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ANNUAL<br />
REPORT<br />
20<br />
20<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DEAR FRIENDS,<br />
Looking back at <strong>2020</strong>, we will remember a year of defining moments, a time that required<br />
thoughtful decisions to ensure the health and sustainability of our families. Every day we<br />
were confronted with new struggles, yet together we created solutions that averted crisis<br />
and kept our families whole.<br />
As you read this report, you will gain a better understanding of what our families faced<br />
last year, and the resilience and strength they required to achieve success. You will<br />
also learn how we addressed emerging needs and made changes as an organization,<br />
moving families into hotel rooms, increasing direct subsidies, and providing remote case<br />
management. Despite everything, our families never lost their motivation to change their<br />
lives and with support, moved forward through our programs to reach their goals.<br />
In <strong>2020</strong> we supported 50 families, 147 individuals with 89 children—more than ever in our<br />
history.<br />
Last September, we began to look toward the future and launched our next strategic<br />
plan. Over the next four months we met with over 100 stakeholders, sharing ideas,<br />
discussing strategy, and creating building blocks for our future. The result is a thoughtful<br />
blueprint to move us forward, using what we have learned to enhance our programs,<br />
build partnerships, and strengthen our ties to the community.<br />
Thank you all for taking this journey with us over the past year; we accomplished so much<br />
together. Your compassion, generosity, and commitment to our families kept us afloat,<br />
providing a compass to lead us out of the storm and into a brighter future.<br />
With deep appreciation,<br />
Sue Crossley<br />
Executive Director<br />
Carol Virshbo<br />
Chair, Board of Directors<br />
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OUR STORY<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong>’s<br />
mission is to transform the<br />
lives of families with children<br />
who are facing homelessness<br />
by mobilizing a diverse<br />
community to provide<br />
shelter, education, and<br />
comprehensive support.<br />
When family homelessness in the <strong>Metrowest</strong> region<br />
began steadily rising in the early 2000s, this alarming<br />
trend caught the attention of members of Wellesley<br />
Village Church and Christ Lutheran Church in Natick.<br />
In researching ways to help, they learned about<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong>, an organization in New Jersey that<br />
was housing families facing homelessness in local<br />
congregations. They quickly realized this model of<br />
support could work here, bringing congregations of<br />
all faiths together to address the crisis. Over the next<br />
five years they laid the groundwork to create a <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>Promise</strong> affiliate, and in 2008, their dream took root.<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> opened its doors on a<br />
chilly October evening with the welcoming of a<br />
single mother and her five children into shelter.<br />
We are now one of over 200 <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> affiliates<br />
across the country, and as of December <strong>2020</strong>, we’ve<br />
supported 266 families including almost 500 children<br />
that were facing homelessness. Our approach is<br />
simple: by providing encouragement, guidance, and<br />
the resources to reach their goals, we help motivated,<br />
hard-working families move out of poverty and into<br />
stable, sustainable homes.<br />
Historically, our host congregations provided<br />
temporary shelter by converting their classrooms<br />
into bedrooms for three to four weeks a year. With<br />
the help of additional volunteers from our support<br />
congregations and the community at large, they<br />
also provided meals, companionship, and overnight<br />
staffing. Simply put, our shelter would not have<br />
existed without them. Last year, due to COVID, we<br />
moved our families into a hotel to provide shelter<br />
while keeping everyone safe. And after a long<br />
planning process, we’ve decided to adjust our shelter<br />
model and transition to a permanent home next<br />
year—one where congregations and volunteers will<br />
continue to play an instrumental role.<br />
In addition to shelter, we also offer the SAIL program<br />
(Sustaining Achievements for Independent Living),<br />
which supports families exiting shelter for one year,<br />
and our LIFE program (Local Initiative for <strong>Family</strong><br />
Empowerment), which helps families avoid eviction<br />
and shelter entry by providing subsidies for rent in<br />
arrears and case management to build long-term<br />
sustainability. Lastly, all families are supported by the<br />
Steps to Success program, which offers educational<br />
and career-building opportunities to help parents<br />
increase their income and build a brighter, more<br />
stable future.<br />
Our staff provide intensive support to help our<br />
families access community resources, secure stable<br />
employment and childcare, create a sustainable<br />
budget, and set long-term goals to address the root<br />
causes of their housing insecurity. When our hardworking<br />
families and passionate volunteers, staff, and<br />
donors come together, lives are changed permanently.<br />
Embraced by a community of people committed<br />
to their well-being and progress, our families are<br />
empowered to envision a new future, and then given<br />
the tools and time to bring those dreams to life. ♦<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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OUR IMPACT: <strong>2020</strong><br />
Our Families<br />
14<br />
12<br />
24<br />
50<br />
FAMILIES SERVED<br />
IN SHELTER<br />
FAMILIES SERVED<br />
IN SAIL PROGRAM<br />
FAMILIES SERVED<br />
IN LIFE PROGRAM<br />
TOTAL FAMILIES<br />
SERVED<br />
INDIVIDUALS SERVED WHO IDENTIFIED AS:<br />
49<br />
percent<br />
10<br />
percent<br />
2<br />
percent<br />
SINGLE-PARENT<br />
84% FAMILIES<br />
58 89<br />
ADULTS<br />
SERVED<br />
CHILDREN<br />
SERVED<br />
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CAUCASIAN ASIAN<br />
31<br />
percent<br />
8<br />
percent<br />
HISPANIC OR LATINO MULTI-RACIAL<br />
AVERAGE AGE<br />
OF CHILDREN 6<br />
YEARS<br />
OLD<br />
AVERAGE AGE<br />
OF ADULTS 34<br />
YEARS<br />
OLD<br />
TOTAL NUMBER OF<br />
NEW REFERRALS 256<br />
AVERAGE DAYS<br />
