Getting Started

The Birmingham Neighborhood Platform is a civic operations tool for Birmingham, Alabama’s 99 neighborhood associations and 23 communities. It modernizes how those associations meet, communicate, run elections, and keep records — while preserving the Citizen Participation Plan framework that has governed the system since 1974.

You don’t need any technical background to use it. If you’re a resident who wants to participate in your neighborhood, an officer who needs to run a meeting, or a foundation board member managing donations, there’s a place here for you.

Create an account with either your email address or a Google sign-in. We send a verification link to confirm your email — click it once and you’re ready to go.

After signing in, claim your residency by entering your address. The platform matches it to one of the 99 neighborhood associations and notifies your NA admin so they can approve you as a voter.

You’ll see the rest of the platform open up as your role is approved. Officers and admins get additional tabs for meetings, documents, elections, and reports.

Turn on two-factor authentication from Settings → Security. It adds a second step to sign-in so even if someone gets your password they can’t get into your account.

You can also review every device that’s currently signed in under Settings → Active sessions, and sign out the ones you don’t recognize.