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At Winter Walk, we are proud to stand alongside a growing community of partner organizations in Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Tallahassee who are on the frontlines of addressing homelessness every single day. These partners provide vital services, advocacy, and care—meeting people where they are and walking with them on the path toward stability and dignity.

Each year, we deepen our commitment by expanding our network of partners and raising awareness of the extraordinary work they carry out in their local communities. Their impact inspires us, and we are honored to amplify their voices and stories through the Winter Walk.

Most importantly, 100% of the funds raised through Winter Walk events go directly to these organizations, ensuring that every step you take helps strengthen their essential work and moves us all closer to a world where everyone has a safe and stable home.


Greater Boston Organizational Partners:

  • BHCHP provides access to the highest quality health care for all homeless men, women and children in the greater Boston area.

  • Providing exceptional healthcare without exception, with many programs focused on homeless and vulnerable populations in our city.

  • Through transitional employment and financial empowerment, Breaktime works to break down barriers to job security, financial security, and–ultimately–housing security for their Associates.

  • Bridge offers a comprehensive range of services and programs for homeless youth in Boston in a positive and safe environment.

  • Brookview is a Black- and Afro-Latina women-led organization that works for justice, equity and systemic change for low-income mothers and children in Boston. They provide housing and a broad range of supportive programs to improve educational achievement, health and wellbeing, and economic independence.

  • Capuchin Mobile Ministries is a ministry of spiritual caregiving. They take inspiration from Saint Francis, who embraced lepers and made them know that they were precious to God. Showing mercy to the marginalized is fundamental to the Capuchin mission. It is how they live the Gospel and share it with others.

  • For over a century, Catholic Charities Boston has served vulnerable individuals and families of all backgrounds. With 450 employees, they provide comprehensive social services in Basic Needs, Family & Youth, Refugee & Immigrant Services, and Adult Education & Workforce Development. Guided by their faith mission, they address social justice issues with compassion, offering essentials, education, and advocacy to help families achieve self-sufficiency.

  • Circle of Hope provides clothing and essentials to homeless and housing-insecure individuals in Boston and Metro West, supporting their health and dignity. Supplying seasonal items to 28 shelters, clinics, schools, and programs, it helps protect vulnerable people from the dangers of illness and disease linked to homelessness in New England.

  • common cathedral is an outdoor congregation, homeless and housed, sharing God’s love through community, pastoral care, creative expression, and worship on Boston Common. They are non-proselytizing and ecumenical and welcome and support all people.

  • CLT preserves neighborhoods and prevents homelessness in Massachusetts by developing and managing over 400 units of its own affordable supportive housing. Our innovative model—combining supportive services and property management under one roof—keeps residents off the streets and saves lives.

  • Eliot Community Human Services (Eliot) is committed to serving the most vulnerable of populations – those at risk, with limited or no resources for help. Nearly 2,500 multidisciplinary, full and part-time professionals serve 60,000+ adults, children, and families each year. Eliot has extensive experience working with insurance and managed-care companies and a long history of working collaboratively with public and private partners to serve the most vulnerable and at-risk populations.

  • FamilyAid empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children’s futures. Their vision is to prevent family homelessness whenever possible–or reduce its harm if it can’t be avoided–through education and supports for children and parents that foster their long-term stability.

  • Founded in 1987, Friends of Boston’s Homeless supports innovative, solution-oriented programs that help people move out of homelessness once and for all. From basic emergency services to permanent housing, the programs and services they support help hundreds of people every year to move off the streets and out of shelters into safe, dignified, housing and live peaceful, hopeful futures in their community.

  • Hearth is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of homelessness among the elderly. This mission is accomplished through a unique blend of prevention, placement, and housing programs all designed to help elders find and succeed in homes of their own.

  • ISP Boston believe spirituality aids recovery from homelessness and addiction. Partnering with social services, shelters, and halfway houses, they offer spiritual reflections and retreats for healing, connection, and growth. Rooted in Ignatian spirituality and 12-Step methods, ISP programs create a safe space to foster self-acceptance, hope, and strength to rebuild lives.

  • MANNA (Many Angels Needed Now and Always) located in St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral is a ministry of and with the homeless community in downtown Boston. They provide incredible work and programming for housed and unhoused individuals.

  • NECHV equips Veterans who are facing or at-risk of homelessness with the tools for economic self-sufficiency and to provide them a path to achieve successful and dignified independent living.

  • Pine Street Inn partners with homeless individuals to help them move from the streets and shelter to a home, and assists formerly homeless individuals in retaining housing. They provide street outreach, emergency shelter, supportive housing, job training and connections to employment. Pine Street tirelessly advocates for collaborative solutions to end homelessness in their vision of a home and community for everyone. Their core values drive their work every day. Those values include Community, Teamwork, Accountability and Respect.

  • Shelter Music Boston delivers monthly chamber music concerts to people in homeless shelters, substance use recovery centers, and other programs. Founded in 2010, SMB was established to address a complete lack of access to live classical music and its known healing benefits for adults and children who are homeless and marginalized in other significant ways. What started with two musicians performing at two shelters has led to 80 professional musicians delivering 100 concerts for more than 1,400 audience members at 8+ partner sites annually.  

