Impact

Impact the lives of children and families by developing or expanding volunteer-driven programs and projects that support strong families. Invest financial resources to support neighboring. Engage others in planning or evaluating programs. Take action to help even the odds for families facing real challenges!

Possible Action Steps:

• Engage community residents and leaders in planning or evaluating programs
• Allocate or help secure funds for local initiatives by neighborhood groups
• Share your successful practices on other programs.

Check out these tools to help you develop community initiatives that really make an impact:

• Assessing Your Organization's Neighboring Capacity
• Developing Empowerment Initiatives
• A Checklist for Assessing the Impact of Policies and Programs on Families
• Ideas for Volunteer Projects
• Investing in Neighboring
• Developing a National Framework for Neighboring * coming soon
• Evaluating your Neighboring Efforts
• Program Development and Planning

Learn about how you can leverage the skills and talents of community volunteers.