Final 30th Annual Program- Marketing Material

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Our Mission:

Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW) weaves together
community planning, organizing, and asset-building efforts with high-quality affordable housing and

commercial development to create vibrant neighborhoods and empowered residents.
By facilitating conversations and action on community priorities, LCW
engages partners and a network of youth and adult residents in
opportunities to move themselves and the city of Lawrence forward.

Our strategic plan identifies these organizational goals:
1) Invest in People and ensure that Lawrence has strong residents who are skilled

and knowledgeable, civically engaged, and connected to each other and common life;
2) Invest in Place so that Lawrence’s physical landscape promotes an environment of

opportunity and a high quality of life
3) Invest in Systems Change so that our systems and institutions effectively support resident

aspirations and meet resident challenges.

Greetings and welcome to our 30th year celebration “Black & White Ball”.
Lawrence CommunityWorks has been serving our vibrant community for
the last 30 years and will continue to do so with the heart and dedication of
all of our volunteers, staff and collaborators have brought into this amazing
organization. What started as a “dream” from a group of idealists,
motivated and audacious individuals turned out to become a glorious reality.
Once again, thank you for celebrating with us and supporting our gala.
Rosa Piña,
President, Board of Directors

Dear LCW Family,
It has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of the growth and
development of LCW and the City of Lawrence for the past seventeen years,
building on the amazing foundation started in 1986 by some extraordinary
local activists. I am constantly humbled by the depth of love, sacrifice,
energy, creativity, talent, smarts, tenacity, joy, and effort that our members,
board, staff, and partners have brought to this grand collective project we call
Lawrence CommunityWorks. And I am fiercely proud of all we have been able to
accomplish by believing in each other and in this City.
Here’s to 30 more years of building the world we all want to live in – together!

Jessica Andors,
Executive Director

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Proudly celebrating "the change of the tide in our City" . . . . . .

For 30 years, Hyatt & Hyatt Law Office has unsparingly shared its legal and human

capacities for the good [pro bono] of the community development

corporation which has come to be known as Lawrence CommunityWorks, Inc.

Truly, the work has been a labor of Love, in pursuit of social Justice.

"works of Love are works of Peace" ....... Saint Teresa of Calcutta
"and the fruit of Righteousness will be Peace" ....... Isaiah 3:17
"Peace is integral to Social Justice" ....... Anonymous
"Justice is but Truth in Action" ........ Luis Brandeis

Congratulations, LCW, on 30 years of bringing Truth into Action:

In Lawrence . . . . Community Works !

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Lawrence CommunityWorks
Welcomes you to our
30th Anniversary Gala
Black & White Ball

Friday, October 28, 2016

Lawrence Legend $30,000
Bank of America

City Superhero $15,000
Hyatt & Hyatt Law Office

Community Crusader $7,500
Eastern Bank & Eastern Insurance Group

Liberty Mutual
NEI General Contracting
New Balance Foundation

Power Partner $5,000
Boston Community Capital

Klein Hornig
NeighborWorks America

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Neighborhood Networker $3,000
Enterprise Bank

First Realty Management
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Reading Cooperative Bank
The Life Initiative

Program Promoter $1,000
Comcast

Community Economic Development Assistance Corp
DBVW Architects

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
Merrimack Valley Credit Union

Northern Essex Community College
RTN Federal Credit Union
Sidell Brothers
TD Bank
Zoila Gomez

Black & White Ball Committee

Jessica Andors Wataru Matsuyasu Susan Schlesinger
Peter Cole Kristin McCauley Chet & Gary Sidell
Andrea R. Daskalakis Sandra Mouzon
Wendy Estrella Julia Silverio
Maria Fina Maggie Pagan Nidhi & Ashwani Singhal
Denise Perrault
Debra Fox Len Raymond Maggie Super Church
Lane Glenn Daniel Rosen Rachelly Suriel
Kristen Harol Lisa Torrisi
Hershey Hirschkop Bob Rivers Bill Traynor
Misael Martinez Michelle Volpe
Sharon Zacharias

