"Whatever excuses others may have had for conditions in their cities - we have none."
— James W. Rouse
In order to honor the memory and legacy of James W. Rouse, founder of the Enterprise Foundation (now know as Enterprise) and champion of a business model that involves communities and neighborhoods; each year Enterprise and Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, focus a year's worth of planning and commitment into the James W. Rouse Community Service Day.
On this day each year, hundreds of volunteers, spend a day in parks, schools, and many other venues providing hands-on work to repair, beautify, and create facilities that benefit and enrich the lives of the citizens of Baltimore. Fortified with broad support from dozens of sponsoring businesses through financial gifts and in-kind contributions, volunteers from the business world work side by side with community residents to improve neglected public spaces, parks, and much more.
The success of James W. Rouse Day hinges on friends, families, students, teachers, parents, and civic-minded businesses and their employees rolling up their sleeves and volunteering to help transform America's cities.