GINI Quality of Life Plans Released: The six GINI Demonstration Initiative neighborhoods have completed their quality-of-life planning process.  Download the plans here.
 
From Good Neighborhoods to Great!
Over the last 25 years, public and private partners have collaborated to generate many positive changes in Indianapolis neighborhoods. Individual success stories abound; yet, as a city, we have not revisited our overall system of support for community development activities since the early 1990s. We have reached a point at which we need a holistic approach to healthy community building that harnesses individual energy and community resources to help our neighborhoods go from good to great.

That is the goal of Great Indy Neighborhoods. Great Indy Neighborhoods is a renewed approach to community development activities across the city that promotes neighborhood-driven improvements. You know best what your immediate community needs. By giving you the support needed to assume more direct control over the face of your neighborhood, and by following up with implementation assistance, Great Indy Neighborhoods will help realize neighbor-driven dreams and build a neighbor-driven structure that will result in a greater feeling of community and a shared responsibility to maintain and build on community improvements.
Latest News

2008 IMAGINE Deadlines: Next application deadline is April 21, 2008.  More Info

IMAGINE Matching Grant: The Indianapolis Matching Awards for Great Indy Neighborhoods Engagement (IMAGINE) award seeks to reinforce the strengths and assets within Indianapolis’ neighborhoods by providing financial resources for projects, events and activities designed to increase resident engagement, promote neighborhood action centered on the GINI 11 principles of healthy neighborhoods, and establish new and stronger relationships among grassroots organizations and businesses. More Info and Application

Principles of Healthy Neighborhoods: Eleven principles of healthy neighborhoods as a framework for working together to affect sustainable social change through a comprehensive community development system that integrates economic, physical, and human development to create spaces and relationships where we live, work, raise our families, and participate in our community.  More Info

Neighborhood Resource Guide: Download the Great Indy Neighborhoods Resource Guide to get connected with local partners and resources that can help your neighborhood with comprehensive neighborhood development. Download Guide

How to Create a Great Indy Neighborhood: Download the Great Indy Neighborhoods planning workbook, a simple, step-by-step guide to creating and implementing a quality-of-life plan in your neighborhood.  Download Workbook
Initiatives
Demonstration Initiative
A pilot quality-of-life planning process underway in six Indianapolis neighborhoods. 
Engagement Initiative
Neighborhood support for building leaders, connecting neighbors with tools and resources, and improving communication.
Publications
Neighborhood Resource Guide
Find local resources and partners to help bring about comprehensive neighborhood development.
How to Create a Great Indy Neighborhood
A simple, step-by-step guide to creating and implementing a quality-of-life plan in your neighborhood.
Neighborhood Highlights
The Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Perry Township collaborated with Oasis of Hope Baptist Church in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood to sponsor four study circles in the fall of 2006.

One circle was composed of African-American High School male students, and a second study circle was conducted with a group of African-American High School female students. Both circles met at Southport High School. The third student study circle was held at the Southport 6th Grade Academy with middle school- aged girls. The fourth study circle, held at Oasis of Hope Baptist Church, was comprised of parents of children attending MSD Perry Township.
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