ENP Blog

Neighborhood Resources

We may be distancing ourselves from each other physically, but we can still be good neighbors!  Here are some resources and suggestions for ways you can love your neighbors and neighborhood.

Food from Home

  • Plant a garden and share the bounty with neighbors
  • Share recipes
  • Explore Food Corps resources to learn about food, nutrition, and culture at home

Assets Along Your Street

Traffic Calming

“Traffic calming is the use of physical solutions to reduce traffic speeds and/or cut-through traffic with the goal of making streets safer and more accessible for motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians.” – Traffic Logix 

Read How Traffic Calming Works

The Art of Neighboring

Check out their ideas, steps, and resources for reaching out to those who live around you.

Download Toolkit

Tactical Urbanism

Beautify your neighborhood through street chalk. Check out articles HERE and HERE for more ideas.

Scavenger Hunt

List and take photos of things in your neighborhood that make you smile and things that you’re glad are there, as well as things you hope to see changed.

Notice things that are unique to where you live.

101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City

Read this article for more practical ways you can invest in your city.

Shelter-in-Placemaking Challenge

Make it a game by giving yourself 24 hours (or set another timeframe) during which to complete a list of goals to make your neighborhood better! Develop the list with your family or with those you’re sheltering in place using the resources above or others.

Together we can continue to invest in our neighborhoods while sheltering in place!

Word of Caution: Take the precautions you feel you need to take. We are not medical professionals, but are simply trying to give you options and ways to show love to your neighbors during these times.

germanquinonez

Germán Quiñonez is the Neighborhood Development Director for Every Neighborhood Partnership, with a 16 year history of addressing the social disparities that directly impact the most vulnerable populations in Fresno’s south neighborhoods, through civic engagement, capacity building, health advocacy, and community revitalization. His specialties include asset based community development, creative place making and community based planning. Germán serves in some capacity as a local urbanist for community development, proudly boasting of no direct affiliation with institutions or any academia but rather acting as an emerging leader of creative thinkers who are fighting for the third space, by rediscovering the gifts and assets that exist in every neighborhood, and reclaiming those geographies for spatial liberation. In his free time, Germán loves to read books (and buy books for no other reason than to plan to read them one day), he also loves to travel, listen to 80-90's hip hop, get tattoos and spend time with friends and family!

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