IN SHELTER 167<br />
LIFE Program<br />
7graduate<br />
families<br />
100<br />
percent<br />
remained in<br />
permanent housing<br />
at program<br />
graduation<br />
71%<br />
OF GRADUATE<br />
FAMILIES INCREASED<br />
THEIR INCOME<br />
Steps to Success Program<br />
74<br />
percent<br />
of graduate<br />
families increased<br />
their income while<br />
in our program<br />
48%<br />
OF FAMILIES IN OUR PROGRAMS<br />
HAD A MEMBER PURSUING<br />
FURTHER EDUCATION<br />
8 in<br />
family members<br />
were enrolled<br />
college in <strong>2020</strong>
Shelter Program<br />
Health<br />
67<br />
percent<br />
of families secured primary care<br />
doctors for every family member<br />
Finances<br />
60<br />
percent<br />
78<br />
percent<br />
$$$$$$$<br />
of families reached<br />
their savings goal<br />
of families reduced<br />
their overall debt<br />
Childcare<br />
100<br />
percent<br />
of families with<br />
preschool children<br />
secured daycare<br />
100<br />
percent<br />
of families addressed outstanding<br />
physical or mental health needs<br />
of uninsured families<br />
secured affordable<br />
health insurance plans<br />
Housing<br />
80<br />
percent<br />
OF FAMILIES<br />
MOVED FROM<br />
SHELTER INTO<br />
AFFORDABLE<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
HOUSING<br />
100<br />
percent<br />
of families with<br />
school-age children<br />
secured after-school<br />
and vacation<br />
programming<br />
SAIL Program<br />
100<br />
percent<br />
of graduate<br />
families reached<br />
their debt<br />
reduction goal<br />
100<br />
percent<br />
of families assumed<br />
full responsiblity for<br />
rent at program<br />
graduation<br />
100%<br />
100<br />
REMAINED IN<br />
percent<br />
PERMANENT HOUSING AT<br />
PROGRAM GRADUATION<br />
Donation Drives
FAMILY HIGHLIGHT<br />
Our Day Center is typically a flurry of activity, with families, staff, and volunteers buzzing<br />
in and out of the building, going about our busy lives of work and family. When the<br />
pandemic took root last year and our staff began working remotely, we all missed this<br />
energy terribly. But even more poignant, as families entered and graduated from our<br />
programs, many of us never even got the chance to meet them. However, school and<br />
workplace shutdowns gave families more time to (virtually) connect with our program<br />
coordinator Stephanie—a small blessing amid so many losses—so she always had plenty of<br />
updates to inspire us. We’d like to share some of these stories with you...<br />
Last summer, Stephanie found herself working<br />
with a remarkable group of women. “There was<br />
something different about these families,” she told<br />
us, “They all demonstrated potential from the start.”<br />
When families come into our shelter program, we<br />
know they’re ready to work hard—it’s a requirement<br />
for program acceptance—but it often takes a few<br />
weeks to get organized. This was not the case for<br />
these women. They didn’t need a safe place to land,<br />
they needed a springboard.<br />
Melinda and her daughter lost their home last<br />
summer after her rent was raised and she was<br />
furloughed from her job. They moved in with<br />
her mother, but the crowded conditions were<br />
unsustainable. When she called us looking for help,<br />
although she had no housing or job, she was still<br />
in school, pursuing a degree in health sciences. We<br />
brought them into shelter right away, recognizing<br />
that her determination to continue with her studies<br />
despite all else was a sure sign of motivation.<br />
During her shelter stay, she not only stayed on track<br />
with her studies, earning As and Bs in all her courses,<br />
she also renewed her driver’s license, purchased a<br />
car, and paid off her school tuition balance using<br />
her unemployment and stimulus payments. When<br />
asked how she was able to stay so focused, she<br />
replied, “This wasn’t my first time in shelter. However,<br />
this was the first time I had a case manager to uplift<br />
me. My mindset became empowered. The program<br />
gives you your first stepping stone so you can fly.”<br />
Melinda and her daughter are now living in our<br />
Bacon Street home, and she’s on track to graduate<br />
this fall and begin nursing school next spring.<br />
Chantal was working full-time at the VA last<br />
summer when her mother died and the house they<br />
shared went into foreclosure. Despite the upheaval<br />
of losing her mother and her home, she held onto<br />
her job and kept her daughter on-track with online<br />
school. This was our first sign that Chantal wasn’t<br />
going to let anything get in the way of her progress.<br />
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network congregations and Cynthia jumped at<br />
the chance. Back in safe housing, she began a<br />
new job while continuing to study. She sent us<br />
an email recently, sharing what motivated her<br />
and helped her achieve so many goals so quickly:<br />
“This program believed in me and saw the<br />
potential and drive I had buried after so many<br />
years of struggling. This program will change<br />
your life in ways you could never imagine, but<br />
only if you are willing to show up and put the<br />
effort in.”<br />
Once settled in shelter, she got right to work. As<br />
she told us, “<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> gave me a stable<br />
place to focus on my goals and not worry about<br />
where I was going to lay my head from day to<br />
day.” She immediately mapped out a plan to earn<br />
her GED, worked with a nutritionist to improve<br />
her family’s diet, and advocated for a raise at<br />
work so she could save more money. She also<br />
started searching for additional community<br />
resources that could get them back into housing<br />
even more quickly. And sure enough, before<br />
long she secured a housing subsidy through an<br />
organization in Boston, paving her family’s way<br />
back into their own home.<br />
Cynthia has now finished her certification<br />
course and is scheduled to take her licensing<br />
exam this month. She has big plans as she<br />
looks toward the future for herself and her son:<br />
opening her own training studio. But in the<br />
meantime, she’s achieved her greatest wish: “I<br />
have regained my fire so that I am able to lead<br />
by example for my son.”<br />
All of these women are incredible examples<br />
of how to lead yourself through crisis. Their<br />
determination in the face of daunting odds and<br />
a swirling pandemic is remarkable. We can’t wait<br />
to see the change they will continue to create in<br />
