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Leadership Graduates
Ten Watch Coordinators graduated from an eight week course on Grass Roots Leadership Training.
This training was sponsored by the NonProfit Org and the Jefferson Educational Society.
Training included effective meetings and communications, motivating and recruiting volunteers,
dealing with conflict, consensus building, teambuilding, and presentations.
This training will enable neighborhood watch leaders to be more effective in their neighborhoods.
NEIGHBORHOOD MINI-GRANTS
Ten Neighborhood Watch groups received a mini grant from the Erie Community Foundation.
These grants assist neighborhood watch to promote community building in their neighborhoods.
Neighborhood projects included: low cost lighting to keep porches lit to deter crime and motion
lighting for dark walkways to promote pedestrian safety; neighborhood & adopt a park
beautification;
purchase of watch signs to unite residents and recognize their commitment to crime prevention; ‘Wild
Wednesday’s, a four week program geared for neighborhood kids and a time capsule stored at the
Land Lighthouse to be opened in 10 years; home emergency preparedness plan; basic carpentry
and house painting skills; Erie Alerts Twitter logging near ‘real time’ crime as its happening;
publication of neighborhood newsletters; ‘Movie Under the Stars’, viewing a movie at a neighborhood
park.
