Set up a stand and give away as much ice cream as I can get for 10K
For that kind of money you’re really only talking about minor maintenance or beautification projects. Maybe funding the cleanup of a local area or two. Fresh coat of paint on a couple buildings. Maybe a mural. We’re talking small scale here. Which of course isn’t nothing. Small steps are what lead to bigger steps.
So personally I would probably spend it on a local park near me that needs heavy updating. Maybe redo the walking trail and if there’s enough money left over plant some more trees.
Skate park.
We had one when I was young but it got demolished to build a supermarket. It was devastating.See if I can bribe enough local officials to pass an amendment making bike lanes mandatory on all new road construction projects. Sadly, even at the local level I don’t think $10,000 would be enough.
10k will cover your needs while you wage a gorilla war on the same local officials. Hard to run for office if you’re dealing with your house burning down and threats about not having bike lanes.
I live in New York so practically nothing
I’d give out vouchers for getting stray cats fixed. We have a huge problem with feral cat colonies.
I like your idea. Though I think I would personally team up with a doctor who does human vasectomies and give out vouchers. Indoor cats have a life expectancy of 15-17 years, and feral cats have much less. Human males in the US however, have an average of 77 years of life expectancy. I personally believe we have a greater problem with the human population numbers than we do with cats or any other animal on this planet.
Human population numbers are fine. There are more than enough resources to sustainably support us, but distributing those resources isn’t profitable so it isn’t done.
bike lanes.
Plant trees
I keep toying with the idea of gorilla planting trees in the neighborhood. Make them look like they were installed by the county, complete with mulch and a small fence.
If you’re in the US, you’ll probably get away with it. In the last two neighborhoods I’ve lived in we had people who planted trees of their own accord and no one lifted a finger to stop them. (Which I’m happy about.)
Me too. We should just do it. The biggest issue is making sure landscaping doesn’t mow them down imo
Hence the little fence
Pay 0.000001% of debt.
That’s vastly insufficient even to begin planning any significant improvement, so… spend it on local businesses, I suppose. 🤷♂️
In a similar vein, fund a few events for local groups for the less well-to-do to go see a local band. Just get the money in circulation in a way that keeps it local, and does some good (for myself or others) without consuming too many natural respurces.
Leave. Fuck this city. That 10 grand would be better put to use relocating me to somewhere better.
Honestly right now food is at an all time high, finding local food banks would be top of the list.
I would want to get homeless families set up with housing, this also requires fixing the problem that caused that for them in the first place. I think I could help 2 families
If I also had a fair bit of time, community micro-grants are my favorite. Solicit ideas for improvements, offering 100-1000 bucks each. Select several, widely publicize what will be done.
Next favored, run a citizen assembly on a community issue (if you can do it cheap, have some money to allocate as an agenda item).
Finally, if the point is to ask what I want done… Right now it is probably homeless shelters and food pantries in the US. Lots of grants drying up.
Spend 500 on a magician tutor(teacher? Master? Sensei?) and another 500 on advertising for a new show at the local park on Thursday October 30th where I will spontaneously burst into oodles of various coins and bills in the middle of a word in the beginning half of my initial hype speech.
