Four national partners are convening the initiative and facilitating aspects of the work: the United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada, Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement, the National Film Board of Canada and the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. [...] Over the course of 14 months, the initiative established the infrastructure needed to support its work, followed a complete cycle in the revitalization process (from neighbourhood selection through resident engagement, vision building and initial actions) and explored the implications for the policies and procedures of government, as well as for other structures wishing to support neighbourhood in [...] In the case of ANC, partners entered the process with a base of common ideas about the challenge to be addressed and approach to be pursued. [...] The choice of neighbourhoods to participate in ANC depended more on an appreciation of the dynamics of the neighbourhoods and especially the extent to which local organizations and residents were attracted to the opportunity presented by ANC, and poised to tackle existing challenges. [...] In the early stages of the initiative, careful attention to language was required to ensure effective communication – both the substance of the messages and the directness with which they were conveyed.