The East Coast Round Wall Foundation began as a group of skateboarders who liked to build ramps and travel up and down the coast to skate. By 2005, the group pretty much did the same thing, but officially had an incorporated non-profit tax identification number.

The difference now is ECRW (pronounced E-crew) is introducing 14- and 15-year-olds to the sport of skateboarding, teaching them how to build skate ramps and bowls out of recycled materials and providing role models, among other things.