Mainstream Global Community Work

Mainstream Global Participation with Groundwork Lawrence, MA

Over the past nine years, Groundwork volunteers have contributed approximately 38,000 hours to community projects, including river and park cleanups, tree planting, and beautification efforts.

To accomplish this, Groundwork Lawrence regularly partners with more than 25 local schools and community groups and 30 local businesses.

Since its inception in 1999, Groundwork educational programs and volunteer events have engaged more than 5,000 youth and 5,000 adults in hands-on learning and community service.

For the past three years, Mainstream Global has hosted the Spicket River Clean-up at their 25 Marston Street Complex and also donating food and beverages for the 400 volunteers that participated.

VP of Mainstream Global, Luis Yepez is currently serving on the Board of Directors for GWL.

Mainstream Global Participation with Lawrence Community Works (LCW) 

Like many postindustrial cities in US, Lawrence has struggled for some time to re-invent itself for 21st century. Our view at Lawrence Community Works is that our city has two major challenges:

1. Re-populating the civic landscape with resident who are able to take on leadership roles, work together to solve problems and

2. Lead the city into a place in the global economy.

We feel that community starts with a single relationship of trust and mutual benefit which one resident or stakeholder shares with another. A collection of many of those relationships along with the loose connections that bing a diversity of them together forms a structural framework for community to exist.

 

Lou Yepez, guest speaker “New Skills Academy” helps motivate people to improve their circumstances by completing high school, college or help finding new jobs.