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Executive Summary
Great Falls Neighborhood Snapshot
Foreign
Language Other Than English Spoken At Home of Total Population (Spanish: 49.1%; “Indo-European” [Bangladeshi]: 23.1%)
(Source: 2015-2019 US Census American Community Survey Five-Year Estimates)
Summary of Goals and Strategies
Goal 1. Empowered Community
Strategy 1.1: Conduct Effective and Empowering Community Organizing
Community organizing is essential to creating a truly empowered community. This strategy looks to create a broader more focused and structured community organizing program, that will be integrated into all of NJCDC’s activities.
Strategy 1.2: Support Resident-Led Community Initiatives
An empowered community is able to take direct initiative to improve the neighborhood through organizing projects and other community-improvement efforts. This strategy supports residents in carrying out these types of projects and efforts, including trash clean ups, beautification projects that plant trees or apply fresh paint to eyesores, or resident-organized block parties that bring neighbors together.
Strategy 1.3: Continue and Enhance the Neighborhood Help Center as a Community Hub
This strategy expands the reach and impact of NJCDC’s Neighborhood Help Center. The Center will extend its hours and open satellite sites. The Center will also increase its service offerings to place greater focus on community organizing and immigrant integration as well as financial literacy and budgeting.
Strategy 1.4: Improve Public Safety
Great Falls residents identify public safety as an especially pressing community issue. Starting from the goal of an empowered community, this strategy will empower neighborhood residents to address public safety issues by working directly with the police, City officials, and other residents employing a diverse set of tactics.
