our agency partners

Agassiz Village
Agassiz Village is a summer camp preparing today's youth for life's journey through our summer camp programs for children ages 8-17 years old. We offer children the opportunity, in a village environment, to develop and practice leadership and life skills that will enhance their ability to be successful and happy in all areas of their lives, including education, family, career, and positive community involvement. With handicap accessibility and financial aid available, every family can take advantage of our programs.

Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation
The Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (ABCDC) engages neighborhood residents in an on-going process of shaping and carrying out a common vision of a diverse and stable community in the face of sustained economic pressures. This vision is evident in community-led projects that protect and create affordable housing, create greenspace, foster a healthy local economy, provide avenues for economic self-sufficiency, and increase understanding among and between our neighborhood's diverse residents.

American Cancer Society, New England Division*
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, comunity-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy and service.

American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay
The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers that provides vital relief to victims of natural and man-made disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. First mandated by Congress in 1900, the American Red Cross is the ONLY voluntary organization designated to respond to disasters with the mission of alleviating human suffering and helping those affected rebuild their lives. American Red Cross disaster assistance is provided at no cost, made possible by voluntary donations of time and money from the American people.

Arlington Boys and Girls Club, Inc.
The Arlington Boys and Girls Club's mission is to inspire all young people, especially those from challenging circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens and to help build a community that cares about children and takes seriously its obligations to them.

Asian American Civic Association
The Asian American Civic Association provides limited-English-speaking and economically disadvantaged Asian adults and youth programs and services to develop survival, literacy, and employability capacities needed to qualify for further education, job training, and employment opportunities. These opportunities will enhance their abilities to undertake their responsibilities towards the larger community, and to realize their potentials as contributing family members, productive workers, participating citizens, and community leaders.

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence
The Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (Task Force) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate family violence and to strengthen Asian families and communities.

Associated Early Care and Education
In its 127th year, Associated serves diverse communities of low-income working families in 9 neighborhoods of Greater Boston. Our mission: ³To lead through experience, as educators and advocates in urban early education of children from birth, in partnership with their families and communities.² We educate, nurture, feed and provide, direct or by referral, social and mental health services to 900 children, birth to school, in center and family settings. Our comprehensive developmentally, culturally, and linguistically thoughtful curricula are designed to achieve optimum life outcomes and school readiness for children and to provide lifelong skills for parents. Competencies, skills and understandings taught and learned are shared broadly through advocacy, consultation, education and replication.

Association for Retarded Citizens of South Middlesex (SMARC)*

Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay
Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay (BBMB) promotes the healthy development of children through the nurturing of continuing, one-to-one friendships with caring responsible adults, supported by trained professional staff.

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston
The Big Sister Association helps girls realize their full potential by providing them with positive mentoring relationships with women.

Bird Street Community Center
Bird Street Community Center's mission is to serve, through a unique partnership with residents, the needs of a vibrant community by providing quality, affordable child care and recreational, educational, and developmental activities for youth and their families.

BOSTnet (Build the Out-of-School Time Network)
BOSTnet (formerly Parents United for Child Care) is a multi-racial organization of low-and moderate-income parents dedicated to increasing the supply of quality, affordable child care in Massachusetts and to providing a parent voice on public policy issues related to families, children, and the workplace.

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC)
BARCC's mission is twofold: to provide rape survivors, their families and friends, with direct services that enable them to regain control of their lives, and to provide educational programs that reduce the community's tolerance of rape and sexual violence.

Boston Asian: Youth Essential Service
Boston Asian: Youth Essential Service's mission is to inspire Asian youth to discover and actualize their greatest potential.

Boston Center for Independent Living
The Boston Center for Independent Living is a private nonprofit organization, which is controlled and directed by persons with disabilities. We empower others and ourselves with disabilities to advocate and take control over our lives, and become active members of the communities in which we live. As a center, we work to promote the civil rights of all people with disabilities and to respond to the needs of persons with many different disabilities.

Boston Minuteman Council, Boy Scouts of America
It is the mission of the Boy Scouts of America to serve others by helping to instill values in young people and, in other ways, to prepare them to make ethical choices during their lifetime in achieving their full potential.

