LIVING CITY PROJECT

April 20 - Citywide Cleanup

 

Registration is LIVE!

Last year we had over 700 volunteers serve across 22 neighborhoods to pick up 128+ tons of trash & debris. Will you join us this year? Register at the link above and invite your friends to serve our city together! Please see this year’s promo video below:

Thank you Will Flora for capturing the footage from last year!

Thank you Kettering Health, City of Dayton, Hall Hunger Initiative, neighborhood presidents, churches and partner organizations for making this project and impact possible!

2024 Living City Project

We are thankful for another great year to serve in 25+ neighborhoods across the city for the 2024 Living City Project! Please see participating host locations below. If you have a group that you would like to participate either to volunteer or host, please contact us at hnuss@declare.org!

Host locations…

  • Arlington Heights - 114 S Alder St, 45417 - Arlington Heights Neigh. Assoc.

  • Belmont - 2366 Glenarm Ave, 45420 - Lohrey Rec Center

  • Burkhardt - 2720 E 3rd St, Dayton, OH, 45403 - Dream Center

  • Burkhardt (2) - 215 Burkhardt Ave, 45403 - Stepping Stones

  • Dayton View Triangle - 200 Otterbien Ave, 45406 - DVT Federation

  • Eastern Hills - 1542 Speice Ave, 45403 - Eastern Hills Community Council

  • Eastern Hills / Wright View - 1542 Speice Ave, 45403 - Hope Hill

  • Fairlane - 4415 Dayton Liberty Rd, 45417 - New Covenant Apostolic Church

  • Five Oaks - 320 Homewood Ave, 45405 - Five Oaks Neigh. Assoc. / DECA PREP

  • Fort McKinley / Northern Hills - 3721 W Siebenthaler Ave, 45406 - Ginghamsburg Church

  • Grafton Hill - 41 Grafton Ave, 45405 - Grafton Hill Neigh. Assoc.

  • Greenwich Village - 4610 Prescott Ave, 45406 - Lighthouse Community Church

  • Highview Hills - 3323 Highviewhills Rd, 45417 - Harvest Grove Missionary Baptist Church

  • Hillview - 31 Willowwood Dr, 45405 - Hillview Neigh. Assoc.

  • Historic Inner East / Newcom Plain - 400 Hamilton Ave, 45403 - Waste-Free Dayton

  • Huffman / St. Annes Hill - 101 Linden Ave, 45403 - Linden Ave Baptist / St. Annes Hill Neigh. Assoc.

  • Jane Reece - 9 Orth Ave, 45402 - Jane Reece NA / House of Bread

  • Linden Heights - 3160 Cleveland Ave, 45420 - Linden Heights Community Council

  • MacFarlane - 33 Barnett St, 45402 - Passion Church / Dakota Center

  • Miami Chapel - 2050 Germantown St, 45417 - Potters House Dayton Int. Ministries

  • Mount Vernon - 1821 Emerson Ave, 45406 - Omega Baptist Church

  • Old Dayton View - 900 Lexington Ave, 45402 - Sisterbaby Community Solutions / United Methodist Baptist

  • Old North Dayton / McCook Field - 361 Maryland Ave, 45404 - OND Neigh. Assoc.

  • Philadelphia Woods - 2900 Philadelphia Dr, 45405 - The Inspiration Church

  • Princeton Heights - 1600 Princeton Dr, 45406 - Northwest Rec Center / Princeton Heights Neigh. Assoc.

  • Princeton Heights (2) - 907 W Fifth St, 45402 - Sunlight Village

  • Roosevelt - 2021 W Third St, 45417 - Greater Dayton Rec Center

  • Sandalwood Park - 100 Kurtz Ave, 45405 (Playground) - Sandalwood Park Neigh. Assoc.

  • South Park - 500 Hickory St, 45410 - Historic South Park Inc.

  • Twin Towers - 532 Xenia Ave, 45410 - Twin Towers Partnership / New Hope Church

  • University Row - Thal Park (Harvard Blvd &, Amherst Pl, 45406) - University Row Neigh. Assoc.

  • Westwood - 3011 Oakridge Rd, 45417 - Revival Center / Westwood Neigh. Assoc.

  • Westwood (2) - 1819 W Third St, 45417 - Neighbor innitiative

  • Host a Cleanup ('24 Signup CLOSED)

    Signups for 2024 host locations are now closed. If you have any questions about this year’s cleanup, , please email Benjamin.Baugham@daytonohio.gov.

  • Contribute

    Would you partner with us to support this collective effort? Please select “Go / Living City Project” from the dropdown menu.

2023 Highlights

Through all of the partnerships in 2023, there were over 25 cleanups, 1,000 volunteers, and 131 tons of debris removed! Thank you City of Dayton, Kettering Health, neighborhood presidents, churches, organizations and every volunteer for your part in this work! Check out the video below to learn more about the 2023 cleanup!

Thank you to Will Flora for telling this story! Promo Video from last year (2023)

The most fulfilling thing you can do is something for another person. Will you join us?

“We need YOU to make Dayton
a Living City.”