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Program

6:00PM Cocktails & hor d’oeuvres

7:00PM Dinner Stations

8:15 – 8:45 Jessica Andors
Executive Director
Welcome
By Rosa Piña, Board President
Our History
By Armand Hyatt, General
Counsel
Special Presentation

9:00 – 11:00PM Dancing

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LCW Report 2016

PG 10 -12 History
PG 15 Asset Building
PG 16 Real Estate
PG 17 Movement City
PG 18 Network Organizing Department
PG 23 MCLI
PG 24 LWFI
PG 29 Staff
PG 30 Board of Directors
PG 31 - 32 MA CITC
PG 33– 34 Donors & Friends
PG 35, 36 & 38 Artwork

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Our RootsThe Founding: Roots in Community Organizing
Lawrence CommunityWorks was founded in 1986 under its original
name, Heritage Common Community Development Corporation, by a
local group of affordable housing activists. Since 1981, they had been organized and working
as a nonprofit entity named Immigrant City Community Housing Corporation,
seeking to develop 140 units of high-quality affordable housing on a large tract of land within
the North Common neighborhood.

The site had become blighted by the demolition of hundreds of residential units in triple-deckers and other structures as part of an
old-style urban renewal plan. Recognizing that the Lawrence Redevelopment Authority’s Request for Proposals failed
to ensure an adequate low-income component in the redevelopment process—and violated federal law—Immigrant City devised
and executed an organizing strategy involving the civil rights of several displaced residents from that North Common
neighborhood to legally compel the City to re-institute the process. Ultimately, Immigrant City won the competitive selection process to
become developer of the much-needed affordable housing, even as the real estate market crashed and development
conditions worsened drastically.

The community-based group sought ways to more effectively deal with the many challenges ahead. Thanks to the visionary
leadership of Board President Leonard F. Raymond and the undaunted efforts of its pro-bono legal counsel, Armand Hyatt,
Immigrant City’s Directors organized and formed our present-day CDC, thus augmenting its development options and providing
an ongoing capacity for residents and local business participants to address other pressing neighborhood issues to engage
more fully in a broader mission of community development. This organizing effort was successful in two respects: the establishment of our
beloved CDC and the completion of 140 high-quality, aesthetically pleasing and affordable limited-equity cooperative residences known as
Heritage Common. Special thanks go out to Len Raymond (original Executive Director), Armand Hyatt (original Board Chair),
Isabel Melendez (original Community Organizer), along with Modesto Maldonado, Pat Smith, Father Bob Guessetto,
Ana Colon, Rev. Jim Keller, Jacques Fournier, Charles Crowley and Angela Harty, the founders of our much loved organization.

The Early and Growing Years

After changing the organization’s original name to Lawrence Planning & Neighborhood Development Corporation to avoid
confusion with the family housing development, the Board of Directors of the CDC expanded its territorial boundaries beyond the North
Common neighborhood, both westerly and northerly, and undertook as projects the successful acquisition and major renovation of two
other residential sites: a 38-unit housing complex, Berkeley Place Apartments, and a 5-unit wood-frame building, Bradford
Apartments.

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Our current organization still owns and manages both properties as affordable
housing. During these early and middle years, LPNDC sought to address other issues
important to the community, and operated a successful arson prevention program to
combat the arson terror that raged through Lawrence prior to and during that period.
This was the first step by the organization to actively engage youth in community
development work, as the “Junior Firefighters” worked in conjunction with the City’s
Fire Department.
Crisis in Leadership and a Dramatic Turn-Around
The organization continued into the 90s with a strong Board, but its capacity on the staff
level dwindled. A number of both paid and volunteer executive directors did their best to
build the capacity of the organization, but the CDC began to slip into disarray. By 1998, the organization was in crisis and had

little capacity, beyond the core board leadership and its one remaining staff

person besides the executive director—a property manager who also handled
coordination of youth programs. This situation was exacerbated by funding problems,
as the CDC had received notice that it would be defunded by both the city and the
state, and the confidence of private funders had dissipated. In the spring of 1999,
the core members of the CDC Board faced an uncertain future.

