Community Partners Share a Day of Sweat Equity and Expertise

A team of 15 volunteers from the New York office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) paid a visit to The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation today to take part in its annual company wide Day of Service.

Founded in 1979, LISC is the largest community development support organization in the country, helping to connect organizations and community leaders with resources that revitalize neighborhoods and improve the quality of life for its residents. LISC is one of Restoration’s oldest partners and financial supporters.

Several high-level managers at LISC on Friday the day away from their office to lend their sweat equity and business expertise in two areas that Restoration identified as in need of the greatest support in Bedford Stuyvesant: employment and health.

Some of the volunteers were assigned to The Rite Job Center in Restoration Plaza to conduct a series of mock interviews and offer feedback to the participant’s of its job preparedness program.

The other volunteers visited the Bedford-Stuyvesant Child Development Center on Quincy Street to help the center’s young students and staff prepare their community garden for the spring and summer months.

“This is important because it allows LISC to see and experience what we do here at Restoration and see the value in the work that we all put in,” said Doug Jones, executive director of the Business Improvement District at Restoration. “And we appreciate the help of the volunteers.”