Hello Nobscot Neighbors,
Last March, when faced with cancelling the 10th annual Framingham Earth Day
Festival in April, the planning committee brainstormed ways that we could
continue the mission of the Festival during times of social distancing. One
idea became the “Clean Up Framingham” Facebook group, where members of our
community have been posting pictures of litter they have cleaned up since April
22nd, 2020 (Earth Day).
Over the past 10 months, well over 600 individual clean ups have been posted to
the group and a community of nearly 1000 members has enjoyed the camaraderie
associated with making Framingham a cleaner place to live. The Facebook group
provides an easy way for people to share their progress in a supportive
community allowing us to easily track our collective efforts around the city.
We occasionally plan coordinated clean up events, but our main focus is to
encourage folks to pick up litter any time they can.
Today I write to inform you of an evolution of our beloved group. We have
officially changed our name to Keep Framingham Beautiful, becoming a chapter of
Keep Massachusetts Beautiful. Keep Massachusetts Beautiful launched in 2014 as
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the simple idea that “beauty
matters.” A landscape littered with trash is anything but beautiful. Keep
Massachusetts Beautiful focuses on four core impact areas in order to improve
local communities: Litter Prevention & Cleanup, Waste Reduction & Recycling,
Beautification & Community Greening, and Environmental Education.
Keep Framingham Beautiful's mission now aligns with their parent organization:
"taking action to make Framingham a cleaner, greener, litter-free place to
live, work, and play.” If you would like to help us with this mission, please
join us at our renamed Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepframinghambeautiful
If you are not on Facebook, no worries! You can help by simply picking up
litter whenever you can following our guidance listed on the about section our
group which is accessible even if you don’t have Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepframinghambeautiful/about
We hope to see you out there!
Mike Croci
Last March, when faced with cancelling the 10th annual Framingham Earth Day
Festival in April, the planning committee brainstormed ways that we could
continue the mission of the Festival during times of social distancing. One
idea became the “Clean Up Framingham” Facebook group, where members of our
community have been posting pictures of litter they have cleaned up since April
22nd, 2020 (Earth Day).
Over the past 10 months, well over 600 individual clean ups have been posted to
the group and a community of nearly 1000 members has enjoyed the camaraderie
associated with making Framingham a cleaner place to live. The Facebook group
provides an easy way for people to share their progress in a supportive
community allowing us to easily track our collective efforts around the city.
We occasionally plan coordinated clean up events, but our main focus is to
encourage folks to pick up litter any time they can.
Today I write to inform you of an evolution of our beloved group. We have
officially changed our name to Keep Framingham Beautiful, becoming a chapter of
Keep Massachusetts Beautiful. Keep Massachusetts Beautiful launched in 2014 as
a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the simple idea that “beauty
matters.” A landscape littered with trash is anything but beautiful. Keep
Massachusetts Beautiful focuses on four core impact areas in order to improve
local communities: Litter Prevention & Cleanup, Waste Reduction & Recycling,
Beautification & Community Greening, and Environmental Education.
Keep Framingham Beautiful's mission now aligns with their parent organization:
"taking action to make Framingham a cleaner, greener, litter-free place to
live, work, and play.” If you would like to help us with this mission, please
join us at our renamed Facebook group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepframinghambeautiful
If you are not on Facebook, no worries! You can help by simply picking up
litter whenever you can following our guidance listed on the about section our
group which is accessible even if you don’t have Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepframinghambeautiful/about
We hope to see you out there!
Mike Croci
