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Something For Everyone

We've partnered with the world's top social entrepreneurs to bring you countless ways to improve your community

  • Trade School

    Create an alternative learning community to share skills and talents in your community.

  • TreePlanters

    Get hands-on education and support to plant trees in your neighborhood with your neighbors.

  • Urban Forestry

    Bring people together in your neighborhood to plant trees for the benefit of your community and the environment.

  • Recycle Across America

    Start recycling right with standardized recycling labels for your school that will help you to improve recycling and save your school money.

  • Tiny Forest

    Start a Tiny Forest in your community to bring nature back into urban spaces.

  • Outdoor Club

    Adventure Beyond the Classroom

  • Playground Ideas

    Build a playground wherever you are, using local tools, materials, and skills

  • GIY

    Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food.

  • Generation Citizen

    Teach teens how to work with local leaders and take effective political action to fix local problems.

  • Welcoming Week

    Build Common Ground in Your Community by Hosting a Welcoming Week Event.

  • Hour of Code

    Organize an Hour of Code™ and join a global movement introducing tens of millions of students worldwide to computer science.

  • Girls Who Code

    Start a Girls Who Code Club in your community and get girls excited about coding and computer science.

  • Pop Up Museum

    Bring people together in conversation through stories, art, and objects.

  • FIRST LEGO League - Discover

    Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) programme in your school or community for 4-6 year olds.

  • Welcome Dinner

    Welcome new arrivals with dinner in your community. Join a welcoming movement built around food, language and social interaction.

  • Community Composting

    Divert your community's food waste from landfill, reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions

  • Pollinator Partnership

    Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!

  • Bee Friendly Farming

    Promote pollinator health on your farm and receive recognition and consumer support for it.

  • FIRST LEGO League - Explore

    Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programme in your school or community for 6–10 year olds

  • Chicago River Cleanup

    Organize a river cleanup in your community or workplace and help to keep the Chicago River litter free.

  • Building School Gardens

    Use school grounds to develop a sense of place and connection to the environment for urban dwellers.

  • Play Day

    A playful event in communities that celebrates the skills, resources and personalities inherent to the people that live and play there.

  • Welcome In

    Welcome immigrants to your community through conversational English classes

  • Sow it Forward

    Start a vertical school garden in your classroom to give kids access to fresh produce and to learn about growing food.

  • Rooted in Cheyenne

    Cultivating a greener, healthier and more livable community by planting trees as we all stay at home

  • Tales Toolkit

    Interactive, child-led storytelling toolkit for schools transforming everyday situations into imaginative worlds.

  • Better Block Parklet

    Expand public or private space with these digitally fabricated parklets.

  • SOUP

    Host a regular micro-granting dinner to celebrate and support creative projects in your community.

  • Playworks

    Create an inclusive environment for play and physical activity in your school

  • FIRST LEGO League - Challenge

    Lead a hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programme in your school or community for 9-14 year olds

  • The Last Plastic Straw

    Start a grassroots campaign to reduce and eliminate wasteful plastic straws from our communities.

  • Sambusa Sunday

    Community gatherings to build bridges and overcome division

  • Let Grow Play Club

    Start your own Play Club, and unleash the power of unstructured play!

  • Pop-Up Play Spaces NYC

    Pop-up play spaces provide the joy of unstructured play to the children of NYC.

  • Peace First

    Equip young people with the skills and commitment to solve problems with courage, compassion and collaboration

  • KABOOM!

    Turn everyday places into playspaces through Play Everywhere.

  • Walking School Bus

    Organize a Walking School Bus in your local area for a healthier, more fun way for kids to get to and from school.

  • Open Orchard

    Organise an Open Orchard to bring people together, provide free fruit to local residents and green our urban environments.

  • River Cleanup

    A community based initiative aiming to clean and maintain local rivers

United States Community Play Fund

ChangeX have teamed up with the LEGO Foundation as part of the Build A World Of Play Campaign to launch a $200,000 fund to help you bring learning through play projects to your local community.

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