Belmont Food Collaborative
Belmont Food Collaborative is a not-for-profit volunteer organization in Belmont, Massachusetts. Their mission is promoting good health, access to fresh and local food, nutrition, and local and sustainable farming. Their work includes Belmont Farmers' Market, Belmont Composts!, Community Growing, Food Assistance, Food Education and more. Read the mission statement to learn more. Sponsors and donors are welcome.
Chaplains On The Way
Chaplains on the Way believes that no person experiencing homelessness in Waltham should feel they have to walk alone. We live out our mission by building trusting relations with those experiencing homelessness, living in deep poverty, dealing with mental health or substance use challenges. We offer a ministry of spiritual care, listening, and companionship through life’s struggles and triumphs.
Starting in 2020, and throughout the pandemic, Chaplains on the Way partnered with First Parish in Waltham to provide hot coffee, home-cooked meals, a warm space to rest, and clean bathrooms for people experiencing homelessness. Chaplains on the Way serves over 3,000 hot meals each winter with an average of providing for 25 unhoused people per day.
Waltham House
Waltham House is a residential group home designed specifically for LGBTQ+ youth. Waltham House provides a safe and supportive living environment with 24-hour staffing for up to 12 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and/or transgender youth ages 14–18. The Home helps to ensure healthy development of all children at risk, without regard to race, religion, gender identity/expression or sexual orientation.
The Grow Clinic at Boston Medical Center
The Grow Clinic for Children is an outpatient subspecialty clinic at Boston Medical Center that started in 1984 to provide comprehensive specialty medical, nutritional, developmental and social services and dietary assistance to children from the Greater Boston area referred with Failure To Thrive (FTT).
First Church supports babies (and their families) facing food insecurity by donating goods to the Boston Medical Center’s Grow Clinic Aunties. Throughout March, we focus on the babies, so please bring PediaSure formula with fiber, baby food (stages 3 & 4), Flintstones chewable vitamins, diapers (sizes 3-6), and unscented baby wipes. Drop-off is at the table next to Gloria, the stuffed giraffe, in the First Church basement.