by Pam Rempe | Jun 30, 2026 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Neighborhood Well-being
“Service is the rent we pay for living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.” – Marian Wright Edelman In the fall of 2018, I traveled to the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn to receive training at the Red Hook Community...
by Jennifer Prophete | Jun 2, 2026 | Neighborhood Well-being, Pursue the Common Good
Picture a church fellowship hall on a fall evening filled with students, parents, siblings, and grandparents. There was food, fun, and family celebrating together around a table built by the community for the community. A local church donated the food. The...
by Pam Rempe | Jan 22, 2026 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being
If you’re reading this from somewhere in the United States of America right now, it’s likely that you commute to work. About 86% of us do, according to the most recent census. This isn’t all that uniquely American, you might be saying. And...
by Jennifer Prophete | Dec 30, 2025 | Getting to Know Your Neighbors, Neighborhood Well-being
Reposted Reposted from we-are-neighbors.blogspot.com. Note from the Director: For our last blog of the year we are featuring The State of Neighboring in Missouri. We felt this was a timely piece as we head into a new year and many of us...
by Pam Rempe | Oct 28, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being
There’s a story that’s stayed with me over the years—one that reminds me how our perspectives can be clouded by our own lenses. In the story, there is a man who repeatedly criticizes his neighbor’s dirty curtains. Every day, the man peers out of the front window and...
by Pam Rempe | Sep 9, 2025 | Imagine the Possibilities, Neighborhood Well-being
I recently read Dawn Staley’s new book, Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three. Dawn is the head coach of the University of South Carolina’s women’s basketball team. In her book, she speaks...
