Project Hope is a multi-service agency at the
forefront of efforts in Boston to move families beyond
homelessness and poverty. It provides low-income
women with children with access to education, jobs,
housing, and emergency services; fosters their personal
transformation; and works for broader systems change.
Twenty-five years ago, when the Little Sisters of the
Assumption opened their convent doors to homeless women
with children, Project Hope was first launched. It
became one of the first family shelters in the state and
its own nonprofit organization.
Today, under the direction of Sr. Margaret Leonard,
Project Hope is a leader not only in efforts to end
family homelessness, but to prevent it in the first
place with a mission of partnering with families to move
up and out of poverty. The multi-service agency
provides low-income women with children access to
education, jobs, housing and emergency services; fosters
their personal transformation; and works for broader
systems change. Project Hope's recently completed
headquarters on Dudley Street (soon to be certified as Roxbury's first "green" building) is the new center for
adult education, workforce development and housing
services for the community. In addition to its new
site, its original Magnolia Street facility, just a few
blocks away, remains home to the family shelter, child
care center and food pantry.
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