An organization that provides free home painting to low-income families wishes to paint as many houses as possible during an annual community event in August. The event, which unites hundreds of volunteers and brings people together not just to paint homes, but to uplift the community, is seeking paint and other supplies so the event’s volunteers have everything they need to do their valuable work.
A private nonprofit that provides educational, recreational, and social service opportunities to neighborhood residents seeks assistance in developing a village of tiny, energy-efficient homes to house those in need, with a specific focus on establishing a tool lending library stocked with tools and resources for members of the neighborhood to use to maintain or improve their homes, gardens or yards. Area Lowe’s stores helped kick start the program by building the first two homes in the village.
A low-income housing organization seeks to build a tiny home village that could temporarily house up to 50 residents at a time, helping get homeless people off the ground by providing them with a transitional space that is warm, safe, dry and healthy.
An organization that provides women with holistic trauma-informed and gender-specific care has purchased a new space that will allow it to expand its existing programming aimed to address and decrease the high rate of reincarceration for women after release from prison. The organization seeks assistance in completing expansion of its space to strengthen its offerings to women in need, especially women with mental health and substance abuse illness.
A Habitat for Humanity chapter is hosting an event on September 11 as a day of service and remembrance to honor 9/11’s first responders, veterans, their families and those who went into service because of what happened on that day 20 years ago. The chapter wishes to repair and modify the homes of veterans, first responders and their families, with the goal of helping keep them in place in their homes, preventing displacement and potential homelessness among those who have served our country.
A county council on aging that promotes independent living and wellness for those aged 60 and older seeks to repair and rehabilitate homes in need of critical home health and safety modifications for low-income senior homeowners as well as create a fun outdoor bocce ball court for the senior center clientele.
BlockWork is a grass-roots program developed in 2010 that strives to bring residents and community volunteers together to build cleaner and safer neighborhoods, one block at a time. Working together with property owners, residents, city staff and other support groups, participants help to stop the deterioration of a block of homes each year by painting, landscaping, and revitalizing the area. It serves the residents of the chosen block who don't have the funds or the skills to fix the problems themselves.