The TeamHumanity Games & Events

05/10/2026

To all of our mothers out there. This is your day and you deserve it! Happy Mother’s Day from May your day and year be as beautiful as these 💐

05/03/2026

🗣️Mon Valley Kids with creative ability. This is for you!

Some kids don’t just play with LEGOs…

They design.
They problem-solve.
They build worlds.

✨ Introducing: Brick by Brick — A Youth LEGO Art Showcase at Verticals Makerspace & Entrepreneurship Center

We’re creating a space where kids can bring their LEGO creations — swords, gadgets, mini worlds, inventions — and display them like real artists.

🔹 LEGO Art Gallery (show off your builds)
🔹 Live Build Zone (build on-site & win prizes)
🔹 Paint & Create Station (for young artists)
🔹 45-Minute Mystery Brick Challenge

🏆 Awards for creativity, storytelling, engineering, and more.
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📍 Location: Verticals Makerspace
13 Arch St, Brownsville, PA 15417
📅 Date: Sunday, May 31
⏰ Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
👧🧒 Elementary School Students Only

📩 To participate, email: [email protected]
Include your child’s name and age.

We believe creativity deserves to be seen.
If your child builds, imagines, and creates…this is for them.

04/19/2026

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞, 𝐏𝐚., 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐅𝐋 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬’ 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲

𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐅𝐋’𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐅𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

As the NFL Draft comes to Pittsburgh, Fayette County has a story worth telling — and it starts with one of its own.

Back home, he was Bruiser. Early in his NFL career, he was Will James Peterson. In time, football fans came to know him as William James — the name many know him by today.

Before the 10-year NFL career, before the Sundays on the big stage, Will James was a Brownsville kid carrying hometown pride with him everywhere he went.

He starred at Michigan, where he started as a true freshman on a national championship team. He was selected in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the New York Giants.

Then came a moment that said everything about who he was. As a rookie, he started the very first game of the season for New York on Monday Night Football at Mile High Stadium, the day before 9/11. Asked what college he went to, he gave an answer people in Fayette County will never forget:

Brownsville.

He went on to build a 10-year NFL career, one of the most notable in modern Fayette County history.

And yet, what makes his story truly stand apart is what came after football.

Will James came home.

He did not just leave Fayette County with success. He brought success back with him. He returned to invest in local young people, create opportunity, and build pathways that did not exist before.

Through Team Humanity, Verticals Makerspace and Entrepreneurship Center, and the Verticals Mobile STEM Lab, he has poured into this community in a way that is rare, personal, and lasting.

Others may have moved on. Will came back.
Others may have inspired from a distance. Will showed up in person.
Others may have had football careers. Will turned his into a mission.

That is why his story still resonates.

Not only because he made it to the NFL. But because he never stopped being from Brownsville. Never stopped being from Fayette County. And never stopped giving back to the people and places that shaped him.

From Brownsville to the NFL stage — and back home again — Will James’ story is about more than football. It is about pride, purpose, and giving back.

04/16/2026

Another great program started by Team Humanity. Check it out!

WEAR THE MESSAGE Beta: the first public creator drop platform for social-change apparel. TURN YOUR MESSAGE for social change INTO A PRODUCT PEOPLE ACTUALLY WEAR. No audience. No design experience. Just an idea worth sharing. Creators. Individuals. Students. Schools. Community groups. Anyone can appl...

03/19/2026

Team Humanity continues to make moves to elevate Fayette county kids and impact the Mon Valley!

01/28/2026

This is awesome and it will serve a lot of the communities where we hold our events at!
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🗣️Something big is rolling into Fayette County this spring.

Verticals is building a Mobile STEM Lab designed to bring hands-on future skills directly to youth across our region. 🚐⚙️

This is about access.
This is about opportunity.
This is about meeting kids where they are.

More soon.

01/17/2026

🙌

The University of Nebraska will add women's flag football as a varsity sport, the school announced.

The Cornhuskers are the first Power Four program to introduce flag football at the varsity level.

11/19/2025

Filling carts for community pantries. Rival athletes joined forces for the Grocery Dash benefiting Monessen.

Huge thanks to Monessen Foodland and our contestants who filled carts for their constituents: SPHS Monessen Family Center, Little Things for Little People, Gate of Heaven COGIC, Orchard Christian Fellowship.

Athlete Runners: 🏈 Anthony DiCenzo (Belle Vernon), 🥎 Ava Clark (Brownsville), and Monessen’s 🏈🏀 Torrence (TJ) Taylor, Tayvian Cragette, Jakob Dell—putting rivalries aside for something bigger.

We had an amazing morning. The kids even got to join in and give back. Much love to all who made this possible ❤️

11/16/2025

The Best part of yesterdays Good Neighbor GROCERY DASH

Picking our Ultimate Good Neighbor Winner 🏆 —and reading what neighbors wrote about neighbors throughout the week. The everyday stuff that usually goes unseen but changes a day (sometimes a life): rides, meals, check-ins, showing up.

Roll Call: Alan Roberts • Audrey Exum • Billie Szabo • Jakob Dell • Jocelyn Mascola • Mya Kelly • Michael “Mikey” Towler • Samone Stepoli • Victoria Lynn — winners in our eyes.

In true Good Neighbor fashion, Mya Kelly took her $500 Refrigerator FULL certificate and split it in half with someone she knew needed it. That’s the heart of love your neighbor as yourself!

Thanks for reminding us who we are. ❤️

11/15/2025

💚 TEAM HUMANITY GOOD NEIGHBOR GROCERY DASH — RECAP

Monessen showed up BIG today.

Four local teams — SPHS Monessen Family Center, Little Things for Little People, Gate of Heaven COGIC, and Orchard Christian Fellowship — sprinted a 3-minute Grocery Dash and filled carts that go right back to the people they serve. This is what community looks like.

Huge thanks to Brandon and the entire Monessen Foodland crew for opening the aisles and cheering us on, and to all the Team Humanity volunteers who made it smooth from start to finish.

Student-athlete runners:🏃‍♂️ Anthony DiCenzo (Belle Vernon)🏃‍♀️ Ava Clark (Brownsville)🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ Torrence (TJ) Taylor, Tayvian Cragette, Jakob Dell (Monessen) HS athletes who ran hard for their neighbors — we’re proud of you!

We also pulled the winner for the Good Neighbor Refrigerator FULL of Groceries ($500 certificate for Refrigerator Full ) — Mya Kelly is the winner🏆

Thank you, teams, runners, staff, and everyone who nominated a neighbor. More post to come about the event! ❤️

11/11/2025

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Jocelyn Mascola 👏 👏 your quiet but powerful acts of kindness are inspiring all of us to be better🙌

🗣️All week, leading up to The TEAM HUMANITY Good Neighbors Grocery Dash nominate a Monessen community member who showed acts of kindness this year (comment their name + what they did). We’ll draw live at the event—one nominee wins a refrigerator FULL of groceries. 🧊🛒�🗓️ Date: 11/15/25

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