- Give and You Shall Receive (Submitted by Rachel Ng): Creating a neighborhood-based skills exchange where residents can offer their talent or post their needs.
- Living Walls by Nostrum Inc. (Submitted by Susan Collida): Enlivening blank neighborhood walls by mobilizing residents to collaborate and create community assets around the walls, such as vertical gardens, rock climbing, film screens or visual art.
Over 7,000 entries were received in the Challenge for “new ideas to build more successful cities across the United States.” The Challenge is providing grants of all sizes from a pool of $5 million dollars.
The 126 finalists have three weeks to submit a final application with additional information about their ideas. Winners will be announced this spring.
