Neighbor to Neighbor

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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Neighbor to Neighbor

In two days Legacy Center’s NC113 Leadership Team created a recreational facility in Raleigh, NC’s inner city. This was an extreme undertaking. This project took a dirty old metal storage building and transformed it into a beautiful, clean recreational facility—half of which will be used for games such as billiards, ping-pong, foosball, card and board games. The other half will be used for free weights and fitness equipment. The property was beautified with new flowers, shrubs, mulch, and sod, picnic tables and benches.

The project weekend was bustling with many volunteers of all ages, who were excited to be giving back to their community, and anticipating a clean, safe place to play. At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Secretary Linda Hayes commented that the flood of excitement, not only from Legacy Center NC113, but from the volunteers, members, and neighbors is part of tangible, dynamic transformation. Budget: $55,000.