Fortunately, during 1998, three graduate students from MIT’s Department of Urban
Studies & Planning—Kristen Harol, Tamar Kotelchuck and Jessica Andors—had begun
working with the CDC in the North Common neighborhood and were excited to connect with community development
professional Bill Traynor, a Lawrence native who had been consulting in his native City. They worked together to design a
community organizing effort to engage residents in building a neighborhood association and creating a plan for redevelopment
based on resident priorities. They also began to enlist the support of the CDC board members, in order to build on the
students’ success engaging residents in a range of organizing and planning activities and in starting a new after-school and
summer program for youth.

Ultimately, the success of this work prompted the board members of LPNDC to turn to Bill Traynor, to propose that he take on
the challenge of revitalizing the then floundering organization. On July 12, 1999, the Board voted Bill as its new Executive
Director, and Debra Fox, a well-known and experienced affordable housing development expert, became the CDC’s Director of
Real Estate; the three MIT students came on as part of the team with expertise in operations, planning, fundraising, and
development.

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Bill asked founding board member and ongoing pro-bono general counsel, Armand Hyatt, to serve again as Board Chair and
the CDC moved into a storefront office at 197 Essex Street to begin a remarkable turnaround and reinvention of the CDC,
now known as Lawrence CommunityWorks, Inc.
The new team made quick and productive use of an extraordinary level of board activism and volunteerism,
including countless hours of professional expertise in banking, real estate law and information systems.
They were soon joined by Alma Couverthié, a remarkable community organizer, who helped establish a CDC rooted in
community organizing and resident engagement under a newly coined banner: “Reviviendo” (Re-Birth)
Today, Lawrence CommunityWorks has a membership of thousands of Lawrence families, an energetic board and
professional staff, and has generated over $100 million in new neighborhood investment, including 211 units of
affordable housing on 15 abandoned, vacant, and formerly contaminated parcels, a new community center,
three new playgrounds and a range of family asset building and youth development programs that have supported thousands
of families in their journeys to homeownership, higher education, entrepreneurship, and financial well-being.
Most important, Lawrence CommunityWorks has become one of the major forces for equitable development and economic
justice in Lawrence, and one of the most dynamic and effective CDCs in Massachusetts – making community
work every day in Lawrence.

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What is Your GOAL?

Our Asset Building programs bring together
homeownership training, workforce and educational
development, income support services, and financial
coaching within the Lawrence Financial Stability Center.
 Homeownership Education and Counseling workshops

and 1:1 pre- and post-purchase counseling -
We guide families through the complex process of
buying, financing, and maintaining their first home, as
well as foreclosure mitigation counseling to help those
who are in jeopardy of foreclosure.
Bank representatives present to our First-Time Homebuyer
Education classes and provide first-hand information about the mortgage application
process. Speakers from other fields, such as realtors and home inspectors, are also an
integral part of our programs' success.

 Financial Literacy and Matched Savings Programs - We provide an 8-hour basic financial
literacy course, micro-lending programs to help unbanked individuals build credit, and
matched savings accounts (IDAs) to help participants buy a first home, attend higher
education, or start a business.

 Financial Counseling –We offer 1:1 financial coaching and bundled case management and
support services. A partnership with the Association of Financial Planners provides us
with pro bono financial planning services from certified financial planners for those with
higher incomes and longer-term goals.

 Workforce Development - We provide English as a Second Language classes (some
contextualized to specific occupations/industries such as nursing/
health care and early childhood education), job readiness
training, and occupational skills training (in nursing, hospitality,
and early childhood education).

 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance - Through this effort, we are
able to help individuals avoid predatory tax preparers, receive
on-site financial counseling, and maximize their tax savings by
taking full advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit.

