Abby Kelley Foster House, Inc.
The mission of Abby's House is to provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered, and low-income women, with or without children. Abby's House empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with dignity and hope.
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Allston Brighton Comm Development Corp.
Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation builds a stronger, more stable community by representing and supporting the expressed interests, positive engagement and leadership of Allston Brighton's local communities, institutions, individuals and families of all incomes. Allston Brighton CDC's role will change as individual and collective voices respond to the myriad of economic, social, civic and environmental forces impacting Allston Brighton. Our work may include providing and protecting affordable housing, developing community leaders, building family economic self-sufficiency, and fostering community cohesion.
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Alternative House (Women in Transition)
The mission of Alternative House is to facilitate the creation of a society in which violence against women will no longer exist. As a means to this end, we offer shelter, support, options, counseling and legal advocacy for all women who have experienced domestic violence (and their children) who seek our help. We are committed to the empowerment of women towards self-sufficiency. We do not discriminate against any race, class, culture, age group or sexual orientation. In addition, we provide community education to reform the societal attitudes that encourage a permissive attitude towards violence against women. MORE |
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Andrews Helpful Hands Foundation, Inc.
To financially and emotionally support families that have a child with cancer that is going to go through the bone marrow transplant process. To educate the public and increase the number of people that are on the volunteer donor list of the national and international bone marrow registry.
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Asian Community Development Corp
The Asian Community Development Corporation, a community-based organization, is committed to high standards of performance and integrity in serving the Asian American community of Greater Boston, with an emphasis on preserving and revitalizing Boston's Chinatown. The Corporation develops physical community assets, including affordable housing for rental and ownership; promotes economic development; fosters leadership development; builds capacity within the community and advocates on behalf of the community. MORE |
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Bay Cove Human Services, Inc.
Bay Cove Human Services partners with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. We carry out this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services for people with developmental disabilities, mental illness aging-related needs and/or drug and alcohol addiction. |
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Beaverbrook STEP Inc.
Beaverbrook STEP, Inc. is a private, non- profit, SOMWBA certified organization that provides a comprehensive array of progressive, community based residential, day, employment and support services to adults with intellectual, developmental and related disabilities in Eastern Massachusetts. Our mission and philosophy focus on empowering individuals and their family members to make their own personal choices and decisions about their lives in order to achieve full community inclusion. We focus on helping individuals to realize their dreams and live meaningful lives as productive and active community members throughout the life cycle. We currently provide services to over 170 individuals and 200 family members. MORE |
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Bethany Hill School, Inc.
The mission of Bethany Hill School, a living and learning community of neighbors, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston, is to provide affordable, independent housing with educational opportunities within a climate of respect, inclusion, and acceptance. Residents are empowered to progress toward their goals and to be their best selves in a safe, supportive, environment. MORE |
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Boston Building Materials Coop Charitable & Educational Fund, Inc.
To help low- and moderate-income homeowners and nonprofits repair and care for their homes and buildings affordably, while also benefiting the environment by diverting reusable materials from landfills.
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Boston Rescue Mission, Inc.
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Bread & Roses Housing Inc
The mission of BRH is to alleviate family poverty across generations through sustainable, owner occupied housing for low income families and to transform blighted neighborhoods in Lawrence, and surrounding communities into vibrant and attractive space for all residents. We support families in their goals for
self-sufficiency, education and empowerment, improve economically distressed
neighborhoods, and advocate for the housing needs of all low-income residents.
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Bridge Fund of Massachusetts
TBFM seeks to prevent the eviction of families and individuals in Massachusetts by providing emergency no-interest rent and mortgage loans and grants along with support services and financial counseling to help clients address causes which contributed to their becoming at risk of homeless and to insure long-term stability. MORE |
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Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Inc.
Bridge provides effective and innovative services to runaway, homeless and high-risk youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to transform their lives and build fulfilling, meaningful futures. MORE |
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Bridgewell, Inc.
Bridgewell mission statement: Inspired by the values of caring and respect, together we guide individuals with disabilities and other challenges to achieve and enjoy their highest quality of life and personal growth. Bridgewell Values: In our relationships and all that we do, we will demonstrate these fundamental values: Caring, Respect, Dignity, Integrity, Safety, Wellness
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Brookhouse Home for Aged Women in Salem
Established in 1861, the Brookhouse Home for Aged Women is a non-profit corporation serving as a Level IV Department of Public Health licensed rest home residence for up to 36 women with a minimum age of 55 years. Its mission is to provide an affordable familiar home setting that enables residents to maintain their independence, their privacy and their exercise of personal choices while receiving supports from responsible staff.
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Brookview House, Inc.
