Community organizations in Central Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Central Hillside neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Central Hillside has 6 community organizations, including nonprofits and recreation nonprofits. Where an organization has its own record in the guide, its name links through to it.
Convene partners and direct resources into two designated focus areas, the Hillside and Lincoln Park, working on housing, opportunity and an eleven-year life expectancy disparity across Duluth neighborhoods. It supports the Hillside Revitalization Plan and publishes the boundary definition this page uses.
Get involved: Partnership and community planning processes, including the Hillside Revitalization Plan.
Emergency shelter, housing, street outreach, a food shelf and congregational organizing, describing itself as people of faith providing basic necessities and organizing for a just and compassionate community.
Get involved: Volunteering, donation, and congregational membership.
Welcomes people in need and serves them without judgment, running the largest emergency meal program in northeastern Minnesota and the largest free store in Duluth.
Get involved: Volunteering in the community kitchen and free store, and donation.
Fostering racial justice through education, reconciliation and healing, and stewarding the public memorial at East 1st Street and North 2nd Avenue East.
Get involved: Memorial tours, Juneteenth events, scholarship and driver education programs, and volunteering.
Advocacy for Duluth's historic buildings and districts, including the late nineteenth and early twentieth century stock that makes up most of this neighborhood.
Get involved: Membership, building tours, and advocacy on demolition and reuse decisions.
Builds and maintains Duluth's mountain bike network, including the Duluth Traverse and the Enger trail center on the ridge directly above the neighborhood.
Get involved: Trail work nights, membership, group rides.
Community next door
Directly below, a four-minute drive or a walkable downhill, with the transit hub, the library, the theaters and most of the restaurants.
Lincoln ParkWest across Mesaba Avenue, the Craft District, at a comparable price with breweries and a creek gorge instead of a hospital district.
East End / EndionEast along the lake, historic housing with lake views at meaningfully higher prices.
Canal ParkDownhill and across the freeway, the lakefront tourism district with the region's flat-ground condominium market.