouraging more effective participation of citizens in local, county, and state government
enhancing the quality of life for all citizens in Texas
supporting the enacting of city ordinances and state and federal lawas and regulations conducive to these ends.

Organizational Information

A Board of Directors elected annually by its member organizatins coordinates Texas Neighborhood's Together's programs and actions. Meeting locations rotate across Texas.
The Board meets the first Saturday of even-numbered months of the year in the home city of a member organization.

Our Accomplishments

Each biennium Texas Neighborhoods Together develops a legislative agenda by the unanimous vote of its members. Texas Nieghborhoods Together implements its legislative agenda by monitoring the progress of proposed legislation, by meeting with legislators, by presenting testimony in public hearings, by leading grassroots advaocacy campaigns, and by providing information to the public. As issues arise in various areas of the state, we work together to preserve neighborhood integrity with telephone calls and letters of support to decision-makers. Together we sponsor educational programs and share instructional materials, ''best practices,'' and newsletters to benefit the individual neighborhoods that our members represent. We network with other organizations that share our interests and frm alliances for mutual support.