The agency’s mission is to help homeless families and families at risk of homelessness learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. |
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Cambridge Young Womens Christian Association (YWCA Cambridge)
YWCA Cambridge is a social justice organization dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. |
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Caritas Communities Inc
At Caritas Communities, we provide very low income individuals with permanent housing, support, a sense of community and expanded opportunities. For more than 33 years, Caritas has helped fill the need for safe, secure housing in Greater Boston because we believe no one should be homeless.
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Casa Esperanza Inc.
Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual/bicultural behavioral health center that specializes in serving the Latino community in Massachusetts. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care. MORE |
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Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.
Casa Myrna's mission is to deliver solutions to end domestic and dating violence through intervention, awareness and prevention. MORE |
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Castle Square Tenants Organization Inc.
The mission of Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO) is to preserve Castle Square Apartments as affordable housing for low and moderate income residents into perpetuity, and provide comprehensive community and social supports for the families of Castle Square Apartments and the surrounding community. MORE |
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Chelsea Restoration Corporation
Since our incorporation by local residents in 1977, CRC’s mission has been to provide quality housing for the area’s low to moderate-income families. MORE |
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Christopher's Haven, Inc.
MISSION STATEMENT When your child has cancer, you’ll do anywhere to find a cure. More often than not, that means going far from home – to a new and unfamiliar city, filled with people you don’t know and places you can’t find. You spend your days with doctors and treatment protocols. And you spend your nights trying to find some comfort in an uncomfortable place. Worst of all, you and your sick child feel like you’re on your own. Alone. We don’t believe that’s the way to help a kid beat cancer. When a kid is fighting cancer, he needs some respite from hospital beds and lab coats and treatments. She needs her family, and some space to be with them. She needs someplace to play, to be with other kids just like her, to feel less alone, less afraid. The family needs that, too. We are Christopher’s Haven. We are a home for kids and their families while they battle cancer. Our home is more than a place to stay, it’s a support system to help with things large and small, and a community where families can be together, share a laugh, be comforted, and comfort others. Christopher’s Haven allows kids and families to focus their energies on beating the cancer that has attacked them all. We know that medicine can heal the patient. Christopher’s Haven helps heal the child. MORE |
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Circle of Hope Inc.
The mission of Circle of Hope is to provide homeless children, women, and men in and around Boston with clothing and necessities in order to preserve and enhance overall health and personal dignity. By continually providing seasonally appropriate clothing and basic toiletries to carefully vetted organizations, Circle of Hope gives the most vulnerable members of our community the opportunity to protect themselves from the dangers of illness and disease that come from being homeless in New England. MORE |
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Citizens Inn, Inc.
Everyone deserves safety, dignity and hope — to have shelter from the weather, heal when they are sick, and share meals in a place where they can grow and flourish as part of a community. For 35 years, Citizens Inn, Inc., now merged with Haven from Hunger, has worked toward ending homelessness and hunger across the North Shore. Our mission calls us to support everyone with dignity and respect, as they live in our emergency shelter, Citizens Inn Between; our sober living transitional housing shelter, Citizens Inn Transition; our affordable housing units, Citizens Inn Homes; or join us for meals as part of our Citizens Inn Haven from Hunger program. Through our work, we not only provide a safe place to stay and a meal on the table, but offer tools to empower families and individuals to find permanent solutions to break the patterns of instability in their lives. |
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Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc
Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association’s mission is to encourage the production and preservation of housing that is affordable to low and moderate income families and individuals and to foster diverse and sustainable communities through planning and community development. MORE |
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City Life/Vida Urbana (Urban Revival, Inc.)
City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality by building working-class power. We promote individual empowerment, develop community leaders and build collective power to effect systemic change and transform society. Throughout its 44-year history, City Life has largely expressed its mission through organizing Boston residents in order to prevent displacement and promote tenants' rights and affordable housing throughout Boston and beyond. MORE |
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City Mission, Inc.
Mission Statement: City Mission catalyzes action to root out poverty in our neighborhoods. Our strategic focus is on homelessness prevention.
