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June 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 June. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
South Grand 2022 Volunteer Events
Help steward the native landscape along South Grand with the South Grand EcoCrew! Calling all gardeners and outdoor enthusiasts! The South Grand Community Improvement District is seeking hard-working volunteers to help steward the native landscape areas located throughout the District. There are events scheduled throughout the year that are open to small groups and individual volunteers. […]
Great Rivers Greenway Trash Pick Up Event
In partnership with community members on the City’s north side, Great Rivers Greenway is organizing a volunteer trash pick-up event. On Saturday, June 11 from 10am to 1pm, volunteers will gather to pick up trash along a one-mile section of N. Grand from Natural Bridge to Cass Ave. The flyer below includes additional information about how to […]
May 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 May. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!
Clean-ups to Daffodils
Since 1982, Brightside and volunteers have been working hard to clean up neighborhoods. Over time, we quickly learned that cleaning up wasn’t enough. We needed to do more to make St. Louis beautiful so we started planting daffodils. More than 14 million daffodils were planted in all! 🤩🌼 Celebrate the beauty of STL with us! […]
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!
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 […]