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That’s what we’ve been doing for the last couple of years.
LISC/Indianapolis, along with our partners from the City of
Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center
(INRC) has launched a program to help neighborhoods around our
city understand and embrace the principles of comprehensive
community development, create a quality of life plan, and
put that plan into action.
Kicked off in the summer of
2006, the Great Indy Neighborhoods Initiatives (GINI) program
provides funding and guidance to help good neighborhoods become
great. GINI grew out of our 2004 Community Development Summit, a
citywide event that brought together more than 400 civic and
neighborhood leaders to begin to create a plan for fostering
better neighborhoods. It’s the result of countless hours of
study, conversation, taking stock of what’s already working in
our neighborhoods, and hard work to determine what exactly makes
a neighborhood great.
One of the most important steps in
becoming a great neighborhood is the development of a neighborhood
quality-of-life plan. That’s what this book is about. It’s a simple,
step-by-step guide to creating and implementing a quality-of-life plan
in your neighborhood.
And, of course, great neighborhoods are
not static. We’d also encourage you to keep up with what’s going on with
the Great Indy Neighborhoods Initiatives at
greatindyneighborhoods.org.
Stay informed…ask questions…and let us know about your progress.
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