Cone
Hours For Good Day of Service 2011
This past October more than 80 Cone employees stepped out from behind our desks and worked together to create positive social impact in the greater Boston community.
One team was charged with planting 1,000 daffodil bulbs, weeding and landscaping public green spaces in the Fields Corner neighborhood. The second Cone team painted a "Welcome To Fields Corner" mural approximately 8 X15 feet along Dorchester Ave. With great attention to detail, the team was guided by a talented young artist Dan, from the nonprofit Close To Home, a group that seeks to prevent domestic violence in Dorchester.
The largest Cone team of the day headed to the St. Marks business district to help makeover the new offices of Girls LEAP, a nonprofit that empowers young girls to value and champion their own safety and well-being. After a very moving introduction by Deborah Weaver, the co-founder and executive director, about the amazing impact the organization has on young, at-risk girls, the team began painting the halls, training rooms and conference rooms.
And finally, with perhaps the least glamorous but just as important job of street cleaning, the positivity-empowered fourth team filled bag after bag with unsightly trash gathered from the banks of Dorchester Avenue in the St Mark’s and Fields Corner neighborhoods.
