Your mission, should you choose to accept it.

Want to jump in right away? Here are five initiatives that could use your help:

1. Operation Food Bank.
   Let's create a way to link foodbanks and meal programs to help even more people.
2. Operation Gateway Beautification.
   Let's create a simple way to make our entry ways more beautiful. Are you an artist, architect, landscaper or builder. We need you.
3. Operation Petunia.
   Ever driven by LaQuinta Inn. Did you notice the beautiful color? We're working on obtaining beautiful, xeriscape flowers for our area that we'll be placing around the city in strategic locations. Please help us in this effort, and in watering.
4. Operation Micro Parks Project.
   See an empty spot that needs some TLC. Why not turn asphalt into green spaces?
5. Youth United.
   Let's get our young people involved. They have so many ideas and such creativity. This is a program of United Way that could use your help.

Interested? Call or e-mail for details. We're looking for a team leader for each project, along with people with skills and ideas in lots of disciplines. We're developing project folders, including systems and tools, that can be handed off for each of these projects, so you can build your team, and take off!!!

Not everyone wants to get involved in the same way. Here are some other ways you can make a difference.