Experience the second annual Project Change - Kansas City event where 15 teams from Kansas City's creative industries will come together as community leaders in meeting our local needs.
 
 
The Challenge…
 
 
The opening ceremonies in November of 2009 will provide final challenge details to the teams. They will be given 3 different challenges to complete over 4 consecutive months (Jan. - April). Each challenge will charge teams to create a community service project to meet a humanitarian or environmental need within the KC metro area. There will be a 4th challenge where all teams will participate together as a group to make an impactful difference.
  
 
Teams will have the freedom to choose the cause they wish to champion and the ability to work hand in hand with its charitable partners to plan and carry out their 3 projects.
 
 
Challenge One
Person (People) - Submission due by or before February 19, 2010.
Create and perform a community service event in our local community based around the people in need. Whether you choose the homeless, hungry, elderly, children, etc., you are charged to interact and partner with an organization and the people they serve. Get to know someone. Connect to them. Experience the human element. Try working hand in hand with your selected organization to change the lives of others, yourselves and the community!
Challenge Two
Place(s) - Submission due by or before March 26th, 2010
Create and perform a community service event in our local community to either benefit a place, (i.e. the organization you are partnering with), or to create a space or place for the community. Fundraisers could fall under this month as well as time spent at an organization, cleaning up a park, community gardens, creating marketing for the organization to raise awareness, etc.  So many ways to benefit the local organizations that you are partnering with!
Challenge Three
Thing(s) – Submission due by or before April 30th, 2010
Create and perform a community service event in our local community that includes either creating or collecting a product that will assist those in need, or your partnering organization. This is the month for drives! We have examples from our 1st Challenge event that can help give ideas or spark your creative genius! Just ask!!
Challenge Four - May 2009
Group Project!
Please have a contact within your team to be a part of the planning for this event. The actual event will be a one-day project, over a weekend, and will need to involve as many of our team members and additional volunteers as possible. It will be an amazing and rewarding day where we work hand in hand with others in the community to make it a better place. This is the project to bring your families, friends, coworkers, ANYONE and EVERYONE is welcome and encouraged to join us and get the opportunity to “Be the Change You Wish to See in the World!” More details will come about this project.
 
 
 
Help Project Change - Kansas City empower our community to identify and meet it's needs, and recognize that each of us can make a difference by working together to "be the change you wish to see in the world".
 
 
 
 
For more information, to participate, or to find out how you can be a part of this amazing event contact beverly@projectchange-kc.org .