Provides emergency home repairs to low and moderate income homeowners. Repairs include plumbing, electrical, furnace and cooling systems, and roofing. The Neighborhood Pride program paints houses and fences and spreads landscaping gravel in targeted neighborhoods. The Tool Lending Center loans tools and equipment to homeowners, renters, and neighborhood groups undertaking landscaping projects, yard clean-ups, community rebuilding, and other improvement projects.

Peoria Community Assistance Division | Peoria Community Assistance Division

Programs that seek to improve a neighborhood's physical, economic, and social conditions to enhance the overall quality of life and economic opportunities for neighborhood residents. Neighborhood revitalization includes a range of initiatives that target multiple, but complementary, development goals including business development, infrastructure improvements, workforce training, facade improvements, amenity development and property reuse. Critical to this process is the revitalization of commercial areas because it creates jobs for local residents, provides goods and services to the local market (thereby keeping local dollars in the community) and improves the overall image of the neighborhood by signaling that business can succeed there.

Neighborhood Revitalization

Programs that provide a variety of minor home repair services for homeowners who qualify. Specific services vary by organization but include such things as fixing leaky pipes and faucets; clearing clogged drains; replacing broken switches, sockets and electrical fixtures; changing light bulbs; fixing or replacing door locks and handles; replacing broken screen doors or window panes; installing smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and changing batteries; making minor repairs on stair treads; replacing carpet threshold strips; and replacing furnace filters.

General Minor Home Repair Programs

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills and experience who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to make minor repairs to the homes of older adults, people with disabilities, low income individuals and others the organization serves. Typical services include repair or replacement of broken doors and windows; accessibility improvements such as ramps and hand railings; correction of safety hazards such as repairs to porches, steps and sidewalks; home security improvements such as fences, security doors and smoke detectors; habitability improvements such as replacement of sinks, toilets and floor tiles; and interior and exterior painting.

Handyworker Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that pay for or provide tools and equipment that are necessary for home maintenance/improvement, making or mending clothing, domestic hobbyist projects, yard work or other similar activities around the home.

Household Tools/Equipment

Programs that pay for or provide new or reconditioned air conditioners that people can use during hot weather.

Air Conditioners

Programs that offer the services of individuals who inspect roofs for broken or missing shingles, apply new shingles, locate and fix leaks, winterize and waterproof the roof, remove moss or algae and accumulated debris, check the flashings and joints for holes or deterioration, and make minor repairs.

Roof Maintenance/Repair

Programs that provide assistance in the form of labor and supplies for people who need to make major repairs to their homes or upgrade/replace entire systems to eliminate health and safety hazards (such as gas leaks, outdated or hazardous electrical wiring and plumbing) or to improve their security e.g., by installing fences or fixing/replacing broken doors or windows. Typical services include major roofing repair and/or replacement; electrical and plumbing upgrades or repairs; septic system improvements; heating and air conditioning system repairs; flooring, tile or wall repairs; and interior and exterior painting that is part of the home rehabilitation process. Most programs do not handle minor repairs. Age, income, disability, need or other eligibility requirements may apply.

Home Rehabilitation Services

Responsible for building and safety, planning and zoning, community revitalization, and administrative hearings. Roving Area Neighborhood Dumpster (RAND) and Prescott Valley Tool Box provide trash containers and tools for loan to neighborhood and nonprofit groups involved in neighborhood clean-up and abatement projects. Graffiti Busters removes graffiti from private property and offers education about the effects of graffiti on the community.

Prescott Valley Community Development Department | Prescott Valley Community Development Department

Programs that issue permits which authorize new construction or major alterations or expansions of existing buildings that affect the structural integrity of the building or the public safety, or which are done to bring a structure into compliance with building codes or occupancy requirements in conjunction with an approved building plan.

Building Permits

Local government planning offices that gather information on existing physical, social and economic conditions; project future trends; examine alternative courses of action; and develop long and short-term land use plans to guide the growth and revitalization of urban, suburban and rural areas within the community. Planning staff promote effective use of the community's land and resources for residential, commercial, recreational and agricultural purposes; help local officials make decisions about social, economic and environmental problems; plan for the development of parks, schools, public housing and other infrastructure; and address traffic congestion, air pollution, water pollution and a wide variety of other issues that arise as a result of growth and change in a community.

City/County Planning Offices

Programs that paint over or remove inscriptions, designs or other spray painted markings that deface homes or other structures in private, residential areas.

Residential Graffiti Removal

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to spend time painting over or removing inscriptions, designs and other markings that deface buildings, walls, rocks and other artifacts or natural structures in commercial districts, residential areas or the countryside.

Graffiti Removal Volunteer Opportunities

Programs that are for responsible researching, establishing, maintaining and overseeing the implementation of general and specific/area plans for land use at regional, county, city and community levels; ensuring an appropriate level of community input during the planning process; regulating the current and future use of public and private lands through the establishment and enforcement of zoning regulations and other land use controls; and reviewing and ruling on requests for zoning alterations and other variances from established land development ordinances.

Land Use Planning and Regulation Services

Loans power tools and hand tools to community groups. Tools include hammers, saws, ladders, sanders, lawnmowers, weedeaters, wood chippers, and more.

Phoenix Community ToolBank | Phoenix Community ToolBank

Programs that accept new or secondhand tools and equipment that are necessary for gardening, home maintenance/repair, hobbyist projects or other activities around the home, refurbish them if necessary, and keep them for use in their own programs, or donate them to other community-based organizations for their own use or for distribution to the people they serve.

Household Tools/Equipment Donation Programs

Divisions of businesses or nonprofit agencies that are responsible for developing products or delivering designated services to the public. Departments of NGOs are generally led by a manager, supervisor, director or vice president.

Nongovernmental Agency Departments

Organizations that operate vans and trucks which pick up and remove unwanted personal and household goods, office equipment and supplies and other items from homes and businesses.

Donation Pickups

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with a valid driver license and current insurance who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to pick up and remove personal and household goods, office equipment and supplies and other items that individuals and agencies want to donate. Tasks include coordinating pickup of donated goods from homes, businesses, or designated drop off points; lifting boxes, loading trucks and driving from one pickup location to another.

Donations Pickup Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing, on a voluntary basis without remuneration, to organize, move and distribute donated goods to designated distribution points. Tasks including lifting boxes, loading pallets and/or handing out donated goods at a distribution center.

Donations Distribution Volunteer Opportunities

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals who are willing to work as janitors on a voluntary basis without remuneration.

Custodian Volunteer Opportunities

Government and nonprofit agencies that have positions within their organizations for individuals who have been convicted of an offense and ordered by the court to do community service in lieu of or in addition to incarceration, fines, restitution or other sanctions.

Court Ordered Community Service Sites

Programs that accept paint, siding, lighting fixtures, hardware, doors, windows and other construction materials and keep them for use in their own program or donate them to community-based organizations that will use them in housing renovation or other community revitalization projects.

Building Materials/Supplies Donation Programs

Organizations that are actively seeking individuals with the requisite skills who are willing to do general office work on a voluntary basis without remuneration.