A community wishes to build a playground area in a low-income housing complex that will provide a place for children to play and help bridge the gap in youth obesity, self-esteem and anxiety issues, among the many other benefits that play brings to participating youths. The community has very limited access to playground equipment and families may lack transportation to take their children to another city park or gym. The space will foster a healthy lifestyle and help steer children from excess screen time or undesired activities.

A volunteer-run garden that provides produce to local soup kitchens and food pantries to address food insecurity in the local community is seeking help to build a cold-storage room to prevent produce waste. The cold storage space will ensure the bounties of the garden, and the hard work of volunteers, isn’t lost.

An International Rescue Committee chapter that provides immigration program services that aim to meet the needs of newly arrived refugees and new Americans wishes to improve and increase its services. To do so, the organization hopes to make use of an underused outdoor area, transforming it into a multi-use classroom, effectively doubling client-meeting capacity so it can serve more people than ever before.

An organization of African American women that has always sought to bring women together to serve the underserved, strengthen the community and provide avenues for volunteerism, civic activism, education, and cultural enlightenment seeks to bring its building up to code and in step with area development.

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.

A Boys & Girls Club is running out of space for its programming and service in light of COVID restrictions. As such, the busy club seeks assistance in creating outdoor classrooms that will provide more space for children and teachers to spread out, increasing capacity and providing a fresh-air area for them to learn and work. The creative solution will ensure the club can continue to provide critical programming to the maximum number of children, so no one is turned away.

A city wishes to turn an unused school building into a men’s-only homeless shelter that will help keep men in need off the streets and focused on getting the help they need to become self-sufficient. In a city that has 14% of its male population living homeless, the shelter will address a critical need and support a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness.

A community center that provides resources and opportunities for local children seeks assistance in making much-needed improvements to its art room, a staple of the center that provides out-of-school enrichment programs that help children succeed academically, make them more likely to develop healthy lifestyle habits and less likely to engage in risky behavior.

A community center that serves as a meeting place for residents and provides after-school programming including academic tutoring, character building skills, computer assisted learning, arts and cultural opportunities as well as athletic programs wishes to renovate the aging space so it can continue to serve community members

A downtown area at a tipping point in revitalization driven by a community-wide entrepreneurial spirit and town pride wishes to transform a centrally located dilapidated strip of alleyway into an experience-based community space. The outdoor space, which sits in the middle of five prominent historic buildings that have been recently restored, will give community members and visitors a place to congregate and contribute to the town’s strategic transition to an entertainment and economic hub for the community.