Equipping

DRIVE Hub Highlight: Generation Changers

November 29, 2021 Alexis Kalugin Equipping, HUB Highlight

Generation Changers in one of our DRIVE Hubs located in the Lincoln neighborhood. It is led none other than our very own Jason Spencer.

In light of DRIVE, what is the vision for Generation Changers in the Lincoln Neighborhood?
- “Our vision is to empower Lincoln residents by teaching sustainable holistic life change, inspiring self-confidence through social interaction and equipping and developing generational leaders. Our goal is to develop a relationship with residents through listening sessions and provide a stage/opportunity for their voice to be heard.”

How is being a DRIVE HUB in the Lincoln neighborhood providing an opportunity to engage in your community in a deeper way?
- “Being a hub in the neighborhood gives us a great opportunity to engage with community assets that serve in the Lincoln neighborhood. These community assets consist of individuals, associations, and institutions. Our goal is to create healthy and sustainable partnerships that can be a resource to our residents.”

How has ENP been of support to you and Generation Changers?
- “ENP is a great support to our organization. ENP has given us a framework to work with through the ABCD approach. This approach is vital to our community engagement strategies. Also, ENP supports us in fulfilling our drive objectives and provides helpful and important resources.”

Up to this point, what is a victory that you would like to share with others?
- “One victory report is our organization has the opportunity to hire 4 part-time employees from the Lincoln neighborhood. Not only is this a first in our organization but now we are providing an economic resource to our neighborhood.”

DRIVE Hub Highlight: Jackson CDC

November 25, 2021 Alexis Kalugin ENP News, Equipping, HUB Highlight

Jackson CDC is one of our DRIVE Hub organizations led by Heidi White. Learn about what they do and how being a part of DRIVE has impacted their work.

In light of DRIVE, what is the vision for Jackson CDC in the Jackson Neighborhood?
- Alongside our residents, we seek the cohesive well-being of the Jackson Neighborhood and it’s residents through community engagement, advocacy, and asset-based community development. In this season of work we are intently focused on 4 initiatives. First, we continue to build our resident-led neighborhood association as a way to capacitate neighbors in asset based community development best practices. Second, we assist Jackson Elementary in educational attainment initiatives. Third, we collectively implement resident imagined solutions that impact our neighborhood’s greatest needs. Fourth, we engage in resident-led strategic revitalization that partners with the City of Fresno for systemic change.

How is being a DRIVE HUB in the Jackson neighborhood providing an opportunity to engage in your community in a deeper way?
- Being a DRIVE HUB has enabled us to hire additional staff who are also Jackson resident leaders to support the community development work we are doing in Jackson. This is allowing us to reach wider and deeper in our community through already established networks and relationships. DRIVE is also providing us with the encouragement, tools and support we need as we equip and empower residents to engage in being part of the solutions to the challenges facing the Jackson Neighborhood.

How has ENP been of support to you and Jackson CDC?
- ENP has been helpful to provide training opportunities for our staff and residents, personalized coaching to help us achieve our goals, and they have created regular opportunities for us to connect with and learn from other DRIVE HUBS.

Up to this point, what is 1 thing that you would like to highlight & share with others?
- In the last few months, Jackson residents have been putting forth their best ideas for how to make the Jackson neighborhood a safer, better, and flourishing community. From a list of the top 16 resident-submitted ideas ranging from starting a community garden, to hosting block parties, to doing alley clean-ups, over 150 neighbors voted to focus their attention on making our neighborhood safer through a Safe Streets Initiative. We are in the preliminary stages of gathering resident concerns and their best solutions to tackle the challenges of cars making donuts in our intersections, speeding, and running stop signs. We are currently hosting community meetings and putting out a resident survey to activate all the gifts, skills, and best ideas of our residents to work towards a safer neighborhood. We are partnering with the Fresno Police Department and City Hall to address not just the safety issues facing our current residents, but to consider systemic changes that could be made to ensure future residents are equally safe. Seeing residents use their voices, passions, and skills to enact change in our neighborhood gives us fuel to continue in the work we are doing in the Jackson Neighborhood.

DRIVE Hub Highlight: Fresno Street Saints

November 25, 2021 Alexis Kalugin ENP News, Equipping

This week’s HUB Highlight is Fresno Street Saints located in the King neighborhood and led by Joby Jones.