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Real Estate by and for
the Community

When creating our real estate development plans,
we seek input from community residents to
identify parcels of available or vacant property,
identify strategic uses and benefits that the
project could bring to the neighborhood, and
develop a work plan with the architects, design
staff and community members.

This is how we build our projects – with resident
ownership at each step of the process.

While a key component of LCW’s mission is to construct quality housing that working
families in Lawrence can afford, it is also strongly committed to ensuring that the
construction of these homes causes minimal environmental impacts and that the resulting
homes are exceptionally green and energy efficient. LCW incorporates smart growth
strategies, green construction and energy efficient systems in our projects so that these
homes will cost less to maintain and operate. These savings are passed on to our residents.

 Homeownership – Scarito Homes (10 units), Union & Mechanic Street Homes (5),
Summer Street Homes (8)

 Rental Housing – Farnham Court (11), Reviviendo Family Housing (17),
Berkeley Place Apartments (38), Bradford Apartments (5), Garden & Newbury (8),
Union Crossing Phase I (60), and Casa di Anna (18)

 Community Facilities – Our House for Design & Technology

 Parks – Scarito Park, Reviviendo Playground,

Berkeley Place Playground

 Duck Mill - Union Crossing Phase II –
mixed-use, mixed income green mill
redevelopment – 73 units and 10,00 square
feet of commercial space—
Coming December 2016

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Youth Development

Movement City evolved directly from LCW’s first
organizing process in 1999. Hundreds of
conversations with residents surfaced a
compelling mandate for youth programs and
resulted first in LCW’s Young Professionals
Initiative, which then merged in 2004 with the
arts-based Hope Street Youth Center.
At Movement City, youth can choose from programs to explore the arts:
manipulative art (fashion, photography, and mixed media),
performance art (dance and poetry), and digital art (animation and graphic design) in
the Movement City Clubhouse. Teens take advantage of academic support and career
exploration as well as leadership development and civic engagement activities that
root youth in community and give them a platform for further growth.
Movement City also hosts open mics and other community arts events, as well as
sponsors field trips such as camping trips, college visits, and a youth jobs rally.
In a member’s words: “It’s a good place to be yourself, discover your talent, make new
friends, and to be happy.”

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MC Art Highlight

Wild, Young and Free
Charlize Garcia

Artist : Mckayla Vermette

Signs
Solange Burgos

The Light Within Us -Kaithlyn Peralta

10 South Broadway
Lawrence, MA 01843
978-685-0209
Fax: 978-685-0310
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are

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Network Organizing Department

Building your social capital, the number and strength of
connections that you have with others, leads to increased
opportunity. People get jobs, access resources, improve their
neighborhoods and make friends through the people that they
know. At Lawrence CommunityWorks we understand this and
are striving to build an environment that maximizes the ability of
people to establish and nurture connections that are mutually
beneficial with the goal of creating a community network
committed to positive change in the city of Lawrence.
The role of the Network Organizing Department (NOD) is to
create these opportunities for connection and community
building. To bring people together to build the relationships
necessary for community change. Through the facilitating of
these connections we have an eye on generating, coordinating,
and supporting community civic engagement opportunities for
Lawrence residents that foster deeper connectivity, leadership
development and resident led social change.
Some of the core strategies utilized by NOD are Marketplaces a form
of networking and connecting nights, NeighborCircles and
Community Education Circles aimed at building and improving
community in neighborhoods and schools, various Volunteer
Engagement opportunities and the PODER Leadership Institute
geared toward building the personal and collective skills of the LCW
membership.
Network Organizing is a core practice of Lawrence
CommunityWorks. At LCW we are all
Network Organizers believing that in order for our
community to continue to grow and thrive we are ALL
responsible for connecting people with one another to
build relationships of mutual support, while also
connecting them with the opportunities that will
empower them to succeed.

