The Mayor's Office of Neighborhoods and Community Engagement intends to host Neighborhood Academy every year from March to September. The next Neighborhood Academy begins March of 2022.
Neighborhood Academy serves as a relationship between the people and Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County by engaging, equipping, and empowering residents to participate in and influence our city's governmental processes, programs, services, and policies in ways that will strengthen our neighborhoods.
Within the Neighborhood Academy curriculum, we strive for participants to be able to re-discover our city's civic processes and programs, to identify issues impacting our neighborhoods, to comprehend how change happens in our neighborhoods, and to gain additional knowledge of how to recommend public policies that influence neighborhoods. The participants will choose a local item they wish to improve, and use the many opportunities brought by the Academy, to learn from the Departments ways in which they can improve that issue citywide by making a policy recommendation.
We are committed to exploring various levels of local government, encouraging collaboration and partnership with various departments of Nashville government, and connecting with civic leaders who are currently working with initiatives impacting neighborhoods.
If you are interested in more information, please email the Neighborhood Academy or sign up for the 2022 Neighborhood Academy.