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Family Promise Walk for Change fundraiser will be May 1st & 2nd

April 14, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Family Promise Metrowest has tweaked the format of the non-profit’s annual walkathon to account for the continuing need for social distancing measures. The May 1 – 2 Walk for Change encourages individuals, families, or small groups of friends to walk together in their home towns to raise funds and awareness for families facing homelessness.

family promise metrowest

Walk participants will be asked to register, fundraise, and walk in their community on May 1 or 2 while wearing their Walk for Change t-shirts. Register for the Family Promise Walk for Change.

A 5k walk through Natick has been planned for Sat., May 1, 1pm. Email Ann Skipper for details. Please provide your cell number. awskipper@verizon.net

Throughout the pandemic, Family Promise has helped more families than ever before through its pre-eviction program, which includes shelter diversion services that allow families to bypass shelter entry altogether. Often all it takes to keep a family out of a shelter is help with moving expenses, or a safe place to stay for a few days until permanent housing becomes available.

This and other essential programs help Family Promise Metrowest to transform the lives of families with children facing homelessness by mobilizing a diverse community to provide shelter, education, and comprehensive support. It’s such programming that supports families on their path to sustainability.

Unable to participate in a walk? Donations are gratefully accepted.

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Natick-based Family Promise will no longer use area congregations to shelter families

Filed Under: Charity/Fundraising, Community, Kids, Volunteering



Natick to be part of the Stop Hate Rally route, March 27th

March 25, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Stop Hate Rally & Run, Natick

Demonstrators along the route will run, walk, and rally to condemn acts of violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and to display the unity, resilience, and strength of the Asian American community.

This event is organized by the New England Chinese American Alliance (NECAA).

Sign up link here for walkers, runners, demonstrators.

More information to come such as where along the route in Natick demonstrators will be gathered.

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尊敬的朋友:

新英格兰华人联盟(NECAA)联合Wellesley华协、Belmont 华协、Lextington华协、Winchester华协,Newton华协、Brookline中文学校、莱星文化中心、美国华人联合会麻州分会, 旅美科协波士顿分会、波士顿清华校友会、吕令子基金会、亚美会、Westar、Brookline 华人居民群 、美国中餐联盟、平世界基金、犇跑团、Needham华协将于3/27/2021在波马沿线的八个镇举行一场首尾相连的示威活动。

我们将在波马道路的沿线举行插牌、举牌活动;我们将在有人行道的镇举行接力跑;我们将有四队跑者在波马沿线的四个地点同时出发,共同完成一个马拉松赛程。同时,我们也将在Hopkinton和Boston Common举行纪念仪式。

我们希望,通过用此项活动,表达我们对逝去同胞的哀思;表达亚裔长期被视为“温顺胆小”的不满;表达主流社会长期对亚裔偏见的愤懑;表达亚裔社区日益增长的活力、团结和力量;我们也更想表达,一个团结、平等、多样化的美国才会是一个更安全、更美好、更值得期待的国度。

所有参加者都要求佩戴口罩,保持社交距离。若您想举牌表示支持,不胜感谢!

活动详情:
10:00-10:30 Hopkinton纪念仪式。
10:00-11:20 沿波马道路的插牌和举牌活动。
10:30-11:20 Hopkinton、Framingham、Wellesley 、Newton 4个地点同时出发,跑步。每段10公里。
11:20 最后一段的跑者抵达Boston Common Parkman Bandstand ,举行纪念仪式。

我们希望,活动结束后,在条件允许的情况下您能通过社交媒体分享您的经历和感受。

期待您的加入!

