24 Hour Citizen Project

04/27/2026

LOVE! 🎨🖼️🖌️Congrats to Team Acadiana Art Closet!

04/03/2026

🙌🙌 Let's go, Lafayette Kid News!!

From homemade papers at the breakfast table to a full-fledged publication, one local 9-year-old girl is helping kids across Lafayette find their voice through a newspaper built just for them.

03/27/2026

Weekend plans: Support the new art closet and stick around for the Arts Fest 🎨 ✨️

Let's go Team Acadiana Art Closet!

It’s happening! Omg, it’s really happening! 🎉

Come celebrate the official launch of a brand new Art Closet THIS SATURDAY at 9:45am, right out front of J. Wallace James Elementary!

We’ll have art supplies in the art closet and you can bring your donations to add, too!

And if you want to stick around, the JWJ annual Arts Fest begins at 10 and features art and music demonstrations, , , fun jumps, face painting, and MORE! 🥳🎈🎨🫟

Find out more at the link in the bio, and we can’t wait to party party party!

03/27/2026

It's just about GO TIME!!! Volunteers are needed tomorrow at 8am to help with this build. Also, anyone who wants to get involved with the community fridge program, please come at 10am for the onboarding presentation. The location is Christian Life Center, 411 Verot School Road, Lafayette.

PLEASE SHARE!!!

03/11/2026

CALLING VOLUNTEERS! It's the time of year! The The Beluga Project's Safe Sensory Space is the gift that keeps on giving. They are looking for peeps in the community to help out with festival this year. We've already seen the volunteer list. You'll be in good company.

CALL FOR FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERS! 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀

We need you! The community needs you! Your service hours needs you! Your drawer needs a new cool shirt! Please use this link to sign up. OR scan the QR code. The more the better! SLOTS FOR SATURDAY MORNING ARE ALREADY FULL!! We 🫶 you. ADDITIONALLY, we could use some strong high school students to help us load the truck on Friday early afternoon, time TBD on April 24, 2026 and Sunday afternoon at 3:30 pm on April 26, 2026.

Sign up today 👇👇👇
https://volunteersignup.org/L4YHC

🩵 3 shifts on Saturday April 25, 2026 and 3 shifts on Sunday April 26, 2026.

11/15/2025

11/10/2025

They came, they pitched, they CONQUERED. After months of hard work, 5 projects left Acadiana Center for the Arts with funding on Saturday.

Please join us in congratulating:
Team Lafayette Kid News
Team Feeding Others: Outreach & Distribution / FOOD Acadiana
Team 64 Squares of Lagniappe
Team Certify Teens (Kisharra Angelety)
Team Global Bites

We are so proud and grateful for ALL of the teams who put their heart and soul into making their community better, the backers who donated their time and money to support them, and the community members who showed up to root them on.

THANK YOU to everyone who made the night so special and a huge congratulations to our winning teams.

11/09/2025

11/09/2025

What a night, y'all 🤩 we are beyond proud of all of our citizen teams who put their hearts and souls into their projects. Congratulations to all and thank you again to all of backers who made last night possible 💓