You’ll receive clear, personalized guidance and hands-on support every step of the way.
You’ll learn from experienced mentors who have successfully built vibrant communities. They’ll share what’s worked and coach you through whatever comes up.
Our global network of neighborhood builders offers a deep sense of camaraderie, encouragement, brainstorming, and cross-pollination of ideas that will elevate your community-building efforts. Together, we’ll navigate challenges, celebrate wins, and draw inspiration from the collective wisdom of each other’s experiments.
You’ll be held accountable by your fellow stewards to take action each week to build a neighborhood you’re proud of.
This program is for you if you want to:
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Turn Your Neighbors Into Friends
You’re excited to build relationships with many different kinds of people in your neighborhood.
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Create a Strong Community
You want to co-create a culture where people show up for each other when it counts, where neighbors become friends and friends become family.
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Build a Network of Neighborhoods
We are creating a network of interconnected neighborhoods where people can easily find their tribe and create vibrant, multigenerational communities. If this excites you, you’re in the right place.
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Get to know people outside of your bubbles
You want something other than interest-based communities and the unintentional silos they create, and you're willing to meet and welcome strangers to make it happen.
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Do the Thing
You’re willing to try different things, make mistakes, try something new, and keep going even when it’s hard.
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You're looking for instant results
This is hard, deeply personal work. You need to be willing to put in the effort each week to build something meaningful.
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You're extremely busy
We recommend people block out a minimum of 4 hours a week to participate in this program. Consider if you have the space to fully commit.
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You're not rooted
If you're not committed to invest in your current neighborhood for the foreseeable future, we'd love to have you once you are settled and committed.
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🗓️ Key Dates
NAP4 Program Dates: June 9 - August 20, 2025
Application Deadline: May 31st, 2025
In case you can't make NAP4, our next cohort (NAP5) Program Dates are Sept 15 - Nov 23, 2025
🍎 Curriculum
Each week we’ll learn the best practices and patterns of neighborhood building and then put them into practice in our neighborhoods. We’ll cover:
→ First Contact: Breaking the Ice and Meeting Your Neighbors
→ Going From Hello to Building Meaningful Relationships
→ Designing Flyers and Generating Interest
→ Hosting Events People Want to Attend
→ Neighborhood Comms & Group Message Threads
→ Creating a Sense of Group Ownership
📱 Telegram Groups
The async place to ask questions, get support from mentors and fellow neighborhood builders, see how others are doing things, and celebrate each others’ wins.
Each cohort will have their own private cohort telegram chat as well as access to the NAP Network Telegram chat where international neighborhood stewards from past cohorts + NAP mentors post learnings and stories from their neighborhoods and answer questions.
⏰ Time Commitment
We recommend a minimum time commitment of 4 hours a week to make the most of the program. Some weeks it'll be more and some will be less depending on what you're working on. This time will be spent:
→ "Doing the thing" in your neighborhood: knocking on doors, flyering your neighborhood, hosting events, building partnerships, spending 1:1 time building relationships, and more
→ Attending the 75 minute weekly session (in-person or online)
→ Attending optional online workshops as well as chances to learn from mentors 1:1
→ Offering and receiving peer support
🤓 Weekly Sessions
Weekly 75-min Sessions: Learn proven neighborhood-building strategies, share progress, be held accountable to taking action each week, and get support from your peers. Sessions are held in-person or online depending on which cohort you're in. Currently we're running in-person cohorts in:
🏝️ Perth, Australia with Shani Graham
🏙️ Baltimore, MD with Alex Zhu & Dahiany Zayas
🏜️ Taos, NM with Maia Franz
⛰️ Boulder, CO with Savannah Kruger & August Hardy
Online Workshops: Mentors and experts will lead highly interactive sessions on relevant topics.
👏 Participant Expectations
→ Come to each weekly session
→ "Do the thing" in your neighborhood: take action, try different experiments, keep learning and showing up
→ Be present in the telegram to support others on their journeys and show up for yours
😎 What You'll Be Doing
Throughout the course of the program you'll be doing the following in your neighborhood:
→ Defining the geographic boundaries of your neighborhood
→ Designing a flyer to invite your neighbors
→ Knocking on doors & meeting neighbors
→ Designing and hosting events
→ Creating a neighborhood communication channel
→ Enrolling co-conspirators to help build your collective vision for your neighborhood
→ Co-creating a culture of mutual support and agency
$500
with sliding scale and scholarship options. If you’re a good fit, we’ll make sure you can join—no matter your budget.
If you’re not 100% satisfied within the first 14 days, you can request a full refund.
