HandsOn Suburban Chicago's Community Paint-a-thon is a unique community partnership designed to paint the exterior of homes owned and occupied by persons with limited financial resources, who are at least 60 years of age, a veteran, or have a permanent disability, making them unable to do the work themselves. Only the exterior of the house may be painted as part of Paint-a-thon. The house must be a single-family residence, occupied by its owner(s) and in need of paint.