Cambridge College (Lawrence Regional Center), offers a unique environment where working adults can continue their education by building on a lifetime of learning. Cambridge College recognizes diversity as an asset to the classroom, the community, and to our society. Our innovative teaching and learning model helps adult students meet the challenges of higher education and earn the degree credentials they need to advance their careers.
Cambridge College supports the arts and culture of Lawrence through collaborations and annual events celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. Cambridge College supports artists by providing free space to non-profits for workshops and lectures during the day.
City of Lawrence, Strategically located in the center of the Merrimack Valley and only 25 miles north of Boston, Lawrence continues to be at the heart of industrial activity. Its historic mill buildings along the mighty Merrimack River offer accessibility, adaptable manufacturing and office spaces at affordable rates, and a city ready to assist your business.
Its people offer a diverse, high-quality labor force, many within walking distance of the compact, industrially-planned downtown. As the city moves forward, businesses are benefiting from the renewed commitment to people and infrastructure.
Groundwork Lawrence, Inc. (GWL) is a locally-based 501(c)3 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 our community.
Groundwork Lawrence changes places and lives through the development of parks, community gardens, reclamation of brownfields, tree planting, organizing volunteers to help clean up and improve the City’s waterways, parks, and public spaces, management of a farmers market, teaching local youth to be environmental leaders and holding events to celebrate our parks, waterways and open spaces.
We are proud to collaborate with Live Lawrence through programming at our Farmers Market and Canal Illuminations.
Essex Art Center (EAC) is a nonprofit art organization with a mission to inspire and nurture the diverse artistic potential of the Greater Lawrence Community through classroom exploration and gallery exhibitions.
Lawrence Community Works is a non-profit community development corporation dedicated to the sustained economic and physical revitalization of the City of Lawrence, one of its signature partnerships is Movement City, an empowerment network in which young Lawrencians (ages 10-19) can participate in a wide range of highly creative economic, academic, leadership development, and collective action activities. It is a 'virtual city' with many places to go: young people can explore their potential through Performing Arts on Hope Street, Design & Technology on Vision Ave., Mentoring & Academic Support on Wisdom Drive, and Money Management on Bank Blvd.
Lawrence Cultural Alliance is a partnership made up of a diverse group of organizations, agencies and businesses throughout the Greater Lawrence area, who combine resources and knowledge to cultivate a community of arts and culture for all to enjoy.
Lawrence Heritage State Park is part of the Massachusetts Department Conservation and Recreation. Its mission is to be a cultural center for the community, celebrating its heritage and present culture, providing a meeting place, modeling historic preservation, and being a catalyst for revitalization. The Visitor Center, in a restored 1840s mill worker boardinghouse, includes a permanent exhibit on Lawrence history, a Gallery with changing art and historical exhibits, a Community Room for meetings and events, and is a tourist information center. Tours and education programs, concerts and lectures, as well as admission to the exhibits are free. The Park also maintains 70 acres of green space in the city, providing recreational opportunities in an urban setting. The Visitor Center is open daily, from 9 - 4. 1 Jackson St., Lawrence, MA 01840, 978-794-1655
Lawrence History Center, Since 1978, Lawrence History Center, formerly Immigrant City Archives, has collected and preserved documents and artifacts pertaining to the history of Lawrence, Massachusetts and its people. The collection contains the bulk of the business and planning records of the Essex Company that created Lawrence, non current municipal records, thousands of historic photographs and glass plate negatives, organizational records from local businesses and agencies, 700 oral histories with eye witness accounts as far back as 1910, and an array of family and individual records that document the diverse and intellectually challenging nature of Lawrence. LHC employs those materials through exhibits, educational programs and research services to foster understanding of the interaction of the built community and the lives of ordinary people. The Lawrence History Center: Immigrant City Archives and Museum is located in the Essex Company complex, included on the National Register of Historic Places.
Northern Essex Community College, our mission is to serve the people of the Greater Merrimack Valley as a caring and comprehensive center of educational excellence that offers high quality, affordable adult and post secondary education through the Associate Degree level, as well as a broad range of occupational programs and community services which enhance the social, cultural and economic life of the region. NECC hosts the White Fund Lecture Series.