Organizational Partners
The Winter Walk supports service organizations in Massachusetts, New York & Chicago addressing issues around homelessness. We aim to grow our community of partners each year and raise awareness for all the incredible services in our area. 100% of the funds raised through the Winter Walk event will benefit the following organizations in 2024/2025:
Greater Boston Partners
BHCHP provides access to the highest quality health care for all homeless men, women and children in the greater Boston area.
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Through transitional employment and financial empowerment, Breaktime works to break down barriers to job security, financial security, and–ultimately–housing security for their Associates.
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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.
FamilyAid empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children’s futures.
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. Learn More >>
Y2Y Harvard Square employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe environment for young adults experiencing homelessness. Learn More >>
The mission of Circle of Hope is to provide infants, children, and adults experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity in Boston and Metro West with clothing and necessities in order to preserve and enhance overall health and personal dignity. By continually providing seasonally appropriate clothing, shoes, linens, and hygiene essentials to 28 homeless shelters, healthcare clinics, schools, and community programs, Circle of Hope gives the most vulnerable members of our community the opportunity to protect themselves from the dangers of illness and disease that come from being homeless in New England.
Providing exceptional healthcare without exception, with many programs focused on homeless and vulnerable populations in our city.
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Bridge offers a comprehensive range of services and programs for homeless youth in Boston in a positive and safe environment.
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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.
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.
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Pine Street Inn provides a comprehensive range of services to more than 1,900 homeless men and women each day.
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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. Learn More >>
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.
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.
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.
NEW YORK CITY 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 Coalition for the Homeless is the nation’s oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals and families. We believe that affordable housing, sufficient food and the chance to work for a living wage are fundamental rights in a civilized society.
Covenant House New York is proud to be New York City’s largest provider serving youth experiencing homelessness. So much more than a shelter, we provide affirming and transformative services so each young person can create their own path to independence. Our doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
New Alternatives increases the self-sufficiency of LGBTQ+ homeless youth and young adults by enabling them to transition out of the shelter system to stable adult lives. They provide long-term support, weekly case management, education services, life skills training, community-building recreational activities, opportunities for self-expression, and programs for HIV+ youth.
Win provides safe housing and critical services to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives and break the cycle of homelessness.
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.
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.
WESTERN MA PARTNERS
The Center for Human Development (CHD) provides a broad range of high-quality, community-oriented human services dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the dignity and welfare of people in need. Learn More >>
CSO’s long experience with people who have all kinds of disabilities and behavioral health problems leads us to believe that there are no individuals or families we cannot serve well. Their expertise is supporting people in their progress toward self-sufficiency no matter what challenges they face on that journey. Learn More>>
MHA provides access to therapies for emotional health and wellness; services for substance use recovery, developmental disabilities and acquired brain injury; services for housing and residential programming, and more. With respect, integrity and compassion, MHA provides each individual served through person-driven programming to foster independence, community engagement, wellness and recovery. Learn More>>
The Health Services for the Homeless Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) focused on serving at-risk and underserved populations in Springfield and the 3-counties of western Massachusetts-Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin. Learn More>>
From its inception, the mission of Providence Ministries has been to assist those most in need in the community by providing life’s basic needs of food, Clothing, and shelter. This mission has evolved to include provision of sober housing for men seeking recovery from alcoholism and substance use disorder as well as men who are experiencing homelessness. Learn More>>
The Network creates collaborative solutions across Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire Counties to prevent and end homelessness through a Housing First approach that centers racial equity. Learn More>>
CHICAGO PARTNERS
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.
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.
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.
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.
