The Aberdeen Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry has a project with multiple critical repairs and improvements, including a parking lot revamp to improve accessibility, fresh paint on the exterior of the building, replacement gutter system, new pallet fence, addition of cyclone fence around secured back area, replaced glass entry door, renovated Client Intake Area and Office Area, the addition of metal sheets to the back warehouse area and additional lighting.
A Pocket Full of Hope Community Center gives youth the opportunity to empower themselves in a non-threatening, participatory and inclusive atmosphere using music, theatre, dance videography and photography. The center has several building improvement needs, including flooring for multiple rooms (i.e., restrooms, kitchen, administrative offices and historical reflection and conference rooms), and a need for baseboards, sinks and vanities.
Aunti Na's Village is a community development organization that purchases abandoned homes and vacant lots, then transforms them into vibrant community centers, complete with outreach programs. The organizations seeks to gut and renovate its Nutrition House, which supports the organizations food-related programming.
The Black Rock Riverside Alliance (BRRAlliance) is committed to the overall betterment of the Black Rock, Riverside, Grant-Amherst, and West Hertel communities of Buffalo, New York. For this project, they would like to create a performance space that would be local, open and free to the public, offering an underserved community the opportunity to enjoy no-cost entertainment in a beautiful, healthy, outdoor environment.
Cazenovia Recovery is a residential substance use center which wants to update communal living spaces in both the upstairs and downstairs apartments including kitchens, bathrooms, living and dining rooms.
The Cushings Senior Citizen Center would like to update their old building with interior paint, carpet removal and flooring installation.
Housing Plus Solutions seeks to create an ADA-compliant community space. The project would include replacing an outdoor stairway with a handicap-accessible ramp, replacing windows, enhancing the landscape, adding plants to obscure a damaged metal fence bordering the property, providing shade, building a community garden and creating bicycle and scooter parking.
The Humane Society of West Michigan would like to improve access to its HELP program for low/no income pet owners who cannot afford emergent care for their animals, and speed recovery and adoption for sick animals surrendered each year. The project entails remodeling a room where animals can stay, providing better care for those animals in more appropriately sized housing. A remodeled space would allow staff to clean and work in the area more efficiently, and reduced traffic for sick animals will shorten recovery times.
This Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club has a project that would entail mulching its playground area, adding new picnic tables and a new slide to replace a damaged one, as well as replacing a missing section of its fence to enclose the entire playground.
A community center that provides a broad range of vital services including a food pantry, baby pantry, women’s pantry, senior’s pantry, a special needs program for autistic children and a monthly community health and wellness fair with free medical services has seen a surge of residents needing support. The center wishes to repair and renovate its aging, damaged space so it can increase the number of people it’s able to serve.