The Paintbox
For people who want to make a more joyful, hopeful, colorful world alongside refugees.
Everyplace’s monthly giving community.
The Paintbox
Refugees are already making their places feel like home. Every month, we pay for the supplies.
Choose your monthly amount
Renews monthly · change or cancel any timeThe first round of prints will be mailed in late fall 2026.
What changes when a place starts to feel like home
In their own words, from the places they live and work.
“Since changing our mindset, we have begun to love this place.”
“When I see children playing, I see the future.”
“Everything we did gave me a sense of hope.”
“When we sit together and weave, we talk about our lives and support each other. It is more than a creative space, it is a healing space for us.”
“People overlook planting trees and flowers, while they bring oxygen, rain, create shade, and make people feel they can stay.”
“What motivated me is your belief that beauty already exists even in refugee camps. Because that is the truth.”
Why a paintbox?
Policies for refugees, services to refugees
For 15 years, I worked to help refugees rebuild their lives.
I thought changing policies and services would make a difference.
But it often left me burnt out, while conditions for refugees only got worse.
Everything changed when I saw beauty at work
Refugees were already creating beauty, and a sense of home.
What they needed was people to walk with them and believe in them, not do things for them.
That is why Everyplace started.
Two brothers put color in a box you could carry
In the late 1700s, they made paint portable and affordable for anyone.
Painting went from a luxury to an activity everyone could enjoy.
The paintbox changed who had supplies, and who had access.
A practical way to back talent that is already there
Refugees are artists, architects, engineers — but many people only see their housing situation.
We made the Paintbox for anyone who wants to support the dreams, talents, and dignity of refugees.
It is a way of consistently showing up, so that refugees have access to the tools and supplies.
What we do and how we work
The places refugees live are built bare and anonymous on purpose, or carry the marks of war. Everything about them says this place is temporary and doesn’t matter, and the people living there hear the same thing about themselves.
The supplies to bring the plan to life, plus the practical support, training, coaching, and connection between leaders that carry a plan from drawing to built. Giving monthly means communities build as fast as they’re able, and we can welcome more communities into the work.
Beauty belongs in every place.
When you join the Paintbox, you get
A print, every month.
Made by an artist who lives in one of the places we work, credited by name, of what their community chose to make. Your wall fills with places most people only see in the news.
Hope you can see.
You watch beauty being made, by name, and you know you’re part of it. Most people get bad news and big statistics. You get the garden, the wall, and the person who painted it.
Word straight from refugees.
Their words, their footage, calls with our partner sites. You know how it’s made and who made it, and the next time refugees come up at your table, you have a place, a name, and a picture.
Your name on the work.
Every print is signed by the artist who made it. The Paintbox is signed by the people who made it possible: members who want to be listed appear by name on our site, alongside the neighbors doing the work.
First in the room.
The film before anyone else sees it. The exhibition when it opens. Calls with the leaders, before it’s a story anywhere else.
What arrives in your mailbox
Sample postcards. Artist, place, and month on the back, with a note from the artist.
Dear Paintbox member,
This is the road home at sunset. My mother carried water on it every evening. Thank you for the paint.
— Edison
Dear Paintbox member,
Forty of us planted this courtyard in one morning. The children named every flower.
— Amina
What our refugee partners want you to know
Here’s what happens when we show up, believe, and build together.
Add your name to the work.
Refugee communities design the plan and do the work. The supplies are the part we bring, together, every month. Every print that arrives is signed by the artist who made it. Add your name to what made it possible.
The first round of prints will be mailed in late fall 2026. Change or cancel any time. Everyplace is a project of Players Philanthropy Fund, a 501(c)(3). Gifts are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.