Join a local community or neighborhood group or start your own! Yahoo & Google groups are a great resource for keeping up with the neighbors, planning a block party or finding people with like interests.

Already have a group and want to list it or need help starting-up a group? Email Chelle.

Neighborhood Groups:

• 500 Block of Evelyn
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/500EvelynNW/ 
  This is a Neighborhood Watch group for the 500 Block of Evelyn.
• Talbot Avenue Community Group
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/talbotave/
• 800 Block of Evelyn Avenue
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Evelyn_Avenue_800/
• Ordway Street: Covering roughly a block or two any direction from Ordway and Posen
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrdwayStreet/
• 800 block of Cerrito Street
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerritoalbany800/
• 900 Block of Ramona
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ramona900sNeighbors/ 
  This group is set up as an invitation site, so anyone who is interested can email Susie Barnes at barnesbs@pacbell.net to join.
• 900 Block of Madison: Neighbors in touch with neighbors
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/madison900/
• Gateview Residents
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gatechat/
• Jackson/Hillside: 600 Jackson and 900 Hillside
  

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/jacksonhillside/info

Community Groups:

• Follow the Albany Recreation & Community Service Department on Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlbanyRecDept
• Albany Patch: http://albany.patch.com/
  What is Patch? Simply put, Patch is a new way to find out about, and participate in, what’s going on near you. Patch is a community-specific news and information platform dedicated to providing comprehensive and trusted local coverage for individual towns and communities. Albany Patch makes it easy to: Keep up with news and events, look at photos and videos from around town, learn about local businesses, participate in discussions and submit your own announcements, photos, and reviews.
  Albany Patch is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/AlbanyPatch and Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/AlbanyPatch
• Forage Albany
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ForageAlbany/ 
  Let’s make an edible map of Albany, glean unharvested fruit, meet our neighbors, gather and redistribute fruit that would otherwise be wasted, share and trade our truly locally grown food, and become more self-sustaining in meeting our food needs.
• Follow Tony the Tree Man (City of Albany's Urban Forester) on Twitter: www.twitter.com/TreeMan_Tony or on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/treeman_tony
• Albany City Share
  http://groups.google.com/group/albany-city-share 
  Albany neighbors who would like to share, give, loan or borrow. Feel free to list stuff, rides, gardens, fruits/veggies, skills, tools, community building ideas, anything you have to share with your fellow neighbors.
• Albany Community Discussion Group
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Albany-CA/
  A community discussion group for the residents of Albany, CA. Postings of events and all items of interest to the citizens of Albany are welcome.
• Albany Strollers & Rollers
  http://albanystrollroll.org
  http://lists.ebbc.org (Email lists) 
  We are a group dedicated to human-scale transit advocacy in the City of Albany.
• Carbon Neutral Albany
  http://carbon0albany.org 
  http://lists.carbon0albany.org/listinfo.cgi/cap-carbon0albany.org
  Carbon Neutral Albany is a group of Albany community members that are committed to reducing Albany’s carbon (or greenhouse gas) emissions.
• Transition Albany
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transitionalbany/
  Join a conversation and diverse events aimed at helping our city make a smooth and creative transition to a lifestyle using much less oil.
• Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley (Email List)
  uucb-families@googlegroups.com
  Announcements for our progressive religious education, sexuality education programs, family social events, family retreats, Saturday evening childcare exchange, parent support groups and parenting resources.