"...the partnership for neighborhoods" is more than just a tagline for Community Impact. The organization enlists the resources and talents of neighborhood residents, philanthropists, city government agencies and other neighborhood-serving organizations to fulfill its mission. Using its neighborhood change continuum and a comprehensive plan specific to each participating neighborhood, Community Impact and its partners engage neighborhood residents in an intense intervention program designed to significantly improve their neighborhood's image and conditions and the quality of life for people who reside within them.
Community Impact invites neighborhoods to participate in the program in cohort groups. Cohort I - Bushtown, Highland Park, M.L. King and Southside - came on board in 1999. These neighborhoods were selected primarily because each had residents willing to be actively involved in the change efforts and a neighborhood organization with leaders committed to building alliances outside the neighborhood. For the Cohort II group - Churchville, Glenwood, and Orchard Knob - that joined the program in 2007, their proximity to the Cohort I neighborhoods was an added factor.
The partnership focuses on four primary areas: physical revitalization, neighborhood safety, social revitalization and community empowerment. They work to create healthy neighborhoods where residents and others are
