There are so many programs that could use additional funding, especially with the potential of nonprofit funding being cut under the incoming administration. We have been volunteering the past month, longarm quilting piles of quilt tops by Cambridge Modern Quilt Guild members to donate to Transition House. Once quilted, Grace usually trims them and then Kay binds them. Various sizes, mostly twin and full size in the full rainbow. It was difficult to decide what organization might need a little lift in the final month of 2024 but Transition House has been at the front of our consciousness.
Transition House’s mission is to end domestic violence in our community. Founded in 1976, Transition House created the first shelter on the East Coast and in the following decades launched a legal services program for battered women, a foster grandparent program, and pioneered school-based teen dating violence intervention curricula and programs. In 2013, Transition House formed the Community Support Partnership with longstanding collaborators, the Cambridge Housing Authority and City of Cambridge. The Partnership provides a whole-community focus on domestic violence prevention to reach people of all ages and backgrounds. Today, Transition House offers a wide range of housing resources, support services and prevention tools. In the last few years alone they have built nationally groundbreaking partnerships that emphasize a whole-community approach to violence prevention.
This holiday Transition House asks the community to shop and make a difference. The Holiday Wishes Program is an opportunity for donors to match with a single adult, or adult with one or more children, to ensure that they have a special holiday.
As always, DONATE directly. We encourage you to become a monthly donor and make a lasting impact on survivors.
Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Transition House's greatest need for volunteers are playspace volunteers; volunteers are trained with Horizons then provide homework help and supervised playtime with children each weekday evening.
*Since launching the We Care Wednesday initiative in January 2017 we have donated over $85,215 to a variety of nonprofits and mutual aid funds doing essential work in our community as well as other places. From the Mayor's Disaster Fund to BAGLY to Abortion Access Front and Material Aid and Advocacy. We select organizations that we feel represent not only our commitment to a better, more equitable world but also our desire to "do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."