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Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland's GIVE program Community Involvement Day with Parks and People

An amazing group of volunteers from Business Volunteer's Unlimited's GIVE program picked up trash, painted on the Arabbers Fence and installed the large fruits that will decorate the front of the fence!

BVU inspires volunteerism and connects people and businesses to nonprofit organizations leading to stronger communities. The program GIVE, Getting Involved in Volunteer Experiences, is a program of BVU. They aim to raise awareness among the next generation of civic leaders about the growing need for volunteerism and to engage them in the community while providing educational learning seminars to help them develop personally and professionally.

This program could be a great asset to the growing initiatives of AGE. I hope to learn more from and about this incredible group of leaders.

Earth Day 2011

Baltimore Ravens and M&T Bank clean and green the entrance to Gwynns Falls Trail on Warner Street

For Earth Day 2011 Art for a Greener Environment designed and painted a signage mural for part of the long Gwynns Falls trail. Along with the mural, volunteers built benches, created a "doggie dumping area", and cleaned out and installed a garden bed that had become overgrown along the entrance.

While the skies looked threatening, the rain held out until the festivities were over. The sign in about 80% complete. AGE is currently looking for volunteers to come out and help with the finishing touches.

Shouldn't every day be Earth Day!

The wall at 8:00

Wall at 10:00

Volunteer greening projects on Gwynns Falls Trail

M&T Bank staff and Baltimore Ravens Cheerleaders

News Coverage can be found at Fox45 Baltimore and WJZ13

http://news.yahoo.com/video/baltimorewjz13-15750602/#video=24997286

Legg Mason Volunteer Day 4.8.11

For their earth week activities, volunteers from Legg Mason joined Art for a Greener Environment and Parks and People out on The Bruce Street Fence for a paint day. We FINALLY got up some of the large fruit cut outs! Horse and wagons coming soon! It also looks like we will be getting some more paint from a generous donation so that we can finish up the project.

Thank you Legg Mason Volunteers!

Parks and People Faculty Volunteer Day

Members of the staff are also very excited to see this project come along! So excited that they even came out to help paint last Friday. We were able to outline the rest of the back of the fence and start filling in some major areas. Have I mentioned how excited I am to see this all come together!

We have had a lot of support from the people living on Bruce Street. Everyone really appreciates the color we have added to their neighborhood. One of our biggest fans is the man who owns the stable with the Arabber horses and carriages. This ALSO happens to be the stable where they filmed some of the last scenes of the series The Wire. They let us use their water, say "hi" to the horses, and see their carts.

Back of the Fence Begins!

Here are some recent pictures of the fully touched up, front fence.

We have finally gotten to the back of the fence!! Thanks to Parks and People's Youth Core for coming out on Wednesdays to help!

Loyola Volunteer Day

We were very lucky to have some Loyola Volunteers come help us get some color on the big, white fence. They woke up before 8, on a Saturday, to drive all the way to West Baltimore for community service. They rocked! We got the entire front of the fence done in 4 hours. They also had a wonderful sense of community spirit and truly understood the value of donating their time to a project. We are hoping to have them back again to help with the completion of the project.