Blueprints
Love Your Block
Love your block harnesses the power of motivated citizen volunteers and supports their efforts to revitalize a neighborhood block with competitive mini-grants and city-provided resources.
Third Grade Literacy
Third Grade Literacy brings local volunteers together with city resources to increase the number of students reading at grade level by the third grade with the help of volunteer reading coaches.
Education and Youth | Coming Soon
Volunteer CPR
Volunteer CPR is a people-powered initiative that creates a strong network of volunteers who train their fellow citizens to respond in a cardiac emergency with hands-only CPR.
Let’s Grow
Let’s Grow increases access to healthy fresh produce and promotes good nutrition habits by mobilizing a corps of local volunteers who plant and maintain community gardens.
Health | Coming Soon
Vets As Volunteers
Vets as Volunteers catalyzes the commitment to service shared amongst the men and women of the armed services by developing volunteer opportunities for local veterans that serve the veteran community and its unique needs.
Veterans | Coming Soon
Cool Roofs
Cool Roofs enlists the support of volunteers who reduce the energy costs and carbon footprints of buildings in a community by painting their roofs with reflective coating.
Attendance Counts
Attendance Counts brings community members together to collectively tackle the challenge of chronic school absence among high-risk populations with the help of volunteer attendance mentors.
Education and Youth | Coming Soon
Grad Coaches
Grad Coaches creates a citizen-based solution to the dropout epidemic by encouraging adults to act as volunteer mentors and tutors to students with the support of the Mayor’s office.
Graffiti Busters
Graffiti Busters mobilizes a corps of volunteers who improve neighborhoods through large-scale clean up programs that remove graffiti and work to ensure it doesn’t return.
Sustainable Home Makeover
Sustainable Home Makeover creates a grassroots effort to increase the energy efficiency of a community with simple renovations to local homes.