- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
If a hammer, nail, or paintbrush doesn't scare you, become our carpenter"!!
ORGANIZATION: Highway Park Neighborhood Council
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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2 people are interested
We need volunteers to help us renovate a vacant building to serve as a community resource center, landscape the yard, and help upgrade our historic cemetery. Many of the community are elderly or young single parents with small children. Help is needed to reclaim vacant lots and restore community pride. There is so much to be done and very little resources to assist. All help, big & small is greatly appreciated and very much needed. Thank you in advance for all you have done, are doing, and will do on behalf of this underserved community.
More opportunities with Highway Park Neighborhood Council
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About Highway Park Neighborhood Council
Location:
P O Box 144, Lake Placid, FL 33852, US
Mission Statement
To enhance and preserve the Highway Park Community through beautification projects, building and community rehabilitation, healthy living initiatives, educational programs, children’s activities, senior citizen programs, arts & culture, economic development, and community advocacy.
Description
Our Highway Park Community is an unincorporated, minority community located 1 mile south of the Town of Lake Placid, FL. Although we are called Lake Placid for U.S. Postal Services purposes, we do not receive any financial or administrative assistance from Lake Placid. We are administered by Highlands County whose government offices are 22 miles away.
Our non-profit charitable organization achieves its goals through the following:
- Writes grants such as beautification grants, cultural grants, rural business development grants, community gardening grants, senior citizens support grants, and community rehabilitation grants.
- We advocate changes in policies, develop ordinances, and represent the Highway Park Community with local government officials.
- Conducts litter removal programs
- Rehabilitates vacant lots by cutting overgrown grass, weeds, tire removal, trash removal, etc.
- Paint homes of some of the elderly and infirmed in the community
- Conduct fundraisers on behalf of the community to fund our continued rehabilitation of buildings, vacant lots, etc.
- Provide workshops to educate our community (e.g. Entreprenuership, taxes, financial management, resume writing, etc.)
- Conduct childrens activities
- Provide support to the elderly and infirm
- Communicate issues to the county administration on behalf of the community
- Coordinate activities within the community
- Conduct cultural initiatives (document stories, obtain historic materials, conduct research, support local artists by providing a venue to display their talent
- Support economic redevelopment of the Highway Park community
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
106 Washington StreetLake Placid, FL 33852
DATE POSTED
July 15, 2014
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A