Community Connection Walks

San Francisco Community Connection Walks combine Service, Learning, and Relationship building.

Neighborhood cleanups, with stops to meet your neighbors along the way

Building off the success of San Francisco’s popular neighborhood cleanups, we are partnering with Refuse Refuse to combine picking up trash with meeting your neighbors. Participants in Community Connection Walks pick up trash along designated routes, while stopping into a variety of civic institutions in the neighborhood. These curated stops include neighborhood meet-and-greets, informational sessions, and drop-in volunteering.

Read about our first SOMA Community Connection Walk here.

During the SOMA Community Connection Walk, we stopped at Sentro Filipino for a tour from educator and community leader Edwin Lozada

Community Connection Walks build relationships between neighbors in San Francisco, with a focus on neighborhoods where corporate teams are based (downtown, FiDi, SoMa, Mission Bay, etc).

Is your team ready to participate in a San Francisco Community Connection Walk? Fill out this form and we’ll respond right away.

Community Connection Walk Interest Form

Overview

Community Connection Walks:

Build relationships between corporate teams and the people and civic institutions in their neighborhood
Educate teams about the people and civic institutions in their neighborhood
Give teams an opportunity to directly participate in community improvement projects
Give team members- especially those who are residents of San Francisco- an opportunity to help with planning for SF Good Neighbor Week
Provide feedback to Good Neighbor Lab on neighborhood connections

Goals

An activation that corporate teams based in San Francisco can participate in
An activation that is a skills match for corporate team volunteers
An activation that supports the mission of Good Neighbor Lab and increases personal relationships with San Francisco neighbors

Outcomes

Team members have a better understanding and a closer connection to the community-serving organizations in their neighborhoods
Team members get to know each other and have fun
Community orgs get to know teams and benefit from drop-in volunteers
Good Neighbor Lab deepens community engagement in target neighborhoods
Good Neighbor Lab learns from Community Connection Walks
Good Neighbor Lab benefits from drop-in volunteers helping with SF Good Neighbor Week planning