Guiding Principles: As City Mission develops programs to unite communities and transform individuals, it chooses to emphasize programs which, at their core, embody the following three guiding principles: Engagement City Mission creates and nurtures connections across disparate groups to broaden understanding and create meaningful, respectful, and mutually beneficial relationships. Education City Mission educates and provides participants with the necessary resources to make informed decisions, confront challenges, and understand the larger context of complex social issues. Empowerment City Mission inspires and equips participants to directly effect change in their personal lives and to take action for systemic change. MORE |
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Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure Inc. (COHIF)
COHIF's mission is to collectively work with our members and partners to stabilize the Greater Four Corners neighborhood and reduce unnecessary displacement by: maximizing the number of residents in foreclosed occupied housing that can stay in their homes through innovative means; developing and implementing best practice models for code enforcement and long-term ownership of foreclosed properites; and, eventually replicating those efforts in other areas hard-hit by foreclosures. COHIF therefore develops methods that allow residents in foreclosed properties to stay in their homes long-term, and uses those methods to increase community control of housing, and promote permanently affordable housing and community stabilization. |
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Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
The mission of the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (the “NDC”) is to build a better, stronger community in Codman Square and South Dorchester by creating housing and commercial spaces that are safe, sustainable, and affordable, promoting financial and economic stability for residents and for the neighborhood, and providing residents of all ages with opportunities and skills to empower themselves to improve their lives. MORE |
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Community Action Agency of Somerville Inc
The mission of the Community Action Agency of Somerville (CAAS) is to reduce poverty among local families and individuals while working to counteract, and whenever possible eliminate, the societal conditions that cause and perpetuate poverty.
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Community Day Center of Waltham
The Community Day Center of Waltham provides day shelter and support services to adults who are experiencing homelessness. We strive to create a safe, judgement-free culture that is grounded in hospitality, compassion, and mutual respect. At the Community Day Center of Waltham, we believe that all people, no matter where they are on their life journey, deserve to be treated with dignity. We hold true to the basic tenets of hospitality where the host welcomes the guest with goodwill; and we expect that the guest returns the same level of respect to the community. |
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Dismas House of Massachusetts Inc.
The mission of Dismas is the reconciliation of homeless former offenders and society through the creation of supportive community. Through our family-style transitional and permanent housing, and our street outreach (BAR None), Dismas welcomes back former offenders to New England's second largest city. Through advocacy and innovation, Dismas helps to build a statewide safety net as well, providing assistance in linking the social safety net with energy efficiency. MORE |
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Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation acts to build a strong, thriving, and diverse community in Boston's Dorchester neighborhoods. Working closely with neighborhoods, residents, businesses and partners, we access resources to:
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Economic Mobility Pathways Inc. (EMPath)
EMPath transforms people’s lives by helping them move out of poverty and provides other institutions with the tools to systematically do the same. MORE |
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ElatUS Financial Services, Inc.
Elatus Financial Services, Inc. provides a hand up to those experiencing some of the most challenging periods of their life. Our Representative Payee and Fiscal Literacy services deliver hope combined with real world solutions that remove barriers to a meaningful quality of life. Those served by Elatus should have the quality of life that they want rather than a quality of life they have to settle for. |
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Elizabeth Stone House, Inc.
The Elizabeth Stone House partners with adult and child survivors of domestic violence and related trauma – mental illness, housing instability and substance misuse – to achieve safety, stability, and overall wellbeing, thereby contributing to the strength, resiliency, and health of the community we serve. MORE |
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Family Life Support Center Inc. Louison House
Our mission is to reduce homelessness and its causes in Northern Berkshire County. |
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Family Promise North Shore Boston
The mission of Family Promise North Shore Boston is to end homelessness on the North Shore one family at a time by providing shelter, meals, and comprehensive case management to families experiencing homelessness as they seek permanent sustainable housing. MORE |
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Family-To-Family Project, a program of FamilyAid Boston Inc.
The Family-to-Family Project (FTFP) seeks to prevent and reverse family homelessness in Massachusetts by providing timely financial assistance. MORE |
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FamilyAid Boston, Inc.
FamilyAid Boston prevents and ends homelessness, one family at a time. We embrace a comprehensive approach that focuses on the individual strengths of each family and provides services to meet their unique needs. FamilyAid Boston works with families at all stages of the journey from homelessness to housing by providing homelessness prevention assistance, emergency shelter and permanent, affordable housing in conjunction with support services. Along the way, we work with families to identify and address the problems that led to their current crisis. Our goal is for the families who we serve to remain housed, stable, and able to provide for themselves long after they leave our care. MORE |
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Father Bills & Mainspring Inc
Father Bill's & MainSpring is committed to ending and preventing homelessness in Southern Massachusetts with programs that provide emergency and permanent housing and help people obtain skills, jobs, housing, and services. We help people who are struggling with homelessness or are at risk of homelessness to achieve self-sufficiency.
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Fenway Community Development Corporation
Fenway Community Development Corporation (Fenway CDC) exists to build a future which is economically vibrant, culturally diverse, and holistically healthy for all residents of the Fenway neighborhood. |
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FOCUS - A Program of the Justice Resource Institute
Our parent organization Justice Resource Institute (JRI) is dedicated to addressing the most confounding challenges of both the human services and educational systems and the persons and families these systems were created to serve. JRI pursues the social justice inherent in opening doors to opportunity and independence. FOCUS, a program of JRI supports families who are homeless obtain housing through support, education, and empowerment. MORE |
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Fresh Start Furniture Bank, Inc.