the coming years. ♦<br />
Although she didn’t need a housing subsidy<br />
from us, Chantal still wanted to enter our SAIL<br />
program so she could continue receiving our<br />
support and encouragement as she works<br />
toward her long-term goals.<br />
When Cynthia called us at the end of last<br />
summer, the home where she’d lived with her<br />
son had recently burned down, along with<br />
all their possessions. They’d been staying in a<br />
hotel, but the expense was overwhelming—<br />
they needed somewhere else to live while they<br />
mapped out their next steps. She’d previously<br />
worked as a personal trainer, but her license had<br />
expired. Within weeks of entering the program,<br />
she began a relicensing course to get back to the<br />
career she loved.<br />
Shortly after entering shelter, an opportunity<br />
arose to rent an apartment owned by one of our<br />
The photographs illustrating this story were taken<br />
during a family photography day this April—the<br />
first time we were able to safely gather with our<br />
families in over a year.<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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OUR CONGREGATIONS<br />
The <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> model of providing shelter engages<br />
a network of 52 local congregations in addressing the issue of family<br />
homelessness. Representing the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian faiths, this<br />
diverse community plays a central role in providing support to our families.<br />
In our original model, host congregations provided shelter by converting<br />
their classrooms to bedrooms, while support congregations and a network<br />
of volunteers prepared meals and offered overnight companionship.<br />
However, in March <strong>2020</strong>, COVID-related safety concerns required us to<br />
move the families into a hotel where they could safely isolate. Despite the<br />
closure of our rotational shelter, our congregations continued to support<br />
our families, providing groceries and gift cards for necessities instead of<br />
beds and home-cooked meals. And amid uncertainty about how COVID<br />
might impact their congregations’ financial health, they continued to<br />
provide monetary support for our programs. In short, their commitment<br />
to our families was undaunted.<br />
During this pause in our normal operations, we took time to evaluate<br />
the shelter program’s strengths and weaknesses to map out a plan for<br />
the future. Based on meetings with coordinators and clergy, in addition<br />
to interviews with families, staff, and board members, we decided to transition from the rotational shelter to a<br />
permanent shelter site. This fixed-site model, which has been adopted by many other <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> Affiliates,<br />
will alleviate the stress of shifting locations for families and enable them to dedicate more time to working toward<br />
their goals. This new model will also lighten the commitment for many of our congregations, shifting the focus<br />
away from housing our guests and toward new volunteering roles that directly engage with the families. Our<br />
congregations will remain essential to the Shelter program, providing support and encouragement, connecting<br />
our families to the community, and offering their compassion and expertise.<br />
This review process confirmed what we have always known: that our congregations are led by empathetic,<br />
passionate, and flexible individuals who are committed to finding creative ways to provide dignity-centered<br />
spaces to serve our families. They are an essential component of our efforts to solve family homelessness, and we<br />
are deeply grateful for their ongoing commitment.<br />
For a list of the 52 host and support congregations that make up our network of support for our families, please<br />
visit our website at: familypromisemetrowest.org/congregations. ♦<br />
Partnering with <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> is a fully<br />
embodied mission. We are doing something<br />
with our bodies, not just feeling and thinking<br />
about the problem. Seeing that we could do<br />
this moved our congregation from a mindset<br />
of scarcity to a mindset of abundance.<br />
— Rev. Nathan Detering,<br />
Unitarian Universalist Area Church,<br />
Sherborn<br />
Various faith communities work together<br />
toward one goal through <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong>.<br />
Connecting to other congregations is one<br />
of the greatest strengths of the <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>Promise</strong> model.<br />
— Alison Galley, FPM Coordinator,<br />
First Parish Unitarian Universalist,<br />
Medfield<br />
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OUR VOLUNTEERS<br />
As we say so often, <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> would not exist without<br />
our volunteers. They are the very core of the “community of support” that<br />
welcomes and sustains families coming into shelter, and their expertise<br />
powers numerous initiatives across our organization, from our tutoring<br />
services to our event planning.<br />
When we paused all volunteering activities last spring to keep our<br />
supporters and families safe, the loss of the enthusiasm and energy that<br />
all of them brought to our organization was palpable. So we worked hard<br />
to identify family and organizational needs that volunteers could continue<br />
to fulfill remotely, or safely in-person. Some of these needs were the same<br />
as ever: moving support for families exiting shelter or deliveries of donated<br />
groceries. But some were new: children needing help with the transition<br />
to online learning, families needing furnishings with the closure of the<br />
furniture banks, and fundraising events that needed to be completely<br />
reinvented. We also wanted to find new ways to remind our families that<br />
even when separated by the pandemic, a whole community was still<br />
rallying for them.<br />
And rally they did! The National Charity League Wellesley Chapter hosted<br />
a furnishings drive to collect donations to outfit new homes. Countless<br />
volunteers created summer fun bags, school supply backpacks, winter<br />
clothing bags, and holiday meal baskets for families across all our<br />
programs. And we launched an online tutoring program to help kids with<br />
academic and organizational needs, pairing 12 tutors with 14 students in<br />
the first semester of operation.<br />
The transformation of our Keep the <strong>Promise</strong> gala into an online concert<br />
