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MESSAGE OF CARING
- Cook healthy lunches for our Safe Haven
You prepare at home
a luncheon entrée, salad, or dessert
that will serve approximately 10-15 women and deliver it
to On The Rise. Our lunch-time cooks make a huge difference
in the day-to-day operation of our Safe Haven and allow
us to provide more healthy and delicious food options for
women. You can sign-up for a regular day each month or
for a day that fits your schedule.
Community Cooks is a group of Boston area residents joined together by a shared desire to help our
less fortunate neighbors, and has provided meals to non-profit agencies, including On The Rise. If you are
interested in providing meals through Community Cooks or to learn more, please email Vicki I at vickyi05@comcast.net .
- Organize a Make-it-Home Team
Through our Make-It-Home program, a volunteer signs up to conduct a drive at her company,
church, neighborhood or organization to collect new and used items that are on the personal
wish list of a woman at On The Rise who has recently secured housing. We send a short bio
and wish list of a particular woman who the Make-It-Home team can help. Each year, On The Rise
helps 30-45 homeless women secure housing of their own. This transition brings new challenges and
responsibilities for her. With support from our community, we help each woman get settled by collecting
the items that she needs to make it feel like home.
- Come to a Volunteer Saturday
On the first Saturday
of the month, groups, families, and individuals come to On
The Rise to help with a
variety of projects – such as
doing yard work, organizing clothing and housewares donations,
painting and repairing the house, or preparing mailings.
These projects are not always the most glamorous, but they
can be fun and are so important to our ability to keep
a dignified and respectful house. The group will receive
a personal tour of the house and we will provide refreshments.
Please call to check our schedule.
- Find out more about regular volunteer opportunities
Our regular
volunteers commit several hours each month to help us with
routine upkeep, such as organizing our housewares and clothing
rooms, helping with office administration, or updating
our information resources. To become a regular volunteer,
you should first come to an Open House or a volunteer Saturday.
Please call (617) 497-7968 x 36 or email Donna.Thach@ontherise.org to find out more. 
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