During this, our 50th anniversary year, we’ll be sharing 50 reason to celebrate Center for Neighborhoods — one reason each week. The posts will come from different stakeholders in the organization, representing our past, present, and future.

This week’s post is written by Jack Trawick, CFN executive director from 1980-2013. He is pictured above with Tom Stevens, executive director from 2015-2018.

Hope. CFN is centered in hope — is now, and always has been. Hope that, working together as neighbors, we may practice the Golden Rule, making neighborhoods ever better for our families, our children, our neighbors, our community.

At a time like the present, when hope for the world seems in short supply, CFN is a the place where hope for the future abides: where we learn to value our neighborhood qualities and strengths, how to envision a better place made by and for all our neighbors, how to work together toward a common future. CFN is where we celebrate the possible every day — where we and those who follow us will always work to recreate our city for the good, long into the future.