I was privileged and honored to have been introduced to the Chicago neighborhood of Edgewater through its diligent network of block clubs, and then further through the efforts of community members in Uptown. An effort in Lincoln Square proved what could be accomplished in a single summer. The amazingly talented and dedicated organizers of EnglewoodPortal.org sets a high standard of inspiration, not only creating tools for block clubs, but by creating an amazingly dynamic network of partnerships.

There are shoes across the city I will never be able to fill.

When I first composed the original New Neighborhood Block Club manual to help describe how to form block clubs, I never imagined how many neighbors would find it useful.

Together, we can use what we have learned, what we have developed, and what questions we still have, all to provide the best resource in a new 3rd edition manual for us and for the many block clubs to be formed.

I have always found it remarkable, and I have always taken it as an extreme honor, that so many neighbors in every state of America have turned to the New Neighborhood Block Club Manual as a guide to build community in their own neighborhood.

Now, I need you.

Please help make this next edition of the Block Club Manual the best and most helpful, easy to use community building guide available as a free download.

Let’s work together.

It is simple: send me an email to this address that goes straight to my phone and together we will begin:

dan@dankleinman.org.

*The picture above is by Habitat Chicago, the amazing non-profit that also encourages use of the the New Neighborhood Block Club Manual.

Together we can.

Looking forward,

Daniel Steven Kleinman

Author of the New Neighborhood Block Club Manual