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Filed Under: Boston Marathon, Community, Volunteering

Natick-based Family Promise will no longer use area congregations to shelter families

March 22, 2021 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Family Promise Metrowest Executive Director Sue Crossley in a video address announced that the Natick-based homeless prevention program would no longer use 19 area houses of worship as part of its shelter program to house its partner families. For over ten years Family Promise has worked with an interfaith network of congregations to help temporarily house families using a rotational model in which a congregation hosted as many as five families. Partner families would live at one church or synagogue for one week, then move to another for the next week, and so on as they worked with Family Promise toward the goal of permanent housing.

family promise metrowest

On the week their congregations were scheduled as hosts, volunteers would rally together. With the help of a congregation leader with a passion for the program and a talent for working a Sign-Up Genius, an army of volunteers would take on the tasks needed to ready the church for families and make them feel welcomed and cared for. Teams would set up and break down bedrooms; make meals and eat dinner with families; play games with the kids; do laundry; and more. It was a real “it takes a village” kind of experience.

In putting together its most recent 5-year strategic plan, however, Crossley said changing the model for shelter was a decision brought about not only by the pandemic, which forced the homeless prevention program last year to move their families from congregations to hotel rooms “to ensure everyone’s health and safety”, but also in response to focus groups. “We came to the realization that having a shelter site where families live rather than rotating to the different congregations really made the most sense for everyone,” Crossley said.

That realization has come on the heels of a successful capital campaign that allowed Family Promise in 2019 to not only pay off its mortgage in full, but establish a building fund to handle future maintenance. The organization bought the 3-bathroom property in 2017 for $950,000. Without mortgage payments, Family Promise’s monthly expenses have been significantly reduced. Thanks to the pandemic, that new “found money” was immediately put to use—for example, the program incurred hotel costs once the churches could no longer host families due to social distancing measures. In addition, Family Promise has begun to help families who need shelter diversion services that would allow them to bypass shelter entry altogether, such as help with moving expenses, or a safe place to stay for a few days until they could move into permanent housing elsewhere.

As Family Promise searches for a shelter site where families will temporarily live, it is possible that the current day center on Mulligan Street in Natick could become a small shelter. It is expected that area congregations will continue to play a major volunteerism role in the program.

 

The Campaign for Change

Family Promise, Natick

 

Family Promise Metrowest’s mission is to transform the lives of families with children facing homelessness by mobilizing a diverse community to provide shelter, education, and comprehensive support. Their May 1st-2nd 2021 Walk for Change—self-guided walks in all of its supporting towns—will raise funds for programming that supports the families on their path to sustainability.

Register here.


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Filed Under: Charity/Fundraising, Community, Volunteering

Natick Troop 1775 wants your bottles and cans

February 5, 2021 by Admin Leave a Comment

Natick Scouts

Filed Under: Charity/Fundraising, Volunteering

MLK Day 2021 events schedule—Natick, Massachusetts

January 17, 2021 by Admin Leave a Comment

MLK Day, Natick

Everyone is invited to enjoy a live pre-recorded program from 10am-11am, streamed online and through Natick Community Access TV (see more details below), featuring:

  • student performances and reflections
  • MLK Day Creative Contest winners from the Middle and High School
  • Interfaith Clergy representatives
  • special guests including local dignitaries and community leaders
  • a keynote reflection by The Rev. Dr. Gregory Groover, Pastor of the Historic Charles Street A.M.E. Church in Roxbury, MA

Immediately following the program, from 11am-12pm special MLK Day activities for all ages will be offered by community partners (via Zoom links).

More information on how to attend

You can watch the 16th Annual Natick MLK Day Community Celebration on Natick Community Television (Natick Pegasus) channels: RCN 3, Comcast 99, and Verizon 29.

Or stream on YouTube via link here:

https://youtu.be/_Aul98Rr2sE

(with a live chat during the program!)

The 2021 program will be live on Monday, 1/18 at 10am.

MLK events are co-sponsored by Greater Natick Interfaith Clergy Association, Natick Is United, the Natick Board of Health, Natick 180, Town of Natick, Natick Public Schools, METCO, and SPARK Kindness.

Filed Under: Community, Embracing diversity, Holidays, Volunteering

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