We want to attract purple martins by hanging gourd houses.
Upgrade Cherokee Park backboards to fiberglass arena-styled backboards.
High-visibility crosswalks at the Poplar-Tucker intersection will create safe crossing conditions for transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists at this busy intersection and encourage various modes of transportation.
Provide bike workstations, schedule info, and structural improvements to Memphis-area transit stops, creating a more flexible and accessible transportation system.
Help us raise funds to provide a safe and comfortable space in our community where people can be exposed to local art, wait for the bus, find neighborhood information & connect with one another.
B.U.S. Miami (Building United Spaces) in Miami, is an energy efficient, modular bus shelter.
I would like to use chess as a tool to provide our youth with critical thinking skills, cognitive reasoning which will allow them to refrain from impulsive behavior that will lead to poor decisions in life.
Our goal is for the voice of the people, of lawful dissent, to be heard at the RNC. These voices should be free of any unconstitutional restrictions imposed on them by the government.
This project engages diverse community members in conversation on race while creating a community mural.
ATNSC exists to gather and nurture community healing, creativity and leadership programming in service of birthing individual and community capacity. We curate culturally relevant healing arts and leadership programming.
Raising funds for aerators for Garden Lakes Duck Pond to provide oxygen to the pond while also displacing algae. Algae creates an unsightly vista as well as an unhealthy atmosphere for living organisms in the pond.
Your $25 donation helps provide transporation for our first fellow Richardson Louissant to attend four medation and mindfulness retreats where he will learn the wisdom of practice to share with his fellow peers.
Mi Jardin is a Transit Oriented Pedestrian Plaza with three bus shelters meant to serve and celebrate the community’s identity through innovative and sustainable landscape and architectural design.
The film will follow Mr. Lakeman and four other participants in the 2016 Village Building Convergence.
Please help the Sweet Beet Farm Stand improve! With your help, we can start making little changes to our operations that will have lasting effects on our local food community!
For my part, I know nothing with certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
Our artist has completed 90’ and has been paid $34,000 of the total $52,500 cost. He plans to complete the work this summer with a start date of June 22nd.
Our goal is for the voice of the people, of lawful dissent, to be heard at the RNC. These voices should be free of any unconstitutional restrictions imposed on them by the government.
We are recycling communal knowledge, resources and wealth. We encourage youth and adults to get involved from June - August; not just as participants, but as facilitators as well.
BFAP aims to reclaim and improve N Williams District Beech-Failing Alley with special focus on placemaking, pedestrian benefit, and environmental stewardship, while advocating for effective relative policy citywide.
Our goal is to raise awareness and build support around the state of human rights for girls in Detroit and the metro area, and globally.
Our mission is to provide Free, Accessable, and Accredited CPR training to those who might not otherwise recieve it.
University Settlement aims to provide 1,000 school uniforms to students in Broadway-Slavic Village's five neighborhood schools: Mound STEM, Fullerton, Miles Park, Willow, and Warner Girls Leadership Academy.
Playing to learn, and learning for life! Creating a holistic, research-based early-childhood educational option for the children of our neighborhood.
We will present the findings of our research (conducted for six months as of the start of this campaign) and include interviews with community members whose work deals with hunger and poverty in the Cleveland area.
Mural and beautification project on Goss Avenue in Germantown & Schnitzelburg that will depict the history of the neighborhoods, as well as add pedestrian improvements to the streetscape.
A Climate to Thrive's goal is energy independence by 2030. Read more at www.aclimatetothrive.org.
Help the Waterfront Alliance re-introduce New Yorkers to the water through our Neighborhood Docks program with activities like water quality testing, children’s art projects, live music, or themed boat rides.
The Richmond Tool Library will lend free building and landscaping tools to provide residents with opportunities to be self-sufficient, to take agency over their neighborhoods, and to build a more sustainable Richmond, CA
YELL seeks to empower our youth through the principles of leadership, organization, and civic engagement. We believe that every child should be aware of their ability to engage issues that they are passionate about.
A series of storytelling walks across the city of Detroit to support Detroiters telling the stories of their neighborhoods on their own terms during the first weekend in May.
We will create bike maintenace videos in our native languages and design a hands-on workshop for presentation at the Youth Bike Summit for native English speakers to experience learning a skill in a new language.
To show case socially conscious artists who have sown the seeds of peace, justice, and equality in our own backyards and employ youth leadership in generating meaningful engagement for the communtiy.
Summer at the Farm 2016 consists of the Wee Art School Series and an exhibition. We hope to present people with innovative opportunities to engage with the arts in a new context.
El Puente Cycling Club will lead the design and painting of a community mural. The mural, Bike the Change You Want to See, will depict the collective power of youth cyclists.
Together we can build a better economy, invest in liberation through cooperation.
The McLemore Rembert Block Club will start a tool lending library, organize a community clean up and host a neighborhood block party.
This project would create two new beds of flowers in the front of Central (THE) High School, replace schrubs along the base of the building.
This summer the Carpenter Art Garden will collaborate with Binghampton residents to make a mosaic sculture garden.
Overton Park Conservancy will implement safety surface improvements in the East Parkway Playground in Overton Park, providing our young park stakeholders with safe opportunities for play and recreation.
Teach children in an urban environment, the importance of pollinators and help increase the worldwide decreasing pollinator populations by building a pollinator garden on our school grounds.
The current living space will be gutted, new sheet rock and large windows will be installed to form a bedroom suite and the bathroom will be moved and daylighted.
This summer Project Backboard's goal is to add lines and art enhancements to 18 courts in 13 public parks across Memphis so everyone will have access to a basketball court with free throw and 3 point lines.
Our goal is to feed 18 low-income families fresh, local vegetables through our CSA program!
The Challenge Grant invites communities to re-imagine their streets as vibrant public spaces. We partner with local groups to demonstrate improvements to their local streets, from parklets to plazas.
Hike the Heights is a community event that links 2000+ residents to the parks in No. Manhattan. This year, we invite the Bronx residents to celebrate with us by crossing over the highbridge to 'Be Our Guest'.
Through a generous 1:2 match by the Turley Family Foundation, Leadership Memphis plans to raise $77,285 and take 750+ Shelby County high school students on college and career tours.
TreesLouisville will move a 35 year old climbing tree (a Contorted European Beech) to Maupin Elementary's Early Childhood Development Center.
