Lynn Donohue

Brick By Brick is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower all South Coast MA residents to advance personal and career goals through inspiration, education and mentoring, and to encourage those residents to pass their success stories on to others who are also struggling to succeed.

Founded by Lynn Donohue in July of 2000, Brick By Brick offers a range of innovative programs, activities, and classes that help teens and adults foster creativity and develop the self-confidence, motivation, and goal-setting skills to succeed in life.

To learn more about programs currently being offered by Brick By Brick or to become a financial contributor or volunteer, please call 508.990.9090.

Courses for teens include:

Finding your Creativity and Publishing a Magazine

Introduces the students to the world of magazine publishing. Includes instruction
on writing and graphic design.

Finding the Music Within

Helps students to find their musical ability in singing or playing instruments. Students learn acoustic, percussion and keyboard, basic note reading and voice technique. They create their own song and CD. Students do not have to own
their own instrument.

Courses for adults include:

Take Your Dream and Build Your Business

Lynn Donohue, successful entrepreneur, author and founder of Brick By Brick runs workshops on the following topics: Goal Setting, Motivating Yourself and Others, Developing Self-Confidence, Overcoming Fear and Success as a System, and
Time and Stress Management.

All courses are taught at various locations in New Bedford.

Story by Story is a program that allows teens to act as journalists, videographers and entrepreneurs. The project's objective is to motivate and inspire students to accomplish personal and career goals by using successful stories from the South Coast MA community. Story by Story provides young people with a community-based learning project that involves exploring the possibilities of entrepreneurship, improving work ethic, strengthening communication skills and enhancing business knowledge and provides adults with an opportunity to tell their story and get it published.

South Coast MA teens are publishing a quarterly 48-page, full color, teen magazine entitled The Link: Our Language, Our Voice, Our Mind. The Link features subjects
of interest to teens-music, art, sports, entertainment, college information, creative writing, photography and much more. Teens edit, design and write for this magazine. They also develop marketing and distribution plans. After-school jobs will be provided for the leadership roles of this magazine.