A national holiday, San Francisco style

We founded San Francisco’s very first Good Neighbor Week in 2025.

President Jimmy Carter proclaimed National Good Neighbor Day in 1978. It is celebrated across the country each year on September 28.

2026 SF Good Neighbor Week will be Sep 26 - Oct 4, 2026.

Check it out

Founder Julia Gitis with one of the SF Good
Neighbor Week bus stop ads that went up
across the city in 2025

Founder Julia Gitis with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie at the official proclamation of SF Good Neighbor Week 2025

Priorities for 2026:

  • Build and expand on the success of 2025 SF Good Neighbor Week

  • Expand and deepen our community partnerships for SF Good Neighbor Week

  • Formalize an organizing structure for 2026 Good Neighbor Week.

  • Have so much fun at 2026 SF Good Neighbor Week!!

In the news

Latest from our blog:

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Allow us to re-introduce ourselves: Good Neighbor Lab
Allow us to re-introduce ourselves: Good Neighbor Lab

Latest from @goodneighborlab instagram:

An honor to meet Barbara Wilson in person today and give her her 2025 SF Good Neighbor Award. Barbara was nominated for her leadership on @hvnasf, as well as her long history of community involvement in San Francisco. She is a driving force at @btwcs
Thank you @nopna_org for sharing the SF Good Neighbor Week love in your newsletter :)
So fun to recognize Zaid Zayouna today with a 2025 SF Good Neighbor Award at his signature event @slowstreetcoffee in NOPA. This man got many nominations from his SF neighbors for his community leadership.
Thank you for everyone’s patience as we try to deliver the rest of the 2025 SF Good Neighbor Awards to the wonderful recipients this week! If you have a drivers license and can help us with deliveries please reach out :)
Got to spend the afternoon with two of my faves, Deb and Josh, the founders of Relational Tech Project.

Join us

We are looking for volunteers to support SF Good Neighbor Week 2026.

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