Since 1957, ARCA has provided opportunities for individuals with intellectual, developmental and cognitive disabilities to enjoy great lives. ARCA's project would provide accessible bathrooms, improved and shaded outdoor areas as well as needed kitchen upgrades. ARCA is the only provider in New Mexico offering community based, post acute services for adults with an acquired brain injury.
The Covenant House works to provide compassionate, sustainable services and shelter to homeless or at-risk youth in Alaska. Repairs and upgrades are needed in all residents' rooms and common hallways. Their project also includes replacing mattresses, repairing and repainting two stairwells, door frames, closets and bathrooms. All the carpet and old flooring in the basement lounge will be replaced with durable hardwood floors.
Hope Haven in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a Therapeutic Community that provides a foundation of recovery for individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder, so they can build healthy independent lives. The organization currently occupies a former Holiday Inn Complex built in the 1960s.
Lowernine.org is dedicated to the long-term recovery of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. To further its mission and enhance its capacity, lowernine.org is building a sustainable work-live headquarters in the L9W. The first floor will provide workspace, multi-functional education, gathering and community spaces for lowernine.org, partner nonprofits, and community members. The upper two levels will provide year-round, well-equipped, modern housing where visiting volunteers can live safely and comfortably, receive good meals and medical care, and experience a sense of community.
This project from the Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury includes the building of a pergola and the commission of a mural for its shipping container shed to attract people into the space to connect, network, uplift the blighted neighborhood, garden, practice mindfulness and yoga, meditate and enjoy their community in a safe, sheltered space.
Outside In works to break the cycles of chronic homelessness, poverty and poor health among Portland’s LGBTQIA+ community, people of color, those experiencing homelessness and the underserved. With this project, Outside In hopes to renovate its Transitional Housing Program (THP) community housing units, including painting, replacing carpet with vinyl flooring, deep cleaning all housing units and hallways, adding new furniture and upgrading appliances.
Parity Baltimore is an equitable development company that acquires and rehabilitates abandoned properties by the block to create affordable home ownership opportunities. Their project entails renovating a vacant building to create permanent affordable housing for existing community members. The property is currently established as a three-unit building.
Roof Above would like to add an outdoor gathering space at its brand new permanent supportive housing community, which will provide housing for 88 people who have experienced chronic homelessness. This grant would allow Roof Above to transform the space's old pool area, which had previously been filled in, into an outdoor gathering space for both informal and formal community-building activities.
The Ronald McDonald House seeks to repair, improve and renovate the exterior of the Sid Katz House, which supports families facing the struggle of a child battling a terminal illness or life-threatening injury. The House ensures families can be close to their ill child without having to choose between being separated or incurring hotel and other expenses they can’t afford. This project would renovate and repair three outdoor spaces and an exterior entrance to the home.