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Neighborhood
America Helps NJ TRANSIT Improve Regional
Mobility by Enhancing Public Outreach
Public
Comment Service has been chosen to support the
planned transit enhancements between New
Jersey and New York. The comprehensive
initiative, known as Access to the Region's
Core (ARC), involves the collaboration of
stakeholders in both states in the planning
decisions, which will ultimately affect
millions of people who travel the route daily.
Transit
Link Consultants, a Joint Venture of
SYSTRA Consulting, Inc. and Parsons
Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. selected
Neighborhood America's solution to provide
citizens with the opportunity to participate
in the planning process. The solution will
enable decision-makers to effectively collect
and analyze the public's views throughout the
project, and the resulting feedback will be
incorporated into the final recommendations.
"We
rely on traditional methods to keep the public
involved and informed throughout our planning
projects, such as public hearings, committees,
open houses and workshops," stated
Melissa Budsock, ARC's Outreach Coordinator.
"But Neighborhood America's eye-catching
ads helped us to learn about the value that their
solution brought to our public outreach
efforts. Public Comment Service will
complement our existing outreach strategies by
making it easier for us to expand our outreach
and obtain the information we need -
conveniently through the Web."
The
GIS mapping software integrated with our
innovative service will also add value by
enabling the project teams to locate comments are coming from; compare the results;
identify the needs of commuters coming from
many different locations; and ultimately
design a plan that truly deals with people's
concerns.
Learn
more about the project online at http://www.accesstotheregionscore.com/.
The
T and URS Select the IBM - Neighborhood
America Public Comment® Service to Enhance a
Texas Transit Project
In
Tarrant County, one of the fastest growing counties of its
size in the United
States,
major plans are under way to enhance mobility
that will work to relieve traffic congestion
and improve the air quality throughout the region. Fort Worth Transportation
Authority (The T) and
consultant, URS Corporation have entered into
the first phase of the development process,
and have enlisted Neighborhood America's innovative solution
to
enhance the project's public involvement plan.
Public
Comment Service will enable decision-makers to
conduct a more thorough analysis of transit
options through the collection of public
comment over a widespread area.
"Extensive
citizen views are essential to the success of
this project," commented Tim Baldwin,
project manager for URS Corporation. "So
we are offering the public several
opportunities to participate, including public
meetings, forums, and focus
group roundtable discussions. While not
everyone will be able to attend these events,
Public Comment Service will expand the
opportunity to be involved, maximizing our
outreach efforts."
Neighborhood America's
solution will also enable project teams to meet very
strict deadlines by
enabling the efficient outreach to a very large and highly diverse
audience. They will be able to collect, analyze and report
on comments in a short amount of time,
adhering to a very aggressive schedule.
Visit
www.The-T.com
and click on the TCS icon to learn more.
Neighborhood
America Launches New Online Employment
Center
 With
any big career move comes the familiar
questions: "What is the environment like?
Will the culture suit me? Is it a team
environment?" Neighborhood America
answers those questions and many more for
prospective employees through its new online
Employment Center.
"Our
innovative Employment Center is highly
interactive and easy to use. It provides
prospective employees with an opportunity to
hear from our employees and learn first hand
what it's like to work for our company," stated Glenda Oslin,
Neighborhood America's Human Resources Manager. "This
added feature greatly enhances our screening
process since applicants can gain an immediate
sense of whether Neighborhood
America is
the right fit for them."
We
invite you to tour our Neighborhood at http://neighborhoodamerica.com/careers.
Local
Children Featured in Neighborhood America's
Most Recent National Ad Campaign
Twelve
children of Neighborhood America's employees
are featured in the company's new
"listening" ad campaign. The new
campaign highlights Neighborhood America's
distinct ability to enable organizations to
really "listen" to their citizens
through the collection of structured feedback.
"Our
strategic lines of business all share the
universal need for structured interaction, so
it seemed like a natural fit to bridge this
need with the universal ability to form an
emotional connection with children," commented
Kristi Grigsby, Neighborhood America's
Director of Marketing.
Inviting
the children to participate in the new ad
campaign was a rewarding experience for all of
the families involved. Children can often feel
very removed from their parents' work life,
and this project helped to bridge that gap.
Danielle Fontella, age 4, agreed. "It was
fun being a model and being able to help my
daddy with his job."
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ELAvate
Goody
Clancy recently launched its seventh Public
Communications System with Neighborhood
America. Citizens of
Tyler, Texas can now participate in the
community's planning decisions through the
public involvement site.
In
May, Neighborhood
America joined a select group of
international leaders at the We Media Global
Forum in London. The event, conducted at and hosted
by The BBC and Reuters, brought together over 300
of the world's thought leaders in media to share
collective knowledge, and spawn new ideas,
information, services and businesses. The two
day forum concluded with a reception hosted by
Neighborhood America and Reuters.
In
April, Neighborhood America
led a panel
discussion called "Harnessing the Power of the
Internet to Improve Public Participation"
at the APA National Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Joining Neighborhood America were
leaders from URS Corporation and
CirclePoint. The discussion attracted urban, rural, and regional planners
from all over the country, and focused on the
ways in which Web-based systems can enhance
public outreach initiatives.
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