"Building Healthy Community with our neighbors in Northwest Rockford."
Welcome our newest AmeriCorps VISTA Team Member!
Northwest Neighbors Inc. welcomes our new full-time AmeriCorps VISTA to the team in 2024/2025. An introduction will come soon!
Our new AmeriCorps VISTA will hold a variety of roles and responsibilities, all aimed at building up our community, our neighbors and neighborhoods. She will manage projects such as housing and program development, grant writing and fundraising, volunteer recruitment, research, data management and more.
Northwest Neighbors Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works in the northwest area of Rockford, Illinois, to foster hope in our community. It was founded in 2018 by residents, business owners, faith leaders, and elected officials to counteract the effects of closures and the boarding up of significant community resources in the neighborhoods where we live, work, play, and worship. Click here to read our mission statement.
We believe in the neighbors and neighborhoods that make up the Northwest area of Rockford
As Northwest Neighbors Inc. we are working together to make our city a better and safer place to live. We have a primary focus on increasing one of our strongest assets in northwest Rockford, affordable housing. We are dedicated to and determined to acquire and rehabilitate distressed or boarded up homes, in order to see individual families increase as we see Northwest Rising.
We believe the future of our city is in the hands of our Youth
The digital divide is a glaring obstacle in our community. We are dedicated to starting a technology center to provide access to resources in our community. We see our YOUTH as the future. We are in development of a digital training lab that will allow our youth to have access to education with programming, robotics, networking and computer assembly.
It is time to play together!
Summer Together 2024 join your neighbors and come together for a time to play. Hosted at St. Bernadette Catholic Church on Rockton Ave., the churches and residents of Northwest Neighbors gather to have a great time of softball, basketball and a playground for the little ones! Make your summer one to remember and hit it off with a pick-up game of community softball.
Summer 2024 is ready to go with a kick-off BBQ 6pm Wednesday, June 19th, 2024.
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- July 31st, 2024
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- July 24th, 2024
“Together we make a difference.”
Let's ride! Mel Anderson Slow Roll
The Mel Anderson bike path is one of the greatest “Secrets” of the Northwest Rockford area, running from Anna Page Park all the way south of Auburn on a paved bike path. Northwest Neighbors helped establish a “Slow Roll” where kids, neighbors, friends and families come together to enjoy time on the path.
What a great time this October!
We are looking forward to the
2024 Mel Anderson Slow Roll!
