Nonprofit Spotlight

In recognition and support of the work of the over 100 nonprofits and social service organizations in Cambridge, we will be spotlighting member nonprofits in Connections throughout the year. In this edition, we spotlight the Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center.

For over 25 years, Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center, headquartered in Cambridge’s Central Square, has been serving Massachusetts families displaced from their homes by providing emergency shelter and intensive case management services to assist them in moving from homelessness to stability and self-sufficiency.

Currently operating under the Housing First approach, they believe that rapidly re-housing families occurs most successfully when a mutually respectful relationship built on honest, open communication and collaboration is established between the case management team and family. To facilitate this, case managers, residential staff, collateral supports and families jointly assess and collaborate on each family’s housing and housing sustainability needs, and available options and supports for meeting those needs.

On Sunday, June 26, 2011, Hildebrand will be celebrating achievements in successfully transitioning families into permanent housing, while paying special honorary tributes to longstanding supporter Carl F. Barron and Executive Director Joyce M. Trotman at the 1st Annual Gospel Brunch. In addition, two new scholarship funds will be announced and presented to two heads of household currently residing in their shelters.

This event is being hosted at St. Paul A.M.E. Christian Life Center from 1:30 to 4 p.m. and will feature live entertainment by several local and nationally renowned gospel choirs. Proceeds from the Gospel Brunch will fund the expansion of a permanent housing project that will further enable more families in need of housing to move toward self-sufficiency. During this time of unparalleled economic hardship, the volumes of families looking for assistance in securing an affordable home has drastically multiplied. Please help Hildebrand continue their mission of providing hope, safety and refuge to these families.

For more information, to give help or to get help, please visit www.hild-selfhelp.org. For further questions regarding supporting this effort, please contact Edith Moricz, Director of Development & Marketing, at emoricz@hild-selfhelp.org or (617) 491-5752 ext. 40.
Nonprofits, if you are interested in a spotlight for your organization, please contact Lisa S. Cohen at
lcohen@cambridgechamber.org or (617) 876-4132.    

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