The purpose of this project is to provide services for ex-offenders (men) to help them be reintegrated into society for the sake of their families, communities, and society.
The purpose of this project is to provide services for ex-offenders (men) to help them be reintegrated into society for the sake of their families, communities, and society.
Operation Brightside provides services that assist residents with efforts to clean-up their neighborhood.
Neighborhood clean up and block party
(1) Operation Facelift: Neighborhood cleanup which involves coordination with various city departments, Sumner Academy, the KCK Housing Authority, Deffenbaugh and residents. This is an annual event.
Working with neighbors and 20-25 volunteer church youth groups per year we repair and paint local owner-occupied homes for those in need of a hand up.
The Palestine Neighborhood Coordinated Engagement Partnership will bring community members together to create the neighborhood's future, focusing on affordable housing rehabilitation and youth development initiatives.
The project will be a celebration of the renovation of the Town Fork Creek Park coupled with a membership drive.
In order to address neighborhood litter and the perception of crime, the Paseo West Neighborhood Association is coordinating a cleanup event with 100 volunteers to collect trash, cut weeds, and clean graffiti.
The Pendleton Heights Community Garden launched in Spring of 2013 and continues to grow every year! This project is in partnership with PHNA, Kansas City Community Gardens, and MU Extension.
Project Living Proof is a 100-year old home that has been transformed and renovated to showcase the latest in energy efficient and renewable energy technology including solar panels and geothermal heating.
The mission of Kansas City Community Gardens is to assist low-income households and community groups in the Kansas City Metropolitan area to produce vegetables and fruit from garden plots located in backyards, vacant lots, and at community sites.
Depending on which quarter of the year, 49/63 hosts events with various topics including, promoting local businesses, crime prevention, safety awareness, and identifying various resources for residents.
Quindaro Blvd. Corridor Coalition (QBCC) (10th to 27th Streets) began in February 2014 in response to crime in the area. A partnership between KCKS PD, business owner, churches, and the NE Economic Development Corporation Inc. formed.
Clearing of dead trees and brush
This project aims for the Rezoning of our area from B-3.2, commercial, residential to R-7, residential for homes to be built.
Refresh is a painting program that uses volunteers to paint the interior of homes with the underlying purpose of getting residents to talk about needs in their community and to ask them if they would like to participate in meeting that need.
RefreshKC began in May 2016 as an interior house painting program with the goal of encouraging community involvement.
We are in the process of renovating and reestablishing the approximate 74 acre park. The park's boundaries are NE Brighton on the east, Highway 210 on the south, and Choutaeu Trafficway on the west.
ROLL was an outreach and resident-organizing project to inform, manage, and coordinate neighborhood information and education, work with residents at the block-level, and bring people into the community center-to facilitate people knowing and und
The Boston Heights/Mount Hope Neighborhood Association worked to develop a model for block stabilization minor home repair that could be applied in the neighborhood and in nine other areas of the Urban Neighborhood Initiative.