NeighborhoodsNOW
Creating Sustainable Communities, Block by Block

NeighborhoodsNOW is a comprehensive revitalization program that takes a holistic approach to transforming promising urban core neighborhoods into more stable communities. 

The first three-year phase (2006-2008) is focused on six bi-state urban core neighborhoods. Built on the premise that no one entity alone can solve the problems facing neglected neighborhoods, NeighborhoodsNOW brings together the private, philanthropic and public sectors in an extraordinary partnership. By infusing funding, programs, services and expertise into selected block areas, NeighborhoodsNOW will help transform them one by one.

Our vision is to rebuild these neighborhoods into Sustainable Communities – clean and safe neighborhoods where engaged citizens have an enhanced quality of life due to better access to jobs, child care, health care, education, green space, transportation, social services and affordable housing. Good places to live, do business, work and raise families. 

Our Strategy

NeighborhoodsNOW will rebuild neighborhoods physically, economically and socially by concentrating funding in targeted urban core neighborhoods.

As a pilot site for National LISC’s Sustainable Communities Program, Greater Kansas City LISC and our local partners are actively pursuing five Sustainable Communities Program goals through NeighborhoodsNOW:

1. Developing, preserving, investing in the physical environment.
2. Increasing family income and wealth.
3. Stimulating economic activity, locally and regionally.
4. Improving access to quality education.
5. Fostering livable, safe and healthy environments.

The NeighborhoodsNOW vision is fully achieved when these goals come together as

an integrated whole in a defined neighborhood.