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November 28, 2022

Ambitious 3-Year Partnership Shows a 44% Reduction in Youth Homelessness

Ending Homelessness

Rising to the Challenge Three years ago, the City of Boston, community-based partners, Liberty Mutual and United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley came together to launch Rising to…

October 20, 2022

Building Industry Professionals Gather for United Way’s 29th Annual Real Estate Breakfast

Ending Homelessness

On Thursday, October 13, United Way held its 29th Annual Real Estate and Building Industry Breakfast at the Lawn on D and Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, the first in-person…

helping-homeless-families

March 31, 2022

United Way Convening New Boston Commission to End Family Homelessness

Ending Homelessness

Innovative solutions are needed to provide a coordinated response to the crisis of family homelessness across the Commonwealth, and in 2020, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley was…

February 1, 2022

Unprecedented State Investment Creates Once-In-A-Lifetime Opportunity to End Homelessness in Massachusetts

Ending Homelessness

The passage of over $150 million in funds to create more supportive housing through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is an historic moment for the movement to end homelessness…

December 7, 2021

The Innovative Local Collaborations Working Together To Solve Youth Homelessness

Ending Homelessness

No young person should ever have to experience homelessness.  On any given night in Boston, more than 300 youth and young adults (YYA) are sleeping in shelters or out on the street with…

pay for success

December 3, 2021

How An Innovative Partnership to Reduce Homelessness Has Led to Ground-Breaking Change

Ending Homelessness

For Steve Hardy of Gloucester, the stable home he accessed through the Commonwealth’s Pay for Success partnership to reduce chronic individual homelessness helped to change the trajectory of his life.  In this recent interview with Boston Globe reporter Felice Freyer, he says, “I felt such an…

Kids at For Kids Only After school

September 15, 2021

Our Vision for an Equitable Recovery

Disaster Relief, Ending Homelessness, Moving Families Out of Poverty, Supporting Young Children

As our region recovers, thousands of children and families are at risk of being left behind. Here are three urgent issues we can address, now. Covid-19 is a once-in-a-generation crisis…

July 1, 2021

The Road Ahead: How We’re Imagining Covid Recovery

Disaster Relief, Ending Homelessness, Moving Families Out of Poverty, Preparing Youth to Succeed, Supporting Young Children

While the pandemic has left no one untouched, it also put a spotlight on the alarming disparities that have always existed throughout our country. As we look toward recovery, this…

April 1, 2021

A New Start From New Generation

Ending Homelessness

United Way is proud to include New Generation as a funded agency partner doing critically important work every day with women and their children. It’s a place where the urgency…

March 31, 2021

3 Steps to Achieve Housing Justice For All

Ending Homelessness

Turning this point in time into a moment in time when we achieve housing justice for all COVID-19 has pushed an already under-resourced and overstretched shelter system to the brink.…

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