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MCLI’s community-based, experiential approach empowers “MCLI forced me to face many issues
leaders by going beyond classroom walls. Ten months with head-on - issues that I've skirted around my whole
MCLI includes site visits with leaders across Lowell and life or had internalized. Being forced to confront
Lawrence; group learning activities, discussion, and feedback them made me angry, frustrated, and drained, but
with a talented, diverse class; and the opportunity to launch something surprising happened afterward. I felt a
new “leadership commitments” inside and outside your weight slowly lifting off and a clarity of purpose
workplace. forming before me - similar to the feeling you get
after a rainshower has broken up the mugginess
MCLI develops socially responsible leaders that led up to it. MCLI came into my life at a point
& innovators who learn from Lawrence & Lowell and where I didn't want to add another new
project to my plate, but now I realize it was
serve our region. something I needed all along."

“In MCLI I did not just learn to become a better leader, Dahvy Tran, Angkor Dance Troupe ‘16
I became a better leader.”
“MCLI digs deep and allows you to meet and
Kevin Blanchette, Groundwork Lawrence, ‘16 experience what is truly happening in our
communities. It gives an opportunity to expand
"MCLI has given me a compass for how to move forward your capacity to view problems in new ways,
in my new position at the credit union." explore possible solutions, and implement
solutions in a socially responsible way. It also
Cecilio Perez, Merrimack Valley Credit Union ‘16 allows participants to meet other community
leaders to expand their social capital networks.”
“MCLI molds people into leaders that others want to
follow, instead of simply producing individuals who wish Rosa Lopez, Merrimack Valley YMCA ‘16
to lead. Anyone who wants to uncover her best self,
challenge her assumptions, and find a family of
individuals on a similar journey of discovery, should
participate in this program.”

Franky Descoteaux, Entrepreneurship for All ‘16

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he Initiative is a groundbreaking effort to
link the families of Lawrence Public Schools

Tstudents with resources to
access employment and advance
economically.
LWFI is based on the premise that a successful
turnaround of Lawrence schools is a whole
community & whole family effort, and that children
thrive when their families are stable. LWFI is a collaborative effort of the Lawrence Public
Schools (LPS), Lawrence CommunityWorks, the City of Lawrence, local nonprofit
organizations, public sector institutions, and area employers— a cross-sectorial
collaboration to support the LPS Turnaround and improve local educational and economic
outcomes.
At the LPS Family Resource Center, families can access:
 Job search assistance
 Resources and guidance for establishing a family budget
 Information to acquire or
establish housing
 Resources for higher education
and job skills training
 Financial and Life Coaching
 Family Support

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Fran Acosta Leslie Kent
Digna Alcantara Lisa Kozol
Jessica Andors Carmen D. Liriano
Ana Lopez
Ana Bello Mary Ellen Lowes
Rosa Berrios Alla Majumder
Juan Bonilla Raquel Marte
Melix Bonilla Janet Martinez Derecio
Sebastian Brown Kristin McCauley
Spencer Buchholz Juana Mejia
Reyna Burgos Catherine A. O'Keefe
Mirlande Cameau Norma M. Pagan
Rayza Carrasco Iris Perdomo
Claribel Cruz Susan M. Prior
Ezequiel Davila Lissette Paukert
Blanca Duran Jared Raverby
Bobby Ritter
Anna Elzer Francisca Rubio
Jessica Filion Elissa Salas
Lorena Salazar
Todd Fry Vladimir Saldana
Carlos Gonzalez Carmen Santiago
Francheska Taveras
John Harden Rosa Valerio
Erika Hernandez Janis West
Renee Hopkins Arleen Zorrilla

