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Build relationships with neighbors and local leaders. Help residents navigate resources and connect the talents and support already in South Shore.
South Shore Community Collaborative
Convened by the Neighborhood Network Alliance
Your experience. Your skills.
A stronger South Shore, together.
The South Shore Community Collaborative is an initiative of the Neighborhood Network Alliance (NNA). Through Connect, Convene, and Collaborate, it brings neighbors, block leaders, and partners together around shared priorities, including housing.
Bring your experience of living here. Share what matters on your block, connect with neighbors and useful information, and help identify priorities. NNA convenes the conversations and connects residents’ insights with partners.
What the Collaborative does
Connect. Convene. Collaborate.
Convene
Bring people together to exchange knowledge, talk through neighborhood concerns, and identify goals they can work toward together.
Collaborate
Connect residents’ priorities with partners’ skills and resources. Build partnerships that support coordinated action and strengthen neighborhood impact.
NNA makes introductions, convenes conversations, and keeps residents’ knowledge connected to organizations and institutions that can contribute. That ongoing organizing helps individual voices become part of a shared effort.
How voices connect
From your block
to shared priorities.
These roles describe how the Collaborative connects experience on individual blocks with shared priorities across South Shore. Start by telling NNA what interests you. We’ll discuss what is happening in your area and how you can take part.
Block Liaisons & Area Councils
Connect neighbors and bring block leaders together to share insights and identify local priorities.
Area Talent Networks
Connect people with shared skills or interests around neighborhood issues.
Area Delegates
Bring an area’s perspective into Talent Networks and carry useful information back to neighbors.
Meeting of the Delegates
Bring resident representatives, network conveners, and public and community partners into a shared conversation.
Built on NNA’s organizing history
Trust grows
when neighbors show up.
This approach grows from NNA’s work bringing neighbors together. Hey Neighbor walks, karaoke, and community gatherings create opportunities to meet. Public safety organizing is also part of that history.
Why get involved?
There’s a place
for you here.
Start with what you know about South Shore, a skill you’d like to share, or the connections on your block. Choose a way to contribute, learn from neighbors, and help shape shared priorities.
Join the conversation
What you bring: Your experience of South Shore and what matters on your block.
Explore: Neighborhood conversations and the Area Council framework. Tell NNA you’re interested in taking part or hearing about future meetings.
Share your skills
What you bring: A skill, an interest in an issue, or experience that could help neighbors.
Explore: A Talent Network where people connect around shared knowledge and interests. NNA can discuss where your contribution may fit.
Connect your block
What you bring: Relationships with neighbors and a willingness to share useful information.
Explore: The Block Liaison role and ways to bring your block’s experience into the wider conversation. Start by sharing your interest with NNA.
Join the Collaborative
Choose how you’d like to contribute in the Collaborative Interest Form below. NNA will use your interests, skills, and availability to discuss current opportunities and the next step. Signing up expresses interest; it does not confirm a role or register you for a scheduled meeting. Questions? Call 773-609-3007.
Share your Collaborative interests
Complete the form here. If it doesn’t load, open the Collaborative Interest Form in Google Forms (opens a new tab).