©2025 Operation Brightside Inc. | All marks are trademarks of their respective owners.
We need your help.
Your donations allow us to do what we do. Please help!
Contact us to learn about our
St. Louis volunteer opportunities.
Get our e-newsletter.
st. louis
Volunteers Bring the Demo Garden to Life
Volunteers Bring the Demo Garden to Life While Brightside’s programs have evolved over the years, our commitment to creating a cleaner, greener, more sustainable St. Louis has remained constant. In honor of Earth Month we pause to thank the thousands of volunteers and donors who have helped make this possible over the past 40 years. […]
March Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
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
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 […]
Looking Back at Project Mainstreet
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 […]
40 Years of Blitz Clean-ups!
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 […]
To Our Volunteers
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: We are thankful for […]
October Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
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!
September Blitz Events – Volunteers Needed!
September 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 September. Opportunities are updated as we receive them, so check back often for updates!