Boys and Girls Club of Lynn
The Boys & Girls Club of Lynn encourages the positive development and enhances the quality of life for the youth of the greater Lynn area, by providing service based on principles of behavioral guidance, social, educational, vocational, character, athletic and leadership disciplines, the Club will be a safe, welcoming and positive environment for all youth. The club's mission is to serve as a family and community resource, on a need-blind basis, that works through other agencies, its members, civic leaders and clergy to achieve these goals.

Boys and Girls Club of Woburn
The mission of the Boys & Girls Club of Woburn is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB)
The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) is to help boys and girls, generally from disadvantaged circumstances, develop the qualities needed to become responsible citizens and leaders. To achieve this, we offer a variety of program activities and support services designed to assist in the educational, emotional, physical and social development of 6-to-18 year olds, without regard to social, racial, ethnic, or religious background.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Middlesex County, Inc.
The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Middlesex County (BGCMC) is to help young people become responsible and contributing citizens with respect for themselves and others, civility and a regard for right and wrong.

Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bridge Over Troubled Water's mission is to do whatever may be necessary or desirable to assist youth, who are on their own with no one to comfort them, to achieve a place in society as fulfilled and productive adults.

Brookline Center., The
The Brookline Center's mission is to promote violence prevention and build capacities for resiliency and self-sufficiency among low income children, teens, families and seniors residing in the communities of Brookline and Boston.

CAB Health & Recovery Services*

Cambridge Camping Association*
Cambridge Camping Association is a social service agency committed to enabling any child who wants to go to camp to do so. We take particular care to ensure that low-income, minority, at-risk and other traditionally excluded children are afforded the opportunity of access to a summer camping experience.

Cambridge Community Center
Cambridge Community Center's mission is to provide enriching cultural, educational, recreational and social activities for the community it serves, with particular commitment to the children and youth of the Riverside/Cambridgeport neighborhoods.

Cambridge Community Services
Cambridge Community Services' mission is to identify human service needs in Cambridge, and to develop collaborative responses and programs that can be instituted as ongoing resources in this and other communities. The agency's current emphasis is on youth education and employment.

Cambridge Family and Children's Service (CFCS)
CFCS's mission is to identify and implement ways to strengthen family and individual self-sufficiency and to promote conditions, which provide children, adolescents, and dependent adults with stable home and community environments. In summary our mission is to serve children and strengthen families.

Cambridge Family YMCA
The Cambridge Family YMCA is a non-profit community service organization whose mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities by offering programs that develop a healthy spirit, mind and body. Centered on our core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, the Cambridge Family YMCA is an organization that practices inclusion for all ages, incomes, abilities, races, religions, ethnicities, and genders. The Cambridge Family YMCA strives to identify and assess the needs of its community in an effort to provide programs that address identified gaps in services for kids and families.

Camp Fire USA Eastern Massachusetts Council
Camp Fire USA builds caring, confident youth and future leaders.

Camp Fire USA North Shore Council
Camp Fire’s mission is to build caring, confident youth and future leaders.

Casa Myrna Vazquez, Inc.
Casa Myrna Vazquez is a community-based, multicultural organization dedicated to ending violence against women and children. In working toward this goal, the agency advocates for social justice in order to create a safe and violence free environment. Casa Myrna Vazquez is committed to the empowerment of women through education, leadership development and the provision of quality services that address the full scope of needs of battered women and children. The organization embraces diversity with a focus on women and children of color, and the promotion of collaborative alliances that strengthen communities.

Catholic Charities of Greater Boston
Catholic Charities is building a just and compassionate society rooted in the dignity of all people. It is dedicated to developing and supporting the social, mental, and spiritual well-being of children, families, and individuals.

- Catholic Charities/North
- El Centro del Cardenal
- Haitian Multi-Service Center
- Laboure Center

Center House, Inc.*
Center House's mission is to help people with psychiatric or developmental disabilities build rewarding lives.

Centro Latino de Chelsea
The mission of Centro Latino de Chelsea is to enhance the quality of life and promote the self-determination of Latinos in Chelsea and surrounding communities through economic development, education, health, and social well-being strategies.

Centro Presente
Centro Presente helps Central and Latin American immigrants develop the ability to determine their individual and collective futures locally and nationally. Operated primarily by Central Americans, Centro Presente empowers Latino immigrants in Massachusetts through the promotion of civic and democratic participation, leadership development, education and legal immigration services.

Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Massachusetts

Cerebral Palsy of Massachusetts*
The mission and purposes of Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Massachusetts, Inc. (CPEM) is:
1. To affect positively and quality of life for persons with cerebral palsy and also others with severe disabilities and multiple service needs and the families of both.
2. To prevent cerebral palsy and minimize its effect.

Child Care Resource Center, Inc.
The Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) promotes the care, development and learning of all children. CCRC does this by creating innovative solutions and by advancing policies that support families and address the needs of the early care and education workforce and system in Massachusetts.

Children's Friend & Family Services
Children's Friend & Family Services' mission is to improve the lives of children and promote strong families, by partnering with community organizations to provide a spectrum of clinical and non-clinical activities to strenghten individuals, families and community life.

Children's Law Center of Massachusetts
The mission of the Children's Law Center of Massachusetts is to provide legal representation to children with complex, multiple legal problems; provide training to advocates; provide resource and referral information on child welfare and juvenile justice issues; and to assist in developing child welfare policies,with a special emphasis on access to equal opportunity for low-income youth and families.

Children's Services of Roxbury (CSR)
CSR's mission is to provide quality social services to economically disadvantaged infants, children, adolescents and their families, thereby promoting and strengthening family life and individual growth.

Chinese Progressive Association
The Chinese Progressive Association (CPA) is a grassroots community organization which works for full equality and empowerment of the Chinese community in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Our activities seek to raise the living and working standards of Chinese Americans and to involve ordinary community members in making decisions that affect our lives. We emphasize and provide education to develop both skills and awareness towards the goal of empowerment.

Citizens' Housing & Planning Association, Inc. (CHAPA)
CHAPA's mission is to advocate for the production and preservation of affordable housing for low-and moderate-income households in Massachusetts. The agency carries out this mission through strategic research and advocacy, training and technical assistance to housing developers and providers, and coalition-building among a broad cross-section of the housing and human services communities.

City Life/Vida Urbana
City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization, based in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. We are committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice by building working-class power through direct action, coalition building, education, and advocacy. We are building a democratically-run organization that is multiracial, multicultural, bilingual (Spanish-English), and welcoming sexual diversity. Leadership development and empowerment throughout the organization are our priority, with a special emphasis on our youth, women, Latino, and working-class members.

Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC)
The primary mission of the NDC is to enhance the quality of life for all residents of Codman Square and to foster the stabilization of the community. This mission is carried out through comprehensive initiatives that encompass real estate development, economic development, and community planning and community building.

Colonel Daniel Marr Boys & Girls Club
The mission of the Colonel Daniel Marr Boys and Girls Club (Club) is to inspire and encourage our community's youth, especially those from disadvantage circumstances, to realize their full potential as happy, productive and responsible citizens.

Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)
CJP's mission is to build, strengthen and maintain an open, engaged, vibrant Boston Jewish community; to create communities of learning; to create communities of caring in Greater Boston; to create communities of caring worldwide; and to create communities of justice, founded on the Biblical mandate of tikkun olam (repair of the world).

- Jewish Big Brother & Big Sister Association
- Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston
- Jewish Community Relations Council
- Jewish Family & Children's Service
- Jewish Vocational Services

Community Art Center
The Community Art Center is an arts and social service organization that believes each person will, when given a chance, achieve significant personal, social and cultural growth through the arts.

Community Legal Services & Counseling Center
CLSACC's mission is to provide high quality civil legal assistance and affordable counseling services to low-income people. Our services help combat the effects of poverty, violence, and abuse on our clients by supporting their capacity to function in the community and to meet their most basic human needs for housing, food, medical care, personal safety and family stability. CLSACC's service model is predicated on the central role of volunteers in delivering direct services to carry out the agency's mission.

Community Work Services
Community Work Sevices' mission is to promote independence through employment for persons challenged by physical, emotional, mental, developmental, social or economic problems by providing quality vocational services that restore and enhance dignity, respect, esteem and skills.

Crispus Attucks Children's Center
The Crispus Attucks Children's Center's mission is to establish and maintain a comprehensive child development/early childhood education program that promotes the individual child's physical, emotional, social and intellectual growth and development, with a special emphasis on increasing the confidence, self-respect and dignity of both the child and the child's parent.

D.E.A.F., Inc.*
D.E.A.F., Inc. provides comprehensive services to Deaf and hard of hearing people and others who are important in the lives of Deaf and hard of hearing people.

