These are some of the local organizations that we have served since 2014.
Global/Multi Location Organizations:
- American Red Cross (multiple locations) – help with blood drives, including the September 11 “Day of Remembrance” blood drive at Fenway Park, Boston (see 2017 news here)
- Days for Girls (Worldwide) – sew menstrual kits for girls to “create a more dignified, free and educated world through access to access to lasting feminine hygiene solutions”
- Girls on the Run (multiple locations) – Teach life skills through fun, engaging lessons that celebrate the joy of movement
- Massachusetts Foster Care (multiple locations) – Relief Society women made 300+ draw string bags for foster children to put their belongings in rather than in a plastic bags. Primary girls ages 8-11 collected 384 new toys and art supplies for parent visit sites, where parents meet to visit with their children under supervision
- NuDay Syria (Nashua NH), making 130 fleece blankets, hundreds of fleece hats and scarves, and collecting vital supplies and helping pack containers to go to Syria and neighboring Turkey.
Greater Boston Area Organizations:
- Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) North End/West End food pantry (Boston – antipoverty agency, serving more than 95,000 low-income residents annually through its city-wide network of neighborhood-based organizations) food donation, assist with client pickup orders
- Answer House (South Boston) – A men’s shelter offering addiction recovery services
- Bikes Not Bombs (Jamaica Plain) – collect bikes, disassemble them, and pack for shipment to other countries
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (Boston) – Various opportunities to help sexual violence survivors and their families including a hotline and medical advocacy
- Boston Scores (Boston) – Volunteer to coach youth soccer or referee soccer games
- Catholic Charities (Boston) – assist clients in food pantry, serve meals, clean the office, and collect household items
- Charles River Clean-up (multiple locations) – pick up trash
- Community Servings (Jamaica Plain) – for those living with critical and chronic illnesses – serve food in the community center, deliver food to homebound clients. Including their annual “Pie in the Sky” Fundraiser – deliver pies
- Cradles to Crayons (Brighton) – sort donations for poor and homeless children
- Fresh Truck (Boston) – Provides fresh food to Bostonians that need it the most
- Friends of Boston’s Homeless (Boston) – collect household items for housewarming baskets
- FriendshipWorks (Boston) – Matches volunteers with their Elderly neighbors to provide friendship, advocacy, education, assistance, and emotional support
- Greater Boston Food Bank (Boston) – sort food for distribution to the hungry
- Hebrew Rehab Center (Boston)
- Junior League of Boston (Boston) – Women supporting and developing the potential of other women through volunteering
- Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Boston) – Various season-based donation drives and ongoing service opportunities to help children and families in the greater Boston area
- Neighborhood House Charter School (Dorchester) – serves 400 low-income students in a rich and structured learning environment that develops both academic and social-emotional competency – spruce up the grounds, plant annual flowers
- Partners in Health (Boston) – make handmade baby hats to distribute to hospitals all over the world
- Room to Grow (Boston) – Donating goods or sorting through donations for babies born into poverty
- Rosie’s Place (Boston) – serve lunch to women experiencing homelessness
- Samaritans (Boston) – Answering calls to help others in need and prevent suicide.
- Sole Train (Boston Public Schools) – Community-building and mentoring program that uses running as a vehicle for setting and achieving seemingly impossible goals
- Teaching/Tutoring English (Roslindale)
- Yes Kids (Boston) – Coaching through sporting and extracurricular committees for youth
Brookline/Newton/Watertown Organizations:
- FriendshipWorks (Boston) – Matches volunteers with their Elderly neighbors to provide friendship, advocacy, education, assistance, and emotional support.
- Perkins School for Blind (Watertown) – build assistive devices, help with special events like Goalball and an alumni track meet
- Watertown Helps Out (Watertown) – joined in town-wide cleanup
Waltham/Weston/Wayland Area Organizations:
- Bethany Hill Place (Framingham) – Provides housing with
educational opportunities for those in need within a climate of respect, inclusion, and acceptance - Boston Area Gleaners (Waltham) – Group service opportunities to harvest surplus crops that are donated to those in need.
