MNA’s mission is to improve the neighborhood through citizen involvement and participation utilizing all appropriate means including:

• Foreseeing and calling attention to emerging trends and problems before they reach crisis proportions.
• Serving as the neighborhood’s voice for those policies and programs that improve the health, safety and well being of the neighborhood, for both its residents and the community as a whole;
• Providing means for widespread study and discussion of all pertinent issues and questions.
• Educating citizens, members and non-members, in the processes, problems and potentials relating to the neighborhood’s development and the importance of preserving the neighborhoods rich history going back over 150 years.
• Fostering neighborhood interest and participation in community issues.
• Generating and sustaining a spirit of neighborhood and community among area residents.
• Recognizing the special relationship between the Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center and MNA and encouraging participation and financial support of the important programs the Center provides, including after school programs, food pantry, health classes, and educational programs.