Dare Family Services
Dare Family Services provides highly specialized treatment foster care for seriously abused, neglected and traumatized children. The organization also works to prevent the removal of inner city children from their own homes with intensive, outreach family guidance and counseling. Dare Family Services also develops, manages and staffs homes for persons with mental retardation and teens who are pregnant and parenting.

Disability Law Center
Disability Law Center provides legal advocacy on disability issues that promote the fundamental rights of all people with disabilities to participate fully and equally in the social and economic life of Massachusetts.

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation acts to build a strong, thriving and diverse community. Working closely with neighborhood residents and partners, we access resources to develop and preserve affordable homeownership and rental housing; create and sustain commercial and economic development opportunities; and build community power through organizing and leadership development.

Dorchester Youth Collaborative (DYC)
The Dorchester Youth Collaborative is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual community based youth agency in the Fields Corner area of Dorchester. The agency's mission is to provide comprehensive services to high risk youth in the aarea, with a special emphasis on racially and linguistically isolated, low socio-economic, youth for whom the more traditional social services have proven ineffective.

DOVE (Domestic Violence Ended)*
The mission of DOVE, Inc. is to provide crisis intervention, immediate support, shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, housing and other appropriate referrals to women, their children and teen victims of domestic abuse. We provide these services through at 24-hour hotline, emergency shelter, transitional housing, support groups and community outreach. Our goal is to stop abuse for all women through intervention, treatment, education and prevention.

East Boston Ecumenical Community Council (EBECC)
EBECC's mission is to promote harmony within our community by encouraging and nurturing positive relationships among people of different racial, linguistic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. We strive through our multi-cultural work to improve the quality of life, foster mutual respect, and promote justice, equality and solidarity. Through services, education, advocacy, and organizing, we work with the community, especially newcomers and people of lower income, to develop economic, social, and political power.

East Boston Social Centers, Inc.
The East Boston Social Centers (EBSC) is a multi-service agency serving culturally diverse families and individuals of all ages in East Boston and throughout Greater Boston. EBSC seeks to create a welcoming and supportive environment, characterized by a spirit of goodwill and caring, in which members of our community are empowered to lead productive and fulfilling lives.

East End House
East End House is a not-for-profit multi-service community center and social service agency with an ongoing commitment to a diverse population, providing programs and services to strengthen family and community.

Elizabeth Peabody House (EPH)
Elizabeth Peabody House's mission is to uphold the principles of responsiveness, innovation, and vision exemplified by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and to continue to serve people of all ages and all ethnic and racial backgrounds, focusing on the needs of the whole family. EPH helps individuals and families help themselves.

Elizabeth Stone House, Inc.*
The mission of the Elizabeth Stone House is to prevent institutionalization and the further victimization of women in emotional distress and their children through the provision of safe, affordable residential and community support services.

Ellis Memorial & Eldredge House
Boston's first settlement house, Ellis Memorial has been caring for children, disabled adults, elders, and families who live and work in the South End and adjacent neighborhoods since 1885. They offer high quality educational, social, and health support services to individuals and families in need within a safe, nurturing, diverse environment.

Ensuring Stability through Action in our Community

Family & Children's Service of Greater Lynn
The mission of Family & Children's Service of Greater Lynn is to promote and sustain optimal conditions for family life, to reduce social problems, and to be responsive to changing community needs in the Greater Lynn area.

Family Service of Greater Boston
The mission of Family Service is to promote the self-sufficiency and well-being of at-risk families and individuals through the provision of innovative, culturally competent, and integrated health and social services, thereby contributing to healthy communities. Family Service of Greater Boston is committed to prevention, respect for individual rights to self-determination, measurement of outcomes, and continual service improvement.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses
Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. serves the Dorchester community as a catalyst for action and change, helping to build a community of caring individuals. Through a new kind of settlement house, they are helping to build a dynamic community, where the strength of diversity is valued and where families and individuals have possibilities for personal growth and an improved quality of life in and around Dorchester.

Girl Scouts of Spar and Spindle Council
Girl Scouts of Spar and Spindle Council's mission is to inspire girls with the highest ideals of character, conduct, patriotism, and service that they may become happy and resourceful citizens.

