Junior League of the Shoals seeks to create an outdoor learning center in this space. The project requires landscape and item removal before new landscaping and ground cover can be installed. The project plan includes planting Emerald Arborivate, or a hedge type plant, around the perimeter of the area to provide a sound barrier from the traffic and installing astro turf surfacing. The completed center would include playground equipment, as well.
The Harry R. Bartlett American Legion Post 89 has renovation plans that include removing and replacing windows, replacing a 50-plus year old gas stove and exhaust hood and modernizing the kitchen so it can continue hosting community events.
Helen Keller Public Library needs to remove and replace flooring in the meeting room area of the Public Library.
Horton’s Kids empowers children growing up in DC's most under-resourced communities so that they graduate from high school ready for success in college, career and life. They hope to renovate a recently purchased building to be a central community center that will anchor programs, services, and resources in the community.
The Mission of the Midian Leadership Project works to develop community leaders through holistic educational and social support, anchored in sports-related programming, for young people ages 10 to 25. Their project requires significant work on an empty warehouse purchased as a home for Midian last year. The plan includes infrastructure upgrades, renovation and creation of a multipurpose space, conference room, classroom and workout room.
Norm Waitt Sr. YMCA wants to address the childcare desert in the community by renovating its youth center to be used for licensed programs like non-traditional child care, care before 8am and after 5pm to help match the needs of local shift work employees, drop-in care for parents who may only need an hour or half a day once in a while and for Y-Club, our after school program. Needed improvements include countertop and cupboard replacement, installation of diapering stations, added storage space, sink installations and an under the counter commercial dish machine.
The Phinney Neighborhood Association has a project covering two sites. They would like to build a deck outside the Greenwood Senior Center with tables, chairs, and umbrellas that would also provide a space for meetings, classes and support groups. The Phinney Center itself has no outdoor space, so the project would also transform its lower lot with tables, chairs and umbrellas, as well as create sitting spaces at various points throughout the property.
Rebuilding Together of Alexandria/Washington, D.C. seeks to revitalize the Fort Stanton Recreation Center's three outdoor gardening areas. Each area was once well-maintained by the Department of Parks and Recreation and community stakeholders who were committed to the idea of sustainability and sufficiency. But COVID-19 sent everyone home, all areas became unused and unmaintained, and funding priorities shifted for the Department.
Stand Up for Salem’s mission is to stimulate local business opportunities, champion historic preservation and cultivate positive community growth to improve the lives of those who live and work in Salem City, New Jersey. SUFS would like to reabilitate a vacant building owned by the City of Salem to provide a community space for residents' programs and extend the Salem Free Public Library's programs and events. Currently the western part of the city lacks any community space for children, teens and adults.
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.