Shelters
[We are] Committed to ensuring everyone has a place to call home and working to eradicate poverty and homelessness from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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For four decades, Heading Home has effectively pioneered programs to end homelessness in Greater Boston.Heading Home provides emergency, transitional and permanent housing, and support services, to low-income homeless and formerly homeless families and individuals in the communities of Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Malden, Everett, Quincy, Chelsea and Revere.
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Harvard Square Homeless Shelter is a student-run emergency homeless shelter operating out of the University Lutheran Church in Harvard Square. We strive to ensure that our guests are housed in a warm and friendly environment where they feel safe, cared for, and respected.
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House of Hope is dedicated to homeless families in Massachusetts, helping them gain stable housing. House of Hope is represented by two distinct sister nonprofit organizations, House of Hope Shelter and House of Hope Housing that share a commitment to transitioning homeless families into a stable community life by providing tandem services.
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The mission of the Somerville Homeless Coalition is to provide homeless and near homeless individuals and families with individualized supportive services and tailored housing solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing.
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Crossroads Family Center’s shelter program is home to 27 families (men, women & children) referred to us by the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development. Our main building, located at 56 Havre Street, houses our congregate shelter, as well as staff offices and the “Our Daily Bread” food pantry. Crossroads also oversees and provides services for 12 families housed in scattered sites throughout East Boston. All families engage in weekly, intensive Case Management & Re-Housing services as well as financial, parenting and other self-sufficiency related workshops which are held on site.
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We affirm the value of human dignity and self-respect for every person. We are called by our collective spiritual and social responsibility to serve all people in need—the homeless, disadvantaged, disabled, unemployed, and oppressed. Our goal is to enhance societal and personal advancement through provision of housing and support services that empower individuals and families to reach their fullest potential. Emmaus helps people rebuild their lives by creating and renewing a sense of community.
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St. Francis House is the largest day shelter in Massachusetts. Located in the heart of downtown Boston, we serve an average of 500 poor and homeless men and women a day, 365 days a year. Our basic, rehabilitative, and housing services overlap and build on one another to provide our guests with continuous and comprehensive care.
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Thousands of families in Massachusetts are homeless or at risk of losing their homes. We provide families with shelter and help them access support services, find housing, and work towards a better life. The mission of FamilyAid Boston is to prevent and end homelessness, one family at a time. We embrace a comprehensive approach that focuses on the individual strengths of each family and provide services to meet their unique needs.
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Clothing
We appreciate your donations of clothing, shoes, and accessories. We can use just about anything that is still wearable - children's, women's, and men's sizes; contemporary or vintage; casual, work, and dress styles; clothing, shoes, and accessories. We can even make good use of household linens like aprons, towels, sheets, tablecloths, and cloth napkins. Anything our clients cannot use is either recycled or sold wholesale to support our work.
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Solutions at Work was founded by a group of homeless individuals in Cambridge in 1989. Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing individuals and families with resources and opportunities to strengthen their self-confidence, achieve self-sufficiency, and participate in helping others. We envision a Greater Boston in which homeless and poor people have the resources, opportunities, and partners they need to achieve self-sufficiency. Programs include donating childrens' clothing, etc.
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Since 1985, our mission has remained the same: to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all homeless men, women and children in the greater Boston area.
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Committed to ensuring everyone has a place to call home and working to eradicate poverty and homelessness from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Food
The mission of the Somerville Homeless Coalition is to provide homeless and near homeless individuals and families with individualized supportive services and tailored housing solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing.
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The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) partners with 530 hunger-relief agencies, including food pantries, community meal programs and other food assistance providers throughout the nine counties and 190 towns and cities across Eastern Massachusetts.Our Agency Locator provides a list of food assistance options in each community we serve, the days and hours they’re open, and other information you need to learn more or to access food for you and your family.
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MyDorchester is dedicated to building community health via civic engagement and social capital improvement in Boston's largest and oldest neighborhood, Dorchester. MyDorchester's mission is to strengthen our community by connecting diverse individuals and organizations through civic engagement initiatives.
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Helps to find local pantries, soup kitchens, food shelves, food banks and other food help. FoodPantries.org works hard to gather the best government and non profit subsidized grocery resources on the Internet. It also displays pantry hours, details, websites where we find them.
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Since 1982, The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts has been feeding our neighbors in need and leading the community to end hunger. We distribute food to our member agencies in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties. These independent pantries, meal sites and shelters are on the front lines of emergency food assistance in our region, playing a crucial role helping individuals, families, seniors and children.In addition to food distribution, we also serve as an important resource to all of our member agencies to help strengthen the emergency food network, increase their capacity, and develop long-term projects to fight the underlying causes of hunger in our community.
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