Founded as the first women’s shelter in the country, Rosie’s Place (rosiesplace.org) has been serving poor and homeless women for nearly 50 years. Helping women in Boston since 1974, Rosie’s Place is part community center, part food pantry, part housing program. This independent nonprofit’s priorities are its clients’ priorities—it accepts no funding from the government and relies entirely on private donations. In recent years, Rosie’s Place has risen to meet the challenges of the pandemic, the affordable housing crisis, and growing food insecurity: Last year alone, the organization reached 14,000 people with services, served 62,000 meals, provided shelter to hundreds of women, prevented eviction for another 1,000, and supported more than 1,500 others with wellness care, education, employment help, legal aid, and recovery support.
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