Fresh Start Furniture Bank helps restore hope, dignity, and stability in the communities that we serve by recycling donated furniture and housewares to people in need. We accept donations of gently used household items and distribute them free of charge. MORE |
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Friends Of Boston Homeless, Inc.
We believe
homelessness in Boston can be solved.
Friends supports innovative, solutions-oriented programs that help
people move from the streets/shelters to lead peaceful, hopeful lives. We focus on removing the final barriers of transition that
often city and state programs don’t have the means to cover. The final
transition steps out of homelessness are often the most crucial, and we help
make them happen. Like a Parent/Teachers Organization or “Friends of” group, Friends bridges the gap between public sector funding
and the needs of the homeless by providing a vehicle for individuals,
businesses, foundations and charitable organizations to be a part of the
solution to homelessness.
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Gifts of Hope Unlimited Inc.
The mission of Gifts of Hope Unlimited (GOHU) is to raise resources for those impacted by relationship violence. GOHU provides timely financial assistance and basic home resources to individuals and their families who aspire to obtain independence and self-empowerment, while striving to rebuild for their future.
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Greater Boston Legal Services, Inc.
GBLS provides free civil (non-criminal) legal assistance to low-income people in Boston and 31 surrounding cities and towns. The mission is to serve as many low-income people as possible to help them secure some of the most basic necessities of life such as food, safety, and housing. Founded in 1900, GBLS' advocates have expertise in a wide spectrum of poverty law matters. Through individual representation and impact advocacy, and working closely with a wide network of community partners, GBLS upholds the philosophy that justice is for all not just for the few with the means to afford it. |
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Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston, Inc.
Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston builds strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter. We bring people together to build homes, communities, and hope by revitalizing neighborhoods, building sustainable and affordable housing solutions, and empowering families through successful homeownership. Since 1987, we have partnered with families with limited incomes and volunteers to build affordable homes and strengthen communities in the Greater Boston area. Habitat Greater Boston is a Massachusetts nonprofit corporation and an independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. MORE |
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Habitat for Humanity Metrowest - Greater Worcester Inc.
The mission of Habitat for Humanity-MetroWest/Greater Worcester is to create simple, decent homes in our communities by working in continuing partnership with God's people in need who are committed and able to become homeowners. Habitat’s volunteers believe that the greatest means to assist families is in providing a homeownership opportunity. Simple, decent, and affordable housing can have a profound impact on stabilizing a family, and providing for long-term security. The Habitat program is one of self-empowerment: ”a hand up, not a hand out.”
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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell (HfHGL) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that works to strengthen families and communities by building and renovating simple, decent, safe, energy efficient and affordable homes. We work in partnership with corporations, like-minded community groups, faith-based organizations and individual volunteers. MORE |
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Habitat P.L.U.S., Inc.
To provide interim and transitional supportive, sober housing to veterans with psychiatric disabilities, who would otherwise be homeless. To provide program participants with information and advocacy to access existing service programs. The goal for program participants is to maintain stable housing. MORE |
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Harborlight Community Partners
Harborlight Community Partners (HCP), is a non-profit, Massachusetts-certified Community Development Corporation. We develop manage and advocatesfor quality, service-enriched housing that is affordable and inclusive, collaborating with communities to cultivate just, equitable and sustainable housing opportunities vital to the health and strength of our entire region. By focusing on the housing needs of underserved populations and creating, preserving and operating, safe, affordable housing with supplemental supportive services, HCP strives to make homes available to all, because everyone deserves a home. MORE |
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Heading Home, Inc.
Heading Home's mission is to end homelessness in Greater Boston by providing a supported pathway to self-sufficiency that begins with a home, together with critical services such as life skills, financial literacy, and job training. |
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Healing Abuse Working For Change
The purpose of HAWC is to create social change by taking action against personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression. HAWC provides services and support to domestic violence victims residing in the 23 cities and towns on the North Shore in order that they may make informed, independent decisions about their futures, and access alternatives to living in a violent situation. MORE |
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Healing Heart Hospitality House
To provide a suite of services that offers physical, emotional and spiritual support and comfort to the families and friends of hospitalized patients in the greater Worcester area.
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Hearth, Inc.
Hearth is a non-proft organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly. This mission is accomplished through a unique blend of prevention, placement, and housing programs all designed to help elders find and succeed in homes of their own. To this end, all housing operated by Hearth provides a creative array of supportive services that assist residents to age with dignity, regardless of their special medical, mental health, or social needs. Hearth believes these goals are best accomplished through respect for elders and staff, with the desire to see both achieve their highest degree of potential.
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Hebrew Seniorlife Inc.
