A community-run center for occupational therapy and inclusive education nestled in nature seeks to complete its six-sided treehouse building so it can better serve the community. The center promotes the mental and physical well-being of youth and inclusion of people of all ages and abilities through holistic, hands-on educational programming.

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 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.

A community seeks assistance for a renovation project that will replace a deteriorated and unsafe plaza with an attractive and welcoming one, in hopes it will engender a more positive sense of the neighborhood and offer a community gathering space for residents and visitors to the area.

A YMCA seeks to renovate and upgrade its rundown and unsafe sports fields to make them safer and more accessible for the children and other community members who use them, so it can continue to run sports leagues, summer camps and other programs that are vital to the community.

A community organization seeks to revitalize a small rural community through a series of beautification and improvement initiatives. Focused on the downtown area, projects include turning a neglected park into an exercise yard for an animal hospital’s patients, repairing and prepping a wall that faces the town hall for a mural painting, refreshing painted trash cans and painting playground equipment in the children’s park. Each improvement will help make the downtown area a bit more vibrant.

A community health district seeks assistance in improving its community garden in a food desert, which will help fill a critical need for healthy and quality food access and education that will help residents to take charge of their health by understanding nutritional benefits of informed food choices. The garden will also strengthen community ties.

A lodge that offers cancer patients and their caregivers a free place to stay when their best hope for treatment requires traveling to the area seeks assistance in expanding and renovating its space, so that it can continue to offer its valuable services, providing a home away from home to the patients and families when they need it the most.

A community center wishes to finalize renovations of its building which was damaged during floods so that it can engage community members with programming and events and be a central piece in building a stronger community. The improvements to the building will ensure equitable access to community groups for many different types of events, and a permanent location for a much-needed senior center.

A town with no park is working to complete a Town Square park project that will serve as a place for children and adults alike to come together to play, relax and enjoy one another’s company. Centrally located in the town, the ADA-accessible park will be a gathering place for residents and a spot for a variety of community activities.