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Provides training and assistance to residents in starting and running community groups to ensure safety and communication on important neighborhood issues.

Provides classes to teach specific leadership skills (e.g., time management, leadership styles, conflict resolution). Classes are tailored to specific organizations' needs. Classes assists participants in discovering the strengths they bring to a productive working relationship with community, neighborhood, business, and government institutions. Includes the history and current status of Cleveland's neighborhoods and the types of planning and skills individuals need to serve the community, their families, and themselves. Agency also community members with phone assistance on any topic related to community organizing.

Works with neighborhood block clubs to address local issues of safety, schools.

Works with area block clubs that have come together around safety, housing, schools, and other issues that affect residents. Provides training and technical assistance with organizing skills where requested.

Provides assistance with organizing tenants so that they can address common issues they may have with their landlords (such as health, safety, property neglect, etc.). Goal is to use collective action so that the landlord addresses these issues. Educates and activates tenants to gain their rights under the Landlord-Tenant Law.

Assists neighborhood residents in organizing around common issues and in formulating and implementing plans to address community concerns with policymakers. Helps coordinate and develop block clubs and provides services to residents. Provides services aimed at preventing crime and juvenile delinquency. Service includes community-trained mediators who can mediate neighborhood disputes in eligible areas.

Assists neighborhood groups in the development of community vegetable gardens on vacant lots. Includes help with organizational planning and garden site design. Also offers educational workshops, access to resources, use of equipment, such as rototillers, etc. and a communications network.

Coordinates 10 neighborhood associations in the Lima City area. Works with residents, churches, educators, businesses, and organizations to bring the community together to address concerns and issues that affect the neighborhoods.

Provides information on social justice issues that may be coming before legislators at the state and federal levels. Lobbies legislators on these issues. Makes presentations on the Catholic church's social justice teachings, their implications for today, and how to take action.

Assists neighborhood residents in organizing around common issues and in formulating and implementing plans to address community concerns with policymakers. Helps coordinate and develop block clubs and provides services to residents.

Assists residents in solving problems and communicating concerns about safety and other neighborhood-related issues to the appropriate municipal departments, Meets periodically with residents of particular buildings or streets.

Works with residents, churches, educators, businesses and organizations to bring the community together to address concerns and issues that affect the neighborhood.

Works to reactivate existing block clubs and to build new ones, with an aim towards helping citizens express their thoughts effectively to policy makers. Provides training on basic skills like running meetings, getting neighbors out to events, establishing boards and by-laws, identifying issues and carrying out plans to improve a neighborhood's quality of life.

Provides assistance with resolving problems and information on upcoming neighborhood projects. Issues covered include parking, safety, development, and access to city programs.

Provides assistance in organizing neighborhood block clubs. Focus of organizing is neighborhood safety and involvement.

Provides a mechanism to facilitate connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement through education, direct action, and community organizing. Focuses on stopping police brutality.

Promotes the rights of workers by educating the broader community about workplace abuses, helping workers improve employment standards, and supporting workers' rights to organize. Offers educational programs, speakers, and printed materials about workers' issues, such as workers' rights and free trade. Offers workers the opportunity to report abuse and violations of wage theft and other worker issues that may be system wide. Does not provide direct services for individuals, but does offer membership for persons interested in supporting workers rights.

Provides organizational assistance to neighborhood and/or business groups and organizations. Assists in planning and implementing community-based projects and programs.

Uses volunteer committees to identify health and human service needs and to allocate funds for programs and work to address community problems. Promotes understanding of and collaboration with the public health and human service sectors through the public policy committee and other community-building efforts. Operates programs United Way functions including financial resources development and community partnerships.

Provides assistance with coordinating community and street club meetings. Service includes providing a volleyball and net and barricades to close down streets for neighborhood block parties. Also works to resolve disputes (such as noise complaints) between neighbors.

The purpose of Neighborhood Development/Community Organizing is to revitalize a designated neighborhood/residential area. Empowering residents to make positive changes that can be self-sustained by the neighborhood long-term. All initiatives for neighborhood organizing are resident-driven for maximum support, implementation and follow-through.

Assists residents in solving problems and communicating concerns about safety and other neighborhood-related issues to the appropriate municipal departments. Meets periodically with residents of particular buildings or streets.

Provides assistance with organizing tenants so that they can address common issues they may have with their landlords (such as health, safety, property neglect, etc.). Goal is to use collective action so that the landlord addresses these issues.

Provides assistance in organizing neighborhoods for safety and other neighborhood concerns (parking, building code enforcement, and other issues of common concern). Also provides assistance in reporting and resolving complaints against those violating the city's housing codes. Services complement local community development corporations.

Coordinates 10 neighborhood associations in the Lima City area. Works with residents, churches, educators, businesses and organizations to bring the community together to address concerns and issues that affect their neighborhoods.