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ICAN for short. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to making improvements to the community.Some of the things we pursue is working on the areas that are most difficult for homeowners to fix themselves, such as gutters and soffits. These improvements go a long way towards preventing a house from major repairs later, results from water damage.We also are dedicated to getting young people involved in their community as well. Some examples of this can be trimming lawns and right of ways or picking up trash in parks.We promote recycling efforts with the hopes of 90% recycling opportunity at all locations where people throw out their trash.Idealists also believes in community gardens, where fresh vegetables and fruits are made available to people in urban areas with an emphasis on community involvement.We also promote sustainable design and redesign practices including rainwater collection, urban wind energy, greenhouses and proper new construction sustainable development standards. ***********************

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Anyone who is an idealist, and wonders what they can do. You can when you say ICAN. If every other person contributed $20 a year towards benefitting their community, can you imagine how that yearly money could continually improve any area.Our goal isn't to invest in things that continually need money spent on it but on things that once the money has gotten something, it is in place for the betterment of the community.There are many things that can be gotten with $20. A tree can be bought, trash bags for collecting trash and some vegetable seeds. That's just with $20. Say we had a couple hundred dollars. Maybe there's somewhere you always drive by or walk by that's old and run down. The city hasn't town it down and it always seems sad, maybe it has a great wall that could be painted. The power of wall murals is that most always the themes of these murals is positive. Now everyday, you and 20,000 other people each day will pass by that building and smile. The price of a smile is worth the most and costs the least.

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Earth Day 2009

Earth Day 2009, Sunday April 19th at the Maumee Bridge on Anthony Blvd. This is an all day event. Please wear some muddin clothes and shoes, gloves and the will to keep our rivers clean, afterall we a...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:52:00 GMT

Summit City Noise dot com

Hey all,Summit City Noise is an online news source for Fort Wayne. It is by the people and for the people, so whatever your news, concerns, etc, go to www.SummitCityNoise.comThe gentleman that produce...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:51:00 GMT

PAINTERS, Your Community Needs You.

Ok, so you've painted up high before, YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU! A business owner has offered to pay for the paint for his building. It's not a whole building. Only 4 popout windows, some roof dentel b...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Fall is the perfect time to help a neighbor

Hello everyone, It's August now and we can all see how the days are changing. There is some color in the leaves now, the temperature is perfectly warm with a slight breeze and this year there are cicc...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:25:00 GMT

ICAN cans

Now that the EIN number is had and the Articles of Incorporation have been sent, the time has come for fundraising. We need area businesses to allow us to set out an ICAN can. The first cans will be s...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:58:00 GMT

You gotta put your money where your mouth is

Let's get this show on the road. This is a nonprofit for everyone. All the money goes into lasting things. We've done some volunteering. We'd like there to be wall murals in li...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:38:00 GMT

2 Wall Murals

Hey Fort Wayne, We are currently trying to raise money for two wall murals. We are hoping for about a 100 persons to donate $20 each to the fund. In about 2 weeks, there will also be collection cans a...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:58:00 GMT