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.