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Johnetta S. Hudson

Edwin Jack
Juana Jimenez

Rosa Piña, President
Miguel Sanchez, Vice President

Patrick Grotton, Treasurer
Maria M. Fina, Assistant Treasurer

Cynthia Cook, Clerk
Maria Natera, Assistant Clerk
Armand Hyatt, General Counsel

Kevin Blanchette
Peter Cole

Michael P. Driscoll
Jonathan Machado

Denise Perrault
Sarah B. Perez
Ana Rodriguez
Osvaldo Salomon
Lenin Tejada

Board of Advisors

Carmen Carrion
Francis Hyatt
Kristen Harol
Bill Traynor
Linda Ulisse

Charlie Wibiralske

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Massachusetts
Community Investment Tax Credit

Thank YoutoOurChampionInvestors!
The Massachusetts legislature established a Community
Investment Tax Credit for individual and corporate
taxpayers, designed to encourage private donations for local
community development efforts.

TheCreditallows youtosupportLawrence
CommunityWorks while getting additional tax benefit for
charitable giving. In 2016, Lawrence CommunityWorks was awarded
$150,000 in Massachusetts tax credits which it can distribute to
individual, corporations, or foundations for their donations to LCW.

ChampionInvestorsmustcontributeatleast$1,000tobe eligible.
The contribution must be in the form of a cash donation.
The credits awarded are equal to 50% of the “qualified investment.”
In addition to receiving the 50% state tax credit,
donors may also take a federal tax deduction as usual.
The credit is REFUNDABLE if the taxpayer does not have a tax liability.

With your investment, LCW will have the opportunity to raise
almost$1Million overthenext3yearsto
re-invest directly in the neighborhoods and the people of Lawrence!
We invite you to become a Champion Investor today!

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2016 2015 2014

A Good Friend A Good Friend A Good Friend
Boston Capital Walter & Alice Abrams
Arthur Barlas Boston Capital Walter & Alice Abrams
Citizens Bank Citizens Bank Arthur Barlas
Eastern Bank Stephen W. Carr Janet E. Bersani
Kristen Harol David Dreyfus Austin Carroll
George W. Lewis Davis Square Architects Steven Cohen
Durkee Brown Davis Square Architects
& Amy Weatheee Dorfman Capital
Santander Bank Viveiros & Werenfels Durkee Brown
Robert Dorfman
Enterprise Bank Viveiros & Werenfels
First Realty Management Enterprise Bank
Fish Family Foundation Everett Mills
Alan M. Freeman First Realty Management
Laurie Gould Alan M. Freedman
Kristen Harol Laurie Gould
Jeffrey P. Johnson Kristen Harol
Klein Hornig Carolyn J. Johnson
Susan B. Lambeth Jackson Lumber
Gary & Karen Martin Klein Hornig LLP
Herman and Frieda L. Miller Tamar Kotelchuck
Landmark Structures
Foundation William G. Lyttle III
Massachusetts Housing Paul & Dana MacKay
Peter Munkenbeck
Investment Corporation Stephen J. Mastrocola
Peter Munkenbeck Rich Novo
George MacNaughton Bhaskar Ray
Northeast nteriors, Inc. John Raser & Mandy Cochrane
John Raser & Mandy Cochrane Chet & Faye Sidell
Rafael Revi Nidhi and Ashwani Singhal
Kimberly K. Reinert Lisa Torrisi
Karl Seidman Robert Terranova
Nidhi & Ashwani Singhal Anita & James Worden
Santander Bank
Gary E. Silacci
Robert Triest
Anita & James Worden

