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In my community we have a park that has a basketball court. There's two swings, that are not in good condition. There is plenty of land to have play accerssories for children. We have a committee in whom are willing to work to improve and repair our park located on Park St. We want the park to be fenced in, landscaped, equipment for all children (sandboxes, swings, see-saws, climbing dome), and we also want tables and seating. We want our community and our children to take pride in this endeavor.

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I have always wanted to be a giving part of my community. In church, I always learned that we should get out and do something, but we never went anywhere. I wanted to volunteer at the local children's hospital, garden, clean up the parks, and more but never knew how to get started.

Now, I'm a girl scout leader. Our troop started last year with no funds, but big ideas. We are a crew of 35 1st-5th graders and two 13 year-olds, and we wish to make a difference in our community. We are already planning 1-2 trips to the park this spring to *garden and clean up neglected areas.* Every time we visit the park, the dirt area around the playgrounds and other areas is bare. Our goal is to make the park a cleaner, colorful, and inviting place to visit and enjoy. With funding, we can go every time we meet this spring and get more teenagers involved.

Gardening is our first step, but any remaining funds would support us as we also want to help out at the *local children's hospital* by creating and delivering get-well packages and providing the children's wing with engaging toys, games, and books. Joy makes a child's stay more pleasant, and that leads to a speedier recovery. Our plan was to do this back in November or December, but as it is our first year, and those were our first months, it was difficult to know where to start.

Our third activity is to host a *Learn to Ride/Bike Safety* day at our park. As an avid bicycler, I want to give the joy of riding my community. Riding is great for the health, the environment, and in a city of 8 mill, is often as fast if not faster than public transportation. (I know-I've tested it repeatedly) Plus, it's practically free. Such an event requires tools, cones, repair kits, a couple signs, and lots of stickers. I have contacted a local organization that trains volunteers to give these lessons in their community. With their training, your financial support, and my friends and troop as volunteers I know we can do it.

We have many goals and desires but not the funds. With your assistance, we would be able to get out and do more for our community. Your assistance would help cover the cost of for plants, gloves, shovels, mulch, bike tools, repair kits, cones, games and care packages for hospital children, and foundation for my troop to become an involved part of our community. I am certain that your support would give us the spark to keep active in our community for years to come.

Funds would certainly carry us through gardening activities. Remaining funds would be reserved for hospital and bicycle activities. I don't know how much each would cost us, but I do know the more funds we have available, the more we can get done.

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One day I was walking through the streets of Boston and decided I should blow my nose. Nobody wants to carry around a tissue full of snot in their pockets so the next logical action was to find a trash can to slam dunk my tissue in. After five blocks I didn't see a single trash can. At this point many people would throw it on the ground but I was determined to find a trash can even if it took me ten blocks. After my fourteenth block I finally found a trash can. This is when it hit me. The reason why people litter so much is not because they hate the environment but because they don't have the patience to carry around their trash. Have you ever seen someone litter when they were standing next to a trash can? Probably not, because if they are going to throw it they might as well throw it in the trash. I think that everyone should have there own trash can that they customize and put out for public use. Then no one would have an excuse to litter. You can paint your name on your trash can or you can put points on the side and paint it to look like a basket ball hoop! You can have a trash can that says "Kyle + Sarah Forever", or you and your buddies can write an inside joke on it! They would be works of art and they would catch everyones eye who passed by. Famous artist would sculpt there own trash cans to look like volcanos, businesses could advertise for free on them! Trash cans could be used as memorials for a lost pet, or a way to let someone know about a missing person! How cool would it be to be able to say. "Hey look there's my trash can, I did that with my first grade class ten years ago!"

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This project is stimulated from Public Achievement which is an international, experienced-based civic education initiative that empowers young people to engage in public work. Focused on the most basic concepts of citizenship, democracy, and public work, Public Achievement draws on the talents and desires of ordinary people to build a better world and to create a different kind of politics.

