Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way

Posted by on July 23, 2004

Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods has developed several asset-based programs which may be of interest. These include a bottom-up neighborhood planning program that involved 30,000 people and has resulted in the implementation of hundreds of recommendations. Each year, the Neighborhood Matching Fund supports about 400 community self-help projects including new parks, playgrounds, community centers, oral histories, public art, and much more. The P-Patch Program involves 5000 people, including many recent immigrants, in cultivating 65 community gardens. Involving All Neighbors brings persons with developmental disabilities into community life by focusing on their assets.

These and other programs are described in the new book, “Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way.” The book will be published by the University of Washington Press this December, but you can pre-order copies now through Amazon.com for $13.27.

To read more, visit: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/DIENEI.html