About the Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma
Creating safe, healthy and attractive neighborhoods for all.
Safe and healthy neighborhoods are places that provide opportunities, resources and an environment that children, youth and adults need to maximize their life outcomes. They include high quality schools, safe and affordable housing, thriving commercial establishments, access to quality health services, parks and recreation amenities, and social bonds between neighbors. Unfortunately, thousands of central Oklahoma residents still live in distressed neighborhoods, where a combination of crime, poverty, unemployment, poor health, struggling schools, inadequate housing stock, and apathy can keep people from reaching their full potential. These neighborhoods can see change, but it takes nurturing and constant support of the residents from trusted advisors for success. Neighborhood Alliance is that trusted advisor.
If we expect volunteers to help us make meaningful changes in our communities we must give them the resources to accomplish their goals. For over 43 years, Neighborhood Alliance has been successful at helping residents create sustainable change through our educational and support programs. Our training and connections allow neighborhood leaders to work alongside police, fire, school administrators, city officials, corporations, other non-profits, and foundations in order to improve their neighborhood.
We are building a better central Oklahoma by empowering and educating citizens to become neighborhood leaders.
At Neighborhood Alliance we believe that living in a safe and beautiful neighborhood is a responsibility…not a right. None of us can complain our way into a better neighborhood. You have to make a personal effort if you want to live in a great neighborhood, however, just because you have the desire for change does not mean you know how to create that change.
Our mission is to create safe, attractive and healthy neighborhoods for all and for more 43 years Neighborhood Alliance has positively affected thousands of citizens’ lives by teaching them how to create their own sustainable change.
OKC Citizens are Creating a Better City… One Neighborhood At a Time
Unlike in other cities of our size that have a government agency, the City of Oklahoma City has Neighborhood Alliance serving as the sole source of organizational support for over 400 active neighborhood associations in central Oklahoma!
- 1,260 volunteer neighborhood officers are trained, nurtured and/or mentored annually by Neighborhood Alliance
- 110,000 households in central Oklahoma are positively impacted through involvement with their neighborhood association
- Over 1100 citizens are educated annually through our community workshops on topics that help citizens positively impact their community
- 67 OKC neighborhoods have volunteer Neighborhood Crime Patrol programs working side by side with OCPD in cutting residential crime
- Over 175 neighborhoods have active Crime Watch programs where neighbors watch out for each other and report suspicious activity greatly reducing residential crime
- 30 Citizens graduate from the 8-week Neighborhood Alliance Leadership Academy program and go on to become civic leaders, state elected officials, nationally recognized neighborhood leaders, and better informed citizens
- Historically underserved residents are brought to the table by actively recruiting them in long range City planning meetings, zoning discussions that affect their neighborhood, crime prevention efforts and volunteer social service programs that allow them to assist their neighbors in need
- OKC Neighborhoods benefit from the strong connections maintained by Neighborhood Alliance with OKC City Council, the Mayor's office, OKC City Departments, the OKC Police Department, the OKC Public Schools Administration and many other non-profits and private entities in an effort to support neighborhoods and their individual goals.
“In Oklahoma City, neighborhood associations are just one step below City Council in the importance of running this City. Their volunteers assist neighbors in times of need, they beautify our public green spaces, they help curb residential crime and participate in the planning and development of our City. Neighborhood Alliance is at the heartbeat of this City with programming to support these much needed civic organizations.”
— Mayor Mick Cornett, July 2012
Firehouse Number 11, circa 1935.
We are located in the historic old Firehouse Number 11 (Classen Firehouse) on the S.E. corner of NW 36th and N Classen Blvd. Having been at this location since 1984, we feel at home on this corner.
This property, originally built as a private home, was sold in 1923 to the City of OKC by Austin R. Gourley for the sum of $5,000. The City used it as a firehouse until the mid 1940s. We are told it was one of the last firehouses to use horses. The horses were kept in stables in the nearby park.
The beautiful Memorial Park is located directly behind us, and we are situated between two very well organized Neighborhood Associations: Putnam Heights Preservation District to the west and Helm Farm Neighborhood Association to the north.
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Neighborhood Alliance
1236 NW 36th St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73118