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Champion Great Neighborhoods

Goal 2: Expand and Enhance the City’s Image
Objective 1: Promote Community Engagement
Project Performance Measure(s) Department(s)
CGN Neighborhood Engagement NMG Program Progress Office of Strategic Initiatives
2.1.1 Program
Summary:
Estimated
The Neighborhood Engagement Program seeks to engage Milestone Completion Status
Arlington citizens with their neighborhoods and with the Issue Call for Projects Aug. 2023
City. The goals of the program are to help residents Know Council Approval of Jan. 2024
Your City through communication and education Grants
initiatives; Know Your Neighbors through growing social Execution of Contract Mar. 2024
capital; and Build-Up Neighborhoods Together through All Funds Granted May 2024
investing in neighborhood infrastructure.

Initiatives include the Champion Great Neighborhoods
newsletter, expanding the use of NextDoor and other
social media to reach residents, hosting Neighborhood
Leadership Network meetings, the Block Party Trailer
program, the Arlington Home Improvement Incentive
program, and the Neighborhood Matching Grant Program.

The goal of the Neighborhood Matching Grant (NMG)
Program is to provide financial support for resident and
community-based programs and activities that foster civic
pride, enhance, and beautify neighborhoods, and improve
neighborhood vitality and participation. The program
benefits the City of Arlington by making neighborhoods
more attractive, raising the level of community pride,
increasing civic participation by residents, and encouraging
collaboration and formal organization of and among
neighbors, neighborhoods, and city government.

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