Three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clearer than ever that community health, education, housing, and the strength of the workforce are all linked – interlocking…
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I didn’t understand what I was passionate about.” This sentiment was shared often by opportunity youth who participated in discussions for the…
“Taking care of ourselves is so much more complicated when we don’t have stable housing. We all need a home to be safe, and to be healthy, and to thrive.” –…
“Thanks to these programs and services, shelters, low-income housing, I have become the confident woman you’re seeing here today. I am strong, I am stable, and a very proud member…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…