NWS Asset Map highlight: Havenwoods Neighborhood Partnership
By Ryeshia Farmer
In 2023, The African American Roundtable (AART) collaborated with UBUNTU Research and Evaluation to apply abundant mindsets and our visions for a thriving Northwest Side to identify businesses, groups, and service providers, whose work residents believed kept them safe. In 2024, we published over 150 of these findings on the Northwest Side Asset Map, which included 34% service providers, 18% educational institutions/youth learning programs, 16% transportation services, and much more!
At the launch celebration, residents defined the map as an informative, resourceful, and necessary inventory for promoting community economics and connections. That same year, we activated more residents, who added 30 more assets to the map and began editing existing map entries. Check this video for more thoughts from community members.
AART is committed to the sustainability of the map, all of the learnings along the way, and the map’s continued utility. Honoring this commitment, AART will occasionally highlight assets from the map. This time, we’re highlighting the Havenwoods Neighborhood Partnership (HNP)! HNP engages residents, businesses, and government to increase prosperity within our community. They offer paid street keeper roles for residents, homeownership programs, and other platforms for economic development. They even showed up with us and many other community organizations at Alderwoman Larresa Taylor's press conference about the ICE office that's moving to Aldermanic District 9 from downtown Milwaukee!
Katlin Hahn, HNP’s Director of Operations, said “Our emphasis on 'partnerships' is what makes our work stand out. HNP deeply values collaboration, and we work diligently to tackle issues with residents, businesses, and non-profit organizations all coming together to be a solution-oriented and thriving community.”
Check out HNP on Facebook, Instagram, and the Northwest Side Asset Map. Then, consider these reflection questions alongside their highlight:
How could you, or someone you know, support or use this asset? When will you check them out?
How does this asset contribute to community safety? AART refers to “community safety” as community members keeping each other safe through building and maintaining relationships and helping to meet one another’s needs in order to prevent harm, exist among each other, solve problems, and thrive.
Ryeshia Farmer serves as Community Program Manager for the African American Roundtable.
