MIT@Lawrence

Lawrence, Massachusetts is home to a burgeoning network of civic leaders and organizations dedicated to building the city’s capacity and effecting long-term change. Their commitment to Lawrence is the inspiration for and the force behind MIT@Lawrence, a remote university-community partnership.

A number of Lawrence residents, youth, and members of community partner organizations form the Community Advisory Committee (CAC).

Lead Lawrence Partners

Lawrence Community Works

Lawrence CommunityWorks is a non-profit community development corporation dedicated to the sustained economic and physical revitalization of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Grassroots community organizing and the belief that “Community Change is Powered by People” form the basis of the CommunityWorks revitalization effort.

Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity

Merrimack Valley Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit homebuilder and ecumenical Christian housing organization.

Groundwork Lawrence

Groundwork Lawrence, Inc. (GWL) is a locally-based non-profit organization working to create sustainable environmental change through community-based partnerships. Groundwork is committed to “changing places and changing lives” through on-the-ground projects, education, and volunteer programs that help to transform local communities.

Bread & Roses Housing

Bread & Roses Housing was founded in 1988 to address issues caused by rising rents and home prices. The organization’s goal is to create alternative homeownership opportunities for families traditionally excluded from the housing market. They do so by acquiring vacant lots or distressed properties, building homes and making the homes available to families through a community land trust.

Lawrence Higher Education Resource Center (HERC)

HERC is a Lawrence community resource with everything Lawrence residents need to know about how to go to college.

Jericho Road

Jericho Road Lawrence’s mission is to address economic inequities by matching the needs of non profit organizations in Lawrence, Massachusetts to the talents and resources of the surrounding suburban communities. Jericho Road volunteers offer no cost, customized professional services to those non profit organizations focused on helping individuals and families become economically self-sustaining. By providing services focused on economic sustainability, the Jericho Road Project works to strengthen and contribute to the vitality and quality of life in Lawrence.

City of Lawrence, MA

• Lawrence Office of Planning
• Lawrence Community Development Department

Lead MIT Partners

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Department of Urban Studies and Planning [DUSP]
• Public Service Center
• Media Lab
• Sloan School of Management
• Center for Real Estate
• Office of University Partnerships