This website provides you with organized information based on the concept that NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT (1. Crime Reduction, 2. Healthy Lifestyles, 3. Educational Success, and 4. Employment) requires the coordinated participation of Residents, Schools, Businesses, Churches, Nonprofits, Funders, and Investors.  

The main focus of this website is on Neighborhoods (click to view), but our goal is to connect your needs with existing resources in the Tucson community as well as nationally. If you are a funder or investor, neighborhoods are great places to make financial investments in order to create both social and economic returns. For more information on empowering neighborhoods through sponsorship, CLICK THIS LINK.

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Amphi Neighborhood - Amphi Leader Has Tenacity

Amphi is mobilizing, reaching out for partners and building on grass roots efforts that began in September 1997. It is the evening of February 1. The Amphi Community Action group including representatives from the police, library staff and community members, gather around and study crime statistics. 

Jefferson Park Neighborhood - Step Outside Yourself: Gloria Alvillar

Being with Gloria Alvillar in her Jefferson Park home is like savoring rich hot chocolate. After enjoying her optimism and her lush garden, escorted by Lola, the Yorkshire terrier, you’d never guess that decades ago, Alvillar had been left with three children and six dollars in her purse.

Myers Neighborhood - FULL STEAM AHEAD

Myers Community Action Group has one purpose in mind to “improve the quality of life for Myers residents by implementing educational programs to increase pride in our diverse community.”

Amphi Neighborhood - An Amphi Student Returns

Jessica Wheatley has come full circle to teach beside the teachers that once inspired her. She is a self-proclaimed history geek and teacher at Amphi High School. She said the rapidly changing way history is being told fascinates her. Her own history fascinates as well.

Jefferson Park Neighborhood - Home at Last 

Those preschoolers singing in French, speaking Chinese? They are the students at the International School of Tucson who have been lighting the old Jefferson Park School at 1701 E. Seneca St. with new life since January.

Myers Neighborhood - The Kindness Kids: Julie McIntyre

Myers-Ganoung Elementary School principal Julie McIntyre and two student council officers went to UMC to drop off gifts for Gabby Giffords in January, 2011. They never expected to end up on CNN.

Amphi Neighborhood - You Are Here: Tucson’s Map & Flag Center

Do you want to hike the Appalachian trail? Enjoy a culinary tour of Paris? Chase the Aurora Borealis? Then explore Tucson’s Map & Flag Center, 3239 N. First Ave., which percolates with the energy of adventures taken and adventures beckoning.

Jefferson Park Neighborhood - Cheers! Borderlands Brewing Company

According to Myles Stone, breweries and their accompanying beer gardens were once considered a form of Town Hall or community center. “We’re really happy to play that role in our neck of the woods,” said Stone, who runs Borderlands Brewing Company on 119 E. Toole with his fellow brewmeisters, Blake Collins and Mike Mallozzi.

Myers Neighborhood - Home Sweet Apartment

In the midst of a flagging economy, Catalina Mission Apartments (CMA) management holds to high standards. It may be their salvation. “When I first saw CMA, I thought it was the ’Oasis of 29 th Street,’” Kimberly Fitch, part‐owner in Nicolisi and Fitch Management Company, (NFI) said.

Amphi Neighborhood - Walking the Talk

Sister Geraldine Brady, or “Sister Jerry” as she’s known, arrived at Sacred Heart Church, 601 E. Fort Lowell Road in Tucson in 1995. She had served in seven parishes on the east coast, but her arrival here was no accident. She requested a job at the parish to be closer to her sister and brother who also live in southern Arizona.

Myers Neighborhood - ABC’s...............for Neighboring

Who would expect a large Christian church to invest time and energy to strengthen neighborhoods? Pantano Christian Church at 1755 S. Houghton Road in Tucson does. How they go about it is unique.

Amphi Neighborhood - Program at Woods Moves Forward

La Paloma Family Services was granted continued funding through Connecting Communities Foundation in 2012. This will allow another 20 teens and young adults to benefit from the class on career planning at the Woods Memorial Library in the Amphi neighborhood at 3455 N 1st Ave.

Jefferson Park Neighborhood - Planting Seeds of Inspiration

The December 18, 2011 launch of the water harvesting project in Jefferson Park was a great opportunity for many. JP residents met their neighbors and improved their surroundings. But just as many residents from other neighborhoods showed up to shovel and learn.

Myers Neighborhood - Freedom Preserves Freedom

Donna Trujillo has worked as supervisor for Freedom Center at the Freedom & Golf Links Park for the past 8 years. In the early 1990's the Myers Neighborhood Association developed a long-term plan for the park. It included ball fields, soccer fields, a swimming pool and a water slide which are now realities there.