Concord, Massachusetts
Concord Community Organizations
A newsroom that covers your own Town Meeting, a studio inside your high school that films it, a library, and the organisations that look after Concord’s land and its history. Every organization on this page takes volunteers, and several of them are how a resident with no title at all ends up in the room.
Community Organizations
| Organization | What they do & contact |
|---|---|
| Concord Museum | In its own words, it connects people to Concord’s history and its continuing influence on American cultural, political, environmental and literary life. It is one of the sites within walking distance of Concord Center. |
| Concord Land Conservation Trust | A private land trust that has been preserving open space in Concord since 1959. It says it seeks to conserve the town’s natural resources and its traditional landscape of woods, meadows and fields, and it owns over 1,000 acres and maintains 27 miles of trails that are open to the public. 978-369-6526. |
| The Robbins House | A Concord nonprofit whose stated mission is to reveal the little known African American history of Concord and its regional and national importance, from the 17th through the 19th centuries. It sits at 320 Monument Street opposite the Old Manse and the North Bridge, opens seven days a week from late April to the end of October, and publishes a walking-tour map of African American and antislavery history sites in town. It also awards the Ellen Garrison Scholarship to a Concord-Carlisle High School student. |
| Gaining Ground | A Concord nonprofit farm that grows food and donates it to hunger relief partners, worked by volunteers. Start here if you are in high school: every summer it runs a volunteer High School Farm Team for 14 to 18 year olds, community service hours can be approved on request, and it says outright that there are no agricultural experience prerequisites. |
| League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle | The nonpartisan local chapter of an organisation founded in 1920, which never supports or opposes any candidate or party. It studies local issues, takes positions, and then advocates for or against actual Town Meeting warrant articles, so it is one of the few places you can watch a citizens’ group argue a specific article before the vote. |
| The Umbrella Arts Center | Concord’s arts centre, with studio artists and galleries, a stage company and concert series, and an arts education programme that runs classes, workshops, a ceramics studio, summer camp and vacation weeks. It publishes an open call for volunteers. |
| Minuteman Media Network | The community television and podcast studio for Concord and Carlisle, run as an enterprise fund of the Town of Concord. It films Town Meeting, the Select Board and town events. It is also the one on this page you can walk into: it is located inside Concord-Carlisle High School, it lends equipment and shares its TV and podcast studio with students and residents, it takes volunteers to help film events, and it trains people in video and podcast production. |
| The Concord Bridge | A nonprofit weekly newspaper whose stated mission is to connect all Concordians with local news that is important to them. It has been delivered to every household in town since October 2022, and it covers Town Meeting, the Select Board, the schools and the town’s legal notices. |
| Concord Free Public Library | Open since October 1, 1873, and run as a partnership: the Concord Free Public Library Corporation, funded by private giving, works alongside the town, and the Select Board appoints the library committee on the town’s side. It holds the William Munroe Special Collections and the Town Archives. |
Town Services You Can Use Today
| Service | Notes |
|---|---|
| Council on Aging | Senior services, outreach, and programs for older residents. Director Daniel Petitt. 978-318-3020. It also drives seniors to and from Town Meeting if they book a ride ahead on that same line. |
| Recreation | Youth and family programs, the town’s parks and fields. 978-287-1050. It also runs the childcare offered on site during Town Meeting, for children three to eleven, booked and paid in advance. |
| Youth Services | Programs and support for Concord’s young people. 978-318-3043. |
| Veterans Services | Benefits, claims, and services for Concord veterans and their families. Veterans Services Officer Dick Krug. 978-318-3038. |
For current hours and a fuller list, see the town’s own staff directory at concordma.gov.
MassCivics last checked this page on October 14, 2026.
Sources
- Town records: Town of Concord, Staff Directory, as of October 2026.
- Community organizations: Concord Land Conservation Trust, Concord Land Conservation Trust, as of October 2026.
- Community organizations: The Robbins House, The Robbins House, Visit Us, as of April 20, 2026.