Arrange a Neighborhood Meet-and-Greet: Organize a gathering for your neighborhood.

“The first event we tried to organize was pretty open ended. We wanted to hold a pot-luck in winter though we had no idea how many people might attend. Should we plan for 20 or 200? Searching for a indoor location for an unknown number of people made things way too complicated and we ended up never holding the potluck after about 5 months of planning. On the other hand, we held a few events where we assumed that only a few people would come. This made planning much easier and it also reined our expectations way in. For the most part these meetings were successful, and though we rarely had more than 10 people, we ended up getting to know new folks each time and our group was small enough that we could easily hold a shared conversation.”