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Month: October 2022

2022 Strategic DEI Planning

2022 Strategic DEI Planning

As with many organizations and institutions across the country, COVID had a large effect on RNeighbors, causing a lack of volunteer engagement and limited neighborhood activity across Rochester. In 2022 RNeighbors has attempted to rebuild relationships and listen to neighborhoods. RNeighbors utilized United Way Micro-grant funding to work with Julie Brock Consulting to guide us through a six-month strategic planning process focusing on equity practices. This journey included planning meetings, two focus groups, an on-line survey, and several Board sessions…

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2022 Fall Community Tree Planting Success

2022 Fall Community Tree Planting Success

Volunteers and RNeighborWoods partners bundled up and showed up to plant 100 new street trees in the Prairie Crossing NW neighborhood on Saturday, October 8, 2022. The temperature was a chilly 30 degrees at the start of this planting, proving these Rochester volunteers are made of hearty stuff. Thanks to everyone who came out to lend a hand. What a difference your volunteerism has made to these neighborhood streets! About 120 volunteers watched a tree planting demo by the City…

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