Neighborhood Governance

Neighborhood Governance

We have adopted, but added to, the prinicipal definition and toolkit that is presented by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation(www.wkkf.org.)

Mindset
“Neighborhood governance gauges the sharing of power between different groups”.

Dr. James Cameron
www.blackholocaustmuseum.org

It focuses the population - neighborhood - government. It puts a face on the demographics. It provides stewardship, due diligence, legacy, historic value, and CULTURAL COMPETENCIES.

It provides protocol. It establishes standards and allows human relationships to grow.

Milwaukee is a diverse population with a history of racial disparities. That is a fact.
We change it through neighborhood governance.

Iowa native Kathy Walton, 28, lives with her husband near N. 78th St. and W. Hampton Ave., an integrated area of Milwaukee. Her northwest side neighborhood contradicts the common wisdom that Milwaukee is “hypersegregated.

It allows a collective deposit of trash from the minds and physical areas that is healthy for the participants and those that see and hear of it.

Neighborhood governance is the power tool/catalyst for building partnerships between communities and the organizations that serve them.

ReDonna Rodgers, left, CEO of the Center for Teaching Entrepreneurship, helps Josie Scott, 12, in the program “Your Life is Your Business” last Wednesday at the Milwaukee Enterprise Center, 2821 N. 4th Street.
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Rotasha Wade, A protege of Rodgers’ and owner of Azic Homestyle Bakery, 3628 W. Vliet St., frosts a cake in her store, Friday-‘

Best continued practice tools must have buy-in. If used correctly and systematically, they can/will offer ways to:

  • encourage community awareness and participation
  • promote block club and neighborhood dialogue
  • promote advocacy
  • promote policy change through neighborhood stakeholders, specific techniques and actions.

Bito Edwards, 8, listens as her mother, Clara Walker, talks to the Milwaukee School Board during Thursday’s public hearing on the school budget. The hearing at the school administration building, 5225 W. Vliet St., drew a large turnout.

An overflow crowd waits outside the School Board meeting room while some sign up to speak at Thursday’s school budget hearing, which attracted hundreds of residents. Most who spoke opposed a proposal to raise the tax levy for Milwaukee Public Schools by 16.4%.

Examples of “Neighborhood Interactions” for necessary growth and successes. They are: 

  * study circles
  * community walks
  * town meetings
  * neighborhood charrettes
  * neighborhood conference calls
  * neighborhood video/presence conferencing
  * e-storming
  * e-employment
  * e-commerce
  * e-blogging
  * e-wellness
  * focus groups

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