There's a peaceful kind of magic at 6:30 a.m. biking around Colorado Springs. I set out on Wednesday, June 24th, to join hundreds of neighbors for Bike to Work Day, my favorite day of the year! It is a citywide tradition that trades four wheels for two, even if just for one morning.

This month, we’re spotlighting someone who’s a great friend to both two-legged and four-legged neighbors alike. Anna Lambacher!

My first Table as a Hey Neighbor Community Coordinator was nothing short of neighborly. Although I didn’t know anyone in attendance, I immediately felt welcome by our host, Renee, whom I had never met before, along with her friends and neighbors.

Summer is the best time to be outside and to gather with people in the open air. It’s one of the reasons so many people have signed up to host an event with 150 Tables Across COS. When the setting is outdoors there’s no limit to where and how many can gather.

Jenn of Buzzy Bee organized the yearly Bee-Yond Family Fun Event and registered it as a 150 Tables Gathering. Check out their website for many more upcoming gatherings and free crafts to do with the kids in your life!

Hey Neighbor was highlighted agin for its push to connect the community through its facilitation of 150 Tables Across COS! This time we were highlighted in Springs Magazine.

We all know how it feels to have people show up when we organize something. It’s validating, supportive, encouraging, and fun. Participation is 90% of community building, and when we asked the Hey Neighbor Neighborhood Leaders to come out for a potluck at Mid Shooks Run park with us, they showed up.

We’re 5 planting parties in, and the Stratton Meadows neighborhood is starting to transform into an edible, beautiful, and water-wise oasis.

Dawn Marie Barrows a Hey Neighbor Neighborhood Leader and founder of Chore Champs, she sat down with Johnny Levy on the Faces of COS Podcast.

“Explore the spirit behind “Hey Neighbor,” a movement reshaping how our community connects, collaborates, and cares for one another.

28 graduates. 23 Colorado Springs neighborhoods were represented. Residents of all 6 city districts in attendance. 

These are the stats for the Spring 2026 Neighborhood University, which wrapped up with a rousing graduation celebration on Wednesday, May 20.

Sue Sindler has lived in the same house in the Roswell neighborhood for 36 years, and she's never remembered a time when the area has felt so active and alive. What started the awakening? A neighborhood clean-up and dumpster, organized by Karen George several summers ago, that led to the formation of a Neighborhood Watch program, that just kept leading to more and more events. Sean Lohman was one of the neighbors who hopped on the train and started helping Karen organize. 

CENTRAL SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) Two neighbors named Matt who had lived on the same block for more than 20 years met for the first time Saturday at a block party in Middle Shooks Run. By the end of the afternoon, they had exchanged numbers and were already talking about borrowing tools and sharing craft beer.

On the sunny morning of Saturday, May 2^nd, residents in the Roswell neighborhood gathered for a 1.6 mile historic walk around sites that have shaped the community, led by residents Sean Lohman and Karen George.

A story from Weave: The Social Fabric Project  featuring the work of of our own Hey Neighbor’s Executive Director Kelly Bull!

On a sunny Saturday in Meadows Park, 17 neighbors gathered for the second annual Stratton Meadows Cornhole Tournament, hosted by Hey Neighbor's Executive Director Kelly Bull and her neighbor Nikki Fetterhoff.

It started with a simple idea: help District 1 Neighborhood Leaders get to know their City Council representative and show that connecting with elected officials can be approachable, local, and centered on real conversation.

Week 8 of Neighborhood University brought an important and timely focus: public safety. But rather than a one-way presentation, the evening felt more like an open conversation where curiosity, concern, and connection all had a place.

For the second year in a row, Hey Neighbor screened the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Join or Die, a film about America’s decades-long decline in community connections.

On Thursday, April 9, 2026, Neighborhood University and alumnus Dave Vaillencourt put his NU experiences to work as the moderator for a Council District 3 Town Hall, held at The Sluice, a community venue in Old Colorado City.