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Welcome to Center For Neighborhoods
We engage, equip and empower volunteer leaders with the tools they need to address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities in their neighborhoods and community. Center For Neighborhoods utilizes an asset-based community development (ABCD) methodology, which works to build communities from the inside out.
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OUR COHORT NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
We’re proud of the graduates of our Neighborhood Leadership Program (cohort classes) which we provide free of cost to the volunteer leaders of neighborhoods and homeowners associations in the Kansas City, Missouri area.
YEARS OF SERVICE
COMPLETED COHORTS
UNIQUE ORGANIZATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ASSOCIATIONS
GRADUATES
1st Cohort Graduates
1st Cohort Graduates
The Neighborhood Leadership Program is built around a 12-week course with a selected Cohort of volunteer leaders from Missouri neighborhoods and homeowners associations. Our leadership Cohorts work together to build their organizations and team members.
Latest News + Events
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Gas station special use permits in the Northeast, a drive-thru dispensary off Southwest Trafficway, and new houses in the Westside and West

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Meetings at City Hall are on hold this week, with the 4th of July holiday this Friday. This edition of This Week at City Hall will instead

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Redistribution of the Housing Trust Fund, an historic district for the Norman School, and the annual report for the Westside Tax Relief

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An amendment to a sign ordinance, a new high school for the Guadalupe Centers, and a future land use map for the KCI area plan. City Plan

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Mixed-use development on 39th Street, infill developments in Midtown, and unpermitted construction in Independence Plaza.  City Plan

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Upcoming Events + Neighborhood Meetings
  • Sunday @ 9:00 am Sunday @ 1:00 pm
  • 5300 N Bennington, Maple Park Middle School, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Our Team
Dina Newman

Director - Center for Neighborhoods

Jacob Wagner

Associate Professor of Urban Planning + Design

LaMonica M. Upton

Senior Program Manager for Neighborhood Leadership

Tom Meyer

Neighborhood Planning + Development Coordinator

Royce Handy

Neighborhood Technology + Communications Coordinator

Learn more about our team and our partners