Community Partnerships

Community Coalition

~Together, Realizing Community Wellbeing

Collaborative affiliation streams from interconnections with:

Meridian Kessler Neighborhood Association

Broad Ripple Village Association

Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood

Crown Hill Neighborhood

Mapleton-Fall Creek Neighborhood (CDC)

Watson McCord

HARMONI

Mapleton-Fall Creek Neighborhood Association

Meridian Street Foundation

Meridian Park

Keystone Monon Neighborhood Partnership

CDD Crime Watch

Martin Luther King Service Center

Kaleidoscope Youth & Family Center

Indianapolis Marion County Police Dept.

Marion County Sheriffs Dept.

Marion Co. Health & Hospital

Marion Co. Prosecutors Office

Marion Co. Superior Court

Marion Co. Division of Probation

IMPD Crime Watch

Nuisance Abatement Narcotics Eviction

Indiana Housing Authority

City of Indianapolis Office of Code Enforcement

All involved are unified and focused on a positve approach to neighborhood wellbieng

and quality of life. These partners have recognized the value of this program and have pledged

their support in time and commitment relative to their capacities as an organization, service or

specialized group.

Editorial from Indy Star

By; V.Pardue-Edwards

http://blogs.indystar.com/intouch/archives/cat_victoria_pardueedwards.html

An essential move toward the capability of any community to guide its future is to first name the problem it is trying to solve.

All too often the "fix-it" approach takes over and symptoms get all the attention.

Establishing a community's ability to transform its own future will take a number of tactics. A community can concentrate on organizations and individuals; it can focus on effective associations and shared values; and it can hone in on civic engagement and participation.

Years of valuable research from the Kettering Foundation has found that "unless a community issue is understood from multiple perspectives and takes into account different interests, it is unlikely that citizens can work together as a community."

It is an inner nature frame of mind as well as a development plan that permits a person or a group of people to be strengthened and energized by possibility and not overcome by insufficiency.

A report from the Committee for Economic Development concludes, "Community building alone will not revitalize a community, but no initiative will succeed without it."