Resources for Neighborhoods | Greensboro Neighborhood Congress

View a list of neighborhoods that are or have been active members of the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress (GNC).

City of Greensboro Resources:

City of Greensboro City Council persons easily can be e-mailed from one City web page.
https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/government/city-council/e-mail-city-council
City of Greensboro Home Page (or simply call 336-373-CITY)
City of Greensboro Participatory Budgeting Project
City of Greensboro Neighborhood Information Center of the Greensboro Public Library
City of Greensboro “Connections 2025” Comprehensive Plan for Greensboro’s future growth & development
City of Greensboro Department of Transportation (roads, traffic)
City of Greensboro Public Transportation (city bus, SCAT bus, University “Heat” bus)
City of Greensboro Planning Department (planning, development, historic preservation, and zoning)
City of Greensboro Neighborhood Development Department (oversees enforcement of minimum housing standards and other code compliance issues such as nuisance abatement and zoning)
City of Greensboro Code Compliance Database Tracking
City of Greensboro Field Operations (streets, sidewalks, water quality, air quality, recycling, trash pickup, etc.)
City of Greensboro Fair Housing (investigates housing discrimination complaints)
City of Greensboro Local Ordinance Enforcement (abandoned autos, lot clean-up, housing inspections)
City of Greensboro Zoning (determining and enforcing how properties can be used)
City of Greensboro Police Department (Dial 911 for emergency or 373-2222 for non-emergency situations. Both are answered by the same office 24/7/365.)
City of Greensboro Police Department Community Watch
City of Greensboro Police Department list of each neighborhood’s Community Resource Officers (CROs)
City of Greensboro National Night Out Against Crime

Other Local and Regional Resources

Guilford County County Commissioners easily can be e-mailed by copying their e-mails below and pasting any or all of them into an e-mail.
abranson@guilfordcountync.gov
jconrad@guilfordcountync.gov
jphillips@guilfordcountync.gov
ccoleman@guilfordcountync.gov
kcashion@guilfordcountync.gov
cfoster@guilfordcountync.gov
hhenning@guilfordcountync.gov
aperdue@guilfordcountync.gov
Salston1@guilfordcountync.gov
Building Stronger Neighborhoods (BSN) grant guidelines, grant application forms, and grant report forms .
Greensboro Housing Coalition (Advocating locally for fair, affordable, & safe housing.)
The Guilford Nonprofit Consortium
Guilford County Agricultural Extension Service
Greensboro Neighborhood Congress Goals, Values, & Strategies — adopted August 2017

Other National Resources

Resources Advocating Against Systemic Racism

• Guilford Anti-Racism Alliance (GARA). “An anti-racist, information-sharing, collaborative, discussion-and-action group, consisting of three partly overlapping caucuses (People of Color Caucus, White Caucus, and Joint Caucus) which provide safe spaces to challenge individual, institutional, and cultural racism and to develop sustaining networks so that we may continue working towards a more anti-racist society.”
https://www.meetup.com/Guilford-Anti-Racism-Alliance/

• The Partnership Project. “Establishing structures that respond to, empower, and facilitate communities defining and resolving issues related to racial disparities.” http://ThePartnershipProject.org/index.html

• Racial Equity Institute. “An alliance of trainers, organizers, and leaders devoted to creating radically equitable organizations and systems, helping individuals and organizations develop tools to challenge patterns of power and grow equity.” https://www.RacialEquityInstitute.com/groundwaterapproach

• Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) — “a national network of governments working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all”. https://www.racialequityalliance.org/