Our mission is to honor our elders, by respecting and promoting their independence, spiritual vigor, dignity and choice, and by recognizing that they are a resource to be cherished. As part of our mission, we accept special responsibility for the frailest and neediest members of our community who are most dependent on our care. MORE |
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Holy Family Parish
"Somos el Cuerpo de Christo" - "We are the Body of Christ" Answering Jesus' call to serve, the Holy Family Parish Mission, working with Las Hermanas Dominicas de Fatima, strives to enrich the physical and spiritual well being of our extended family in the parish of Nuestra Senora del Pilar, Cevicos, Dominican Republic. In so doing, we all experience God's love. MORE |
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Homes for Families Inc.
Homes for Families is a statewide advocacy organization committed to ending family homelessness through permanent and emergency solutions. We are a collaborative of families who have experienced homelessness, service providers and advocates. Together we educate, organize and advocate for improved public policies to address the root causes of family homelessness with holistic and community-based solutions. MORE |
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Homes for Our Troops
Homes For Our Troops (HFOT) is a privately funded 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post – 9/11 Veterans, to enable them to rebuild their lives.
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Homestart, Inc.
HomeStart is committed to ending and preventing homelessness in Greater Boston. We help families and individuals find, secure and maintain their own homes.
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Hospitality Homes Inc.
Hospitality Homes provides free short-term housing in volunteer host homes and in donated apartments for families and friends of patients seeking care at Boston-area medical facilities. Since 1983, this unique home-away-from-home experience has brought a compassionate response as well as emotional and financial relief to more than 18,000 families in need. MORE |
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Housing Corporation of Arlington
The Housing Corporation of Arlington’s (HCA) mission is to provide and advocate for decent, affordable housing for low to moderate-income families and individuals in Arlington and surrounding communities, while promoting social and economic diversity. HCA envisions an array of decent, attractive, environmentally sound housing that is affordable in perpetuity and blends well with existing neighborhoods. Academy Development Partners (ADP) is a subsidiary that enables HCA to expand development projects regionally. |
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Housing Families, Inc.
Housing Families works to end family homelessness in the communities we serve. We do this by providing safe, temporary shelter, creating affordable housing, and offering individualized supportive services to family members of all ages. We respect each family in its journey toward greater security and stability. MORE |
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International Institute of Boston Inc
The mission of the International Institute of New England is to invest in the future of New England's cities and towns by preparing immigrants for participation in the social, economic, and political richness of American life through active citizenship. MORE |
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Interseminarian-Project Place, Inc.
Our mission is to promote hope and opportunity for homeless individuals by providing the skills, education, training and personal support necessary to obtain employment and housing and most importantly, sustain economic stability and independence over a lifetime. MORE |
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Island Housing Trust Corporation
The Island Housing Trust supports a diverse and vital community on the island of Martha's Vineyard by creating and sustaining permanently affordable rental and ownership housing serving low and moderate income residents. MORE |
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Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
JPNDC promotes equitable development and equal opportunity in Jamaica Plain and adjacent neighborhoods through affordable housing, economic opportunity and organizing initiatives that benefit low- and moderate-income residents and create a better community for all.
Our vision is of a vibrant, stable and diverse community in which people from all walks of life enjoy decent housing in a caring neighborhood, good jobs and opportunities to build careers or businesses, political power, and a promising future for our children. |
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Just A Start Inc.
Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Just-A-Start (JAS) is a community development corporation dedicated to building the housing security and economic stability of low- to moderate-income people in Cambridge and nearby communities. Through innovative, comprehensive, and integrated programs, JAS creates and preserves affordable housing, provides housing resources and services, offers education and workforce training for youth and adults, and builds community engagement. JAS’s vision is a better future for each and every community member: a secure home, a sustaining career, and engagement in the community. MORE |
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L'Arche Irenicon (Irenicon Inc.) - Homes of Hope
L'Arche's mission is to make known the gifts of people with developmental/intellectual disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships; to foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of our members, while being faithful to the core values of our founding story, and engage in our diverse cultures, working together toward a more human society. |
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Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Inc.
Lawyers Clearinghouse improves the lives of people facing social and economic hardship by engaging the legal community in pro bono service to nonprofit organizations and their homeless and low-income clients. MORE |
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Lazarus House, Inc.
By living the gospel message upon which the ministry is founded, we restore dignity and self-respect to our guests--individuals who are poor, underserved, and homeless--to empower them to move forward in their lives.
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Life Saver Ministries Inc.
Life Saver Ministries is a non-denominational, faith-based organization that operates a residential parenting program, called My Father’s House, for homeless pregnant and parenting young women between the ages of 13 and 21 and their children. We welcome young women regardless of their religious beliefs. Our parenting and life-skills education program has two main priorities. Our first priority is to provide our clients with a safe, healthy, and stable living environment. Our second, and equally important, priority is to equip these young women with the tools they will need to care for themselves and their children, to become self-sufficient, and not become homeless again. MORE |
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Lynn Shelter Association Inc.
