Ten100
The 10-100-1000 Challenge
Ten ideas, 100 days, $1,000: Can you help make Tampa Bay a better place to live?
Thanks to everyone who came out to support our awards event! We’re excited to announce the top 10 finalists. Read more about their projects here.
Sweetwater/Children’s Home Farm
And the winners are…
Pitch Party Winner (Selected by USFSP Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Alliance students) – The Green Can
Readers Choice Award – The Roosevelt 2.0
Overall 10/100/1000 winner – Swings
Read more about Swings
Creative Tampa Bay would like to thank everyone who submitted projects. The Tampa Bay region has some wonderful talent, ideas and initiatives! We encourage you to take a look at the projects and reach out to the contributors if you can offer support.
Read a summary of the 10/100/1000 initiative and let us know if we should continue it!
Project Submissions
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- REALM hosts free events in Curtis Hixon Park.
- Artists and Writers Group is planning the Cuban Sandwich Show arts celebration.
- Improving pedestrian safety in Tampa.
- Tampa Changing re-photographs areas of Tampa that are in historic photos.
- Block party to get newcomers acquainted with Tampa Bay.
- Field day for the Children’s Home of Tampa.
- Hoola for Happiness will host workshops to and jams to get people moving in at-risk neighborhoods
- Project TEN is a 10-day workshop for teen entrepreneurs.
- Promote a “less is more” mentality to achieve the american dream.
- A localized version of the section 8 program to help with affordable housing.
- Florida Institute for Community Studies will create a nicer Tampa Bay through a bracelet sharing campaign.
- An “I Love Tampa Bay Mobile Video Booth” will encourage people to share their thoughts about the Tampa Bay area.
- Herbalwise will teach people how to maintain their health with natural methods.
- Academy Prep Center provides educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
- The Arts Campaign will bring a traveling theater to local schools.
- TRASITion Tampa Bay will set up “flash cafes” on the waterfront to feature local chefs and food.
- A 100-year solution for world peace.
- We are Danger will create a web site that educates, supports, embraces, and loves our community, starting with the youth.
- Funny Money Productions will create a show about the Artist Rene’ Magritte’.
- Scrapping for the Arts, an alternate fund raising structure for emerging exhibition spaces and cultural institutions.
- Transform the space between Ybor City and downtown Tampa into a botanic park.
- Sunshine City Solar will create a business cluster around solar equipment and technology.
- ‘Transform underused lots in downtown St. Petersburg into the Florida World’s Fair.
- Open Baywalk’s courtyard to food cart vendors.
- Greenlight Night will offer a chance for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to potential investors.
- The Aquavoirs – a new Clean Millennium Movement [C2M] Next Generation art of urban rainwater management and the prevention of pollution.
- Florida Museum of Photographic Arts (FMoPA) will expand to a larger location.
- Real Estate Lives (REL) will help real estate and related professionals rebound from unemployment.
- Innovative Design Studios will replace the St. Petersburg Pier with a ferris wheel.
- The Green Can will start recycling programs for apartment communities.
- TGIF 2010 – Tampa-Gasparilla International Fly-in will promote low cost personal air transportation.
- Camelot Community Home Town Charters will present a new level of community-based governance.
- The Florida House and Senate JOBS Bill 465 offers changes to property.
- The Pedestrian Safety Campaign will make Tampa Bay a safer place for pedestrians.
- The Florida Global Airport Project will improve Tampa International Airport.
- Uniting the Bay campaign to bring the Tampa Bay region together.
- The Roosevelt 2.0 facilitates a space that celebrates the creative arts and assists students with entrepreneurship.
- Camelot Florida proposes 10 ideas to take Tampa Bay to the top.
- Install swings in moderate traffic areas with trees and parks.
- China Town along Central Ave. in St. Petersburg.
- Hampton Arts Management will develop an Arts Incubator in Ybor.
- Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts will support Chalk Walk.
- Thundershirts will create a Freedom Art Mural with changeable public art in downtown Tampa.
- A pilot television show that helps get homeless families off the streets .
- Kidding Around Yoga will incorporate yoga into Tampa’s public school curriculum.
- The Pink Cricket will host an Art of Reading Festival for children.
- A house to help homeless men get off the streets.
- A creative outlet mall with open mike events in the open area at BayWalk.
- Sweetwater Community Farm will open a new farm at the Children’s Home.
- Tampa Bay International Wellness Expo will provide a world’s fair type exhibit for fitness, wellness and health.
- Gulf Stream Energy Society will harness the energy of the gulf stream to provide eletricity.
- Revitalize the spring in Sulfur Springs to allow for manatee viewing.
- FASTFA Florida will create a bay wide bus system.
- Florida Shakespeare Festival at Eckerd College.
- The G.Y.S.T. will create a collective source of information for youth.
- Camelot Florida will bring MWays and EZWays to downtown Tampa.
- Florida Bauhaus will bring Streets du Soleil to downtown Tampa.
- Cheeky Monkeys Books and Toys will open a book store in downtown St. Pete to nurture reading in young children.
- Increase and enhance outside events in Curtis Hixon Park.
- Landmarc Contracting will replace Tampa’s street lights with LED lights.
- A job fair prior to Buccaneers and Rays games.
- The Free Pinellas Constituency will encourage a renewable community through locally grown food.
- An organized series of dinner parties to celebrate diversity.
- Camelot Florida will launch a National Public Newspaper, based in Tampa.
- Friends of the Friendship Trail will preserve the Friendship Trail Bridge.
- The Florida Aviation Historical Society will coordinate a centenary celebration of the airline industry.
- College students will bring companion animal care into K-12 classrooms
- A mobile van that goes into neighborhoods to spay and neuter feral cats
- Co-op organic gardens that also support food banks
- Localshops1.com will host a contest to find the most community-minded shopper and continue their efforts to support and promote local business.
- Creative Clay will help employ artists with disabilities.
- A treasure hunt exposing people to art galleries and other creative industries.
- A program for mandatory recycling in Tampa Bay.
- Code Green Community will work on a movement toward creating more community with shared resources.
- Create a foundation to support arts projects and their creators.
- The Giving Patch will move toward their goal of creating a community garden for families in need.
- Tampa Bay Mentor Match will provide youth with access to powerful and enduring learning opportunities.
- Tampa Bay Cycle Highway will expand use of the Upper Tampa Bay Trail and make surrounding stores bike friendly.
Ideas & Resources
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