Watch our YouTube video of Cleanup participants explaining
why they volunteer.
Thank you volunteers!
Approximately 3,000 volunteers
joined together to pick up trash along the river and throughout the watershed on April 25, collecting an estimated 15-20 tons of trash! Thanks to all our volunteers, sponsors, and partners who made this event a success.
Click here to view a PDF thank you flier for volunteers, with statistics from the Cleanup.
Click here to view a list of the more than 140 volunteer groups who helped to clean up, along with hundreds of individuals.
View photos from many Cleanup groups of their work and the trash they picked up! NEW
A big thank you to MassArt student Kerry Donahue, who designed this year's Cleanup t-shirt.
Would you, your business or organization like to sponsor next year's
Cleanup? We appreciate both monetary and in-kind donations of Cleanup
supplies (such as trash bags and gloves). All sponsors will be listed on
our website, and mentioned in our press release; some sponsorship levels include a logo on our event t-shirt. Download a complete list of sponsorship options and benefits (PDF). Click here to view the 2008 Cleanup sponsors. Please contact Rebecca
Scibek Wickham for more information or to donate. Click
here for contact information.
If you would like more information about the Charles River Cleanup, or to be put on the volunteer list for next year, please contact Rebecca
Scibek Wickham. Click
here for contact information.
Senator John Kerry speaks with volunteers at the 2007 Cleanup.
Photo by Lucas Wickham
Background information
Background information on the Cleanup from the the Spring 2007 issue of
CRWA's Streamer newsletter:
".. the Charles River Watershed
Association, Massachusetts Community
Water Watch (a project of MassPIRG, Americorps, and MA Service Alliance), and the Charles River Stream Team planned the 2000 cleanup to mark the new millennium on Earth Day and showcase river health improvements
by engaging watershed residents in one single-day cleanup effort... . The high volunteer turnout revealed
a public desire to participate
in community service on behalf of the Charles, and the annual event was born." Read the complete article (PDF).
Volunteer Groups
AECOM
AMEC Earth & Environmental
Amgen
Arborpoint Properties at Woodland
Arlington Catholic High School
Army Engineers
Assumption College Alumni Club
Babson College Foundation of Management & Entrepreneurship
Bain & Company
Bain Capital, LLC.
Bank of New York Melon
Bates College Alumni
BETA Group, Inc.
Blue Cross
Booyah
Boston Arts Academy Honors students
Boston Cares
Boston College Law School Env Law Society
Boston College Students
Boston Latin School
Boston Triathalon Team
Boston University Students
Boston Young Professionals Association
Boston's Emerging Green Builders
Box Pond Association
Brookfield Properties
Natick Brownie Troop (Sunday Cleanup)
Brownie Troop 1347
Brownie Troop 368
Bryant Alumni
BU Alpha Epsilon Delta
BU Grad Society
BU Nemeton
BU Pi Kappa Alpha
BU Sigma Alpha Lambda
BU Sigma Kappa
Building Impact
Bunker Hill Community College
Cambridge Boat Club
Cambridge Friends & Neighbors
Cambridge Rindge and Latin Crew
Cambridge Running Club
Canterbury Rd Neighborhood Group
CDM
Central Square Tae Kwon Do
Chapel Hill – Chauncy Hall School
Charles River School, Dover
Charles River Yacht Club
Charlesgate Yacht Club
Chinook Montessori School
Coca Cola
Colleges of the Fenway
Community Rowing, Inc.
Cornerstone Research
CRA International
Cub Scout Pack 100
Cub Scout Pack 18
Cub Scout Pack 186 (St. Paul's Church)
Dana Hall Middle School
Dartmouth Club of Greater Boston
Dedham Girl Scouts
Draper Laboratory
East Watertown Residents Cleanup Crew
Edgewater Drive neighbors
Einhorn Yaffee Prescott
Emerson College Alpha Epsilon Sigma
Emmanuel College
Endicott College
Engineers Without Borders
Ernst & Young
Events & Adventures
Franklin Boy Scout Troop 99
Friends and neighbors
Friends of Hemlock Gorge
Friends of Mill Pond
Genzyme
GerrityStone
GesherCity environmental group
Gillette
Graham and Parks School 7th Graders
Harvard College Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Harvard Extension Environmental
Harvard University Office for Sustainability
Health Careers Academy
Historic Boston Incorporated
Human Services Research Institute
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
International Power Bellingham
International Power Milford
Island Neighborhood Association
Jet Blue
Ken Sazema Realtors
Korean Church of Boston
KPMG
LDG Reinsurance Corporation
Liberty Hotel
Malcolm Pirnie Inc.
Masonic Lodge - Norumbega Fraternity
McKinsey
Medfield Neighbors
Medfield Pack 200
Medfield Pack 200 (Sunday Cleanup)
MIT SEA Grant
MIT Students
Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Mt. Ida College
Natick Environmental Coalition
New Balance
New England College of Optometry
Newman School
Newton Congregational Church
Newton Country Day School
Newton North Environmental Club
Northeastern University Engineering Students
Northeastern University Students
Olin College of Engineering students
Omni Parker House
Pfizer
PSU Boston Alumni Chapter
Quincy Church Youth Group
Raytheon
River Road Neighbors
Riverside Boat Club
Riverside Community Care
Shaw's employees
Skidmore College Alumni
The Cadmus Group, Inc.
The North Face - Natick Collection
Till, Inc.
Timberland
Trinity Church
Trinity Partners
Triumvirate Environmental
U.S. Government Accountability Office
University of Michigan Alumni
University of Virginia Alumni
UUSC/Unitarian Church of All Souls
Verizon
Waltham Friends and neighbors
Watertown Citizens for Environmental Safety
Watertown Friends and Neighbors
Watertown Police Department
Wellesley College students Mezcla Club
Wellesley Natural Resources Council
Wellesley Neighborhood Group
Whole Foods Bellingham
Whole Foods Market
Winsor Young Alumnae
Woodard & Curren
2008 Cleanup
Click here to learn more about last year's Cleanup. View a list of volunteer groups and sponsors, and find out how much garbage we collected!