How It Works

Neighborhoods reach their full potential when their positive, constructive thinkers are discovered and explored.

Imaginative people draw the best out of their neighbors by solving problems and creating a sense of pride and possibility.

Communities are Microcosms for Teaching and Learning Experiences that Transform Lives.

This documentary series looks for people and groups that:

• Care for their environment

• Pursue their inspirations

• Engage in the giving spirit

Our audiences explore how people inspire each other in these realms to improve their neighborhoods.

Unengaged communities are places where people have to randomly discover the depth of wisdom and accomplishments that surround them. Exploring local knowledge helps create rich tapestries of curiosity and constructive places to live.

Once imaginative contributions are archived in a local library or a school, they can permanently enrich the quality of life for future generations. Our tiny films scratch the surface of human possibility—where we live.

Our Process for Choosing Imaginative Thinkers in a Neighborhood 

• We ask PTAs, schools, civic groups, environmental advocates, and arts organizations for their nominations of inspiring local achievements.

• We produce a short documentary film that capture their stories.

• Each film is screened within a one-mile radius of its subject, encouraging community dialogue.

• Screenings include facilitated Q&A sessions with parents, educators, historians, and the featured artists, environmentalists, and volunteers.

• Our archive already contains over 100 short films from a variety of neighborhoods.

Education Begins at Home

When people discuss our range of subjects at home and then notice examples in their own neighborhoods, a connection is made.

When a younger person can discuss local observations with an informed adult about the impact of an artist, environmentalist, or the giving spirit of a volunteer, it can have a transformative, life-long impact.

The Radius Project explorations and discoveries are designed to complement formal education. It is a self-directed, learner-controlled process that includes learning from a wide range of sources like family, friends, museums, online videos, and on-the-job training, without formal curricula or assessments.

This type of education helps individuals gain knowledge and skills through learning that continues after formal school ends. When people channel their local observations and inspirations through their formal schooling, all things are possible.

Our post-film discussions

Our events are fun and inclusive because each attendee has likely benefited from the achievements of a local artist, environmentalist, or volunteer.

The objective is to create interactive audiences that share valuable observations and local knowledge. We emphasize intergenerational conversations because younger neighbors can only benefit from being introduced to insightful neighbors who may be potential, proactive visionaries.

These audience-driven events are curated studies of the impact of people whose mission is to bring pride and dignity to their community.

Our Film Screenings feature:

• Often unseen Impact of local Artists, Environmentalists, and Volunteers

• Strategies for sparking first conversations with children about how the subjects of the films enrich the quality of their neighborhood.

• Audience Q&A with the subjects of the films

• Neighborhoods learn about other Neighborhoods, aka problem-solvers, resourcefulness, and the giving spirit.

Purpose of The Radius Project

-Keep our mission relevant to a one-mile radius of each film screening location.

Review our Sample Neighborhood Films

Artists' Perspectives:

• Explore an array of local art forms, how the five senses invite inspirations, transformations, and impact.

• Showcase the diverse ways art enriches the daily quality of life within communities.

Please review the sample film:

Environmentalism:

• Highlight innovative practices environmentalists employ to protect local land, water, and air.

• Encourage viewers to adopt sustainable habits that nurture the well-being of their surroundings.

Please review the sample film:

Volunteerism Impact:

• Volunteers shed light on impactful stories of how their quality of life improved from neighbors working together.

• Inspire individuals to engage in community service and strengthen the fabric of neighborhoods.

• Volunteerism ignites our caring spirit, especially during a crisis.

Please review the sample film: