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Articles about Neighbors
14 articles across 4 sections
Section
Community
Wellness Checks That Protect Privacy
Set up a voluntary check-in call program for your faith community: what to promise, what to record, the caller script and when a volunteer calls 911 first.
Being a Good Neighbor Across Differences
How to maintain working relationships with neighbors you disagree with. Practical ground rules, shared projects that build trust without requiring agreement, and scripts for when conversations go sideways.
Community Resilience: Build Connection Before a Disaster
Four ways to build community connection before a disaster: faith groups, community gardens, neighbor networks and CERT. Sourced guides and simple first steps.
The Four-Door Introduction: Meet Your Closest Neighbors
A practical guide to meeting the four households closest to yours. Scripts for the first conversation, what information to exchange, and how to turn awkward introductions into a genuine preparedness resource.
Section
Self-Reliance
Building Your Support Network
A person adapts and equipment does not. How to build the human network that matters more than any purchase: three named people to start, a widening circle matched to specific needs, and how to build it when you live alone.
Power Outage Action Plan: Day Two and Beyond
What changes when a power outage passes 24 hours. The freezer decision at the FSIS limits, refueling while stations still have power, generator fuel budgeting and the charging-window model, light discipline, hygiene and sleep, the neighbors, and the thresholds that mean it is time to leave.
Section
Preparedness
Tier Ten: Generator Safety, Home Systems, and the Annual Habit
Items 91 through 100: the generator with its non-negotiable placement rules, installed protection for owned homes, and the rotation calendar, neighbor, and walk-through that keep it all working.
When the Lights Go Out
No gear required. When the power goes out, a deck of cards and your neighbors can turn a stressful evening into the best one your block has had in years.
Who Will Check on You? Building Your Personal Support Network
Building a three-person support network, establishing a daily check-in system, and creating the human connections that provide more resilience than equipment.
Section
Field Notes
Does Neighborhood Watch Actually Work?
What the evidence says about neighborhood watch: a systematic review found crime reductions, mechanisms remain untested, and the habits that make a watch useful: observe, report, never confront.
How to Meet Your Neighbors Without Making It Weird
Most people want to know their neighbors and dread the first knock. The liking gap research, the Chicago heat wave lesson, and five low-stakes openers that make the second conversation happen.
Nobody Survives Alone: Retiring the Lone Wolf
The lone-wolf survivor versus the research: Daniel Aldrich on social capital, the Columbia lions, lambs, and lone wolves survey, and how to add people to a household plan without giving up supplies.
What Mutual Aid Is, and What It Is Not
Mutual aid in emergency management and on your street: how EMAC and neighborhood groups share resources, how mutual aid differs from charity, and five ways to find or test a network nearby.
Your Polling Place Is Full of Neighbors
Election day puts most of a precinct in one room. Meeting neighbors in line, thanking poll workers, why election night results change, and checking claims with your election office. Nonpartisan.