Welcome to The Jericho Road Project!

The Jericho Road Project bridges communities by matching the professional talents of volunteers with the needs of community based non-profit organizations and businesses to promote community development, strengthen social services, and enrich the lives of volunteers.

Jericho Road's approach to a community is pro-active (we seek out business and try to anticipate and address emerging problems or opportunities); holistic (we define our service offerings by the many different needs of our clients) and long-term (we create a permanent connection between two communities and the people who live in them).

The Jericho Road Project was born out of the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist First Parish church in Concord, Massachusetts. It is now an independently funded nonprofit organization that draws volunteers from a range of corporate, secular, faith-based and other sources.

The Jericho Road Project is in the process of franchising its model. In 2003 Jericho Road Lowell was launched bridging the resources of greater Concord, MA, with the needs of Lowell; in 2005 Jericho Road Lawrence was launched, matching the resources of greater North Andover, MA, with the needs of Lawrence. One or more sites will be launched in 2008, location TBD!

Since our launch in early 2003, our volunteers and our corporate partners have served over 60 Lowell nonprofit organizations and 30 Lawrence organizations and small businesses through two core programs: Springboard and B.E.A.N.E.

Springboard - Jericho Road's flagship program provides customized services to nonprofits to help them achieve their goals. The type of services provided is virtually unlimited, ranging from board building, organizational assessment, and strategic planning to marketing, professional coaching and website development.

Jericho Road's other core program - Business Experts Assisting New Entrepreneurs, or BEANE - helps entrepreneurs launch and grow small businesses in Lowell by providing business training and one-on-one coaching to prospective and new entrepreneurs in need of help. This service is provided largely in partnership with the Lowell Small Business Assistance Center.

Meet some of our volunteers and clients in our Jericho Road Project video, where they talk about the impact of a Jericho Road project on their organization and themselves!