A zoo seeks to enhance and refresh an area filled with animals and hands-on learning activities, dedicated to educating children and their families about the animals themselves, and on the importance of nature conservation. The project will help fulfill the zoo’s mission of connecting children and families with nature and animals.
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.
An elementary school is seeking help with a revitalization and beautification project—including an inspirational large-scale mural and shade structures for outdoor learning—that will help ensure the school campus is safer, cleaner, and more accessible for its students, the majority of whom live below the poverty line.
An organization that helps improve the quality of life for the disabled by partnering them with specially trained service dogs seeks to renovate its restroom facilities to be accessible to clients with disabilities, specifically making larger stalls that will allow both client and service dog to comfortably fit into them simultaneously.
A rural community wishes to build an inclusive and fully accessible playground for children with disabilities. A playground where children with physical, visual, and sensory needs can play alongside their peers, no matter their ability level or age. it will be the only playground of its type in the community, filling a void and providing families a fun place to bring their children to play with siblings and friends.
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.
An emergency services center that serves more than 26,000 people per year needs renovations. The center provides emergency services to men, women and children facing unmet basic needs and emergency situations as well as affordable housing solutions for the homeless. As a food, clothing, diaper and household items distribution center and mail drop location for the homeless, the improvements will help the center to continue to address the critical needs of the community.
A grassroots, community-run youth center dedicated to empowering the lives of children and their families seeks assistance in renovating and repairing its space so it can continue to combat poverty through a wide range of programs and resources focused on education, mentorship, health, career and life-skills services. The center also plays a pivotal role in helping seniors and families get medication and health services they cannot afford.
A community center seeks to renovate its dated and poor functioning kitchen so it can better provide food services for those in need, including seniors and disabled individuals. The project will allow the center to have a more professional, efficient, and sanitary kitchen — including a teaching kitchen — from which to launch new free and fee-for-service programs that will enrich the community and bring nutrition and wellness, education, social interaction, and fun to the world of food and nutrition.
A youth boxing program that helps get youths off the streets and into the boxing ring to help them let out their frustrations, gain discipline and build a sense of responsibility seeks assistance in completing construction on its new location so it can open its doors and continue to promote education and wellness through boxing.