oooh that mural project sounds pretty cool, too bad it's taken |
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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. |
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oooh that mural project sounds pretty cool, too bad it's taken |
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Yeah but if you do what jessica said, put some hidden things on the playset, like spikes on the slide (small but pointing up) and pepper spray surprised too. ya know the normal stuff. |
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omg playground of toutre ...youcould have bear traps in the sandbox!!!! |
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I made up some things but they are either too expensive or take too much time lol, I'll think some more on this lol. |
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"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
~Buddha
Build some grass on some dirt or something. |
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Check out your local Habitat for Humanity chapter or a campus affiliate. They're always needing more funds and extra hands. You could combine efforts. There could be a building blitz going on right now in your area, since they usually coincide with spring breaks so they can get more student volunteers. |
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Why dont you clean up an abaonded oepn space or somethign and then host a sundy arts and crafts day for sineors and little kids or somethig like that. Maby have some music and some fun little projects to teach someone something... |
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"Dreams are as portals. Flat visions of misty places. But I can write dreams!" - Myst Uru
Being a landscape owner it is no suprise I would suggest that you could spruce up the community with little cost. It does not take much mulch and some flowers or plants to really make a place look a lot better. Maybe for example, land that is owned by the community like if you have a volunteer fire department, a park. Intro into your community sign and around it or an elderly home. |
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"Dreams are as portals. Flat visions of misty places. But I can write dreams!" - Myst Uru
Our freshman class is having our make a difference projects right now. We have to make a difference in our community and here are some that have been used. |
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I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.
Mark Twain
An open garden: The idea of this is to initially make a huge open field and split it up into seperate themes, say for example this time, four, they could be (don't have to be) |
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Probably the best thing you can do is to find an area that needs renovation or cleaning up. There is little use in creating something new unless there is a plan AND budget available for maintaining your new project. |
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you must be the change you wish to see in the world...
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first, thanks for helping everyone |
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Curiosity killed the cat but at least it didnt die an ignorant bastard
How about creating a garden with a fountain in the middle. The fountain could have steps and an anphitheater feel (great for meeting and discusing philosophy). Also make the garden something easy... like a rock garden. It would look sick, and rock gardens are cool in the winter too. Have some cool inscriptions about civic duty or enlightenment around the place on the steps or rock benches... |
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There are great truths and there are trivial truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is obviously false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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you must be the change you wish to see in the world...
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I was gonna say something bout a garden but it looks like they already did.......... |
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Here are a couple of things I have done while being a member of Circle K. |
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ok guys, i've gathered up many of the ideas and sent it in an e-mail for the council people to read and discuss. I wish I would be there when they make the decision, but tomorrow morning I will be leaving to go to Florida...by car...from massachusetts. so it'll be a long ride with my family and wont be back until the 24, which is sunday. As soon as I hear the results and what we're doing, I'll try to come here and inform you all asap :)...till then im going to lock this sticky and when i get back and hear what we, or they, decide on, i'll unlock it and tell you guys, then unsticky it to be forgotten into the pile of lost threads, never to be seen again ;) |
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Curiosity killed the cat but at least it didnt die an ignorant bastard
noooooo! >_< |
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Curiosity killed the cat but at least it didnt die an ignorant bastard
So all your effort was for nothing? |
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Don't think about those damn kangaroos.
Sorry to here that your efforts fell by the way side nightowl. |
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