  • Rooted in the Franciscan tradition, the organization offers worship and compassionate outreach to those in need. Programs include the Father Mychal Judge Center for mental health and recovery, the Rita A. DiMento Women’s Clinic for women experiencing homelessness, the Lazarus Ministry providing dignified funerals for the forgotten, and the Franciscan Food Center supporting food-insecure families.

  • St. Francis House is the largest day shelter in Massachusetts. Located in the heart of downtown Boston, their basic, rehabilitative, and housing services overlap and build on one another to provide our guests with continuous and comprehensive care.

  • The vision of St. Mary’s Center is to partner with women and families as they ascend to a more thriving, stable future. By understanding the root causes of their trauma and providing services they uniquely need, they join with families in changing their personal trajectory and lead in influencing systemic change.

  • Women’s Lunch Place provides healthy meals, essentials, and one-on-one assistance from a unique daytime shelter and advocacy center in Boston dedicated to helping women in need.

  • Y2Y Harvard Square employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe environment for young adults experiencing homelessness.

Chicago Organizational Partners:

  • The Boulevard of Chicago provides high quality, cost-effective medical respite care, holistic support and housing services to help ill and injured homeless adults break the cycle of homelessness, restore their health and rebuild their lives.

  • Since 1980, Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) has advocated for a world where everyone has a safe, welcoming, and permanent place to call home. CCH builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

  • The Chicago Help Initiative is putting a stop to hunger by providing meals and access to social service to Chicagoans who are experiencing homelessness, hunger, and economic insecurity. In addition, they are dedicated to connecting their guests to the resources and social services they need to improve the quality of their lives. Each week their volunteers, generous benefactors, and sponsors give their time to assist those who are less fortunate.

  • Franciscan Outreach is a leading provider of homeless services in Chicago. They operate as a system of support for men and women who are marginalized and homeless. They empower people to gain the stability they need to transition into permanent housing. Every day, they offer healthy meals to those who are hungry, a warm bed for those who need shelter, vital case management for those who need guidance, and access to critical resources for those who need specialized services such as health care, mental health counseling, and substance use disorder treatment.

  • ISP Chicago boasts one of the largest programs in the Network, with six women’s and four men’s retreats annually. ISP Chicago also conducts weekly spiritual accompaniment at a variety of local service providers. The men's and women’s teams have grown to include alumni taking the Chicago ministry to the next level. The Chicago team has also participated in the Ambassadors of Hope program.

New York City Organizational Partners:

  • The Bowery Mission exists to promote the flourishing of New Yorkers overcoming homelessness and marginalization by providing compassionate services and transformative community. Their goal is to be the most effective provider of compassionate care and life transformation for hurting people in the New York metro area.

  • The Capuchin Franciscans of the Province of St. Mary live the Gospel, inspired by the life and ideals of St. Francis of Assisi. We are dedicated to serving those in need, living a simple life together as a community of brothers, and drawing closer to Jesus Christ through prayer. We work to make sure that the light of Christ in the people we serve is not obscured by ignorance, injustice, or poverty.

  • Help USA provides shelter to meet people’s immediate needs, as well as support to succeed as individuals, as families, and as communities. They envision a world where safe and stable housing is a starting point for everyone, because housing is the foundation upon which people can build better lives.

  • New Destiny’s mission is to end the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness for low-income families and individuals by developing and connecting them to safe, permanent, affordable housing and services.

Philadelphia & Tallahassee
Organizational Partners:

  • The vision of TIA’S PLACE is to end young adult homelessness after they age out of the Foster Care system. TIA’S PLACE will become the loving family that these young adults need and want. Our primary focus will be to show unconditional positive regard while becoming a strong support system that will last as long as it’s needed. We will encourage, mentor, and validate each person that walks through our doors.

  • The Kearney Center, open 24/7 since April 2015, offers emergency shelter and services for those facing homelessness or economic hardship in North Florida. It provides basic needs like showers, meals, and clean clothes, plus access to social services, case management, and housing programs. The Center hosts government, non-profits, and faith groups to deliver comprehensive support. Services are available to all, regardless of race, age, gender, or income, with an open-door policy ensuring assessment and connection to resources.

Join Us!

BECOME A PARTNER

Winter Walk is proud to partner with more than 30 different local nonprofits working year-round to end homelessness. Our Organizational Partners are the heart of our mission—they are the trusted organizations that receive 100% of the funds raised through our Winter Walk events and continue the work long after the Walk ends.

To become an Organizational Partner, we ask that your organization:

  • Join a Winter Walk and donate to our existing organizational partners by contributing your registration fee  to experience our event firsthand

  • Complete an application to be reviewed by our team

  • Commit to walking annually, recruiting 100+ individuals to fundraise for you, reaching at least $10,000 in funds raised 

This model allows us to ensure alignment with our mission, build lasting relationships, and maximize the impact of our shared work. Once accepted, Organizational Partners benefit directly from the funds raised by Winter Walk participants, gain increased visibility, and join a growing national network of advocates and service providers working together for lasting change.

Together, we walk—and work—toward a future where homelessness is a thing of the past.