Safehouse Services operates a shelter, facilitates support groups and advocacy programs, assists with protection order filings, and provides 24-hour crisis care and safety planning. They seek outdoor renovations including tree removal, installing an underground sprinkler system, sidewalk installation and additional planting/sod/landscaping.
South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) is striving to create a public pocket park and community garden on an underutilized vacant lot. This area of South Boston lacks open space and trees, so transforming this lot into an asset will provide an environmental improvement for the neighborhood and gardening access to low-income residents. The project would include cedar garden planters for community gardeners and stone dust paths for ADA accessible access. NDC will enlist volunteers from the community to help with the process to give them a sense of ownership.
Shreveport Green is dedicated to promoting a healthy, sustainable, and economically vital community through public outreach, community enhancement, and a specific respect for the natural and built environment.The project includes building a gazebo on the site to host dinners, presentations and demonstrations, as well as provide a respite area for volunteers. Plans also include adding a rain barrel collection system, some benches, a ceiling fan and the wiring for both fan and lights.
Southside Community Farm's mission is to grow Black food sovereignty in Asheville, North Carolina's Southside neighborhood, which hosts most of Asheville's public housing. The neighborhood has no grocery store, which limits access to reliable, convenient, and healthy food. This project would create a resource for edible plants and fruit trees.
InterUrban ArtHouse hopes to renovate an outdoor community cultural arts and events space currently located on its property.The organization's mission is to enrich the cultural and economic vibrancy of the community by creating a place where artists and creative industries can work and prosper in an affordable, sustainable and inclusive environment.
The Little Brick Church is used throughout the year as a gathering place for community members. It is a historic structure that now requires critical repairs and a roof replacement. The City of Oneonta has few places for people to gather, so without a maintained Little Brick Church, residents will seek opportunities outside the community.
The Bridge is a community development organization that exists to provide hope by rebuilding lives, restoring families and revitalizing our community. This is done through the Care & Counseling center, a transitional home for women, and a future job-skills training furniture shop. The Bridge would like a facility makeover that includes furniture and decor to provide a calming space for community members.
The Salvation Army operates a program called Passage that provides supervised independent living and case management to young people aged 18-24 years who have aged out of the state foster care system. The Passage Program serves as a bridge between the exit of the foster care system and that journey to self-sufficiency. The goal of this project is to renovate four smaller existing structures to create a single on-site haven to house and manage the Passage Program.
The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, Florida, is a conservation-based attraction with nearly 1 million annual visitors that seeks a complete renovation to its lobby bathrooms, which have not been improved since the aquarium opened in 1995. Renovations would include accessibility improvements for children to be able to use the restroom without help from an adult.
The Salvation Army of El Paso wants to renovate its shelter facilities including the lobby, five restrooms, three laundry spaces, and two hallways. Each portion of the project will require replacing sinks/vanities, toilets and shower units. The laundry rooms require repaired and updated electrical and lighting, and the project will include installing plumbing for two washers and dryers, installing four additional washers/dryers, new tiles and baseboards and undertaking significant interior painting.