Support Us
How to Build a Community
- Know your neighbors
- Leave your house
- Greet people
- Sit on your stoop
- Plant Flowers
- Play together
- Buy from local merchants
- Support neighborhood schools
- Share what you have
- Fix it even if you didn’t break it
- Have pot lucks
- Garden together
- Pick up litter
- Start a tradition
- Ask a question
- Hire young people for odd jobs
- Organize a block party
- Share your skills
- Take back the night
- Turn up the music
- Turn down the music
- Listen before you react to anger
- Mediate a conflict
- Volunteer in the community
- Attend a community association meeting
- Seek to understand
- Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
- Know that no one is silent though many are not heard, work to change this
Text by members of the Syracuse Cultural Workers Community, SCW ©1997