Author: Bret Hauff
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Food For Free in Cambridge Provides Farm-to-Table Produce for Boston-Based Homeless Shelter Pine Street Inn
As winter approaches, one Cambridge nonprofit has taken advantage of this year’s growing season to help combat hunger and homelessness. This year, Food For Free dedicated all the vegetables it grew on a quarter acre of farmland in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to just one of the 125 groups it partners with in Greater Boston: Pine Street…
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Southeastern Mass. Nonprofit Fights Homelessness by Supporting Displaced Youth
As Massachusetts students settle into a new school year, one group south of Boston continues its decade-long work to support youth impacted by homelessness. Since 2004, School on Wheels of Massachusetts has logged more than 34,000 hours mentoring more than 2,200 students impacted by homelessness in 30 different locations across southeastern Massachusetts, according to its…