ECM Wins the Charity Fan Vote!

Thank you to everyone who voted for Extreme Community Makeover in the Citywide Banks Charity Fan Vote contest on Facebook.  Read more here.  With 46% of the votes, ECM won the $500 donation.  Each vote made that possible, so thanks for your support!

Small Changes.....Huge Impact

Extreme Community Makeover (ECM) provides the small changes necessary to make a huge impact – leaving neighbors connected and neighborhoods different. For Karen, living in Southwest Denver’s Westwood neighborhood her experience with ECM started with a piece of paper. After her husband died, maintaining her house while taking care of her grandchildren was nearly impossible due to her fibromyalgia,. After visits from the city with warnings to clean up her property, Karen found a paper on her door from ECM. “I was relieved, and glad to have some help. I thought they’d just come for a few hours but so many people showed up – it was like a Godsend – everyone came and it was done.” For Karen, cleaning up her yard, cutting up fallen trees, nailing up a fence and painting the back of her house provided her with relief. With Extreme Community Makeover, a paper left on a door can leave a house and a neighborhood just looking different.

Vote for ECM to Win $500

ECM has been nominated to receive a $500 contribution from Citywide Banks.  But there are four other organizations also competing for the prize.  If you are on Facebook, please "Like" the Citywide Banks page and scroll down where you will then have the option to choose "Extreme Community Makeover" to receive your charity fan vote.  Click here now.!

To read the spotlight about ECM, click here.

Thanks for voting!

10,000 Volunteers - 1,000 Projects!

As today marks the tenth anniversary of 9.11, ECM reached a signficant milestone as a group from God's Grace Community Church served with ECM today.  The accomplishment is that this group of hard-working folks helped ECM surpass 10,000 total volunteers who have worked with families in 6 Denver neighborhoods to complete 1,000 total projects since ECM began in 2008!  Today shows that volunteering can really make a difference as we all look for ways to be a good neighbor by remembering the sacrifice that many of our own neighbors have made for others, as well as ourselves.