Leadership Roles and Benefits

Every organization can show leadership in strengthening families and transforming neighborhoods by integrating neighboring principles into the way it does business. This strategy increases the effectiveness of an organization's volunteering efforts throughout tough neighborhoods. The benefits to communities facing difficult challenges can be immeasurable.

Businesses: Leverage resources and serve as catalysts for sustainable social change. Demonstrate corporate social responsibility. Focus your philanthropic activities. Integrate neighboring principles into employee volunteer programs.

Nonprofits: Adopt these concepts to develop meaningful partnerships with communities, create new sources of volunteers, and ensure community buy-in for program success and sustainability. Expand your organization's capacity to affect sustainable change. Enhance volunteer programs. Bring much needed services to children and families in tough communities.

Government: Respond to new policies and reach low-income families in more effective ways that empower them and help them on their paths to long-term success. Enhance your agency's credibility. Gain new volunteers. Support and further government initiatives to create self-sufficient families such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).