Help For The Holidays
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Find out how you can help those in need this holiday season.Click on the links below to learn more about each organization and what you can do to lend your support.
Provides educational services to equip students with the attitude, skills and experience to graduate from college.
New Hope works to end domestic and sexual violence by helping people live safer lives. New Hope
This non-profit helps the young homeless population ages 16 to 24 who are in foster homes or have no family or nowhere to live. Send or drop off donations at: 296 Newton St., Suite 150, Waltham, MA 02453 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For additional information call: 781-894-1222 ext 114
Help The Home provide gifts to the thousands of children and families in its care this holiday season. Toy Drive Information
Ethos is a Boston-based, not-for-profit organization that helps more than 2,000 elderly and disabled persons. Programs include Home Care, Protective Services, Meals on Wheels, Long Term Care Ombudsman, Companionship, Caregiver Support and a variety of outreach/community capacity building projects, including its award-winning AgeWell West Roxbury initiative.
The U. S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program collects new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December of each year, and distributes those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community.
Project Just Because, Inc. supplies adults and children in need with clothing, toiletries, gift baskets, career items, school supplies, blankets, toys, furniture, baby items, housewares, etc.
The Mission of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans is to extend a helping hand to homeless men and women veterans who are addressing the challenges of addiction, trauma, severe and persistent mental illness, and/or unemployment and who will commit themselves to sobriety, non-violence, and working for personal change.
Families facing an emergency need of housing have found a temporary home at our Inn Between shelter. Families are supported as they work to end their homelessness.
United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley is teaming up with Catholic Charities to provide food for Thanksgiving Day for 2,000 local families.
Lands' End and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless are partnering on the Big Boston Warm-up, a local initiative that supports this nationwide effort of raising greater awareness of the problems of hunger and homelessness while collecting coats to warm Boston's homeless population.
The Interfaith Food Pantry was established by a group of volunteers from 10 churches and the synagogue, and community representatives. Its mission is to help any Hingham resident who can't afford to buy food.
Shelter is facing an unprecedented number of requests for help in putting Thanksgiving dinner on the table.
Read Story: Shelter In Need Of Food For Holidays
The Red Kettle Campaign, the oldest annual charitable fundraiser of its kind in the United States, helps raise money for those who need it most in communities nationwide -- providing toys for kids, coats for the homeless, food for the hungry and countless social service programs year-round.
Collecting non-perishable food items to feed over 200 families in the greater Boston area.
Every year your donations help Goodwill provide Thanksgiving dinner to needy families. On Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, Goodwill distributed over 800 Thanksgiving Baskets to families in the area.
Buy a scrumptious apple, pecan, pumpkin or sweet potato pie and pick it up at over 45 locations throughout Eastern Massachusetts.
Boston artist Sidewalk Sam designed holiday cards depicting beloved Boston scenes. All proceeds benefit our programs to help our community's homeless men, women and their children move beyond shelter to independence. Cards are $1.00 each and may be personalized for orders of 100 or more cards.
For over 25 years, the Women's Lunch Place has been a daytime community in Boston for poor and homeless women and their children.
Collects donated yarn. 900 knitters from across the country knit year round, and send items to Knitting Connection in Medford. Knitting Connection accepts written requests for mittens, afghans, scarves, hats, slippers, Xmas stockings.Will distribute goods to various charities.
Action for Boston Community Development is Boston's antipoverty agency, serving more than 100,000 low-income Greater Boston residents through its city-wide network of neighborhood-based organizations. Click here for a list of toys in need.
Help us help less-fortunate newborns and children in hospitals, foster care and medical centers. Please drop off an unwrapped new gift Nov. 16- Dec. 23 at any below drop off location.
Devereux Therapeutic Foster Care is a private, non profit agency that provides intensive foster care to children, teens and teen mothers.
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