2022 Family Promise Metrowest Annual Report

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OUR PARTNERS Congregations Since our founding in 2008, volunteers from our network of congregations have provided essential support to our families and organization. Staffing our front office, cooking meals, tutoring, planning events, or serving on our Board, they’ve been instrumental in our success. Although sheltered families were formerly housed on congregational property on a rotating schedule, this shelter model was closed with the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020 and our sheltered families were moved into a hotel. In 2022, after months of renovation, our shelter reopened on-site in our Day Center and our congregational volunteers returned, providing healthy meals and reassuring companionship for families four evenings a week in their own home. The congregational network has supported this new model with great enthusiasm and we’ve been thrilled to see so many of them again in person. Our congregations have always been at the heart of the shelter program and their dedication to serving families in need is a constant inspiration. In 2022, our congregational network was comprised of 46 houses of worship, representing the diverse faiths that make up our community. Partnering Agencies We have strong partnerships with many fellow agencies that offer a variety of services to our families, including food pantries, clothing donations, job training programs, government program assistance, and more. Their services are essential complements to our need-based financial subsidies and our long-term, goaloriented family coaching. Fostering such partnerships and introducing our families to these additional community-based supports is an essential aspect of how we help families build longterm sustainability. These organizations will ultimately form our families’ permanent support network when they graduate from our programs and settle back into community housing. In 2022, we continued our mutual partnerships with the Natick Service Council, SPARK Kindness, South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Metrowest Mediation, MassHire, New Life Furniture Bank, and numerous other service and supply providers. FROM TOP: Walk team from Wellesley Hills UU Church; Pastor John Hudson from Pilgrim Church with our Volunteer Coordinator Paula; Autism-Welcoming supply bag donated by the Autism Alliance of MetroWest; our Admin Assistant Barbara accepts a donation of hygiene products from Dignity Matters. We also continued to partner with the City of Framingham Community Development Center to refer Framingham-based families to their Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Program (TBRA), which uses HUD funds to pay security deposits and/or subsidize rent for one year, while we provide the coaching to help the families reach long-term sustainability. This partnership enables us to direct our financial resources to family coaching, while the city pays for the housing subsidies. We are exploring options to expand this partnership to other municipalities. 8 | Family Promise Metrowest
Businesses The Metrowest region is home to a variety of businesses, from local to multinational corporations. Every year, many offer support to our organization and events as sponsors, advertisers, in-kind donors, and volunteers. They are essential to our fundraising and to broadening our reach across Metrowest. A number of these businesses have also become “Community Partners” to our organization, offering annual financial support of at least $2,500 to fund our programs and operations. In 2022, we had 20 Community Partners, 80% of which were renewing their generosity from the prior year. We also had 37 local businesses make additional donations to support our families and operations. Foundations Our supporting foundations not only provide essential funding for our existing programs, over the last three years they’ve also responded rapidly to the needs of our community during the upheavals of the COVID pandemic, and now amid rapid inflation and shrinking benefits. Without their commitment to the families we serve, and to the betterment of our community as a whole, our work would not be possible. In 2022, we received essential funding from thirteen community or corporate foundations including Analog Charitable Foundation, A Path Ahead Community Fund, Avidia Bank Charitable Foundation, DCU for Kids Foundation, Foundation for MetroWest, Framingham Country Club Charitable Foundation, Hopkinton Country Club Charitable Foundation, MetroWest Health Foundation, Metrowest Women’s Fund, MutualOne Charitable Foundation, Roessner Family Foundation, Sudbury Foundation, and TJX Foundation. Individuals & Families Last, but certainly not least, our community involves a broad and diverse array of individual and family supporters, who offer us resources of every kind: time, money, energy, professional support, and deep compassion for our families. These people are the very backbone of our organization, putting their hands and hearts into helping us deliver the “community response to homelessness” that has guided our mission since our founding. In 2022, we received volunteering support from approximately 400 individuals (with post-COVID volunteerism still rebounding), and we gratefully received financial donations from 1,500+ different individuals or families. For more information about our partners, please visit familypromisemetrowest.org/partners. FROM TOP: Former Board Chair Carol Virshbo and VJ Donnelly, General Manager of MetroWest Subaru; MathWorks employees prepare dinner for shelter families; a group from Analog Devices after a spring clean-up at our Bacon Street home; the Whiting family dropping off donations. Annual Report 2022 | 9
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