We give our time and resources to support projects that we believe in.

Mark Richey Woodworking owners Mark and Teresa Richey volunteer with and support the Cure Blindness Project, a global nonprofit organization helping restore eyesight to impoverished people worldwide.

In 2022, Mark and Teresa traveled to Tanzania with project co-founder Dr. Geoff Tabin and his team, which provided cataract surgeries to nearly 300 people during that one trip. Mark and Teresa worked five 12-hour days alongside the medical experts. Teresa guided patients through gowning and preparation, while Mark carefully lifted and positioned patients on the surgical table and applied eye drops. Additional trips to other nations have followed and a fundraiser at Mark Richey Woodworking in 2025 raised significant funds to support the organization's ongoing work.

Learn more about the Cure Blindness Project, previously called the Himalayan Catarct Project, at www.cureblindness.org.

Mark Richey Woodworking serves as inspiration for green jobs and green manufacturing by regularly speaking at events and schools as well as hosting visitors to the Newburyport, Mass., facility.

Over the years, Mark Richey has given tours to thousands of students from schools around the region. He engages the students in a discussion about sustainable design. Inside the facility, the students get a thorough explanation of the workings of the biomass furnace. Outside, they have historically toured the grounds around the wind turbine.

In January 2010, Haiti was hit with a catastrophic earthquake. With infrastructure and homes demolished, people had no where to turn. Lack of medical facilities made treating the thousands of people injured a very challenging task. Immediate care was needed, as well as a plan to build a new hospital to provide medical services moving forward.

The days right after the quake were critical. Mark Richey flew to Haiti to assist Partners in Health with aid operations, and delivered thousands of tents and sleeping bags to the region. He ferried medical supplies, helped medical professional set up treatment areas and assessed buildings for structural viability. He also organized a tent and sleeping bag drive, using the company as the clearing depot. Finally, the Company donated all the millwork for a new 300-bed teaching hospital and dormitories, which opened in April, 2013. This first-class facility in rural Haiti is well-equipped, allowing many young Haitian doctors and nurses to raise the standard of medical care in Haiti.

In 2015, many areas in Nepal were devastated by an extremely strong earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless and entire villages flattened.

Mark and Teresa Richey have traveled extensively in Nepal and are closely connected through climbing, hiking, family and friends. Mark Richey Woodworking contributed to the relief effort through these long-establised organizations Community Action Nepal and Dzi Foundation.

In 2012, an abandoned railroad bed close to our office was transformed into a recreational trail. Named the Clipper City Rail Trail, this 1.1 mile long path leads to the Merrimack River, and has several entrances along its route. The start of the trail needed something special to mark it as the official entrance of the newly christened rail trail.

Mark Richey Woodworking designed, constructed and installed a new archway to increase the visibility of the trail and welcome visitors to take a stroll or bike trip. The 20-foot wide, 14-foot high arch is handcrafted from four solid white oak beams donated by Keiver-Willard Lumber Corporation, and is supported by footings donated and custom built by Castagna Construction.

Northern Afghanistan is one of the poorest regions of Central Asia and in desperate need of schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. The remoteness, bleak terrain and climate make travel, construction and life a challenge in this area.

In the summer of 2008, Mark Richey Woodworking sponsored the building of the Korkut Primary School located in the remote Wakhan corridor of northern Afghanistan.