and auction never could have happened without the tireless event<br />
volunteers who helped plan the all-new event, promote the raffle, create<br />
gift baskets, and coordinate auction item pick-ups. Volunteers also helped<br />
with our Savers FunDrive event, unloading cars and packing a truck with<br />
donations to raise program funding.<br />
We would also like to thank the scores of volunteers who reached out over<br />
the course of last year to help in any way we needed. Although we weren’t<br />
able to call on many of you, your readiness to support us through this<br />
challenging year lifted our spirits. As we’ve shared, with the shifting of our<br />
shelter model to a permanent site, our volunteer roles will be changing<br />
going forward. But we know that with this change will come many new<br />
opportunities to share your skills and enthusiasm with us—so stay tuned! ♦<br />
“I love being a witness to the success and dedication of the<br />
families who come through the program. It is life-affirming to<br />
be a part of people changing their lives!”<br />
— Layne Clune, Day Center volunteer<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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RECOGNITIONS<br />
In 2018, we launched the “Cindy Lombardo Volunteer<br />
Award,” named for a dedicated FPM volunteer and<br />
member of Temple Shir Tikva. This award is given<br />
annually to a volunteer, nominated by our families,<br />
who fulfills and honors Cindy’s incredible model of<br />
warmth and welcome.<br />
Our <strong>2020</strong> Cindy Lombardo Volunteer Award<br />
recipient was Barbara Ward. Barbara has been a<br />
volunteer with <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> for many years as a<br />
Coordinator for St. Andrews Church in Framingham,<br />
one of our host congregations. She was a tireless<br />
presence every host week, setting up bedrooms,<br />
bringing dinners, and staying overnight—whatever<br />
was needed to support the families. Barbara also<br />
served as a weekend van driver for us for several<br />
years—an unfailing presence every Sunday morning.<br />
The families nominated Barbara for her compassion<br />
and sincerity, which she has shared with so many<br />
families across the years.<br />
Barbara receives the <strong>2020</strong> Cindy Lombardo Volunteer Award<br />
from Andre Lamontagne, our 2019 recipient.<br />
In 2019, we initiated the “<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong><br />
Legacy Award” to recognize a person in our<br />
community whose commitment and contributions<br />
to our mission will have a lasting impact on our<br />
organization and the families we serve.<br />
In <strong>2020</strong>, this award was given to Judy Mongiardo.<br />
Judy has been with us from the very beginning,<br />
Judy receives the <strong>2020</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> Legacy<br />
Award from Bob Murray, our 2019 recipient, and our Executive<br />
Director Sue Crossley.<br />
playing every conceivable role in the history of our<br />
organization. As a member of Wellesley Village<br />
Church, she introduced the <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> model<br />
to a group of people from her congregation and the<br />
community who were concerned about the increase<br />
in family homelessness in the <strong>Metrowest</strong> area. Over<br />
the next five years she worked diligently with others<br />
to recruit congregations and raise funds, and then<br />
joined our first Board of Directors.<br />
As the organization grew, Judy left the board and<br />
became our Network Coordinator, acting as a<br />
liaison with the congregations and our growing<br />
team of volunteers. Judy was an ambassador for<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong>, sharing her passion for<br />
our mission and inspiring others throughout the<br />
community. Judy retired in 2019 yet her impact<br />
on our organization and the families we serve will<br />
continue for generations to come.<br />
To grant these awards, we asked the prior year’s<br />
recipients to gather outdoors with us on a crisp fall<br />
day and surprise our unexpecting recipients.<br />
Andre Lamontagne, our 2019 Cindy Lombardo<br />
Award recipient, presented Barbara with her award;<br />
Bob Murray, last year’s Legacy Award recipient, was<br />
with us to honor Judy. Congratulations to both of<br />
these women for their extraordinary contributions<br />
to our work. ♦<br />
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OUR EVENTS<br />
Just about everything at <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> was reimagined<br />
in <strong>2020</strong>, and our events were no different. When our Day Center was<br />
closed on March 13, our walkathon was only three weeks away, but to<br />
keep all of our supporters safe, we cancelled this much-anticipated<br />
event. However, our need for the funding that it typically generated<br />
wasn’t cancelled. So over the next few days we transformed this inperson<br />
event into an online “Campaign for Hope” and appealed to all of<br />
our registered walkers and teams to keep fundraising, while reaching<br />
out to the broader community about our need for funding. In the end,<br />
this virtual campaign surpassed our goal for the walkathon by 60%,<br />
bringing in $260,000 to fulfill our budget and meet the emerging<br />
needs of our families.<br />
Just a month later, we were faced with our next difficult decision:<br />
whether to begin planning for our second major fundraiser of the year,<br />
our “Keep the <strong>Promise</strong>” gala. The trajectory of the virus was uncertain<br />
at this point, but the potential risk was great enough that we called<br />
off this event too. So once again, we got to work. Our event committee<br />
began brainstorming ideas and reaching out to volunteers, and we<br />
ultimately created a three-part, all-virtual “Keeping the <strong>Promise</strong>”<br />
celebration. The main event: an online holiday concert bookended with<br />
our first-ever cash raffle (with a $5,000 grand prize) and an extensive<br />
online auction, featuring dozens of elaborate, themed gift baskets.<br />
Assembling the program for the online concert involved one of our<br />
most extensive outreach efforts ever, casting a net to the very edges<br />
of our community to find musicians eager to submit their recordings<br />
for the program. In the end, our line-up was incredible: the concert<br />
featured seventeen artists and groups including national performers<br />
like Livingston Taylor, James Montgomery, Ellis Paul, and Phil Stacey,<br />
and local favorites such as Ali Haber, Stacey Peasley, and two Natick<br />