The Peace Park project was generated from a group of Public Achievement students that want to improve their surrounding community by restoring the Peace Park in Lafayette Colorado. The parks conception in 1998 served as a playground and public art space. The park is currently in poor condition and the students feel that restoring the Peace Park will bestow a positive benefit on the entire school and community.

The students, with support of the community, will restore and plant new flowers and improve the health and status of the current vegetation, repair the current equipment and put in place more playground equipment to extend the versatility of the park extending its availability to a greater number of people.

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Hi, I am a sophomore and I am working on my Girl Scout Gold Award Project. I am running a week long camp at my local YMCA to educate elementary students about animals and animal welfare. We will be doing a lot of community service activities in this. I will inspire the kids to take action, while allowing them to have fun with these animals. We will be running many fundraising activities which will be donated to our local animal shelter.  I am also funding and creating a dog park in my county. It is very difficult to get a piece of land from my government, but I am working hard to have them support me. The main purpose of this project is to SPREAD AWARENESS and RAISE DONATIONS. I will be hosting many events in this park, and hopefully this will gain media attention so that I can publicize the needs of our animal shelter. I will be running different fundraisers and programs through this dog park; hopefully many community members will use this. It is a lot of work to write letters, take pictures, visit people, get plans, and especially raise money. I will be building the entire park purely from donations and grants- the government will only give us the land.

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Some school mates of mine once said that the city I live in should be burned down and re-built from scratch. While that is not what this project is about, it can help lessen the negative view that my city is faced with. The Hedinger Park Project is a small step to something that would hopefully turn larger. All I want to do is, with the help of the communtiy, build a park on a currently empty lot across the cities Artist District.

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I wanted to do something pretty meaningful for my Eagle Scout project. Our Scout Troop, Denver Area Council Troop 556, works closely with Denver Mountain Parks, of Morrison, Colorado, to provide some important service to keep parks, trails, and recreation areas in good condition and taken care of.

The Braille Trail is one of their most interesting trails. Running the length of the 1.5-mile loop is a coated metal cable to assist blind persons in hiking and every few hundred feet is a plaque in both Braille and Romanized letters that describe the area around the trail, thus opening a whole new world to people with vision problems.

At the bottom of the loop is a picnic area with tables, benches, and a bathroom. The area had fallen into disrepair and was splintered and decayed, with the wood from the tables rotting and unusable. For my project, myself and a group of about 10 or 15 went into this area and restored it to a usable state. We sanded down all the rough edges and replaced much of the rotting wood. We then stained the tables with fresh, biodegradable stain to protect them from the elements. A few days later, three of us returned and sanded the wooden walls of the outhouse and painted it with water-based paint to protect it.

The end result wasn't immediately noticeable, but after a few weeks, we returned to the area for a picnic and enjoyed not being splintered and could readily tell the difference we had made.

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Our town(Brookville,IN.) is in need of a safe place for people to skate board. Business owners do not allow skate boarding in the parking lots or sidewalks. Also the town police are busy telling the skateboarders they can not skateboard in public areas. One church will let them skate in their parking lot. They have also formed a group to raise awareness for the need of a skate park in our area.

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I want to start a nonprofit organization based on community beautification through the planting of flowers and trees, putting up gates, cutting grass and cleaning up trash in areas that have lots of potential, but are over looked because of the area. I also want to have a program for the youth of the ages of 5-18, in which there will be teaching of the alphabet, mathematics's, reading, and developing good character and manners. Along with that they will have sports and trips to different places to expand their minds (aquarium, museum, zoo,etc.) I picked these ages because I feel these are the ages the mind starts to pick up what's going on around them and when peer pressure starts to take effect upon them. I want to focus on kids who grow up seeing their older siblings' revert to gang violence and drug selling. I want to develop a program of mentor ship to help guide them away from that lifestyle, because they are our future leaders. I want to start one area at a time and hopefully expand into other cities and states. The kids who participate in the program, we want to be able to get to a point where we can pay them monthly based on the work they do. We feel this will give them the feeling they are doing something positive and at the same time getting paid to do it.