The Lynn Shelter Association (LSA) believes every person deserves a place to call home. Our mission is to work alongside individuals and families to create a supportive environment-- by listening and building relationships-- empowering them to define and pursue their goals. We provide shelter, supportive services, housings solutions and access to a continuum of community supports to individuals and families at risk for and experiencing homelessness. We serve over 1,000 individuals and families each year, including parenting youth (young adults ages 18-24 with children), children birth to 17, veterans, individuals living with HIV/AIDS, and the chronically homeless. MORE |
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Madison Park Development Corporation
MPDC's mission is to foster a vibrant, healthy Roxbury neighborhood that supports the well-being and advancement of the community. MORE |
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Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA) educates and mobilizes individuals and communities across Massachusetts to break down barriers to affordable and sustainable homeownership.
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Massachusetts Alliance for Sober Housing Inc.
The MA Alliance of Sober Housing (MASH) exists to ensure and promote the critical management, operational, and ethical standards of sober homes, as well as promote technical assistance to new and existing sober homes. MORE |
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Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are community-controlled, nonprofit organizations that work throughout the Commonwealth to build more inclusive, vibrant, and productive communities. The Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC) is an association of CDCs and other community-based development organizations that are dedicated to working together and with others to create places of opportunity where people of diverse incomes and backgrounds access housing that is affordable, benefit from economic opportunities and fully participate in the civic life of their community. We achieve this by building and sustaining a high performing and adaptive community development sector that is supported by private and public investment and sound public policies. |
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Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc
The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless is a statewide organization working to create long-term solutions to homelessness while meeting the immediate needs of homeless and at-risk families and individuals. The Coalition has a mission to eradicate homelessness from Massachusetts. We support this mission through homelessness prevention programs, direct service, technical assistance, public education and advocating for safe and affordable permanent housing for individuals and families. MORE |
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Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance
The Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA) is a nonprofit public policy advocacy organization dedicated to ending homelessness in Massachusetts. MORE |
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Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc
The mission of the Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership is to promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment assistance programs. MORE |
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Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc. (DBA Metro Housing|Boston)
We mobilize wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and
personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability,
economic self-sufficiency, and an improved quality of life. |
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MHPI Inc
The Mission of MHPI is to provide housing and services that preserve the dignity of individuals and support successful living in the community.
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Mission of Deeds Inc
Through the kindness of volunteers and the generosity of many donors, Mission of Deeds gives new beds, gently used home goods and furniture, free of charge, to the previously homeless and others in great need living in Middlesex and Essex Counties of Massachusetts. |
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National Consumer Law Center Inc. (NCLC)
The Boston-based National Consumer Law Center® (NCLC®) works for consumer justice and economic security for low-income and other disadvantaged people, including older adults. Using our expertise in consumer and energy law, we seek positive impact for consumers through policy analysis and advocacy; publications; litigation; expert witness services, and training and advice for advocates, housing counselors, and social services providers. MORE |
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Neighborhood of Affordable Housing Inc
NOAH, the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, is an East Boston-based community development corporation structured to collaborate with and support residents and communities in their pursuit of affordable housing strategies, environmental justice, community planning, leadership development, and economic development opportunities. NOAH eagerly partners with those residents, neighborhood entities, municipalities or groups that share similar values and goals in order to improve standards of living, build community, and create social/economic opportunities, especially for low and moderate-income persons, families and disadvantaged groups or areas. NOAH's goals and programs are built on a commitment to equality, fairness, diversity and respect for all people. MORE |
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New England Aftercare Ministries Inc
The mission of The Bridge House is to support whole life recovery for those suffering from addiction. MORE |
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New England Homes for the Deaf Inc
To provide communication-accessible housing, healthcare, social support and recreational activities for Deaf and Deafblind seniors MORE |
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Newton Wellesley Weston Committee for Community Living Inc
NWW’s mission is to offer a spectrum of local services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to offer support services to their families, and, to offer programs to increase community awareness and receptivity regarding persons with disabilities. MORE |
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North Shore Community Action Programs Inc.
Empowering people to achieve social and economic stability through services and education in partnership with the community. MORE |
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North Shore Community Development Coalition Inc.
North Shore CDC invests in neighborhoods to create thriving communities. We envision a North Shore where every neighborhood is one of choice and opportunity. MORE |
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One Family Inc.
One Family aims to prevent homelessness and break the cycle of
family poverty in Massachusetts by promoting pathways to economic independence
through advocacy, education and innovation. We envision a Commonwealth where
all families have secure housing, access to education leading to employment,
and the ability to build assets to create a brighter future. One Family
believes that if policies are focused on prevention and programs are designed
to promote opportunities, then we can end family homelessness in Massachusetts. |
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Partners in Development, Inc.
