Benefits for Lakewood Neighborhood organizations

1. Notice: The City Connector will make connections with every neighborhood in the city to increase involvement and decrease the chances that a single neighborhood is lost or ignored.
2. Champion: The City Connector becomes the champion of each neighborhood’s causes and needs and will facilitate establishing avenues for service project development and support.
3. Force multiplier: By sharing neighborhood needs through the City Connector and capitalizing on a larger network of service resources individual neighborhoods vastly multiply service project impact potential.
4. Community spirit: When individuals in the neighborhood feel part of positive service initiatives in the city they grow a greater sense of community pride and connection.
5. Intellectual capital: Each neighborhood has individuals in it that have ideas and expertise that is underutilized. The City Connector will discover, feature and capitalize on this intellectual capital.