High School a cappella groups.<br />
On the evening of the concert, as a nor’easter swirled outside, WROR<br />
radio personality Lauren Falcone, Executive Director Sue Crossley, and<br />
program graduate Jackie Rodriguez took the stage at Amazing Things<br />
Art Center in Framingham, while hundreds of registered guests settled<br />
into their couches at home to enjoy the live-streamed show on their<br />
TVs and laptops. In addition to the musical program, the show featured<br />
family stories from program alumni that highlighted their resilience<br />
amidst an unfathomably challenging year. In the end, the concert was<br />
streamed more than 1,100 times on YouTube and the concert, raffle,<br />
and auction raised over $177,00. This was more than enough to match<br />
our budgeted need, but just as important, the event brought us all<br />
together for a night of celebration when we needed it most.<br />
In the end, this year of reimagined events, as challenging as the<br />
process was, has opened new channels for connection and inclusion<br />
with our community—ideas that will inform future programs and<br />
initiatives as we continue to look for ways to inspire, create, and<br />
celebrate in the future. ♦<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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DONOR HIGHLIGHT<br />
passion got me thinking, “We could do that. This is a<br />
way to help level the playing field.”<br />
So, when one of the apartments that Andy and I<br />
rent out became available, I contacted Sue to see<br />
if an FPM family could rent it. In fact, there was a<br />
family that needed to move because their landlord<br />
was raising the rent. If we lowered our rent to what<br />
they could afford, they’d be able to move in. This<br />
was our opportunity. As landlords, we were uniquely<br />
positioned to be catalysts for change.<br />
The story always starts with a family needing a home.<br />
This was the story of my husband Andy’s family as<br />
refugees from Vietnam in 1975, when a caring family<br />
in Florida welcomed them into their own home.<br />
And this is the story of all our families, at one time<br />
or another, when someone gave us a break—be it a<br />
job, credit, or simply the benefit of the doubt that we<br />
would work as hard as it took.<br />
I had volunteered for FPM as an overnight host at St.<br />
Paul’s Church in Natick with my family for about ten<br />
years—a passion that also led to service on the FPM<br />
Board. During board meetings, Executive Director<br />
Sue Crossley often said that if we truly want to live in<br />
diverse communities, we need to make affordable<br />
housing a priority. As a rental property owner, her<br />
The staff made it an easy decision. We didn’t need to<br />
go through a laborious vetting process, because the<br />
prospective tenant had already been working with<br />
FPM in the SAIL program. She’d been meeting her<br />
financial sustainability goals with support from the<br />
program coordinator, who had basically done the<br />
screening homework for us. As someone raised by a<br />
single mother, it felt like a perfect match to support a<br />
single-parent family facing homelessness.<br />
We’re so grateful to have this lively family in our<br />
community and to watch them thrive. If I could leave<br />
you with one thought, it would be this: one person’s<br />
pinch can be another person’s privilege. In other<br />
words, if you find yourself with spare income, you can<br />
turn that into the privilege of serving a family in their<br />
time of need.<br />
— Maureen Nguyen, Former Board Member<br />
In <strong>2020</strong>, we had 2 private donors, 2 congregations, and 1 landlord<br />
directly subsidizing or reducing rent for 5 of our families.<br />
This generosity ensured that 9 children had a safe, sustainable<br />
place to call home.<br />
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COMMUNITY<br />
PARTNERS<br />
Over the years, one area of development that has grown<br />
considerably is the funding received from community<br />
groups, grants, and foundations. In <strong>2020</strong>, we had a record<br />
year of 37 grants received totaling over $314,000. While all of<br />
these donors are deeply appreciated and listed at the end of<br />
this report, we wanted to share a few highlights from <strong>2020</strong>.<br />
In March of last year when we made the decision to move<br />
our families into a hotel, we took a leap of faith with the hope<br />
that our community would provide the support we needed to<br />
take on an additional $10,000 per month to provide food and<br />
housing for our families in shelter. At the time we thought<br />
it would be for a few weeks or so, never imagining that we<br />
would extend these expenses through the end of the year.<br />
As the weeks turned into months and there was no end in<br />
sight, the additional expenses were somewhat daunting, and<br />
we began to carefully evaluate the feasibility of keeping our<br />
families in hotel rooms indefinitely.<br />
Yet we underestimated the compassion of our community.<br />
Once the word was out that our families were in a hotel, our<br />
community partners responded with a generosity that was<br />
unsurpassed. We began receiving phone calls and emails<br />
stating that they understood the challenges we were facing,<br />
and they started sending donations to ensure our families had<br />
a safe place to live.<br />
Within months we received $122,395 of unsolicited funds<br />
from our community partners including Digital Federal<br />
Credit Union, Eastern Bank, Foundation for MetroWest,<br />
Hopkinton Country Club Charitable Foundation, MetroWest<br />
Health Foundation, Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation,<br />
Parmenter Foundation, Sudbury Foundation, and the<br />
Wellesley Hills Junior Women’s Club. We also received a<br />
generous grant from a new donor, the Weezie Foundation,<br />
that recognized our emergency needs and generously<br />
donated unrestricted funds to be applied at our discretion.<br />
We will always be grateful to our community partners for their<br />
financial support last year, which ensured the health and<br />
safety of our families. Yet it was their kindness and caring for<br />
others that we will never forget in the years to come. ♦<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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OUR FINANCIALS<br />
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 12/31/<strong>2020</strong> 12/31/2019<br />
ASSETS<br />
LIABILITIES<br />
NET ASSETS<br />
Cash $880,968 $362,688<br />
Other current assets $98,314 $87,795<br />
