A state park seeks assistance in maintaining 80+-year-old cabins within the park that are listed on the National Historic Registry. This project will supplement volunteer efforts from a Youth Conservation Corps project and a Cabin Work Week with staining, painting and making repairs to the cabins.
A deteriorated town park is in need of renovations, upscaling, and improvements, as it has been neglected since damage sustained during Hurricane Katrina. A dedicated group of volunteers are seeking to renovate basketball courts and raise funds to install a splash pad, sidewalks, and parking, to make the space a friendly and useful one for people of all ages within the community.
A town seeks to reimagine a neglected breezeway and create an outdoor shaded dining area for people to space out and enjoy each other’s company along with meals from local restaurants. The spruced-up space will also serve as an outdoor venue for area organizations and groups to gather for meetings and events.
A theatre and cultural arts center seeks assistance in repairing its stage, so it can become a space truly usable for showcasing performing arts shows and events, making it the only venue of its kind in the community to do so. As a marquee building in the historic downtown, the improvements will further town revitalization efforts and help bring foot traffic back into the main part of town.
An organization that helps the homeless, people transitioning from prison and those coming out of addiction by offering shelter, mentoring, job training, accountability and education would like to renovate its kitchen facilities and update its appliances so it can continue to provide its services to those in need, specifically the organization’s ability to regularly and on special occasions serve hot meals.
A housing facility for female veterans that provides transitional housing, career training, mental health counseling, life skills classes and education programs that put homeless service women back on the path to independence and self-sufficiency seeks assistance in completing construction that will allow the organization to open its doors. Once it does, the facility will be able to provide temporary housing for up to 14 homeless female veterans at a time.
A nonprofit organization aimed at providing minority youth leadership development, mentoring, and academic support through mental health initiatives and youth entrepreneurship training seeks to renovate a house to serve as its headquarters. The house will create a hub for the organization to have a needed safe space for program participants to meet for planned and structured activities, community service initiatives and other endeavors. Members of the youth organization plan to pitch in to do the renovation work.
Country music star and former Lowe’s associate Kane Brown gives back to his hometown of Chattanooga through a rehab and revitalization project with the Boys & Girls Club. The project will provide a much-needed new library, computer lab and large teen lounge for the club whose mission is to enable young people to realize their full potential and become productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
An organization that created a building and trades skills course at the local technical college needs support to complete their Mobile Bus Shop which will serve as a Construction Academy. Housed in a former school bus, the hands-on mobile classroom will expand their reach and bring construction skills education to younger generations at area secondary schools and other youth-centered organizations in the town.
A local grocery business in a community still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina seeks to create an area on its property where people of all ages in the community can come to take advantage of free internet access, enabling them to complete tasks and school assignments in a safe congregational space.