LEGO Building for a Non-Profit

[BigDumbWookiee]

Hey everyone!

So I've been here a while, and that obviously means I'm a big fan of LEGO. I'm also a graphic designer and branding manager for a non-profit organization based in Indianapolis, IN. We work with youth who have mental, emotional and behavioral challenges. Part of what we do is work to get kids out of institutional care and back into their homes with their families.

I met with one of our program directors yesterday, and we were brainstorming ideas on how to get staff involved and working as a team, sharing in eachother's success. He suggested we get some LEGO bricks and start a "3D Bar Graph" and each time we get, say, 10 kids, we add another level to the LEGO bar graph, basically building a tower. That lead me to an idea of why don't we build a big LEGO skyscraper of some sort, that represents all of the institutionalized kids, and each time we sucessfully move a kid to a home, we remove a brick or layers of bricks, and build a little house next to the skyscraper, with the ultimate goal of not having a skyscraper anymore, but a village of little houses.

Thoughts? Can any of you expert builders share some ideas on how we might accomplish this? Keeping in mind we 1) don't have any bricks right now and would have to buy some (LEGO digital designer might be a good way to do this? 2) want to do something for as little cost as possible (so, small skyscraper, small houses, fewer bricks). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated: ways to build tiny houses in brick form, pieces to represent people (i.e. microfigures? not necessarily the true LEGO game microfigures, but something tiny to represent people).

Looking forward to your suggestions!

[Skull-Mark_Ladybug]

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Edited May 17, 2025 by Skull-Mark_Ladybug