Serve together!
We are better together. That’s why the 1,000 Neighborhood Gatherings community campaign is back for 2025, as Colorado Springs continues to build a city of great neighbors and neighborhoods. A global study showed that knowing as few as six of your neighbors can decrease levels of social isolation and loneliness. This summer, we're encouraging you and your neighbors to get together to help keep our City beautiful and clean!
Ways to join the cleanup
Adopt a trail or waterway!
Do you love Colorado Springs’ amazing trails and waterways? Get your neighborhood together and help us care for our beautiful lands by being an active participant in our Adopt-A-Trail and Adopt-A-Waterway programs.
Join the Poop Patrol!
Help keep our waterways clean by becoming part of the Poop Patrol! You supply the people-power and we supply the tools! Here's how it works:
1. You pick a park, open space, trail, or waterway
2. We provide you with pet waste scoopers, five-gallon buckets, and bucket liners
3. You walk, scoop, and throw the pet waste away
You can volunteer for Poop Patrol as part of an Adopt-A-Waterway activity or as a separate activity. To learn more, fill out the interest form:
Nominate your neighborhood for a cleanup!
This program is run by the Code Enforcement Unit and focuses on bringing neighbors together to spruce up the neighborhood. It's a free program and only requires neighbors to volunteer and invest their time to organize and help with the cleanup.
Be entered to attend our Community Lunch!
As part of the City of Colorado Springs and Hey Neighbor's 1000 Neighborhood Gatherings initiative, we're planning a fun and delicious final gathering to celebrate community connection and to bring neighbors together by sharing a spectacular meal. We're partnering with Longer Tables, an organization dedicated to cultivating humanity through connection and belonging, and the creators of the "mile long table" event this July in Denver.
This year, all neighbors who register a gathering with the 1000 Neighborhood Gatherings initiative will be entered into a drawing to attend our Community Lunch on September 28 – National Good Neighbors Day. This special event will bring together community-builders across Colorado Springs to share stories, inspire one another, and celebrate the connections being formed in neighborhoods throughout our city.
Whether your gathering is big or small, we want to hear about it, so don't forget to register! Colorado Springs was rated the #1 Most Neighborly City for a reason, and we can't wait to hear about the connections you make, the relationships you build, and the change you create together.
