How You can Help RevitalizeDIP and Our Community

How You can Help RevitalizeDIP and Our Community

When we are asked “What can I do to help improve our south Mobile peninsula community?”, our first response is to help us pick up litter.

But that is not everything RevitalizeDIP volunteers can do to help our community.

When Yvette Young founded RevitalizeDIP in 2018, her primary focus was to reduce crime on our peninsula.

Her motivation to improve our community was extremely personal.

Yvette was on the phone with her mother when she heard gunfire that sounded very close to her mother’s residence.

The sound came from a neighborhood shooting. That was something she did not experience during her childhood on DIP before she left Mobile to become an FBI agent.

Yvette made a decision right then and there to take action by creating a community action group named RevitalizeDIP.

She contacted several friends who still lived in Mobile and organized a community meeting to discuss her plans with our community.

The response was almost overwhelming. Most of these meetings were packed with all chairs filled and the rest stood attentively.

During the first meeting and subsequent meetings, community group attendees brainstormed and decided RevitalizeDIP’s focus would be to reduce litter, crime and blight within our community.

• Reducing litter in similar communities resulted in beautiful neighborhoods and improved property values.
• Reducing crime obviously improves community values and make neighbors feel safe.
• Reducing blight definitely improves the appearance of neighborhoods as well as improving property values.

One of the first actions RevitalizeDIP volunteers took was to take photographs of property blight, discuss property improvements with the property owners and if no action was taken, report the property to the City of Mobile officials to see what they could do to reduce blight.

Ideas about reducing crime were discussed with the Mobile Police Department. These discussions resulted in police increasing area patrols and improving response times when crime reports were reported to MPD.

Sometime later, the 1st precinct of MPD moved to Dauphin Island Parkway.

Taking action on reducing litter was encouraged by partnering with other community action groups who already had litter cleanup campaigns scheduled and helping them with their litter abatement campaigns.

RevitalizeDIP began creating our own litter abatement campaigns as well as volunteer initiated litter pick ups.

So, when someone asks how they can help, we have several answers to their question:

1. Reduce Litter by initiating your own team to pick up litter along your street and elsewhere within our community.
   1. Take a look at our RevitalizeDIP Litter Cleanups Map and decide where you want to pick up litter.
   2. Then post the following information on our Facebook members only group. Or, email your information to us at RevitalizeDIP@gmail.com so we can earn funds from Love Your Community.
      1. Location
      2. Date
      3. Team Member Names
      4. How long did you pick up litter
      5. Photos of the bags of litter you collected
      6. 
2. Reduce Crime by calling 911 and reporting the crime to the Mobile Police Department.
   1. Posting crime information on social media networks such as Facebook and Nextdoor does not always get MPD’s attention.
3. Reduce Blight by calling 311 to report your environmental concerns. Or, go to the City of Mobile’s website to report the situation.
   1. Improve the appearance of your own property with landscaping, home repairs and painting.
4. Join RevitalizeDIP’s members only Facebook Group to get involved with our members, offer your ideas and to keep up with future activities.
   1. Attend RevitalizeDIP’s Festival and Car Show in December.
   2. Sponsor RevitalizeDIP’s Festival and Car Show.
   3. Be a Vender at RevitalizeDIP’s Festival in December.
   4. Show off your car or truck at RevitalizeDIP’s Festival and Car Show.
   5. Join other community action groups that are active in our area.
5. Support RevitalizeDIP‘s efforts by donating funds for our community activities.
   1. Mail your tax deductible check to RevitalizeDIP, Post Office Box 50844, Mobile AL 36605.
6. Volunteer your time to participate in RevitalizeDIP activities.
   1. Group Litter Abatements
   2. Encouraging others to join RevitalizeDIP community improvement activities.
   3. Invite civic organizations to participate in service projects with RevitalizeDIP.
   4. Sharing RevitalizeDIP.org pages and posts by clicking on the share buttons on our website.

RevitalizeDIP is looking forward to you joining in on our activities to improve our south Mobile peninsula community!

RevitalizeDIP encourages everyone in our community to take pride in our south Mobile peninsula area.

We are looking forward to hearing your comments and seeing increased participation in revitalizing our community to its fullest potential.

RevitalizeDIP encourages you to volunteer your time to help us reduce litter, crime and blight from our South Mobile community.

Please contact RevitalizeDIP@gmail.com with your ideas on how we can improve our community together.

If you are not a member of RevitalizeDIP’s Facebook Group, please join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2025513674365210.