Family Center of Durham

In Legacy Center’s Leadership Program, each team creates an extreme makeover project in the community with budgets that usually exceed $30,000. The challenge: the project must be complete in two days, the team cannot use any of their own money, the community performs 75% of the work, and the planning phase is less than one month.
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Family Center

The NC111 Leadership Team created a project Legacy Center project to support the Family Center of Northern Durham. The Family Center is a unique space for all families to come together, learn together, and play together. In one weekend, the team took a barren, dirt back yard and transformed it into a fun, colorful area for young children to play and explore outdoors. Children could feel like they mattered. The new additions included two play structures with slides and swings, a bike path, large sandbox, sound garden made from recycled and found objects, and an art area consisting of a paint station and large outdoor chalkboard. Budget $20,000.

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