Girls Incorporated of Lynn
Girls Incorporated of Lynn Our mission is to build girls' capacity for responsible and confident adulthood, economic independence and personal fulfillment.

Greater Boston Legal Services
Greater Boston Legal Services' mission is to provide high quality civil (non-criminal) legal representation to as many low-income persons as possible.

Greater Lynn YMCA
The Greater Lynn YMCA as a community based organization with a commitment of service to the community, will utilize its staff, volunteers, and facilities to respond to community and individual needs by providing quality social, recreational, and educational experiences while promoting honesty, respect, caring, and responsibility for everyone regardless of age, sex, nationality, religious belief, or economic circumstances.

Gregg House
Gregg House's mission is to assist and strengthen families and to educate and nurture children through the delivery of high quality, affordable and comprehensive programs.

Guidance Center, Inc. (GCI)
The Guidance Center (GCI) is a multi-cultural, nonprofit organization that strives to meet the needs of children and their families in our community by providing comprehensive, high quality programs and counseling services. Our mission is to be a leader in providing comprehensive developmental and mental health services to Cambridge and Somerville children, including the youngest and most vulnerable children, in respectful partnership with their families and our community colleagues.

Hale Reservation
Hale Reservation's mission is to provide a variety of educational and recreational programs while preserving and protecting this natural resource, and to make the facilities and programs available to all persons in the Greater Boston area with special consideration for low-income families, senior citizens, minority populations and persons with special needs.

Hallmark Health Visiting Nurse Association*
The mission of the Hallmark Health Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. (HHVNA) is to meet the home health care needs of the community by providing a full range of services that promote and restore optimum health and well being; and improve the quality of life for patients and their families by responding to their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Hattie B. Cooper Community Center, Inc.
The Hattie B. Cooper Community Center is dedicated to helping individuals develop the qualities needed to become responsible and caring citizens.

Help for Abused Women and their Children (HAWC)
The mission of HAWC is to create social change by taking action against personal and societal patterns of violence and oppression against women and their children. HAWC provides services and support to women 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.

Hispanic Office of Planning & Evaluation (HOPE)
HOPE exists to improve the quality of life and to increase the number, and range, of life opportunities and options for Latinos residing in Massachusetts to succeed as contributing members of their family, community and society.

Home for Little Wanderers
The mission of The Home for Little Wanderers is to ensure the healthy development of children at risk, their families and communities, through an integrated system of prevention, advocacy, research, and a continuum of direct services.

Hyde Square Task Force
The mission of the Hyde Square Task Force is to create a safe, clean, friendly neighborhood in Hyde/Jackson Square that places its priority on young people. They strive to build the skills of children, youth, and adult residents so that they are empowered to enhance their own lives and develop a stronger, vibrant urban community.

Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA)
Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA) is a community-based service organization primarily serving the Villa Victoria neighborhood of Boston. Valuing community development and cultural pride, IBA is dedicated to fostering the human, social and economic well being of Villa Victoria residents; advocating for Latinos and low-income residents citywide; and promoting and preserving Latino cultural and artistic heritage.

International Institute of Boston (IIB)
IIB is a leading multicultural provider of comprehensive professional and cultural services that aim to foster the success of immigrants and refugees in the United States.

Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC)
The JPNDC is dedicated to revitalizing Jamaica Plain as a healthy, diverse, and sustainable neighborhood through a comprehensive strategy of community empowerment, economic development, and affordable housing development. We work closely with neighborhood residents, organizations, and businesses to plan and carry out community development projects that benefit low-income residents of JP.

JFY NetWorks
JFY NetWork's mission is to help low income, low skilled youth and adults develop the skills needed to be productive employees and earn living wages in the new economy.

The Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/United Way of Massachusetts Bay Collaboration Fund*

John F. Kennedy Family Service Center
The mission of the Kennedy Center is to assist the residents of Charlestown in meeting basic needs through the provision of services which help eliminate poverty, and its causes, by promoting self-sufficiency; and, to operate neighborhood services with maximum participation of residents, fostering economic independence by meeting the health, employment, education, recreation and welfare needs of the community.

John M. Barry Boys and Girls Club of Newton
The John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton provides a safe, nurturing environment where youth can optimize their potential. Recognizing that all youth are at risk, The Club serves the needs of youth and their families with programs and services that promote health, social, educational and character development.

