A town’s human and civil rights and multicultural center seeks to address long deferred and necessary repairs as well as enhance areas around special exhibits. The improvements will ensure it continues to preserve, promote, and make the town’s history readily to current and future generations of residents and college students — and to use that history as an inspiration to those exposed to it.
A state park seeks assistance in maintaining 80+-year-old cabins within the park that are listed on the National Historic Registry. This project will supplement volunteer efforts from a Youth Conservation Corps project and a Cabin Work Week with staining, painting and making repairs to the cabins.
A theatre and cultural arts center seeks assistance in repairing its stage, so it can become a space truly usable for showcasing performing arts shows and events, making it the only venue of its kind in the community to do so. As a marquee building in the historic downtown, the improvements will further town revitalization efforts and help bring foot traffic back into the main part of town.
An arts center that supports artistic and cultural activities in its community seeks to repair a decaying facade, install safety exterior lighting and paint the exterior and interior of the building. The community suffered a major blow because of the July 2019 Gilroy Garlic shooting and never had the chance to recover before entering into the pandemic. Improving the center will help the community continue to promote and embrace the artwork created by residents.
As part of a broad-scale revitalization effort for the historic city of Pittston, including a goal to have more public art per square mile than any city in the country, city officials seek to complete an art academy, which will provide affordable work studios for artists as well as several classrooms for art instruction. The project will allow for long-term sustainable physical space and community programming opportunities for both accomplished and fledgling artists, and encourage inclusive, diverse community engagement.
A private nonprofit dedicated to archaeological research, historic preservation and public education seeks assistance in preserving and restoring its 1938 schoolhouse headquarters which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is the last of the historic Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Schoolhouses still standing in New Mexico., and the renovation will provide community residents and visitors with reminders of the building’s rich past and be a model for historic preservation.
A nature center that provides environmental, indigenous culture and nature education as well as interactive experiences for students of all ages and backgrounds seeks assistance in providing a needed upgrade and facelift to the center so it can continue to serve the community and celebrate the natural and cultural resources in the area.