- Charles River Public Internet Center (Waltham) – teach free English as a Second Language classes to two classes of 15-20 adults each
- Jeff’s Place(Framingham) – Provides comprehensive bereavement support services for children 3-19 years old and
their families, free of charge - KaBoom! (Waltham) – help build a playground at Prospect Hill, a low-income housing neighborhood
- More Than Words (Waltham) – empowers youth who are in the foster care system, court involved, homeless, or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business – paint and help with building renovation
- OARS (Framingham/Sudbury/Wayland) – river clean-up by canoe, riverbank cleanup on foot
- Pam’s Run (Wayland) – a race run by Neighbor Brigade to raise money for families in crisis) – help with registration, serve as “designated cheerers”
- Prospect Hill Community Center (Waltham) – an afterschool program for elementary and middle school children in a low-income housing neighborhood- help with homework, crafts, and games, help build a playground, and assist with the ribbon-cutting celebration
- Prospect Hill Community Day (Waltham) – organize games and serve food for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Community Center
- Waltham Family School (Waltham) – sort donations of clothing and vegetables, help with office move, tutor the mothers in English classes, help organize the library.
- Waltham Fields Community Farm (Waltham) – grows fresh produce for soup kitchens, shelters and food pantries) – Join the CROP MOB to help tackle weeds
- WATCH CDC (Waltham) – participate in “Barnraising,” winterizing low-income homes, English as a Second Language instruction
- Sudbury Food Pantry (Sudbury) – assist patrons in gathering food items from the pantry
Wellesley/Needham/Natick Area Organizations:
- Marathon Daffodils (Wellesley) – plant bulbs along the marathon route to remember victims of Boston Marathon bombing
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Wellness Project (Needham) – for treatment of adults with depression, addiction, mental illness and PTSD – restore a building, perform yard-work, cleaning and painting
- Stop Hunger Now (Wellesley) – package 20,000 meals through Wellesley Rotary Club
- Wellesley Rotary Club (Wellesley) – help with annual pancake breakfast
Central and Northeast Massachusetts Area Organizations:
- Abby House (Worcester) – one of the first emergency shelters for women with or without children in the US)
- Ascentria Care Alliance (Worcester) – collect soccer equipment for unaccompanied refugee minors, provide “IWasAStranger Baby Shower Baskets” to pregnant refugee women
- Ashland Farmer’s Market (Ashland) – set up and break down tents
- Ashland GreenUp (Ashland) – joined in town-wide cleanup
- Catie’s Closet (Lowell) – improves school attendance by providing clothing and basic necessities to students living in poverty – collected hundreds of clothing items and toiletries, as well as handmade fleece blankets
- Centro Las Americas food pantry (Worcester) – load and unload trucks, stock shelves
- Christopher House (Worcester) – assisted living facility – assist the Activities Director and staff the front desk
- Habitat for Humanity ReStore (Worcester) – nonprofit donation centers that sell new and gently used furniture, home accessories, building materials, and appliances to the public at a fraction of the retail price – sort donations, assist customers, run the cash register and handle checkout
- Hidden Treasures Thrift Shop (Clinton) – run by United Way – sort donations, assist customers, unload trucks, stock shelves
- Holy Cross College (Worcester) – plant trees with area residents for the Arbor Day Foundation
- Lowell General Hospital (Lowell) – donated 600 fleece blankets, 102 handmade baby hats, 1500 hand-sewn pocket hearts to comfort patients
- Marlboro Historical Society (Marlboro) – catalogue donated materials for archives, help patrons track family history and use familysearch.org
- Northborough Senior Center (Northborough)
- Salvation Army (Framingham) – serve at the food market
- Sherry’s House (Worcester) – for families of kids recovering from cancer
- Wheat Community Services (Worcester) – help in the food pantry, move furniture, organize thrift store displays, and assist with the Community Cafe
- Why Me (Worcester) – for children recovering from cancer – make meals for families
- Worcester Arbor Day Festival (Worcester)
- Working for Worcester (Worcester) – clean up a town trail, paint a playground and clean up a.low-income housing area