La Alianza Hispana
La Alianza Hispana, Inc. (LAH) is a community-based non-profit agency dedicated to providing advocacy for equal access to basic human services and providing linguistically and culturally appropriate services to the Latino community of greater Boston, specifically the residents of the Roxbury/Dorchester area. This mission reinforces LAH's vision to foster self-determination, social-economic opportunities and greater civic participation by its constituents.

Lena Park Community Development Corporation
Lena Park's mission is to provide integrated programs and services which will strengthen families and build healthy communities for the underserved residents of the City of Boston.

Malden YMCA
The Malden YMCA provides family-focused services to the greater Malden community. The Malden YMCA, operating from its original facility in downtown Malden, offers programs that support and respond to the changing needs of families residing in its service area. Programs include school age childcare, drug and alcohol prevention, tutoring, mentoring, and teen leadership development.

Malden YWCA - Center for Women & Families
The YWCA of Malden is dedicated to empowering girls, women, and their families from Malden and its neighboring communities. We strive to enhance the lives of women and girls by respecting individuality, eliminating racism, celebrating diversity, and encouraging active participation in improving our communities.

Massachusetts Advocates for Children
Massachusetts Advocates for Children is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to be a strong, independent, and effective voice and resource for children and their advocates. They seek to ensure that children, especially those most vulnerable, have full access to the services and resources to which they are entitled, and that they are provided every opportunity to succeed and thrive.

Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS)
MAPS's mission is to improve the lives of Portuguese-speaking individuals and families from Massachusetts and help them become contributing, active participants in American society while maintaining strong ethnic identity and a sense of community. MAPS works with and for the Brazilian, Cape Verdean, Portuguese and other Portuguese-speaking communities to increase access and remove barriers to health, education and social services through direct services, advocacy, leadership and community development.

Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
The mission of the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy is to provide statewide leadership to prevent adolescent pregnancy and to promote quality services for pregnant and parenting teens and their children through policy analysis, education, research and advocacy.

Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH)
MAMH's mission is (1) to build communities through the promotion, advancement and development of community based education, housing, and mental health services for children and adults; (2) to empower inner city children at risk of academic failure through education and programs promoting self esteem; and (3) to use preventative services and programs to create better health and futures for children and adults.

Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
The mission of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless is to end homelessness. Truly a coalition, the agency works with organizations and individuals who may be diametrically opposed on various issues, but are united in their commitment to end homelessness.

Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA)
MIRA's mission is to promote and enhance the rights and opportunities of immigrants and refugees to shape the public policies that affect their lives.

Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC)
MSPCC is a private, non-profit society dedicated to leadership in protecting and promoting the rights and well being of children and families.

Medical Foundation, The
The Medical Foundation's mission is to help people live healthier lives and create healthy communities through prevention, health promotion and research.

Mujeres Unidas En Acción
The guiding mission of Mujeres Unidas en Acción (MUA) is to offer an educational program that provides low-income Latina women the tools and resources needed to empower themselves and to take control of their lives and effect change within their families. This enables them to participate more actively in the political, social and economic life not only of the Latino community but also of society at large.

Neighborhood of Affordable Housing (NOAH)
NOAH is an organization of local residents working to improve the standard of living for our community while maintaining a focused commitment to rehabilitate, stabilize, and preserve East Boston's housing for homeowners and renters, both long-time residents and newer arrivals.

Newton Community Service Centers, Inc.
Newton Community Service Centers, Inc. is a non-profit, multi-faceted human service organization providing quality educational, recreational, volunteer and innovative support/guidance programs. The agency promotes intergenerational programming, and seeks to enhance and strengthen individual, family and community life through a variety of specialized programs aimed at a wide range of ages and socioeconomic strata.

North Shore ARC*
The North Shore ARC is dedicated to providing lifelong individualized support to people with, or at risk of developing disabilities, and their families, ensuring opportunities to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, socialize and play.

Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation
Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation is devoted to building the wealth and enhancing the physical, economic and social well-being of Roxbury, through a community driven process which promotes self-sufficiency and neighborhood revitalization.

Parents Helping Parents
Parents Helping Parents' mission is to promote and support healthy parent/child relationships and break the cycle of child abuse through peer-led, professionally facilitated self-help groups which provide a nurturing, non-judgmental environment in which to improve family relationships.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities (PYD)
PYD is committed to empowering young people with disabilities to reach their full potential for personal development.