Property and equipment, net $1,366,310 $1,399,760<br />
Total other assets $3,306 $4,906<br />
TOTAL ASSETS $2,348,898 $1,855,149<br />
Current liabilities $72,801 $42,485<br />
TOTAL LIABILITIES $72,801 $42,485<br />
Net assets without donor restrictions $2,199,043 $1,721,180<br />
Net assets with donor restrictions $77,054 $91,484<br />
TOTAL NET ASSETS $2,276,097 $1,812,664<br />
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $2,348,898 $1,855,149<br />
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES 12/31/<strong>2020</strong> 12/31/2019<br />
SUPPORT AND REVENUE<br />
Gifts, grants, and contributions $960,849 $635,662<br />
Fundraising events $445,571 $313,877<br />
Donated goods and services $56,861 $23,794<br />
Interest income $474 $983<br />
Miscellaneous income $2,800 $22,683<br />
TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE $1,466,555 $996,999<br />
EXPENSES<br />
Program Services $660,004 $499,068<br />
Management and General $166,744 $145,119<br />
Fundraising and Community Outreach $176,374 $131,356<br />
TOTAL EXPENSES $1,003,122 $775,543<br />
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS<br />
Changes in net assets without donor restrictions $477,863 $478,596<br />
Changes in net assets with donor restrictions $(14,430) $(257,140)<br />
TOTAL CHANGE IN NET ASSETS $463,433 $221,456<br />
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OUR DONORS<br />
$50,000+<br />
The Weezie Foundation<br />
$20,000–$49,999<br />
Robert & Janet Brack<br />
Cummings Foundation<br />
Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation<br />
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation<br />
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Wellesley *<br />
Cecilia Stone<br />
TJX Foundation<br />
Jay & Carol Virshbo **<br />
$10,000-$19,999<br />
Maria Chase<br />
Kelli & Chris Connors<br />
Digital Federal Credit Union<br />
Foundation for MetroWest<br />
Margaret Gallerani<br />
Katherine & William Green<br />
Jen Grinnell & Chris Gardner<br />
The Merra-Molloy <strong>Family</strong> *<br />
MetroWest Health Foundation<br />
Joan & Bob Murray<br />
Parmenter Foundation<br />
Kate & Tom Piemonte<br />
Daniel Pozen & Heather Garni<br />
Johanna Ross<br />
Sanofi Genzyme<br />
The Sudbury Foundation<br />
Wellesley Congregational Church<br />
Wellesley Hills Congregational Church<br />
Mercy Wheeler<br />
Anonymous (1)<br />
$5,000-$9,999<br />
Roger & Karen Andrews<br />
Douglas Atamian & Annelise Fortier<br />
Joan Benzie<br />
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center<br />
Wayne & Veronica Bloom<br />
Michael & Adrianne Canning *<br />
D. Mitchell & Cynthia D. Coddington<br />
Congregational Church of Needham<br />
Douglas & Sue Crossley *<br />
Robert & Harriett Hallagan *<br />
Clifford Hayden & Kim M. Nicols<br />
Gardner Hendrie & Karen Johansen<br />
Highrock Covenant Church<br />
Home Market Foods<br />
The Hong <strong>Family</strong><br />
Hopkinton Country Club Charitable<br />
Foundation<br />
Brad & Lisa Kimler<br />
John & Susan Kirk *<br />
Jack & Alison Langsdorf<br />
Dennis Lombardo<br />
Marilyn & Robert Marlette<br />
Cathryn Marshall & Mark Lorson<br />
John & Laraine Marthinsen<br />
<strong>Metrowest</strong> Women’s Fund<br />
Marc & Sandee Molinsky **<br />
MutualOne Charitable Foundation<br />
National Charity League, LLC<br />
Needham Bank<br />
Andy & Maureen Nguyen **<br />
Ildiko & Kevin Nielsen<br />
R.W. Holmes Realty Company, Inc.<br />
Barbara & Edward Scolnick<br />
Paula Ness Speers & Mark Speers *<br />
Tom & Nicole Teich<br />
Temple Beth Elohim<br />
The Bear Foundation<br />
The MathWorks, Inc.<br />
The Village Bank<br />
Steve & Melissa Webber **<br />
Wellesley Hills Junior Women’s Club<br />
$1,000-$4,999<br />
Reuben & Christine Ackerman<br />
Syed H. Nawab, PhD & Ghazala Alam, MD *<br />
Jacqueline Allen **<br />
Donna M. Richer<br />
Howard & Leslie Appleby<br />
Frank & Susan Armo<br />
Asset Strategy Advisors<br />
Bank of America Charitable Foundation<br />
Stephanie Barber<br />
Amy & Keith Barnett<br />
Ed & Iris Bassin<br />
Blackey <strong>Family</strong> Foundation<br />
Irene Bloomstein<br />
Holly & Richard Bonomo<br />
Jeffrey Kinney & Rebecca Bourret<br />
Joanna Brach<br />
Brookline Bank<br />
Charles Brown<br />
Barbara Buell<br />
Fred & Barbara Bunger **<br />
Elizabeth Cameron<br />
Patricia Carr<br />
Timothy & Diana Carroll *<br />
Jeff & Anne Carter<br />
Mary Chowdhury<br />
Christ Lutheran Church<br />
Catherine Chung<br />
Eugene Clark<br />
Michael & Layne Clune<br />
Randall Colaizzi<br />
Jennifer Collins<br />
Tim & Jessie Collins<br />
Audrey Colson<br />
Ruth Colson<br />
Common Street Spiritual Center<br />
Commonwealth Charitable Fund<br />
Commonwealth Financial Network<br />
Christopher Connolly<br />
Carol & Ken Conway<br />
Chantal & Christophe Coudray<br />
Mary Crabbe<br />
Cynthia Crino **<br />
Kyle & Lindsay Crossley<br />
Gene & Gay Crowley<br />
Charlie & Amanda Curtis<br />
Heather D. Curtis<br />
Melinda Davies<br />
DCU for Kids<br />
Angela DeBarros **<br />
Donna Doody<br />
Robert & Marilyn Ellsworth<br />
Rebecca Epstein<br />
Martin & Jackie Everett<br />
Federated Church of Ashland<br />
Vance Fernandez<br />
First Church Natick, UCC<br />
First Congregational Church of Holliston<br />
First Parish Wayland<br />
Elaine Fiske<br />
Framingham Country Club Charitable<br />
Foundation<br />
Framingham Rotary Club<br />
Framingham Union Aid Association, Inc.<br />
Mike & Beth Frary<br />
Lucia Frenkel<br />
Sam Galambos **<br />
Angela Gerrard<br />
David Getchonis **<br />
Greater Boston Real Estate Board<br />
Foundation<br />
Karen & Jeff Greene<br />
Alison Guzman<br />
Mitchell & Sylvia Haber<br />
J. Wade & Heidi Harper<br />
Yolanda Harris<br />
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care<br />
Gardi & Bruce Hauck<br />
Michael & Catherine Healy<br />
Hilding & Jane Hedberg<br />
Highland Street Foundation<br />
Roger Holmes<br />
Hope Hotchkiss & John Shea<br />
Howard Brothers Builders, Inc.<br />
Enoch Huang **<br />
Mildred Hutchinson<br />
Islamic Center of Boston, Wayland<br />
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John Everett & Sons Funeral Home<br />
Kevin & Shari Johnson<br />
JW Johnson Charitable Trust<br />
Susan Kane<br />
Arline & Nick Kardasis<br />
Niall Keating<br />
Jeb Keiper<br />
The Keith <strong>Family</strong> **<br />
David King<br />
Rod & Dagmar Klinger<br />
Pamela & Bob Koskovich<br />
Tom & Anna Lally<br />
Andre Lamontagne<br />
Phillip & Marjorie Langsdorf<br />
Peter & Evelyn Liffiton<br />
Laura Lilly<br />
Harold & Edith Lohr<br />
Tiffany Lund<br />
Lutheran Church of Framingham<br />
Isabel M. Lyndon<br />
Roderick & Joy MacLeod *<br />
