Welcome to the National Neighborhood Day Resources Site!
This year National Neighborhood Day is on Sunday, September 21, 2008! Use our Message Board to tell us what you did on previous year's National Neighborhood Day and any activities or stories that resulted from those days. Feel free to send photos and other attachments to info@neighborhoodday.org.
Starting with annual gatherings of neighbors on the third Sunday of each September, National Neighborhood Day seeks to expand community connectedness, increase social capital, and inspire community participation and volunteerism throughout the year and throughout the United States.
NEW! Social Networking Sites
These social networking sites are made for neighborhood communication. Please use these sites to find new neighbors, post events, or simply to get in touch with your neighbors.
Here, we introduce you to Beeswax Netowrks, and there will be more to come.
Click here to learn more about Beeswax Networks!
National Neighborhood Day announces Film Contest Winners for 2006!
Three very different films won the top awards for our 2006 film contest, which asked the filmmakers to document "What does neighborhood mean to me?". The Grand Prize winner, Old Cloth, by Dayna Jondal and John Kestner, depicts a neighborhood with a real sense of community where people help one another and rely on each other. The Special Jury Award went to two films: Charles Suh's film asks What is a Neighborhood? and concludes that "maybe he doesn't have a neighborhood just somewhere he lives"; and, Alicia Butler's film, Welcome to my Unhappy Streets, raps through life on unhappy streets where children are being killed and ends with a call to "Stop the Violence".
These three films capture the value and need for neighbors to be connected to strengthen our communities - the simple goal of National Neighborhood Day.
Click here to make a secure donation to National Neighborhood Day via www.JustGive.org.