Patriots' Trail Girl Scout Council
As a multicultural organization, Patriots Trail Girl Scout Council exists to meet the unique needs of girls and to help them grow into caring and confident young women. Girl Scout programs are contemporary and designed to deepen awareness of self and others, to build self-esteem and self-reliance, and to increase young girls' abilities to succeed in the world and make a positive impact on the community.

Project Hope
Project Hope works in partnership with families so they can 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 for homelessness and poverty, advocating for just public policies which strengthen families. We do this in collaboration with a multitude of organizations which support these goals.

Roca
Roca's mission is to promote justice by creating opportunities with young people and families to lead healthy and happy lives. Roca's vision is young people and families thriving and leading change. Roca's values are belonging, generosity, competence and independence.

Roxbury Multi-Service Center, Inc. (RMSC)
RMSC is dedicated and committed to supporting our children, uplifiting our families and enriching our community. It defines and continuously expands the art of building family and community through quality programs, services and partnerships.

Roxbury Youthworks
Roxbury Youthworks, Inc. (RYI) is a community-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to create healthy families and communities by inspiring young men and women to recognize and develop their strengths to prepare them to lead self-sufficient and independent lives. We combat the roots of juvenile delinquency in the inner-city neighborhoods of Boston by providing innovative support services to court-involved and other youth up to 21 years of age.

Salem Harbor Community Development Corporation
The Salem Harbor CDC is a non-profit, community-based, housing and community economic development agency. Its goals are community control over housing, economic development and self-determination for low and moderate income residents, and viable neighborhoods in Salem.

Salesian Boys and Girls Club (SB&GC)*
The mission of the SB&GC is to assure and enhance the quality of life for youth and their role and responsibilities as members of a richly diverse urban society. With an emphasis on disadvantaged youth, SB&GC helps youngsters realize their potential for growth and development.

Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a religious and charitable organization committed to meeting the physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs of those most vulnerable community members through a wide variety of services. Its programs are generally targeted to serve people who are not utilizing services that could be available to them.

Samaritans of Boston
The Samaritans' mission is to reduce the incidence of suicide by befriending individuals in despair and crisis, and by providing outreach and education to the community.

Shelter, Inc.
It is the mission of Shelter, Inc. to end homelessness in the lives of individuals and families by providing effective shelter, housing and supportive services and by promoting policy and practice necessary to change those conditions that create homelessness. Believing fully in the inherent dignity and strength of all people, Shelter serves all in a respectful and personal manner while emphasizing the values and tools of self-sufficiency, stability and independence within the greater community.

Sociedad Latina
Sociedad Latina, Inc. in partnership with Latino youth enhances the overall health and well being of the Greater Boston community, by delivering programs which encourage and promote community leadership through educational attainment and the strengthening of cultural identity and continuation of traditions.

Somerville YMCA
The YMCA provides recreational, social, and educational programs to meet the needs of its members and surrounding community and to increase their potential.

South Boston Neighborhood House (SBNH)
SBNH's mission is to support neighborhood and family life in the community and provide all family members with the opportunity to improve themselves and their families.

South Shore ARC*
The South Shore ARC (South Shore Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc.),is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the highest quality services to individuals who are mentally retarded, developmentally disabled, or at risk for developmental delay. South Shore ARC is a family-oriented and community-based agency which provides an extensive network of educational, vocational, therapeutic, residential and supportive services throughout the South Shore.

South Shore Day Care Services
South Shore Day Care Services provides quality early education and youth programs designed to meet each child's individual needs. We are committed to serving a diverse population, with an emphasis on supporting low and moderate-income parents and at-risk children.

South Shore YMCA
The South Shore YMCA is a not-for-profit association of individuals dedicated to improving the quality of life for all through programs that promote healthy spirit, mind and body. Rooted in Christian tradition and values, the YMCA seeks to serve all people, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, or economic circumstances.

Special Fund for Emergency Financial Assistance

Transition House
Transition House's mission is to prevent and stop domestic violence through education and intervention. Their objective is to provide the refuge, support services, education and empowerment skills that enable battered women to achieve financial independence and access permanent safety and well being for themselves and their children.

