Connecting Community Needs with Resources
Businesses
Businesses are joint partners with neighborhood leaders and residents, providing opportunities for service learning projects, internships,
employment and sponsorship for neighborhood initiatives. Research shows that neighborhoods are more economically developed when their businesses are successful. However, a business can only be successful when it has customers that purchase its products and/or services. Therefore, to be economically successful, neighborhoods need successful businesses and businesses must have the support of neighborhoods.
While businesses do in-fact play a vital role as sponsors and supporters of neighborhood activities, projects and programs, they should also be thought of as entities in need of support. They too require services to help them 1) decrease costs, 2) increase revenue and profit, and 3) increase their advertising reach. When neighborhood leaders and residents, schools, and churches commit to actively supporting these goals, businesses become more active in supporting and sponsoring neighborhood activities, projects and programs.
In the tabs (links) below, we provide an index of businesses in Tucson neighborhoods and two business clusters in which each business operates.
Neighborhood Empowerment System Model
Through this social networking site, you can communicate with neighborhood leaders, residents, school officials, church leaders, nonprofit leaders, businesses and other people who care about building great neighborhoods in Tucson and surrounding communities.
As you look through this website, please take the time to view different neighborhood groups and see what they are doing to empower their communities.
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