Partners In Development (PID) was founded in 1990 as a nonprofit organization that serves the poorest of the poor in the developing world. Through child sponsorships, micro credit loans, housing opportunities and medical care PID aims to transform communities so they can be self-sufficient. Partners In Development serves over 30,000 people each year in Haiti, Guatemala, and the US who are determined to break the cycle of poverty for their families. MORE |
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Pine Street Inn
Pine Street Inn partners with homeless individuals to help them move from the streets and shelter to a home and assists formerly homeless individuals in retaining housing. We provide street outreach, emergency services, supportive housing, job training and connections to employment. We tirelessly advocate for collaborative solutions to end homelessness. Our vision is a permanent home and community for everyone. |
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Project Hope (Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Services, Inc.)
Project Hope works in partnership with hundreds of families
every year to help them move up and out of poverty. We do this by being a
catalyst for change in the lives of families and in the systems that keep them
poor; developing and providing family support solutions to alleviate poverty
and homelessness; and advocating for just public policies that strengthen
families.
Project Hope’s holistic and integrated approach is rooted in
the concept of transformation through which women gain the tools, self–esteem
and confidence needed to take control of their lives and seek a better future
for their children. They have an opportunity to break the cycle of homelessness
and poverty, serving as role models of self-confidence, empowerment, and
accomplishment to their children and within the community.
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Quincy Community Action Programs Inc.
Through public and private partnerships we endeavor to assist families and individuals in our communities to improve the quality of their lives by minimizing the effects of poverty, promoting self-sufficiency, and advocating for social change. MORE |
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Rebuilding Together Boston Inc
Working with skilled labor, volunteer teams and the community, Rebuilding Together Boston provides repair and renovation services for the homes of low-income Boston homeowners and non-profit-owned facilities. We do this at no cost to our recipients. We serve economically disadvantaged Boston residents including veterans, the elderly, the physically challenged, families with children and others in need. Our services also enable the City's non-profits to continue to deliver their much-needed community services.
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RESPOND, Inc.
RESPOND, Inc., New England's first domestic violence agency and the nation's second, is dedicated to partnering with individuals, families and communities to end the serious public health issue of domestic violence. MORE |
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Rogerson Communities
Rogerson Communities’ mission is to provide help to elderly and low-income men and women who need it. This assistance, including housing, health care, and supportive services, is offered in ways that respect and enhance each person’s dignity, self-reliance and vitality, across generations and with attention to the diverse cultural traditions of our society. Rogerson Communities provides leadership and innovation in long-term care and works cooperatively with neighbors and other organizations to create and maintain programs that offer both security and challenge. MORE |
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Sage Crossing Foundation Inc
SAGE Crossing Foundation is dedicated to establishing farm-based programs for adults with autism, a population that is currently under-served and that in the future will be growing at a very high rate. Our model includes seasonal (temporary) programs, full-time day programs, and residential programs. Our intention is to establish programs throughout Massachusetts and beyond, under our own aegis, in partnership with other agencies, and by supporting parent and other groups across the country who want to create similar programs of their own. Ours is a green model. MORE |
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Saint Francis House Inc.
St. Francis House rebuilds lives by providing refuge and pathways to stability for adults experiencing homelessness and poverty. St. Francis House is a welcoming and inclusive community. Every day of the year, we enable individuals to meet their basic needs for food, clothing and shelter. We transform lives by using a holistic approach to understanding and addressing their behavioral health, housing and employment needs. We commit ourselves to helping those we serve achieve renewed lives of dignity and self-determination. MORE |
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Somerville Community Corporation Inc.
SCC is a non-profit membership organization that provides leadership for sustaining the city of Somerville as a vibrant, diverse and tolerant community. We develop and preserve affordable housing. We offer services and lead community organizing efforts that support low and moderate income Somerville residents to achieve economic and housing stability and to increase civic participation. MORE |
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Somerville Homeless Coalition, Inc.
The mission of the Somerville Homeless Coalition is to provide homeless and near-homeless individuals and families with personalized supportive services and tailored housing solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing. MORE |
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South Shore Habitat for Humanity Inc.
South Shore Habitat for Humanity is a faith-based, 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to delivering simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need. MORE |
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Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
Our mission is to develop and preserve affordable housing for low and moderate-income people; prevent displacement of neighborhood residents, particularly elders and those of limited means; and strengthen the commercial base of the neighborhoods. We work to create vibrant and stable communities, through programs and activities that bring long-time residents and newcomers of all ages and diverse backgrounds together.
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Springfield Rescue Mission, Inc.