Travelers Aid Family Services
Travelers Aid Family Services is a non-profit organization that assists the traveling public, including the poor and disadvantaged. Staff and volunteers work collaboratively to provide a continuum of services to those away from home and without a home by providing information, referrals and direct social services. The organization helps homeless families and individuals regain stability by addressing their housing, emergency shelter and transportation needs through counseling, financial assistance and advocacy.

Triangle, Inc.*
Triangle's mission is to assist people with disabilities in maximizing their sense of dignity and self-worth by providing quality vocational evaluation and training, employment, social development and residential services which enable them to maintain themselves in the mainstream of community life.

United South End Settlements
United South End Settlements expands the world of the individual and enriches the collective well being of the community by building meaningful connections across the South End/ Lower Roxbury. USES will be vibrant and creative environment where community members interact, learn, and support one another, while bridging the divides of age, race, class, and sexual orientation.

Urban Edge
Urban Edge is a partnership of residents, business, institutions and local government that is committed to developing and sustaining stable, healthy and diverse communities in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and surrounding areas. They accomplish this through development of high quality, affordable rental and owner occupied housing, assistance to small businesses, homeownership education and lending, and development of educational and recreational facilities for youth.

Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts
The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (ULEM) is an interracial, non-profit community-based organization that provides programs of service and advocacy in the areas of education, technology, career/personal development and employment and training for African Americans and other residents of color. The League's focus is poor and lower-income urban areas of Greater Boston and the surrounding communities. Through direct service and broad-based advocacy programs, the Urban League strives to secure equal opportunity in all sectors of our society.

Victory Programs, Inc.
Victory Programs, Inc., provides innovative programs and services to individuals and their families who are affected by alcoholism and addictions, and who have psychiatric and medical problems, especially AIDS/HIV disease. Victory Programs, Inc., promotes the successful reintegration of individuals into their communities through the achievement of long-term sobriety, the rebuilding of family systems and the accessing of stabilizing factors such as housing, holistic health care, employment, and community affiliations.

Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (Viet-AID)
Viet-AID's mission is to build a strong Vietnamese American community in Boston and a vibrant Fields Corner neighborhood. Viet-AID works towards this mission by developing affordable housing, promoting economic development, building community/neighborhood, and advancing youth leadership.

Visiting Nurse & Community Health

Visiting Nurse Association of Boston (VNAB)
The VNAB and its affiliate, Hospice, Care, Inc. (HCI) are committed to providing high quality home health care and hospice services to all patients and their families, regardless of their income, illness, insurance, or where they live and their ability to pay. The agency is, and continues to be committed to caring for individuals and families who live and work in some of Greater Boston's most underserved and economically-challenged communities.

Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) of Eastern Massachusetts
The VNA of Eastern Massachusetts's mission is to promote the health and well being of those families most in need with the least resources by providing needed health and social services, providing education and prevention, providing affordable and safe housing alternatives, and thereby empowering families and communities to achieve a maximum level of independence in meeting their own individual and collective needs.

VNA Care Network*
VNA Care Network's mission is to be the leading provider of quality and compassionate home health, hospice and community care.

Waltham Boys and Girls Club
The mission of the Boys & Girls Club movement is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. The Waltham Boys & Girls Club achieves this mission by promoting the physical health, educational, recreational, social, and character development of boys and girls living in the Waltham vicinity.

www.walthambgc.org

Watertown Boys and Girls Club
The Watertown Boys and Girls Club is a non-profit community center whose primary function is to provide programs and services to the youth of the area. The Club also seeks to enhance the quality of family life by promoting the recreational, social, and vocational developement of it's youth and adult members.

Woburn Council of Social Concern
Woburn Council of Social Concern, a charitable, community-based agency, responds to the basic needs of people of all ages helping them develop their potential, create positive family and community relationships and foster respect for diversity.

YMCA of Greater Boston
The mission of the YMCA of Greater Boston is to build health of spirit, mind, and body based on the highest ideals of Judeo-Christian heritage and to improve the quality of life for children, families, and communities in the cities and towns of Greater Boston.

YWCA Boston
The YWCA Boston is committed to empowering women and eliminating racism. They are a women's membership movement dedicated to creating opportunities for women's leadership and attaining a common vision of peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people.

YWCA of Cambridge
The YWCA of Cambridge is a dynamic community-centered organization committed to creating opportunities for women to learn, share and grow together: women teaching women.