During his freshman and sophomore year in high school, Joseph was able to plan, pitch, fundraise, and manage the construction of a reading trail behind the Edith B Ford Memorial Library in Ovid, NY.  Joseph had to find and approach donors in order to raise over four-thousand dollars to start construction on the project.  Once he had acquired the needed materials he needed to obtain enough volunteers to make the trail come to life.  In the end, Joseph and his Volunteers had invested 311.5 hours of their time into the reading trail.