We're All Neighbors

11/06/2025

Neighbors sharing with neighbors is what it is all about 🫂

While SNAP benefits are paused and many are worried about the high cost of groceries, little free pantries have been popping up in driveways all across America.

Whether you’re inspired to create your own (all you need is a tub, sign and a few cans!) or get involved with organizations in your own community, we hope you find the ways it feels good for you to give back to the place you call home.

Please grab food from our pantry at Hunters and Scurry if you need it and help spread the word! Give what you can, when you can.

You can also donate or volunteer at many amazing organizations helping close to you:



Check your local churches, mosques and schools for hyper local food banks in your area

02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s from one of the neighborhood kiddos ❤️

“Having good neighbors is a real treat”

02/03/2025

Community Clothing Swaps are another great way to build connection, community and resilience where you live.

Whether it’s throwing a day to swap closets with friends or organizing larger community swaps like our neighbor Cynthia, you just might find what you’re looking for right at home (and for free!)

01/26/2025

Do you find yourself wondering HOW to build local community? Do you know the names of the people who live right next to you?

I like to start with soup. It’s not much but if you make a big pot there’s usually enough to share with your closest neighbors. Sometimes they even have free jars to go around.

It started with knocking on their doors, to getting their numbers to starting a group chat… you get the picture. Now we’re sharing gardening supplies and pulling each other’s trash cans up to the garage.

There’s a lot of little ways you can start to build community where you live. Sometimes all it takes is that 1 person reaching out to get it started. We’d love to hear what’s worked for you!

01/23/2025

Beautiful words shared by our neighbor Julia. Couldn’t have said it better ourselves!

(Shared with permission 💛)

11/01/2024

We are so excited to have been awarded this wonderful grant by Fruitful Commons to take care of our neighbors and the trees! 💛🌳 send us a message if you want to get involved with building a green community space for north Austin neighbors!

Fruitful Commons is excited to announce the awardees of the $50,000 in 2024 Tree Care Mini Grants! They were carefully chosen by our review committee composed of volunteers from a diverse set of organizations.

Please help congratulate these hard working community groups on their dedication to expanding and caring for the Austin tree canopy:

Alamo Community Garden
Ecology Action of Texas
El Buen Samaritano
Festival Beach Community Garden
Festival Beach Food Forest
Green Gate Neighborhood Development Center
Kalpulli Texas Quetzalcoatl
Rebuilding Broken Communities- St. John Faith Community Garden
Red Salmon Arts
The Salvation Army Rathgeber Center
We're All Neighbors

We appreciate everyone who took time to apply for the mini grant or review applications and those who gave us consultation on making this an equitable process!

10/31/2024

Halloween Story Time + Pumpkin Patch with Walnut Creek Elementary was a huge success!

We had a great time reading to 280 kinder-2nd graders from our neighborhood elementary school. The classes got to take a walking field trip where they were met with neighbors reading spooky stories and a pumpkin patch to pick out their very own pumpkin to take home.

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who donated so that almost 300 kids could get their own free pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. And a huge thank you to our neighbors DJ, Lynda, Debbie, Ashley, Anne, Emily, Michelle, Pierre and Kam who read stories for the kids and helped everything run smoothly! 🎃🧡

09/10/2024

Had a great day of learning about the amazing projects coming out of this afternoon! 💛 Thank you for having us!!

08/20/2024

If you’re looking for a simple way to make a big difference in your community, consider mentoring at your neighborhood school.

No special experience necessary! You and your mentee meet for a casual weekly lunch where you can play board games, read, do art together, or just hang out and talk.

We’re excited to partner with one of our neighborhood schools, Walnut Creek Elementary in North Austin to encourage folks to get involved.

If you’re interested in mentoring at Walnut Creek Elementary, start here: https://forms.gle/Q2tyqiz7cibspHoS7

Questions before you get started? Comment below or email Stacy Claye: [email protected]

08/15/2024

Lovely folks repping We’re All Neighbors in Providence, Rhode Island! ⚓️🌊

These sweet neighbors from Overhill Rd threw a block party to get to know each other and build community where they live ❤️

There were homemade snacks and brownies, a keyboard concert from a talented 8 year old, lots of new friends made, and even an impromptu water balloon fight 🎈🎶🧁

Organizer JD Stettin said putting together the event helped him realize that neighboring doesn’t need to be complicated or revolutionary. He said that once the ball was rolling, everyone came together to do their part. 👭👫

“Sometimes it’s just a nice idea and someone needs to start it.”

☀️🌻💛

05/16/2024

Together, we build a healthier, stronger community— thank you to everyone who came together for the North Austin Community Blood Drive & Wellness Day!

THANK YOU to:

- Our neighbor Pierre Nguyễn for envisioning the event and inviting We’re All Neighbors to help organize

- Dr. Luan Tran and her team with Austin Vietnamese American Medical Professional Society-AVAMPS for providing health screenings and nutritional information

- Dr. Nam Nguyen with NAM Wellness + Mobility for offering wellness and mobility services

- We Are Blood for bringing the Bloodmobile, and everyone who donated blood

- Austin Voices for Education and Youth and Central Health for providing health resources

- Coach Luis Chinchilla and Andrew Wade for organizing soccer for the community

- St. Mark UMC for providing the facilities, including the new soccer area!

- Anne Smith for leading Chair Yoga

- KG BBQ for donating delicious meals for lunch

- Mister Twister for free balloon art, and Emily Jeanette for free face painting
..and all the volunteers who helped set up and break down the event, especially Christian and Emile Ninaud for all their hard work to create the soccer field!

04/30/2024

Installed a Free Little Art Gallery over the weekend, that was made using materials and tools donated by neighbors in the Walnut Creek area 🫶

We made this because we believe that every neighborhood is full of talent, creativity, and unexpected treasures and we can’t wait to see what art comes out of our neighborhood!

Find out if there’s a Little Gallery near you at freelittleartgalleries.art