well, first let me introduce to you all what i do. At school, Im part of a service-learning/philanthropy council(which comprises of 6 students including me and 3 college professors). It's basically a program i do that helps my community and improving it. We were given a grant of $7500 at the beginning of the year. We have given $3500 for people who have requested to have the money so they can fund their programs that will help our town. We kept the other half of the money to do our own project. Problem is because we've been so busy with our trip to california, doing the whole RFP(request for proposal) process with giving out the money, and other things, that we've had almost no time to develop our project. So now we have about 2 months to plan our project and to actually do it before the grant expires and the remaining money will be taken away. For this week, we(the council) have been assigned to go out and research some ideas and then friday we will share and decide.

What I'm asking from you all are ideas for our project. Something plausible and do-able within a 2 months time. None of you know my town and its geography so I'm not expecting details. Just some ideas that might better my community.

Here are some examples:
-Make a Mural/Riverwalk. We have a river running through the town and so we were going to pick a place, spiff it up, make it all nice, and set up an empty mural. Get some residents and artists from the town and to draw a picture of what they think of our town(or something like that) and then collage them all together. We WERE going to do this one but chose not to anymore since someone else is doing it now
-Clean up an abandoned park/hill/ski hill
-Fund an event that will take place or make one(of what, I don't know)
etc.

Now, I need to get everything together for friday, so thursday night will be the last day I will be able to come here and gather everyone's ideas. When we decide(which SHOULD be friday, i'll tell you guys what we've decided on ). Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated guys !