Build Common Ground in Your Community by Hosting a Welcoming Week Event.
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Build Common Ground in Your Community by Hosting a Welcoming Week Event.
Welcome new arrivals with dinner in your community. Join a welcoming movement built around food, language and social interaction.
Turn spaces in your community in to PLAYces for all kids.
Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
Organize an Open Orchard to bring people together, to provide free fruit to local residents and to green our urban environments.
A community gathering in a local park to celebrate a love of the written or spoken word
Share skills and talents in your community
Welcome immigrants to your community through conversational English classes
Bring people together in conversation through stories, art, and objects.
Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food.
Provide a space in your community where men can find meaning, friendship and belonging
A micro-granting dinner celebrating creative projects in your community
Get together with people in your community and share the joy of growing your own food
ChangeX & Microsoft have teamed up to launch a $70,000 fund to help you bring new sustainability projects to your Chicago community
Apply to Start IdeaYou live in Chicago and wish to start a ChangeX idea to improve your community.
Up to $5000 funding and free starter resources for each new project started.
Pick the idea you wish to start and complete a simple 30 day jumpstart challenge.
