NeighborWorks Week

June 6-13, 2009 was NeighborWorks® America's 26th annual National NeighborWorks Week. The week-long community service opportunity for thousands of volunteers to help make their communities better places to live, work, and play.

Locally hundreds of volunteers donated their time and labor during the largest national community building effort. Together they improved their neighborhoods through a variety of hands-on repair, rehabilitation, green, beautification and education activities.

Of the more than 330 planned national events, 100 were NeighborWorks Plants! events -- a special green NeighborWorks Week activity. During NeighborWorks Plants!, more than 1,000 volunteers will plant thousands of herbs, flowers, shrubs, trees, and vegetables to beautify the 100 participating communities across the nation, including Saint Paul. NeighborWorks Plants! is part of NeighborWorks America's ongoing commitment to go green.

*For more about NeighborWorks' Green Agenda, visit www.nw.org/green