Blueprints

Ready-to-use, high-impact service strategies available for cities to read and download. These customizable blueprints address specific city needs in six priority areas: education and youth, health, neighborhood revitalization, preparedness and safety, sustainability, and veterans.


Education and Youth


Grad CoachesGraduation Coaches

Graduation Coaches is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office equips and supports adults to coach youth towards educational success, helping to fight the high school dropout crisis.

Let’s Move, Let’s LearnLet’s Move, Let’s Learn

Let’s Move, Let’s Learn is a teaching and learning service strategy in which the mayor’s office helps children learn healthy eating and exercise behaviors through health-focused service-learning activities.

Third Grade ReadsThird Grade Reads

Third Grade Reads is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office leverages the power of volunteers to help children attain reading level proficiency by the beginning of fourth grade.


Health



Let’s GrowLet’s Grow

Let’s Grow is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office engages volunteers to improve access to healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods where grocery stores and fresh produce markets are scarce.


Neighborhood Revitalization



Graffiti BustersGraffiti Busters

Graffiti Busters is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office leverages the power of ordinary citizens to turn the tide in the fight against graffiti.

Love Your BlockLove Your Block

Love Your Block is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office engages community members in revitalizing their neighborhoods one block at a time.


Preparedness and Safety



Prepared is ProtectedPrepared is Protected

Prepared is Protected is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office mobilizes knowledgeable volunteers to bolster disaster awareness and preparedness of households in their communities.

Volunteer CPRVolunteer CPR

Volunteer CPR is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office, through partnerships with local medical professionals or emergency responders, trains volunteers to use the lifesaving hands-only CPR technique and then empowers them to share that training with friends and family.


Sustainability



Cool RoofsCool Roofs

Cool Roofs is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office engages volunteers to take action to conserve energy and lower the city’s carbon footprint by coating roofs white.

Sustainable Home MakeoverSustainable Home Makeover

Sustainable Home Makeover is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office engages volunteers to help homeowners assess their home’s energy efficiency and perform simple renovations to improve it.


Veterans


Operation ReintegrationOperation Reintegration

Operation Reintegration is a high-impact service strategy in which the mayor’s office engages veterans as volunteers to help newly returning veterans reintegrate into civilian life.