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Refugees deserve more than survival. We join them in creating beauty, dignity, and home. They send a message: *You don't belong here. Kids grow up. Why beauty?

Through art, design, and placemaking, we help transform camps and shelters into places of pride and belonging. What we do

Everyplace partners with refugee communities to create beauty, belonging, and dignity in the places they're living right now. More than 75% of refugees live away from home for years—sometimes decades. But the places they're living (tents, camps, temporary shelters) were never meant for real life. Don't get comfortable.*

We believe that message is wrong. Life keeps happening in displacement. People fall in love. Families celebrate and grieve. When the world only focuses on keeping people alive, we forget they're also *living*. That's where Everyplace comes in. We support refugee-led projects that make everyday spaces more beautiful—gardens, murals, gathering spots, and the quiet reimagining of places that were never designed to feel like home. We don't arrive with plans. We follow the lead of communities who are already doing this work: planting in dust, painting walls that weren't meant to last, creating something meaningful out of nothing. Our job is to recognize it, fund it, and amplify it. Beauty isn't decoration. It's how people rebuild. It's how communities say: *we're still here, and we matter.*

When a space feels cared for, the people in it feel cared for too. That's not extra—that's essential. Where we come from

Everyplace builds on research from Clark University's Home Ground Lab, which showed that beauty isn't optional in humanitarian response—it's infrastructure for healing, dignity, and hope. How to support

Everyplace is a fiscally sponsored project of Players Philanthropy Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible. Learn more: http://www.every-place.org

09/24/2026

We’re looking for a brilliant storyteller and video editor 🎬

Everyplace backs refugee-led organizations to build the beauty their communities envision, so that the places people depend on for daily life feel more like home. 🏡

We do this three ways:

1️⃣ We build the capacity of refugee-led organizations

2️⃣ We transform physical places

3️⃣ We tell stories

We’re looking for an editor to help us tell the stories of what is happening right now: a 10 to 15 minute video, shot across several communities by refugees who live there. 🎨

Freelance, remote, US$4,000, associate producer credit. Refugee and displaced editors strongly encouraged to apply.

Full description: link in stories

To apply, email [email protected] with

1 - why you care about this & why you’re the right person for the job

2 - one full piece you edited

3 - where you’re based.

⏰ Deadline: Wednesday, 30 September

09/19/2026

That helpless/hopeless feeling? It has an antidote.

It’s called action.

You can take action when you join the Paintbox. Our monthly giving community which launched Sept 21.

And it’s working to
✅ close our 2026 funding gap

✅ help us build our organizational core

✅ launch an international movement of normal people who work together to change the opportunities refugees have.

Read our impact report of what we’ve accomplished in year 1. And imagine what we can do in year 2 with you!

Link in bio.

Will you give $10, $60 or $100 a month?

09/18/2026

Why do we keep telling you about the Paintbox?

Because in three days it opens, and most of you still haven’t heard what it is.

So👇

The Paintbox is Everyplace’s monthly giving community to make every refugee community beautiful.

Refugees are already making the places they live feel like home. 🏡 Every month, we pay for the supplies.

Here’s how it works.

Our partners, refugees themselves, ask their neighbors one question: where do you see beauty here?

The neighbors decide how to create more of it.

We pay for the supplies. ✅

That’s the whole thing.

This year it’s a sign at the entrance to Mahama camp, seating by the river, and a field in Dzaleka where 150 kids play every day. 🌳

Members give anywhere from $5 to $100 a month, a cup of coffee to a night out, and every one counts the same. ☕

And every month, a print of what was made arrives in the mail, made by someone who lives there. 💌

Everyone who joins during launch week is a founding member. ✨

Do you believe beauty belongs in every place, including a refugee camp?

Do you want to be one of the people who pays for the supplies?

If yes, then you are exactly who this is for.

IIf you are a person who wants to build a more hopeful, colorful, joyful world alongside refugees, then join the Paintbox. 🎨

👉 It opens Monday, September 21, the International Day of Peace. Comment PAINT to get on our email list to here more.

