Every resident counts: Civic Works making a difference in Baltimore
January 22, 2015
AmeriCorps celebrated its 20th birthday this past September. The organization engages more than 75,000 Americans in service projects annually. More than 4,000 AmeriCorps members have served in Baltimore through Civic Works, a non-profit I founded in 1993 to strengthen Baltimore’s communities through education, skills development and community service.
We love to talk about the numbers to showcase results: tutoring and mentoring close to 40,000 students, growing nearly 60,000 pounds of fresh produce, planting 25,000 trees, making energy improvements to nearly 6,000 households, and converting over 200 vacant lots into community green spaces. But what I’d like to talk about today are people, not numbers, because behind every statistic is a Baltimore resident whose life has been positively impacted by Civic Works. Today, I want to share Davon Baynes’ story.
Davon was born and raised in Northeast Baltimore. After spending two years as a member of Civic Works Real Food Farm’s high school youth crew, Davon joined Civic Works as the farm’s AmeriCorps Mobile Farmers Market Assistant in the summer of 2013. In his four years with the farm, Davon has gained a wide-range of skills, from farming, harvesting, and composting, to customer service and public speaking.
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