MC2 Technology, Inc.

MC2 Technology, Inc., a 501c(3) organization, provided successful after-school and Saturday programming for "on-the-bubble" elementary and high school students since 1997 in Hartford's toughest north-end neighborhood, the Barbour Street area (between Tower and Capen streets). Partnering with north-end minister, Apostle Wadie Lanier, and working out of her New Temple of God community church, the program prospered. It was the first "after-school" tutoring program in the area. In July, 2011, Apostle Lanier died very unexpectedly. Upon her death, the MC2 Board of Directors searched for a new location and determined that Manchester, because of its changing demographics, would be a very good match. Thus the "4-Walls" Project, based on this Hartford experience, has begun.

The "4-Walls" Project, partnering with the African American Environmentalist Association, and its founder and executive director, Norris McDonald, is a 4-year pilot program with five levels of assessment and evaluation.