In light of DRIVE, what is the vision for Fresno Street Saints in the King Neighborhood? When it comes to the DRIVE initiative, our vision for the King neighborhood is to reestablish that sense of being connected but ownership of their communities. Being the catalyst and spark that an individual needs empowering them to take up the responsibility to see change.
How is being a DRIVE HUB in the King neighborhood providing an opportunity to engage your community in a deeper way? Being a DRIVE HUB enables us to engage in the community from a personal standpoint. it’s not about coming to our meetings or events. It is asking them to participate, be involved and speak up for your community.
How has ENP been of support to you and Fresno Street Saints? ENP has been great, the 1-1 meetings, instructions and suggestions have all been valuable to keeping us on point when it comes to understanding what Drive is and what our role is.
Up to this point, what is a victory that you would like to share with others? A victory that we have had is being able to bring on 3 people who are real community people willing to go out and embrace, engage and empower the community.
Why should a church/organization apply to become a HUB within the DRIVE initiative? A church or organization should apply because of the interaction that it brings with the community.

LivingUNDIVIDED

November 11, 2021 Alexis Kalugin Equipping

The last 5 years have been a wake-up call for many in the Church to issues of race and justice.

Join Larry Hodges (Northpointe Community Church), Jessica Criner (St Rest Church), and Andrew Feil (ENP+Midtown Vineyard Church) in a six-week in-person LivingUNDIVIDED class.

To register click here.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Book Review

April 28, 2020 andrewfeil Equipping

During this COVID-19 time, ENP has had to shift some of the projects our interns are working on. One of the projects we gave our Pink House Intern, Austin Hussain was to read a book and write a short review. We wanted to share his reflections and recommend to you the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. This book has influenced the way that ENP thinks through its community development work as well as how we facilitate meetings and trainings.

Get Your Family Movin’

April 1, 2020 Amy Savage Equipping

Fun games and activities to do at home!

With our children home, there is plenty of time to enjoy fun and games! Here are some activities, arts, and crafts to share with your kiddos!

How to Build Resilience? Trauma and Resilience Mini-Conference // February 22, 2020

March 6, 2020 andrewfeil Equipping

On February 22, 2020, the Fresno County Trauma and Resilience Network partnered with Every Neighborhood Partnership to bring awareness to the impact of childhood trauma in Fresno.

The vision behind these two mini-conferences is to gather community members to discuss and strategize ways to build connections between the health care system and other systems to better serve kids and families struggling with adverse conditions in their lives.

The first Trauma and Resilience Mini-Conference was held at the Butler Church and approximately 45 people — educators, mentors, parents, and students– were in attendance.

Luis Palau Series 5: Equipping the Church, More Than Just a Bible Study

October 25, 2018 andrewfeil Equipping, Luis Palau Series

Every Neighborhood Partnership is partnering with the Luis Palau National group to create a six-month series that describes our work in the city. Below is the fifth post in the series from our Associate Director, Andrew Feil.

Last month, Jenessa Hefler broke down ENP’s Literacy Mentoring program. This month we will look at equipping the church and the diverse ways to empower disciples.

Education.

What mental image comes to mind? For most of us, it is the classroom. But what kind of classroom? Again for most of us, the students are in rows facing a teacher. Can I be so bold as to suggest that this model is a bit broken?

Sure it is what we know and for many of us who love and serve the church it is how we personally like to learn, but my time at Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP) and in the city of Fresno has taught me three valuable lessons that I would love to share with you that will dramatically improve your training and equipping events.

Adults learn by interacting with ideas. (Pssst… don’t just lecture)

As we begin thinking about equipping the church and training the body of Christ to carry God’s redemptive message forward into our communities we have to be more thoughtful about the best way to do that. So a simple question. How do adults learn best?

20/TWENTY: An Outreach Training Event

July 23, 2018 andrewfeil Equipping

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The heart and goal of ENP’s 20/Twentys are to give you a clear vision and the tools you need for serving our under-resourced neighborhoods. We design these to be interactive and engaging.

We will focus our large group time together around an exciting new initiative called Vision 22. Pastors Rici and Phil Skei will share about how they are working to connect churches across racial, economic and social lines together for the flourishing of our city.

Based on your feedback we are offering 5 different breakouts during 2 sessions:

4 Reasons To Sign Up For CityScope

September 14, 2017 andrewfeil Equipping

CityScope 2017 is quickly approaching. I want to give you 4 reasons you should sign up today…