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2025 Block Parties ANNOUNCEMNT

2025 City Wide Block Parties                     Gather to visit with neighbors old and new!  This year you can have your block party on Saturday 8/23 OR Sunday 8/24.  Applications are due by Friday, July 25th.   CLICK APPLICATION –
Please start planning now!
If you have questions, feel free to email elston13@nullearthlink.net or call Deborah Elston at (831) 423-0745.

Neighborhood 101 Basics on YouTube

“Did you know” YOU can make a difference in our community?  Santa Cruz Neighbors survived a generation and have had many successes in helping to make our community better.  With the COVID break we are renewing our commitment to “You the Neighbors”.  After 23 years experience in helping and educating neighbors we are adding some tools we hope you will find useful.   We have opened a You Tube Channel – Please subscribe!  We are back on Facebook and we will be giving mini educational Neighborhood coaching – using this posting more often – Please JOIN.  We will continue to use NEXTDOOR at this time through Santa Cruz Neighbors  – Subscribe.  Please let us know what you would like covered for information – “Did you knows” and “How can I report certain things”

Support Neighborhood Fundraisers – as a 501c3 we can help  neighborhood improvements!   See Fundraising for Neighborhoods!

2054 Get Your Neighbors on the Neighborhood email lists or sign up at Nextdoor.com for better communication in your neighborhood. You can make a difference in our community. Do not hesitate to call 911 when you see something suspicious.

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Organizing Tool Tips

Tool Tip 1: Starting Your Meetings On Time (pdf)
Tool Tip 2: Ice Breaking Meeting Start-Ups (pdf)
Tool Tip 3: Building Community by Good Deeds (pdf)
Tool Tip 4: Tips from The Stuff of Heros (pdf)
Tool Tip 5: Guidelines for Communications (pdf)
Tool Tip 6: Characteristics of a Leader (pdf)
Tool Tip 7: Increasing Association Membership (pdf)
Tool Tip 8: Stages of Working Together (pdf)
Tool Tip 9: Know Your Members Working Styles (pdf)
Tool Tip 10: How to Have a Successful Committee (pdf)
Tool Tip 11: Motivating Others (pdf)
Tool Tip 12: How To Discuss Complex Issues (pdf)
Tool Tip 13: Feedback to Acheive Understanding (pdf)
Tool Tip 14: Effective Voting Tech Roberts Rules (pdf)
Tool Tip 15: How To Mediate Conflicts (pdf)
Tool Tip 16: Changing a Neighborhoods Image (pdf)
Tool Tip 17: Planning Community Clean-Up (pdf)Flyer Tips (pdf)

Santa Cruz Neighbors - 18 years of Neighbors Helping Neighbors

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