Help The Englewood Neighborhood win $25,000 to finish our Outdoor Nature Playspace!

Last updated on: April 4, 2013 at 2:37 pm by Christopher Smith

Help The Englewood Neighborhood win $25,000 to finish our Outdoor Nature Playspace! 2013-04-04T14:37:32-05:00 Christopher Smith

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Starting today, the Englewood Neighborhood on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis (where I live, work and worship), is in the running for a $25,000 grant Neighborhood Assist Grant from State Farm.

If we would win, the money would be used to turn our community garden and the adjacent lot into a playspace and Nature education outdoor classroom

We have worked with Keep Indianapolis Beautiful to develop a plan for the space, which if you are interested, you can view here…

The plans include lots of trees for climbing, fruit trees, a tree house, water play area, a picnic shelter and more.

Sandwiched between two abandoned industrial complexes, the little Englewood neighborhood has no parks and very minimal public greenspace. Located in a food desert, food and gardening education is an important piece of the comprehensive development of our neighborhood. Englewood Community Development has coordinated a community garden in this space for at least 12 years and this grant would help expand the garden into a space that in addition to growing food, would encourage imaginative play and nature education.

We’d love for you to vote 10 times daily for our project:

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You must be a Facebook user to vote, and you can vote up to 10 times each day from April 4-22.

For more info, and to receive a daily reminder to vote, go to our Facebook event and indicate that you are “going” to this event (not a real event, just a virtual space to let people know about this opportunity).

Here is a promo video that we made for this project, which is a good introduction:

To learn more about some of the things going on in our neighborhood and the broader Near Eastside of Indianapolis, here are a couple of pieces that I wrote for Christianity Today‘s This is Our City:

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