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To collect 100 reusable artificial limbs for 100 amputees for the Sierra Leone Disability Soccer Team. The teams are made up not only of amputees but also polio soccer players. Your Generosity Will Change A Life!
We want to fill downtown Burien with unique and interesting spaces for building community. We’ve been working for years to clean up the alley behind Burien Press and turn it in to a space to host art and community events. Now we want to convert a previously wasted space behind our coffee shop into a beautiful and welcoming space that bumps up against the alley.
We would love to work with people who want to make Burien more awesome by creating a new garden space, a new venue and want to support the arts and the revitalization of wasted spaces in our community.
Hold an Iron Chef party that breaks even or better.
Get like a dozen folks together, organize 'em into two teams of cooks, and have 'em do a cook-off centered around a mystery ingredient of the MC's choice. Hustle and promote to sell tickets for folks to participate (including a few extra for judges) and cover the cost of ingredients and the space to do it in.
Know some one in the restaurant business who could hook you up with space on an off day? Even better!
Asylum is a film by a Seattle native which looks at the connection between mental illness and domestic violence. It has a compelling trailer (see it here and needs to raise about $16,000 to film.
The project is to get this local film closer to fruition: organize an event to feature one of the mini documentaries that was created through the pitch video, and get the word out to organizations & businesses within the King Co. area as a means to promote the event.
"Hey, would you like a sandwich?" "Sure." "I've also got some bananas, would you like one?"
Donating money or non-perishables to a food shelter is great, but for a more direct experience of contributing to someone in need, try making a bunch of sandwiches up at home, load up your backpack with them and some fruit, and then go bike around downtown, offering up food to folks directly.
This project is to get a team together to do this at whatever awesome scale you can manage. Be of service, have some conversations, make some days just a little brighter.
RecipeForPeaceNow is an organization taking on an audaciously large goal: to positively change our world by teaching of mediation principles and strategies.
This project is to engage a broad audience in this line of thinking by creating a montage video of varied people answering (or even wrestling with!) a simple question: What does civil discourse mean to you?
A team will need video production chops to pull this off as a compelling end result, and will need to engage a wide cross section of individuals to participate in being filmed.
Awesome Projects
We're putting together a project grab bag.
We're all of us talented and motivated folks, but coming up with an enticing 3-week project with a group of strangers in just an hour or two might still be a tall order. So there'll be a grab bag of projects for teams to choose from/be inspired by in case creating one from scratch isn't immediately obvious.
What kind of projects? Try a few of these sample ideas on for size:
Limbs for Sierra Leone
Champion: Richard Toms
To collect 100 reusable artificial limbs for 100 amputees for the Sierra Leone Disability Soccer Team. The teams are made up not only of amputees but also polio soccer players. Your Generosity Will Change A Life!Burien Press Urban Garden
Champion: Matthew Wendland
We want to fill downtown Burien with unique and interesting spaces for building community. We’ve been working for years to clean up the alley behind Burien Press and turn it in to a space to host art and community events. Now we want to convert a previously wasted space behind our coffee shop into a beautiful and welcoming space that bumps up against the alley.We would love to work with people who want to make Burien more awesome by creating a new garden space, a new venue and want to support the arts and the revitalization of wasted spaces in our community.
Iron Chef Mini Business
Hold an Iron Chef party that breaks even or better.Get like a dozen folks together, organize 'em into two teams of cooks, and have 'em do a cook-off centered around a mystery ingredient of the MC's choice. Hustle and promote to sell tickets for folks to participate (including a few extra for judges) and cover the cost of ingredients and the space to do it in.
Know some one in the restaurant business who could hook you up with space on an off day? Even better!
Asylum Short Film
Champion: Melinda Raebyne
Asylum is a film by a Seattle native which looks at the connection between mental illness and domestic violence. It has a compelling trailer (see it here and needs to raise about $16,000 to film.The project is to get this local film closer to fruition: organize an event to feature one of the mini documentaries that was created through the pitch video, and get the word out to organizations & businesses within the King Co. area as a means to promote the event.
Guerilla Style Homeless Food Drive
"Hey, would you like a sandwich?" "Sure." "I've also got some bananas, would you like one?"Donating money or non-perishables to a food shelter is great, but for a more direct experience of contributing to someone in need, try making a bunch of sandwiches up at home, load up your backpack with them and some fruit, and then go bike around downtown, offering up food to folks directly.
This project is to get a team together to do this at whatever awesome scale you can manage. Be of service, have some conversations, make some days just a little brighter.
Defining Civil Discourse
Champion: Sue Beller
RecipeForPeaceNow is an organization taking on an audaciously large goal: to positively change our world by teaching of mediation principles and strategies.This project is to engage a broad audience in this line of thinking by creating a montage video of varied people answering (or even wrestling with!) a simple question: What does civil discourse mean to you?
A team will need video production chops to pull this off as a compelling end result, and will need to engage a wide cross section of individuals to participate in being filmed.
Tiny House Village
Champion: Mercedes Elizalde