North End Matters

“People are so closely linked in the North End, that once one person achieves something, they want to help their neighbors do it, too. It’s the most beautiful chain reaction you’ve ever seen.”I have an incredible relationship with this town. My family lived in an apartment building in the North End until I was five years old. My grandmother was a bartender and many of my afternoons as a kid were spent sitting at the bar, drinking Pepsi and eating Jones potato chips. Life in the North End was full of family and friends, sharing and bartering. People who don’t have a lot of money are incredibly resourceful. You learn to value relationships and appreciate so many different ways of living. It was such a vibrant and beautiful neighborhood then, and it still is now.I moved away from Mansfield for two years, but once I found out I was pregnant with my daughter, I came right back. I wanted to raise her here. This area will always be home to me. No matter where I move or where I live, this is home.

The free, 12-week course is taught by trained NAMI members ....

"Mansfield is made of good and hardworking people....But we still have a long ways to go."

“I’ve heard “you can’t do it” my whole life, and I just got tired of hearing it….”

SOCIAL JUSTICE BOOK CLUB's previous meeting was Tuesday May 21, as we discussed the book was "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker. Stay tuned for our next book club meeting in June!

Are you thinking of STARTING A BUSINESS? Are you making and selling products from your home or small business but need an injection of capital to take you to the next level? The North End Community Improvement Collaborative is recruiting participants for its next round off business plan writing classes...

"How can we help the people? What can we do to make sure we can make somebody else’s life better than ours? It's what has been ingrained in me....and it has given me the urge to go outside these four walls."

Join NECIC for our BEST NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP YET!

“Don’t mistake your worth. Our pasts don’t define who we are.”

NECIC and the Mansfield Area Y are launching a new study to better understand childcare in Richland county. 

The African American Leadership Initiative (AALI) met for the second AALI Speaks event on Monday March, 11th at NECIC.

The North End Elder Program is held on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from noon until 1:30pm. This week's program included lunch and a presentation by Andrew R. Sewell.