Altagether

Neighborhood Captains serve as liaisons for their micro-neighborhoods, connecting with approximately 40 nearby households. As representatives and acting as a communication hub, they:

• Check in with neighbors, listen, and empathize
• Help find answers to questions and connect households with resources
• Lead collective recovery efforts
• Ensure every resident is checked in on

Neighborhood Captains each organize in their own way, but here are some key responsibilities:

• Build and maintain connections between neighbors.
• Listen to their needs and concerns, and help ensure their voices are heard.
• Ensure your most vulnerable neighbors are supported.
• Serve as a communication hub for information and resources.
• Help neighbors navigate recovery challenges together.
• Coordinate things like group purchasing or shared services.
• Be available for neighbors to find you—we list your name and contact info on our map.

Each neighborhood can decide how best to stay connected—whether through in-person meetups, text groups, or standing virtual communication—based on the Captain's capacity and the neighborhood's needs.

Neighborhood Captains will:

• Designate their own map of neighbors who they would like to be the liaison for
• Attend a virtual, 1-hour onboarding to be trained in the process
• Attend a virtual, 1-hour check-in meeting every other week with other Captains to share resources and updates.
• Participate in a communication network to collaborate and stay informed with other captains

Absolutely! Many Neighborhood Captains are themselves displaced by the Eaton Fire. Your firsthand experience navigating displacement can be incredibly valuable to others in similar situations. You can still connect with and support neighbors from your area, even if you're temporarily living elsewhere. In fact, maintaining those connections while displaced can be especially meaningful for both you and your neighbors.

Yes please! Renters are vital members of our community and are encouraged to become Neighborhood Captains. Recovery affects everyone in the area, regardless of whether you own or rent. Your perspective and connections as a renter bring important diversity to our network of Captains.

Absolutely! In fact we strongly encourage having multiple Captains in each zone to share the work load, specialize based on their specific interests, skills, passions, and social connections.

We love that! We would be happy to support any existing networks or if you all are fine on your own, please just let us know what region you represent so we don't duplicate efforts. We would also love to learn from you about what has been working. Additionally, we can help you find any neighbors that might have been left off your list so far. Just reach out to us at info@altagether.org.

We take a trauma-informed approach to organizing and never want you to take on more than you can handle. Our basic structure includes:

• A one-hour virtual onboarding session
• Bi-weekly one-hour meetings with other Captains (optional but valuable)
• Time connecting with your neighbors (flexible based on your own bandwidth)
• Time spent with working groups (optional and up to each group to decide)

• Onboarding training and ongoing support.
• Contact info for people in your zone (names, addresses and phone numbers.)
• Regular check-in meetings with other captains.
• Access to various working groups focused on specific issues.
• Access to an online network (on Discord) for ongoing collaboration.
• A growing library of resources to help with outreach and organizing.