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Corporate Foundation

Apollo Immediate Lawrence General Hospital 3M Essex County Community MassHumanities
Transport Inc. Liberty Mutual Insurance Frank W. & Carl S. Adams Foundation - Women's Ramsey McCluskey Family
Mary Immaculate Health Memorial Fund, Bank of
Atlantic Benefit Company America, N.A., Trustee Fund Foundation
Boehm Architecture Care Services Abt Associates Fish Family Foundation Henry E. Niles Foundation
Castillo Law Offices Massachusetts Association Anonymous Foundations Forest Foundation National Council of La Raza
Clarkston-Potomac Group of Community Walter and Alice Abrams Foundation for Financial NeighborWorks America
Committee To Elect Development Family Fund at the Boston New Balance Foundation
Corporations Planning New York Life Insurance
Frank Moran Matthew J. & Gilda Foundation Foundation M
Commonwealth Motors, F. Strazzula Foundation Bank of America Charitable General Mills Company
Connery Associates Metro Credit Union Goldman Sachs Amelia Peabody
D & O Auto Body Millennium Foundation Greater Lowell Community
David Electrical Banks-Baldwin Foundation Foundation
Communications Best Buy Foundation Charles G. Pringle
Contracting Munro Graphics BJ's Charitable Foundation Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Davila and DeFusco North Parish of North George P. Bishop W.K. Kellogg Foundation Foundation
Lawrence - Community People's United
Insurance Andover Foundation Development Block Community Foundation
Davis Square Architects NorthEast Assocation Boston Foundation Project Bread -
DEC Consulting Company Citizens Bank Grant Program The Walk for Hunger
Durkee Brown Viveiros & of Realtors, Inc. Citizens Housing & Lawrence - HOME Program Josephine G. Russell Trust
Werenfels Architects Inc. Northern Essex Planning Association, Inc. Lawrence Cultural Council Rogers Family Foundation
Elsa O'Connor Pequeno Community College Clipper Ship Foundation Lawrence Public Schools Abbot and Dorothy H.
Oasis Daycare Pacific Mills Industrial Comcast Foundation Lawrence Rotary Club Stevens Foundation
Elton + Hampton Commonwealth Liberty Mutual Foundation Artemas W. Stearns Trust
Complex LLH/LHM Foundation Nidhi and Ashwani Singhal
Architects Robert S. Dorfman Corporation Catherine McCarthy Smith Purdon Fund
Fidelity Charitable Consumer Federation of Memorial Trust Fund Sovereign Bank
Company, Inc. Edward S. and Winifred G. TD Charitable Foundation
Gift Fund Rodman Insurance Agency, America Moseley Foundation The Timberland Company
First Realty Management RTN Federal Credit Union Cummings Foundation Herman and Frieda Miller UMASS Medical School -
FM Global Foundation Spanish Assemblies of God Margaret M. Collins Commonwealth Medicine
Go United Express Foundation United Way of
Church Charitable Trust MA Department of Massachusetts Bay and
Transp. LLC Strike of 1912 Workers' Deshpande Foundation Housing & Community
Hacin & Associates, Inc. Monument Committee Eastern Bank Charitable Merrimack Valley
Hyatt & Hyatt Law Office TEC, Inc. Development Wells Fargo
Innovation Community The Caleb Foundation Foundation MA Department of Public
The Edge Group Economic Development &
Counseling The Life Initiative Industrial Corporation of Health
Internet & Telephone LLC The North End Deli MA Division of Banks
Jackson Lumber & The Savings Bank Boston MA Executive Office of
Torrisi & Torrisi, P.C. Enterprise Bank Housing and Economic
Millwork Co.,Inc. Unifirst Essex County Community
Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union Foundation - Andover Development
JJ & C Partnership MA Housing Partnership
Kody & Company, Inc. Group Fund Mass Mortgage Bankers
Lahlaf Geotechnical Essex County Community Massachusetts Public
Foundation - Anonymous Charter School Association
Consulting, Inc. Massachusetts Smart
Landmark Structures Fund
Essex County Community Growth Alliance
Corporation Foundation - Greater
Lawrence Summer Fund

