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over Go Oak Cliff. Their new mission is to turn the organization into an all-volunteer nonprofit.

Andrew Snow, who moved to Oak Cliff around 2013, is the new Go Oak Cliff’s point person.

“These events need to be by the neighborhood, for the neighborhood,” Snow says. “My job is to get this into a sustainable order so that it can be handed off to leader after leader.”

They set up a board of directors and appointed neighbors to chair each of Go Oak Cliff’s events. And they’re “reverse engineering a playbook” by gleaning the information that’s in Cowan’s head.

Cowan originally set up the organization as a for-profit corporation, although she says she never made much money from it, because it was the easiest way to get things done.

As a nonprofit, the events will be run entirely by volunteers, and any money earned will go back into future events or donated to neighborhood schools.

The idea is that people who love neighborhood events can become involved as volunteers and then possibly join the board or chair an event.

Go Oak Cliff festivals will not be exactly the same as they have in the past. But they’re not going away.

With thousands of new apartments under construction in our neighborhood, we are primed for a little population boom. Snow thinks Go Oak Cliff festivals will help preserve the neighborhood identity while adding economic value.

“With these events being homegrown and owned by the neighborhood itself, it’s the neighborhood saying, ‘We want a parade. We want a barbecue festival,’ ” he says. “We have a special identity that we’re proud of. I’m not here to define that identity. But it’s special. And it will help us preserve the identity that we love.”

Get involved with Go Oak Cliff at gooakcliff.org.