The goal of the Springfield Rescue Mission (SRM) is to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to Christ and helping them to apply the word of God to every area of their lives. MORE |
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St. Marys Center for Women and Children
St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children offers innovative and family-centered programs for women and children who have experienced trauma and are living in poverty. Placing families at the center of our efforts, St. Mary’s Center works in partnership with young women, many of them mothers, to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and achieve lasting, powerful change by building their emotional well-being, educational achievements, and economic independence. Located in Uphams Corner in Dorchester, Massachusetts, St. Mary's Center supports 600 women and children annually with shelter, clinical and educational services, job training, employment placement, and search for affordable permanent housing. |
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Supportive Living Inc.
Supportive Living, Inc. raises the quality of life for survivors of brain injury by providing specialized residences, community-based wellness programs and stimulating applied research into wellness program effectiveness. A non-profit charity established in 1991, SLI develops appropriate and affordable housing; creates, implements and operates life-long physical and emotional wellness programs; and conducts and coordinates research aimed at raising the quality of lives of those affected with brain injury. MORE |
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Tenants' Development Corporation, Inc. (TDC)
The mission of Tenants Development Corporation (TDC) is to preserve and maintain safe and affordable housing for low to moderate income people of diverse backgrounds.
We achieve this through:
1. Property Management 2. Construction
3. Rehabilitation
4. Delivery of Services to TDC Residents
5. Community Activism
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The Community Builders, Inc.
The Community Builders’ (TCB’s) mission is to build and sustain strong communities where people of all incomes can achieve their full potential. We realize our mission by developing, operating, and serving high-quality housing and implementing neighborhood-based models that drive economic opportunity, health and well-being for our residents and the community. MORE |
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The Neighborhood Developers
Recognizing that poverty and neighborhood decline are the result of many complex, multifaceted challenges, the mission of The Neighborhood Developers is to bring its core strengths -- building homes, engaging neighbors, and fostering economic mobility -- to community partnerships that create great neighborhoods where all people can thrive. |
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The South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation (SBNDC)
South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation (SBNDC) strives to create, preserve, and manage safe and affordable housing for low and moderate income residents in South Boston. MORE |
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The Wish Project Inc.
Our mission is to provide basic home and baby goods to recently homeless families and other needy clients in order to facilitate their permanent sustainability, while also improving our environment by reducing waste in landfills. MORE |
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Twelve Step Education Program of New England Inc.
Our mission at theTwelve Step Education Program of New England is to provide safe and sober living to all of our residents and we have been achieving this since 1992. We accept both men and women. We operate on the belief that sobriety begins by practicing a sober lifestyle and our goal is to provide the first step in long term sobriety. MORE |
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Urban Edge Housing Corp.
Urban Edge is dedicated to strengthening communities and families. Together, we build affordable housing and vibrant, prosperous neighborhoods. MORE |
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Veterans Inc
Veterans Inc. is New England's largest provider of supportive services for veterans in need. Veterans Inc. is a private non-profit organization dedicated to providing a wide array of programs and supportive services to veterans, service members, and their families and is the largest one-stop veterans housing, outreach, and supportive services program in New England. MORE |
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Victory Programs, Inc.
Victory Programs opens doors to recovery, hope and community to individuals and families facing homelessness, addiction, or other chronic illnesses, including HIV/AIDS.
GIVING COMMON
Because of our longstanding relationship, Victory Programs was among the first few agencies asked by the Boston Foundation to create a Giving Common profile. We have a webpage on our main site dedicated to the Giving Common: http://www.vpi.org/victory/giving-options/the-giving-common/
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WATCH Inc
WATCH works towards a more just community in the Waltham area by promoting and advancing affordable housing, providing adult education and leadership development and empowering underrepresented residents through civic engagement. WATCH’s work is underscored and
strengthened by community organizing and community building. WATCH connects,
convenes and empowers community members in order to accomplish
social and economic justice goals. |
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YMCA of the North Shore, Inc.
Our Y welcomes all. We strengthen communities, educate and nurture children, and promote healthy living in spirit, mind and body. The Y: We're for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility |
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YouthHarbors, a program of Justice Resource Institute
YouthHarbors’ mission is to create educational opportunities and pathways to self-sufficient adulthood for high school students who are facing homelessness and lack family support by providing a continuum of services which focus on housing stabilization, drop-out prevention, and skill building. MORE |
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YWCA Malden
The YWCA Malden’s innovative programs serve as a catalyst for hundreds of at-risk girls, women and families, each year, enabling them to become self-sufficient and to develop into thriving contributors to their communities. The YWCA Malden has maintained its strong position in the community for 85 years by evolving to address the changing needs of one of the most diverse areas in Massachusetts. Through collaborative efforts with other community leaders, the YWCA Malden fulfills its mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. MORE |