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Nelson & Nilsa Feliciano Jose Medina Esther Sanchez Blazquez
Anonymous Friends Antonio Fernandez David Meehan
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Angela Caceres Lisa & Eric Kozol George & Susan Rappaport Pamela Yameen
Peter Calkins & Susan Casey David Kroon MD John Raser & Mandy Cochrane
Maxima Carpio De Jesus MaryEllen Lowes Jared Jeffrey Ravreby Mary Young
Prabal Chakrabarti Monica & Jeffrey Ravreby Clark Ziegler
Kilburn & Judi Child Sandra V. Lora Charleen Regan
Maggie Church Olien Lu William & Judy Reghitto 35
G. Dean Cleghorn Kevin & Therese Reid
Peter Cole Ronny Luciano
Keith Connors Paula Luciano Rafaela Reyes
Richard & Maryellen Consoli John & Jill MacMillan Moss Roberts
Douglas Cook Frank MacMillan Blair Roberts & Caren Jacobson
Mark Cutler Steven E. Maguire Berkys A. Rodriguez
James D'Angelo Sara Manaugh Ana Rodriguez
Elsi Marinez Maria Rodriguez-Vazquez
Demetria De los Angeles Sierra Gary & Karen Martin Pedro Roman
Agueda Dicent Paul McCarthy Delfin Rosado
Maureen McCarthy David Rosenberg
Oneida Disla-Javier Kristin & William McCauley Claire T. Ross
Michael & Kimberly Driscoll Steve & Carol McElyea
Edward McEnroe Milly Ruiz
George & Carol Duncan Nouhad Saba
Joseph & Maggie Elkazzi Michael & Rose Sabbagh
Brian & Elizabeth Elowe Lorena Salazar & Eduardo Sierra
Osvaldo Salomon
Benny Espaillat
Tasha Espendez

Each random crackling spark ….. whirls in bold Campfire company offers transcendent taste
….. yet its essence dwells
brilliance

upon streams of dark contrast ….. in current only in transient reality. Tomorrow, each
collaboration with
comrade must pull her or his
the charismatic commands ….. of this own weight and, too, some self-serving …..
common campfire. payload to feed and house some
however-defined individual responsibilities.
The flame-dance of light-source ….. augments
its motivating life-force

with radiant dry heat that rises …... and Therefore, I quest: what of commonwealth …..
reaches to become the can endure ?

superseding dispenser of Justice ….. in this Must campfire ashes lay in waste ? In what
forum of cold, dank surrounds. form—if at all to rise—will Phoenix of fire-fueled
fellowship fly ? No answer too sure could yield
Cavalcades of savory smells ….. rush to fill
welcoming senses Truth that is pure. And so, I wonder ….. about a
community-built heat-source
with feasts of cherished flavors.
and how great it feels to share ….. warmth in
Mesmerizing peace pervades ….. delivering peaceful participation.
everie to replace the
For now, this common campfire ..... resoundingly
usual suspect of cogency ….. as meaningful snaps with success
measure to manage moments.
its seductive message of unity. In sweet
Collective consciousness coalesces ….. among surrender, I hear
comrades captivated
without listening. I am only ….. to do and be
by connotative conditions. The Holy Ghost of without focus on me.
the whatever Divine comedy is unifying Spirit to
all poor souls …... in need of heartfelt What was mine for being is ….. now-ever just
humanity. freeing into

harmonic unison with all ….. that is flame and
log and

This campfire from wood is good ….. for all rock and ash and spark and ….. crackle and
who understood smell and heat

and all who never would. Together, we and heart and soul of humanity.
weather the

whether-or-not; however we may ….. feel to An invitation to kinetic oneness ….. is both
never mind or matter. given and received only

The worthy project to build this fire ….. was a in spirited, simultaneous simplicity. Work
shared endeavor.
together, enjoy together.

Each handful of self was emptied ….. to fill Ever and elsewhere, as in ….. Lawrence …..
the grasp with Community Works !

sticks and stones to warm the bones ….. of all for
one and one for all.

And yet, not all flames must consume. No time
that is now can resume.

by Armand Michael Hyatt (C) June, 2002 Lawrence, MA

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Juanita Rivera “Congratulations on 30 years of
ElegantlySimple tireless work and dedication
to our community.
Event Planner & Designer
Our friendship, partnership and
978.601.6840 respect have never been stronger.

Keep it up!”

The Sidell Brothers

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