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A large capacity, sturdy new dump trailer would allow Project Green Fork and Get Green Recycleworks to collect the average 1,200 gallons of local restaurant food waste we pick up each week and drop it in one place.
Once the project is funded; we will purchase bicycles; recruit riders to begin training. Teach how to buy a bike and fit a helmet. We will promote access to healthy activities and bike safety.
We are looking to buy a utility trailer for compost pick up, to expand with collecting leafs and yard waste.
The Chili Cook-Off is open to the public to come by to support, be entertained, be a judge, eat unlimited about of chili & drink beer. The outcome is to raise money for our bullying project.
Beautiful, student created, artwork will replace boarded over windows in a building prominently located in downtown Memphis’s historic Court Square district.
In 2017, GrowMemphis aims to sustainably build and support two new community gardens in Memphis.
The Urban Orchard is intended to provide a place of beauty while also providing accessible organic fruit for the residents in a low-income blighted neighborhood in the Klondike area of Memphis.
Get bright lights to cyclist in lower income neighborhoods.
Preparing for another successful year of providing clean, safe produce to our most vulnerable neighbors.
The Memphis Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) is planning to start a league for anyone in the MidSouth area interested in learning and playing Gaelic football and hurling/camogie.
We are raising money to help the girls soccer team at Sheffield High School cover fees, get equipment, provide additional coaching, assist with transportation needs, and improve the home field conditions.
Since the Idlewild Chess Club burst onto the scene five years ago, the chess team has won national trophies . We would like to use interactive software to help teach our kids the fundamentals of this beautiful game.
KEY is a teen-led comprehensive sex education program that educates youth about their minds, bodies, and most importantly the decisions they can make to better their futures.
A mural proposed by artist Khara Woods and VECA at the corner of Jackson Ave. & Garland St.
We want to attract purple martins by hanging gourd houses.
Upgrade Cherokee Park backboards to fiberglass arena-styled backboards.
High-visibility crosswalks at the Poplar-Tucker intersection will create safe crossing conditions for transit riders, pedestrians and cyclists at this busy intersection and encourage various modes of transportation.
Provide bike workstations, schedule info, and structural improvements to Memphis-area transit stops, creating a more flexible and accessible transportation system.
We need your support to teach bike safety skills to youth in our community.
Let’s start a weekly book club for adults with disabilities at the library!
Playing to learn, and learning for life! Creating a holistic, research-based early-childhood educational option for the children of our neighborhood.
The Neighborhood History Project provides youth from South Memphis and Highland Heights the opportunity to spend their summer learning about and documenting thier neighborhoods' rich histories.
The McLemore Rembert Block Club will start a tool lending library, organize a community clean up and host a neighborhood block party.
We would like for this water slide to foster community events where children could enjoy themselves in the summer or good weather months.
Neighborhood gardeners will till, amend and plant native species butterfly and bee attractors to continue to expand initial and now well-established Evergreen Rain Garden beds.
This project would create two new beds of flowers in the front of Central (THE) High School, replace schrubs along the base of the building.
Building a community garden at the Girls Inc. Youth Farm
By cultivating land and relationships, Advance Memphis and the Memphis Center for Food and Faith are transforming a corner in 38126 from a dangerous one to a beautiful one. Trashcans are the next step!
This summer the Carpenter Art Garden will collaborate with Binghampton residents to make a mosaic sculture garden.
Our goal is improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables for low-income residents living in our city. The community garden will become an active space for programs and activities for residents.
With Music In The Park Memphis we can bridge the gap of classism in our city. By having this gem we open the door for endless opportunities to build strong community leaders and well rounded youth. Music is the key.
Students from Douglass High, Second Baptist, and Streets Ministires will team up with Heights Community Development to address blight by boarding-up vacant homes and painting positive messages on the boards.
Our vision is to develop opportunites and raise awareness of the challenges in urban communities. We will be providing tools and educational materials to apprentices and schools in Sierra Leone.
It's time to take back our community. Our goal is to rebuild our streets and turn them back into the beautiful places they once were.
Our community desires to have a shared green space that brings people together. Treadwell has a rich history of basketball and this project will reignite that legacy and create a healthy park for families and neighbors.
The Green Triangles Project will "green" and beautify two traffic islands at University and Jackson streets in the Vollintine Evergreen neighborhood.
We will be conducting the groundwork to start a community garden. We will also make the neighboring park more people-friendly by adding grills and park benches.
We have partner with local churches, businesses, and neighbors to support the project by volunteering with cleanup, digging, supplies, and building the amphitheater.
KMAM is investing in an online catalogue system for our brand new school library opening in 2016.
To teach the children and their families in underserved communities the art of gardening as a way of promoting a healthier lifestyle.
The Greenline is coming, the greenline is coming! We would like to be a part of it and we need to be a part of it! North Memphis,TN needs a voice in this project since this project is making an impact in our neighborhood.
Overton Park Conservancy will implement safety surface improvements in the East Parkway Playground in Overton Park, providing our young park stakeholders with safe opportunities for play and recreation.
Help us take steps to connect the Greenline to the Farmers Market at Agricenter International by raising funds to remove a gate and installed bollards so bicyclists can have an accessible path.
The CY Garden Club plans to create small garden pocket parks. These would be large planter boxes filled with a variety of hardy shrubs and flowers to enhance corners on Southern, Cooper, Young, and East Parkway.
This summer Project Backboard's goal is to add lines and art enhancements to 18 courts in 13 public parks across Memphis so everyone will have access to a basketball court with free throw and 3 point lines.
The Community Table Garden is in need of TLC repairs in our 3rd year of operation! We hope to amend our garden bed soil, improve our irrigation system, and build a shade stucture for our volunteers and visitors!