Community organizations in East Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the East Hillside neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
East Hillside has 5 community organizations, including nonprofits, nature centers 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 publishes the boundary definition this page uses and supports the Hillside Revitalization Plan.
Get involved: Partnership and community planning processes, including the Hillside Revitalization Plan.
Emergency shelter, housing, street outreach, a food shelf and congregational organizing across the central neighborhoods.
Get involved: Volunteering, donation, and congregational membership.
Environmental education and stewardship of Hartley Park, the 660-acre urban wilderness up the hill from the neighborhood.
Get involved: Programs, camps, and volunteer trail days.
Advocacy for Duluth's historic buildings and districts, including the late nineteenth and early twentieth century housing 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 running along the ridge directly above the neighborhood.
Get involved: Trail work nights, membership, group rides.
Community next door
West across Sixth or Seventh Avenue East, the other half of the Hillside: denser, cheaper, closer to downtown and the hospitals, and noisier.
Chester ParkEast across Chester Creek, the university-side hillside neighborhood with a much higher owner-occupancy share and higher prices.
East End / EndionBelow and east along the lake, historic housing with lake views at meaningfully higher prices.
Downtown DuluthAbout a mile downhill southwest, with the transit hub, the library, the theaters and most of the region's restaurants.
Congdon ParkEast along the hill, the city's benchmark historic neighborhood, at roughly three times the price.