Paul Marecek<br />
Lynn & Alan Marks<br />
Joanne Marshall<br />
Massachusetts Association of Realtors<br />
Cara McCauley Lorion<br />
Kelly & Matthew McCormack<br />
Michael McMahon<br />
Joe & Dee Meaney<br />
Catherine Meyer<br />
David & Andrea Meyers<br />
Middlesex Savings Bank<br />
Jeff & Karen Miller *<br />
Elaine Mittell & Douglas Poutasse<br />
Mohan Veena Consulting, Inc.<br />
Jay Mudd<br />
Seta Nazarian<br />
Mary Ruth Negro<br />
New England Waterproofing, Inc.<br />
Newton Highlands Congregational<br />
Church<br />
NorthStar Insurance Services, Inc. **<br />
Laura O’Brien<br />
Laurie & David Otten<br />
Randy & Caren Parker<br />
Dean & Stacey Peasley **<br />
Sarah & Edward Pena<br />
Judith Placek<br />
Russell & Mary Pollard *<br />
Russell & Mary Pollard *<br />
Robert Redus<br />
Elaine Reisman<br />
Reliant MSO, LLC<br />
Kenneth Rendell & Shirley McNerney<br />
David & Tammy Retalic<br />
The Riaz <strong>Family</strong><br />
Yvonne Richard<br />
Dwight & Margaret B. Robinson<br />
Rubicon Builders<br />
Leo Ryan & Patty Magill<br />
Savers TVI, Inc.<br />
Curtis Schubert<br />
Carl Schumann<br />
Sandra Selvey & Paula Kane<br />
Kate Shamon-Rushford<br />
Donna & Bob Simek<br />
Ron & Linda Smith<br />
Ryan & Tracy Sockalosky **<br />
Andrew & Alison Sonderfan<br />
Laurene Sperling<br />
St. John Lutheran Church<br />
Jeffrey & Valerie Stark<br />
Elizabeth & Adam Stavisky **<br />
Barbara & Arthur Stock<br />
Stonegate, LLC<br />
Sudbury United Methodist Church<br />
Ernie & Candace Sutcliffe<br />
David & Jennifer Talmadge<br />
The Altamira Foundation<br />
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations<br />
The Chandler Group<br />
The Dover Church<br />
The Pilgrim Church<br />
The Presbyterian Church in Sudbury<br />
Sarah & Stephen Tipton<br />
TJX Companies<br />
Tracy Boehme Realty Group<br />
28Freight, LLC | TruckCourier | Marks<br />
Logistics<br />
Unitarian Universalist Area Church<br />
UU Society of Wellesley Hills<br />
Eleanor Verrette<br />
Village Churchwomen of the Wellesley<br />
Congregational Church<br />
Wells Fargo<br />
Robert Willett & Rebecca Parkhill<br />
Laura Woollett<br />
DCU for Kids and DCU have supported <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> as we see the strides being<br />
made to provide change and growth for children and<br />
families battling homelessness. Having corporate and<br />
community support is essential to making a positive<br />
and lasting impact on those struggling to maintain<br />
shelter, employment, food, and education.<br />
— Maureen Spaulding, Foundation & Purchasing<br />
Manager, Digital Federal Credit Union / DCU for Kids<br />
Richard & Maureen Wooster *<br />
Richard & Maureen Wooster *<br />
Anne & Rob Young **<br />
Stan & Ellen Zagajeski *<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
$500-$999<br />
Barbara Allen<br />
David Allen<br />
Marlene Allen<br />
Reema Alshirawi<br />
Diane & Tom Anderson<br />
Avidia Bank Charitable Foundation<br />
AVO Fence & Supply<br />
B/Spoke<br />
Marcy & Edward Bailey-Adams<br />
Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC<br />
Julie & Michael Bailit<br />
Jill Baker<br />
Nicholas & Alison Balster<br />
Jonathan Barry **<br />
Linda & Seth Bauer<br />
Terri & Doug Beckerman<br />
Tom Berryman & Joan Ellersick<br />
Diane & Chester Black<br />
Tracy Boehme<br />
Pamela Broderick<br />
John & Carole Brodrick<br />
Kevin & Kim Canning<br />
Melissa Carella<br />
Phillip & Julie Carson<br />
Joseph & Phyllis Chartor<br />
Robert Chizmadia **<br />
Sarah Coates<br />
Thomas & Lisa Colby<br />
Paul Connolly<br />
Janet Correia<br />
Debra Cox<br />
Greg Daneault **<br />
Valerie & Peter Daniel<br />
Michael & Klarina Donoghue<br />
Julie & John Dowd<br />
Embrace Home Loans<br />
ERA KEY Realty<br />
Theodore & Leslie Finn<br />
First Baptist Church in Framingham<br />
Shannah & Brian Frambes<br />
Debbie & Dom Friscino<br />
Connie Fukudome<br />
Katharine Gibson & Walter Champion<br />
Richard Gooding<br />
Larry & Sherry Guzman<br />
John & Susan Haley<br />
Serena & Brent Hall<br />
Beverly Hardy **<br />
James Hartman & Karen Flathers<br />
Tarah Hirschey<br />
Hoffman Insurance Services, Inc.<br />
Bernard & Barbara Horan<br />
Joanna Horobin<br />
The House <strong>Family</strong><br />
Emily Hunnewell<br />
David & Ann Ingram<br />
Patrecia & William Jackson **<br />
Caroline Johnson Hodge<br />
Dan & Margaret Jones<br />
Michael Kane<br />
Nora Keefe<br />
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Maria Kempner<br />
Susie Kennan<br />
Adnan Khalid<br />
Max Klau<br />
Christine Lam & Mark J. Chistolini<br />
Susan Lankton-Rivas<br />
Jill Lenhardt<br />
LePain Associates<br />
Leah Levy<br />
Danforth Advisors, LLC<br />
Stuart Lubin<br />
David Lubner<br />
Stephen Maire<br />
Laura & Richard Malnight<br />
Molly Manning<br />
Elizabeth Mcclendon<br />
Andrea McDonald<br />
Lindsay & Jimmy McGuinness<br />
Joyce McKeown<br />
Mark & Carole McNamee<br />
Joyce & Roger McNeil<br />
Memorial Congregational Church UCC<br />
Mitsubishi Electric Train Cooling and<br />
Heating<br />
Mobilis<br />
Judy & James Mongiardo<br />
John & Paula Moran<br />
Melissa Murphy<br />
Cynthia Myles<br />
Jim & Dorothy Nail<br />
Nealon & Nealon<br />
Lori Newman & Ben Supnik<br />
Wendy & Adam Newman<br />
Megan Nunez & Benjamin Lane<br />
Dana Pope<br />
John & Ina Portnoy<br />
Amy Prigmore<br />
Mary Prosnitz<br />
Elisabeth Reynolds<br />
Erik Rij<br />
Roche Bros., Inc.<br />
Kristin Romine<br />
Rotary Club of Natick<br />
David & Liza Ruether<br />
Colleen Sadin<br />
Mary Alice Sallah **<br />
Scott, Kate, & Steve Salley<br />
Juliet Seaberg<br />
Daniel & Kerry Seaman **<br />
Carol Sedewitz<br />
Carol & Howard Seplowitz<br />
Loren Shapiro **<br />
Carol Shedd<br />
Lecia Shronce *<br />
Cynthia Sibold<br />
Ann Skipper<br />
Smith, Sullivan & Brown, P.C.<br />
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church<br />
St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church<br />
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church<br />
Allen & Margaret Steere<br />
Jackee & Neil Stigliano<br />
Fareena Sultan<br />
Lucy Sur<br />
Cean Tan<br />
Kelly Taylor<br />
The Tobin School<br />
The Walking Company<br />
Needham Bank supports <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> because<br />
we share the same mission: building communities,<br />
being there during challenging times, utilizing<br />
diverse resources to create solutions, and<br />
supporting families throughout life changes.<br />
— Delisa Joseph, VP CRA Officer, Needham Bank<br />
Thrivent Choice<br />
Foss Tighe & Linda Colby<br />
Rosalia & Sal Tocco<br />
Catherine Tomey<br />
