Solutions at Work, Inc.

Assist persons who are low income save funds which permits them to pay rent and avoid homelessness.  Give attractive clothing to persons coming out of job training to enhance their feeling of self-worth, and assist them in finding employment.  To provide emergency assistance of material goods to persons displaced by fire, or otherwise in need. To develop the capacity of staff and participants to "give back" to the community. We also have a meals program which serves about 300 hot meals a week in Central Sq. This helps feed people that otherwise would go hungry. We have also added a grant writing training program. Advocates can seek funding for their projects and missions. Access to funding makes our community stronger as a whole.

Solutions at work meets its goals by:
Hunger: We have been funded by the city of Cambridge and have partnered with local businesses to provide hot meals 5 nights a week.
No Poverty: Solutions at Work provides gently used adult and children's clothing, survival supplies like sleeping bags and coats, school supplies including book bags, holiday toys and games, gift cards for teens and more.
Housing: We offer a 50 bed shelter at 11 - 25 Green Street in Cambridge MA, serving three meals a day to guests.
Education: We offer free workshops on grant writing; This helps new organizations to establish themselves. Educating grass roots leaders empowers other groups and our community. We provide support for women in our shelter and mothers in our clothing programs.

We have opened our first shelter at 11-15 Green Street, Central Sq, Cambridge.It can sleep 75 guests..Because of social distancing, shelters are more limited in the numbers of guests they can take and more shelter space is needed to keep up with the increasing demand. Every bed is needed.
We feed up to 65 people five nights a week in our hot meal program in Central Sq. We have fed thousands of people since we opened in the late Spring.
We continue to provide quality clothing for families and people who are job hunting. We have partnered with many agencies in Metro Boston such as Louis D. Brown Peace Institute and African Community Economic Development Corporation of New England.
900 children were able to celebrate Xmas because of our Holiday program.$25 will help buy a teenager a gift certificate. We are the only area Xmas program that gives to teenagers.