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Boston's Pine Street Inn Preps 2,000 Thanksgiving Meals
The Pine Street Inn provides a comprehensive range of services to nearly 2,000 homeless men and women each day.
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St. Francis House Helps Feed Families In Need On Thanksgiving
A hot turkey and all the fixings is what anyone wants on Thanksgiving Day, but for some who come to St Francis House, a day shelter for the homeless and anyone looking for a place to go in Boston, it means a whole lot more. “It is so cold outside, for everyone just to be together,” said guest Julianna...
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Mother-Son Business Beantown Blankets Aims to Help the Homeless
To some people, they are just blankets, but to others they mean so much more. Beantown Blankets co-owner Shelley Cheche said it comes down to letting people know that they matter. That’s the mission behind the Massachusetts-based company that she founded with her son, Maxwell Perry. “Anyway we can help, we’re happy to do that,” Cheche said. Perry said...
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Mother-Son Business Gives Back With ‘Beantown Blankets'
A Massachusetts-based company, founded by a mother-son duo, donates one blanket to a shelter for every blanket they sell.
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Boston's Women's Shelter Offering Refuge and Resources During Pandemic
Rosie’s Place, the nation’s oldest women’s shelter, is taking extra steps to make sure they can keep the doors open amid the coronavirus pandemic — even with financial strains.
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Maine City Temporarily Closes Homeless Shelter Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The race is on to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading further within the Portland, Maine, homeless community. Officials from the city, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Maine Department of Health and Human Services are trying to separate and house roughly 600 healthy, symptomatic and exposed people in its homeless population after a Massachusetts woman and…
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Portland Homeless Shelter Temporarily Closed Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Officials in Maine are trying to prevent the novel coronavirus from further spreading among the homeless population in Portland.
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Improving Lives at Rosie's Place
Rosie’s Place is a shelter for homeless and low income women in Boston. Its president and a former guest stopped by This Is New England to explain the many ways the shelter helps women in need get back on their feet.
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Pay It Forward Puppy Style
Colton Bradford stops by thew newest
location to learn how their new partnership with
is helping homeless people transition into new careers.
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NH Homeless Shelters Over Capacity as Cold Weather Kicks In
The homeless shelters in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region passed capacity long before the recent snow and cold temperatures came in. The Portsmouth Herald reported some shelters in the region have wait lists with an eight-month to two-year wait for income-based housing while others are housing people well above their capacity level. Cross Roads House, an emergency transitional shelter in...