The Emphasis on Neighborhood Neighborhood is our focus. In the neighborhood we see the key ingredients for authentic community, for true democracy, for a greater sense of meaning and involvement. You have to work with it. And that is the most undiscovered treasure. The simple fact of living near one another makes it easier to get to know one another and develop the relationships needed to work together.
Neighborhoods are large enough to have the personpower and critical mass to get things done.
And it provides easy opportunity for planned and accidental encounters between people on a fairly regular basis. There are no formal organizations or structures in which certain people hold authority over others. Too often today neighborhoods are merely dwelling places rather than living spaces. As social systems, many are dysfunctional or non-existent. Inc. Can Help We encourage your neighborhood-based organization to use the web site of Neighborhood Services, Inc. as a resource center, as a mirror, as a place for networking with their own and other communities.