To truly understand a community, one must know its people. One way to know its people is through organizations that work to respond to the challenges and needs of everyday community inhabitants.
During this approximately 4-hour activity, participants work in teams to creatively help local charitable organizations successfully achieve their community mission. Teams are matched with community organizations researched and selected by Impact 4 Good and given a budget to work with to most creatively assist the organization achieve its mission. Armed with cash in hand, teams depart to the offices of these organizations and let the creative juices flow! After learning more about their specific organization, teams put their creative ideas to work by completing a service project on-site. Painting classrooms, building bikes for children, planting windowsill gardens for senior citizens, replacing old light bulbs with higher efficiency bulbs, landscaping, assembling bookshelves, etc.; the sky is the limit!
Following the on-site portion of the program, teams return to the meeting venue with a representative from the organization they worked for. With these representatives acting as the "jury", teams then present the challenges they faced at their organization, and how they creatively responded to it. The jury then decides on which team had the most creative and meaningful project of the day! Although there is a "winning team" based on performance during the program, the real winners are all of the organizations that received a helping hand!
