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March Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for March. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
A Blast From the Past: Project Greenlot
In 1982, St. Louis had thousands of overgrown vacant lots filled with fallen buildings and dumped debris. To address this destabilizing environmental injustice, the Operating Engineers Local 513 apprenticeship program relocated to St. Louis to work with Brightside and the City to clear vacant lots. For the next ten years, they transformed city neighborhoods by […]
Looking Back at Project Mainstreet
This popular and well-remembered program ran for more than 20 years. Project Mainstreet youths focused on cleaning up along major thoroughfares while learning important job skills like working as a team and interacting with supervisors and the public. We can’t tell you how often the Brightside team meets someone whose first job was […]
40 Years of Blitz Clean-ups!
In honor of Brightside’s 40th anniversary, we will be sharing special stories and photos since 1982 to help celebrate the hard work St. Louisans have put in to support cleaning and greening our city! Forty years ago, city residents felt the number one problem facing St. Louis was the fact that the City […]
To Our Volunteers
You may not have realized it yet, but you have been a part of 40 years of cleaning and greening St. Louis! We appreciate your commitment to making a better St. Louis for all of us. In 2022, we need your continued support to help us reach our 40th Anniversary Goals: Complete 400 neighborhood clean-ups Engage 4,000 volunteers […]
Making STL a Better Place For All
For almost 40 years, Brightside has been committed to our core mission: make St. Louis a better place for all. Here’s how the generous support from more than 5,000 volunteers and hundreds of Brightside friends like you have improved the quality of life in our community this year: Habitat restored for butterflies, bees and other pollinators […]
#GivingTuesday is November 30th
#GivingTuesday is TODAY – November 30th Today, the world comes together for #GivingTuesday on November 30th, 2021. To celebrate this global day of giving every act of generosity counts. Giving together makes it count even more! Please support Brightside’s clean-up and beautification programs this #GivingTuesday. Donate your money or time or both: A $100 donation to […]
October Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
What’s Brightside up to this month? Check out this list of events and projects we’re looking forward to for October. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
