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The Small Business Challenge Grant offers Cambridge businesses, business associations, and groups of neighborhood businesses the opportunity to secure one-time grant funding in increments of $1,000 for well-designed projects that bring together neighborhood business interests around shared goals of improved design, promotion, and business resilience in a commercial area.
Hiring Events
The Office of Workforce Development hosts job fairs and hiring events multiple times a year. The events encourage Cambridge residents to build their networks, meet local employers, and apply to job opportunities.
Creative Patching
Creative Patching will focus on how to repair holes, tears, and stains in clothing using fabric patches and hand embroidery techniques. Participants will learn about tools and materials for patching, and how to combine fabric patches with simple hand embroidery stitches to create eye-catching visible mends. Leave class with a sampler of techniques that you can refer back to when tackling your own mends at home. Suitable for beginners with little or no sewing experience.
The Hive
The Hive is a hub for STEAM learning, creativity, and community collaboration in Cambridge. It provides free, hands-on learning opportunities and technology and resources for personal projects. It serves as a hub for skill sharing and creative collaboration.
Watertown-Cambridge Greenway
A multi-use path that follows a former railroad right-of-way from Fresh Pond in Cambridge and to Arlington Street in Watertown.