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Would you like to learn how to improve the
health of your neighborhood? Did you know that
you can make a huge difference as an individual
or working with your neighbors? Have you
considered a Neighborhood Beautification
Project or a Neighborhood Cleanup?
Communities are only as healthy as residents
like you decide they will be. Not only will our
neighborhoods be improved, but we will be
showing our children what it looks like to keep
our neighborhoods healthy and safe. They will
grow up knowing that this is a natural part of
life, therefore passing on your good values to
their generation and establishing a long-term
avenue to continued community health.
There are many ways you can participate. One
great way to begin is to organize a neighborhood
cleanup or beautification event. In our Canyon
Corridor area there are a number of valuable
resources listed below available to help you with
your project. Start small and dream big!
The Phoenix Revitalization
Corporation Program offers:
The Neighborhood Beautification Program
is available to registered Neighborhood
Associations and/or Block Watch groups in order
to make the neighborhood safe and beautiful.
Project proposals can be submitted to support
projects from $500 to $2,000 that will beautify
neighborhoods or make them safer. Proposals
are currently being accepted for the Granada
Neighborhood but will be available to other
groups in the Canyon Corridor in the future.
The Community Support Program is available to
help support community events, neighborhood
cleanups, and neighborhood meetings. Support
can include printing of flyers to be distributed,
volunteer food for cleanup and financial
assistance for community events and meetings.
For more information about both of the
programs listed above, please call E. Mari
Herrera-Daniels, Director of Programs and
Community Affairs, Phoenix Revitalization
Corp. at (602) 253-6895 or email at e.mari@
phxrevitalization.org.
The City of Phoenix
Neighborhood Services
Department offers:
Training through the Neighborhood
College for Blight Busters
Neighborhood Cleanups & Tool
Lending Program
Keeping your community looking great is dirty
yet rewarding work! The Tool Lending Program
is offered to residents and community groups for
cleanup events at no charge. Any neighborhood
group or Block Watch listed with the
Neighborhood Services Department may receive
paint, supplies and clean-up tools to improve
their neighborhood. To borrow equipment, get
paint or reserve a paint-sprayer, sign up for the
next training class or reserve tools for your next
neighborhood clean-up.
Tool trailers and tools available for loan include:
• paint rollers
• wire brushes with
scrapers
• hoes
• weed eaters
• shovels
• gloves
• paint sprayer
• buckets
• ladders (three-step)
• pole trimmers
• brooms
• water coolers
• brushes
• hedge shears
• loppers
• rakes
• wheelbarrows
• garbage bags
Contact Information:
Tool Lending Program at NSD
Phone: (602) 495-0323
Email:
The City of Phoenix Public Works Department
can help you acquire a dumpster.
Contact Robert Munoz at 602-262-7148
Keep Phoenix Beautiful can also help you
acquire a dumpster for your project
Contact: Cindy Moss at 602-262-4820 or email
Basic Steps to get you started:
1. Plan Project: Decide on specific project
2. Identify Date/Time and Location that
project will begin
3. Create List of supplies needed
4. Water/Food if going past lunchtime
5. Paint – City/NSD can help with this
6. Plants – PRC can help with this
7. Dumpster – Public Works or Keep Phoenix
Beautiful can help with this
8. Tools – City/NSD can help with this
9. Make Flyer: Include Map to project site –
PRC can help with this
10. Deliver Flyer to potential volunteers
electronically
11. Send Texts to those who do not have
computer access
12. Distribute Flyer: Deliver/distribute at
meetings in the area
13. Assign responsibilities to volunteer
team leaders
Most Importantly: Have a good time and get to
know your neighbors!
Resources for Neighborhood Projects
How to organize your
neighborhood clean-up
by Maria Uhing
Communi t y Highl ights