Current NeighborLink Stats - Year to Date

Incarnate is coming up this Friday and I’ve been hard at work pulling together my portion of the event. I’ve been working on handouts, final event details and analyzing a year’s worth of website activity. 

Last night I pulled the website’s activity and wanted to share that with you. We don’t put a ton of weight in worrying about numbers at NeighborLink, but we obviously can’t ignore them as we try to measure our effectiveness. In a meeting with the Housing Department of the City of Fort Wayne last week, they were discussing the fact that they have been doing a lot of researching over the past several months and have not gotten a lot of information on what hasn’t been accomplished. Most agencies that are availing their reports are only keeping track of what they’re doing, not what they’re not getting to. It’s kind of hard knowing if we’re making a difference if we don’t know the difference between the need and what we’re able to get to. 

Luckily, NL has all of that built in.

Here is a zip code map of the City of FW and the statistics that go with them. Geography plays a big role at NL as we encourage volunteer sustainability(proximity) and try to illustrate to our churches that need is everywhere, not just isolated areas. 

It’s been a pretty remarkable year to date. It’s good to know God is working through so many volunteers and pushing them to serve one another. All of the completed projects are self selected, organized and completed by our coaches and volunteers. It’s not me planning them and people just showing up. When you take that as a factor, the numbers are humbling. 

Hope we can keep this type of activity up as I know our volunteers are providing more than home repairs. They provide a sense of hope to folks that are in a time of need.