Grove Street Shelter

91 Grove Street

Northampton, MA 01060

The Inn shelters up to twenty men and women per night, for a maximum stay of three months. A bed and three meals per day are provided, along with staff support. Most nights the Inn is full, and there is often a forty-five person waiting list. Unlike many shelters, the Grove Street Inn is also open during the day so that residents can: -Work on job and housing searches. - Work second and third shift jobs. - Connect with rehabilitative and medical services.

Habitat for Humanity-Pioneer Valley

PO Box 60642

Florence, MA 01062

Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian ministry dedicated to the eradication of poverty housing in Hampshire and Franklin Counties, Massachusetts, building houses with very low income families, making homeownership possible for those who would otherwise not be able to afford a home.

CISA-Senior Farm Share Program

1 Sugarloaf Street

South Deerfield, MA 01373

CISA’s Senior Farm Share program pays local farmers to provide free shares of locally grown food to seniors, at farmstands or farmer’s markets or conveniently delivered to a local senior center or apartment building.

The program provides more than 300 seniors throughout Franklin and Hampshire counties each week during the summer with enough vegetables for a week and provides participating farmers with a reliable and steady income.

United Christian Foundation

P.O. Box 2033

Amherst, MA 01002

The UCF chaplaincy at UMass Amherst is supported by the United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church (USA), the American Baptist Church, and the United Church of Christ, and is actively involved in creating a Christian ministry with students from these denominations and other backgrounds.

Women’s Missionary Society

SCC

STATE & NEW ENGLAND

Andover Newton Seminary

210 Herrick Road

Newton Center, MA 02159

www.ants.edu

Established in 1807, Andover Newton Theological School is the oldest graduate theological institution in the United States.

Bangor Seminary

P.O. Box 0411

Bangor, ME 04401-0411

www.bts.edu

Founded in 1814, Bangor Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ.  It is the only accredited graduate school of religion in Northern New England.

Massachusetts Council of Churches

14 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02108

www.masscouncilofchurches.org

The Massachusetts Council of Churches is an ecumenical partnership of seventeen Orthodox and Protestant churches/denominations in the state, with approximately 1700 congregations.  The member-denominations of the Council, organized in 1902, together were pioneers in the twentieth century ecumenical movement. Together, the churches continue to be a creative presence whose impact is felt far beyond the borders of the Commonwealth.

Cottage Hill Academy

83 Hospital Road – PO Box 38

Baldwinville, MA 01436

www.youinc.org/Programs/Residential/

CottageHill/CottageHill.htm

Cottage Hill Academy (CHA), a program of Y.O.U., Inc., is a staff secure residential program designed to serve adolescent girls ages, twelve through twenty. Cottage Hill Academy serves girls referred from the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Department of Youth Services, Department of Education, and Department of Mental Health.

Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc.(Y.O.U., Inc.), is a leading child welfare and behavioral health organization located in Central Massachusetts. Y.O.U., Inc. provides a wide range of social, psychological, educational, vocational, and other preventive and rehabilitative

programs for troubled and at-risk children, adolescents, and families.

Warner Farms

UCC Conference Center/1 Badger Road

Framingham, MA 01702

www.macucc.org/western/warner-farm.htm

Warner Farm Retreat and Conference Center is a ministry of the Massachusetts Conference, UCC.  It is located on 120 acres of meadow and forestland of the Berkshire foothills in the town of Cummington, MA.

NATIONAL & WORLD

MACUCC – OCWM

1 Badger Road

Framingham, MA 01702

www.macucc.org

MAUCC is a gathering of 411 churches with over 90,000 members, the largest Protestant denomination in Massachusetts.   Its roots go back to the Puritans and Pilgrims who founded this country, making it the Commonwealth’s oldest denomination.

OCWM, Our Churches Wider Mission: Each UCC congregation decides how much of its members' financial support the congregation will contribute to Our Church's Wider Mission for the funding of Conference and national ministries.

Bread for the World

50 F Street NW  Suite 500

Washington, DC 20001-1565

www.bread.org

Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging the nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad. By changing policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, they provide help and opportunity far beyond the communities in which supporters live.

Gifford Towle Memorial

Sudhakar K. Telore*

Vikas House

28/110 Vidyanager

Osmmanabad

Maharashtra, India 413501

Partners in Health

641 Huntington Avenue  1^st Floor

Boston, MA 02115

www.pih.org

PIH was founded in 1987, two years after the Clinique Bon Sauveur was set up in Cange, Haiti, to deliver health care to the residents of the mountainous Central Plateau. PIH co-founders had been working in the area for years. The Clinic was just the first of an arc of successful projects designed to address the health care needs of the residents of the poorest area in Haiti. In the 20 years since then, PIH has expanded its operations to eight other sites in Haiti and five additional countries and has launched a number of other initiatives.

Polus Center for Social & Economic Development, Inc.

134 High Street

Clinton, MA  01510

www.poluscenter.org

The Polus Center for Social & Economic Development, Inc. strives to create opportunities for persons with disabilities and members of other vulnerable groups to become valued citizens within their communities.  It is a non-profit umbrella organization that designs and implements community-based programs in the United States and throughout the developing world.

Church World Service

PO Box 968

Elkhart, IN 46515

www.churchworldservice.org

Founded in 1946, Church World Service is a cooperative ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations, providing sustainable self-help and development, disaster relief, and refugee assistance in some 80 countries. Within the United States, Church World Service assists communities in responding to disasters, resettles refugees, promotes fair national and international policies, provides educational resources, and offers opportunities to join a people-to-people network of local and global caring through participation in CROP Hunger Walks, the Blankets+ program, and the CWS Kits Program.