Another is organizing a block watch.
"One investor asked me: Is there a war in Holland or did the Communists take over the country?" said Frans Faas, an investor advocate in the Netherlands who is organizing a block of bondholders to challenge the decision in the Dutch courts.
Concerned about the young men loitering at the end of their street, Mr. Brown and Ms. Lee-Sebastian, next-door neighbors, decided to take the advice of the police and organize a block club with other residents of the 8100 and 8200 blocks of South Winchester Avenue.
He had come to Brooklyn to organize a block party, held on Monday night in front of the factory, to kick off the national distribution of his Mammarella line, which includes pasta sauces and olive oil and until recently was not sold on the East Coast.
The next thing I knew I got in touch with one of my wonderful neighbors, Jody, and we and her kids went door to door and up and down our street organizing a block party.
Join a group, do volunteer work, organize a block party and get to know your neighbors.
People like Lester and Susan Fenner, who, in 2006, helped me organize a block-wide sidewalk sale, only to see it blossom into an annual and much cherished tradition in our development.
And Unified New Cassel has organized a program of block captains, who do things such as clean up litter around the neighborhood.
After the decision was announced Thursday, John Stemberger, an evangelical leader from Florida who organized a campaign to block the change, said that like-minded groups and parents would meet next month in Louisville, Ky., to discuss creating what he called a new "character development organization for boys," an alternative to scouting.
In 1961, AMA organized a campaign to block Medicare.
