Past State of the Neighborhoods Addresses
Last year’s State of the Neighborhoods Address, held July 17, 2003, explored what can be done to strengthen citizen participation in our cities. The Twin Cities are known nationally for their commitment to civic engagement and citizen participation in community planning. Today, we struggle to define how those systems will be sustained and how to make them more responsive to the diverse needs of our communities. The Address launched a series of workshops designed to create a Citizen Participation Compact for each city that brings city officials and neighborhood and community leaders together to:
 | Establish principles that assert the goals of the citizen participation system, |
| Define actions that describe how those principles can be accomplished, and |
| Suggest ways for holding partners accountable to the principles and actions outlined in the compact. |
A PDF of the text of the Address is available here. You may also contact the Center for a print version of the Address.
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2002's Address presented the Center's Statement of Values, Accomplishments and Intentions of the Twin Cities Neighborhood Movement, a discussion paper produced by the Center's Neighborhood Futures Project.