09/15/2026

Desideratte, 28, is a mom of three in Mahama refugee camp, Rwanda.

When Melance, a refugee who runs one of our partner organizations, asked his neighbors where they see beauty, she answered by looking backwards.

“In that place, we felt isolated, we forgot who we were, and we lost hope. But everything changed when we decided this would be home, at least for now.”

So she organized her neighbors to clean up the camp. They planted trees. They planted gardens

As the conversation went on, the other representatives chimed in about where they see beauty now: in the diversity of who we are, in the next generation, in the river along the edge of the camp.

Then the president of the executive committee said it out loud.

By the end of that conversation they had a plan.

A sign at the entrance that represents who they are, and seating by the river so more people can experience beauty.
fall, we’re paying for the supplies and they’re building both right now

A place where people felt isolated and forgot who they were became a place of beauty. And it started with one question. Everything starts with beauty.

Refugees ask their neighbors where they see it. The neighbors decide how to create more of it. We pay for the supplies.

This is the Paintbox, Everyplace’s monthly giving community. It opens Monday, September 21. Get the impact report and join the waitlist. Comment PAINT and we’ll send you the link.

09/14/2026

Every month, communities are creating beauty in places everyone else gave up on.

The Paintbox launches September 21 so you can be part of it.

Get the impact report and join the list to hear when it launches → Comment PAINT

09/13/2026

Look 👀 what’s happening in Dzaleka Refugee Camp

The Alliance Against Poverty in Africa, led by Muhimuzi Jimmy, has served this community for years.

This spring they asked their neighbors one question: where does beauty live here?

Over and over, people said: the next generation.

Kids learning. Kids playing.

So the community decided to build on the beauty they already had.

They chose the playground, where 150 children come every day, and right now they are repairing the swings, painting, and cleaning it up.

Neighbors doing the work, for their own kids.

In some ways it’s so simple. It’s also profound.

The joy of making something new, and the joy of getting to come together to do it.

IThis is what the work looks like in action, and this is what you help pay for.

When you join the Paintbox, this is what you’re part of. And with you, it can happen in dozens more places.

The Paintbox opens Monday, September 21, the International Day of Peace.

Subscribe via link in bio

Photo and videos by Alliance Against Poverty Africa

09/12/2026

Nine days till what?

🎨

NINE days until the Paintbox opens. Monday, September 21, the International Day of Peace.

The Paintbox is Everyplace’s monthly giving community.

Refugees are already making the places they live feel like home. Every month, we pay for the supplies.

Members give anywhere from $5 to $100 a month, the equivalent of a cup of coffee to a nice dinner out.

Every month, a print of what was made arrives in the mail, made by a community member who lives there.

The box opens in the newsletter first.

Sign up via link in bio.

09/11/2026

A garden. A mural. A gathering space. Shade. A place to heal.

☝ These aren’t ideas we dreamed up in a boardroom.

They came from people living in refugee camps and settlements who were asked one question: where is beauty here?

Then we backed them.

With funding, with training, with connections.

Because the moment you ask someone what they want to build instead of handing them what you think they need, everything changes.

That’s the model and it’s why it works.

On September 21st, we’re launching The Paintbox, our monthly giving community.

Comment PAINT to get our 2026 impact report and join the list to be the first to hear when it goes live

09/10/2026

When people feel proud of where they live, everything shifts.

Our 2026 impact report shows it:

62% of neighbors who engaged with our projects said: I'm proud of my community.

Compared with only 39% of other neighbors.

That's 23 points.

Here's the part that matters most to us: it didn't come from handing down a solution.

It came from asking: Where is beauty here? What would you make?'

Listening to the answers: Gardens, murals, playgrounds, cultural centers.

And then paying for the supplies to bring it to life.

That's the model. That's why we exist. To support, fund, amplify and celebrate the ways that refugee communities are leading, working and making change.

Want the full report? Comment PAINT and we'll send the link to your DMs.

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