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How to Build Support
Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of New Haven’s Executive Director, Jim Paley, was invited to speak on an...
A Season of Urban Organic Food Production
Community Building and Organizing’s (CB&O) jam-packed summer of hosting various volunteer groups has extended into...
Doreen Abubakar, Resident Leader and NHS of New Haven Partner
Doreen Abubakar has a history with NHS and our staff dating back to the early 1990s when she and our Community Sustainability Director, Kathy Fay, were neighbors in the Dixwell neighborhood. They...
DeTrashing in New Haven
NeighborWorks Week is coming up! As part of this week of volunteering and community events, we are asking everyone to clean up trash around their favorite places and post a picture of the trash they...
NeighborWorks Week ’21
June 5 was the start of our annual NeighborWorks Week! This nationwide event promotes community engagement, togetherness, and volunteerism. For NeighborWorks Week we focused on beautifying the NHS...
New Haven Civic Innovation Prize just awarded $7000 to Project Lighten Up
It’s late at night. You’re at a street corner. In one direction, the sidewalk is lit. You see down the road, a porch light turns on at the other end of the block. In the other direction, the light...
Data-backed Improvements
Working with our new company, HOC Lending, we provide relief services to homeowners identified by a current NHS data project. Headed by our Community Building & Organizing (CB&O) department,...
Rest easy with Project Lighten Up
The Project Lighten Up initiative seeks to use the installation of lights as a means to improve perceptions of safety and as a tool to help reduce certain rates of crime in the Newhallville...