Sarah & Christopher Toomey<br />
Linda Trent<br />
Carey Valli<br />
Elaine Vildzius<br />
Catherine Volic<br />
Brenda Waber<br />
Gary & Kathleen Walker<br />
Anne Weaver<br />
Wegmans Food Markets<br />
Ann Houston Wiedie & Keith Hartt<br />
Miss Woo<br />
Gordon & Janice Woodbine<br />
John Worrall & Cynthia Bakon<br />
Frederick Wright<br />
Angela Zachery **<br />
Julie & Aram Zadow<br />
James & Barbara Zebrowski<br />
Shaohong Zhang **<br />
Anonymous (3)<br />
$100-$499<br />
Farah Abbas<br />
Anne Aisenberg<br />
Caroline Akins<br />
Alison Albers<br />
Lois Alexander<br />
Joanne Alfieri<br />
Donna Allen<br />
Laurie Allen<br />
Scott Allen<br />
Jeff Allstadt<br />
Barbara Ambos<br />
American Endowment Foundation<br />
Ron & Barbara Anderson<br />
Steve Anderson<br />
Steven Anderson<br />
Alisa & Thomas Andrews<br />
William Andrews<br />
Elizabeth Ann Angell<br />
Eman & Essam Ansari<br />
Sarah Arcese<br />
Asvita Arjun<br />
Shua Khan Arshad<br />
Jill Ashley<br />
Betty Aucoin<br />
The Auler <strong>Family</strong><br />
Maureen Austin<br />
Emmanuel Badoo<br />
Eileen Bailey<br />
Jocylyn Bailin & Jeff Alexander<br />
Fatima Bajwa<br />
Chris Baker<br />
Marcia & Max Baker<br />
Mariela Baker<br />
Cathleen Balcom<br />
Deborah & John Baldwin<br />
Jay & Erica Ball<br />
Aijaz & Saadia Baloch<br />
Paul & Sally Banderet<br />
Heather Banting<br />
Michelle & Timothy Barrett<br />
Jane Barrow<br />
Joan Barsamian<br />
Sarah Barton<br />
Susan Basta<br />
Elizabeth Bates-Cellucci<br />
Susan Bathon<br />
Vickie Batka<br />
Christie Baxter<br />
Maggie Baxter<br />
Bay State Brazilian Jiu Jitsu<br />
Susan Bayard<br />
Beth Bean<br />
Rachel Beattie<br />
Edward & Diane Bedrosian<br />
Juliana Belding<br />
Joanne O’Neil & Upton Bell<br />
Katherine Belmont<br />
Molly Benisch<br />
Beth Benjamin<br />
Michael Benoit **<br />
Donald Benovitz & Martha Fagan<br />
Carole Berkowitz<br />
Jennifer Bethel<br />
Fred Beyroutey<br />
Masooma Bhaiwala<br />
Lisa Bhatt<br />
Renagene Bickel<br />
Paul Bigwood<br />
Edie & Curt Blodgett<br />
Karen Blumenfeld & Andrew Nierenberg<br />
Bobby’s Auto Service, Inc.<br />
Nischal Bommareddy<br />
Gregory Boucher<br />
Kate Boucher<br />
Andra Bowditch<br />
C. I. Bowyer<br />
Camilla Boyce<br />
Deborah Boyce<br />
Barbara Boykin<br />
Eileen Brackenbury<br />
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<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong><br />
<strong>Metrowest</strong> is a muchneeded<br />
organization<br />
for so many families.<br />
We want to give back<br />
to the community<br />
and <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong><br />
<strong>Metrowest</strong> provides the<br />
exact service that we<br />
wanted to be involved<br />
with. We sell homes and<br />
feel everyone deserves<br />
a place to live and call<br />
home.<br />
— Bill & Beth Chandler,<br />
The Chandler Group<br />
Kristin & Jeff Bradach<br />
Stacy Bradford<br />
Elizabeth Brady<br />
Martha Brantigan-Stowell &<br />
Christopher Stowell<br />
Nancy Braun<br />
Wilfred & Ruth Breden<br />
Leslie Breen<br />
Florian Briem<br />
Ronald & Roxanne Broadbent<br />
Irma & Jayson Brodie<br />
Mary Bromfield<br />
Carol & Paul Brown<br />
Carrie Brown<br />
Hugo Brown **<br />
Kristen Brown **<br />
Lisa Brown<br />
Paula Brown<br />
Robert & Michelle Brown<br />
Molly Bruni<br />
Erin Bryan<br />
Janet Buchwald & Joel Moskowitz<br />
Gary & Carol Bukuras<br />
Linda Burgoon<br />
Jerry Burke<br />
Danny Burkeman<br />
Roberta Burns<br />
Joe & Jean Bussichella<br />
Julie Byrne<br />
Mary & Chris Canavan<br />
John & Bev Canning<br />
N. Carroll<br />
Christopher & Phoebe Carter<br />
Jennifer Cashman<br />
Amy Catlin<br />
Rosa & David Caulfield<br />
Janice Cavanagh<br />
Jean Chadbourne<br />
The Chan <strong>Family</strong><br />
Cynthia Chapline<br />
Charles River Rotary Club<br />
Amy & Donald Chase<br />
Nibedita Chattopadhyay<br />
Shumaila Chaudhary<br />
David & Bridget Chiaruttini<br />
Barbara Chinetti<br />
Abbas & Vazira Chipty<br />
Nancy Chmielinski<br />
Daria Cho<br />
Rebecca Cho<br />
Christ the King Lutheran Church<br />
Andrea & Bryan Clancy<br />
David & Susan Clapham<br />
Mila Clark<br />
Suzanne Clement<br />
Margaret Close<br />
Phillip Closuit<br />
Joseph & Allison Cocuzzo<br />
Kevin Cohane<br />
Lauren Cohen<br />
Deborah Cole<br />
Linda & Stephen Collins<br />
Darlene Colonna<br />
Pat Conaway<br />
James & Audra A. Connolly<br />
Joanne & Jim Connolly<br />
Sue Connolly<br />
AnneMarie Connors<br />
Diane & Stephen Conway<br />
Rita Corey<br />
JBG Corp.<br />
Ali Corton<br />
Christine Costello<br />
Sue & Donald Cotton<br />
Lino Covarrubias<br />
Kathryn Craib<br />
Helen Crary<br />
Jodi Crimmins<br />
Margaret Cross<br />
CSL International<br />
Alexander Cullen<br />
Sarah Currie<br />
Lori Curry<br />
Betsey Cutler<br />
Jo-Ellen Cymmer<br />
Marisa Dad<br />
Karen Dale<br />
John Dalessandro & Marianne Swenson<br />
Frances Daneault<br />
Jennifer & Steven Dannin<br />
Karen Dasey<br />
Barry S. David<br />
Scott & Lori Davis<br />
Kathleen Farley & Sharyn Davis<br />
Adam Dehner<br />
Ashley Delahunty<br />
Toni Jean DeLorenzo<br />
Josephine DeMaso<br />
Kristen & Edward Dennison<br />
Ashley Denton<br />
Anne Marie Desmond<br />
Lisa Deveau<br />
Rick & Dana Devereux<br />
Swetha Dhanireddy<br />
Willard & Amanda Dickerson<br />
Jill Dietz<br />
Barbara DiMento<br />
David Dirks<br />
Victor Divine<br />
Emily Doerr<br />
Lois & Paul Doerr<br />
Ed & Susan Doherty<br />
Kristin Donahue<br />
Nancy Donahue<br />
Maya Donoghue **<br />
Andre Dostie<br />
Dover Mothers’ Association<br />
George & Janet Drummey<br />
Joseph & Pamela Dudish<br />
Jeanette Duncklee<br />
Pamela Dunham<br />
Laila Dunphy<br />
Tanya & Pierre Dupont<br />
Martha Dutton<br />
Vani Duvuuri<br />
Maureen Eagan<br />
David Edelglass<br />
Lisa Edgecomb<br />
Eric & Courtney Edman<br />
Meridith Edmonds<br />
Amanda & Randall Elkin<br />
Pauline Elkin<br />
Jonathan Ellman<br />
Diane Engel<br />
Eva Engelmann<br />
ERA Key Charitable Organization, Inc.<br />
Mary Erickson<br />
Carol Esbig<br />
Dania Esterman<br />
Christina Evans<br />
Susan Evans<br />
Laurie Ewald<br />
Fair & Yeager Insurance Agency<br />
Annelise Fair<br />
Eric Falcone<br />
David & Anne Farber<br />
Christine Farley<br />
Lauren Fawell<br />
Dennis & Anne Feen<br />
Maura Feheley<br />
Hillary Ferrazzi<br />
Deirdre & Robert Festa<br />
Nancy Fewell<br />
Tammy Fields<br />
First Baptist Church in Needham<br />
First Church of Christ, Scientist<br />
First Parish in Framingham Unitarian<br />
Universalist<br />
First Parish of Sudbury<br />
Kenneth Fishman & Lisa Wendell<br />
Fisk Memorial United Methodist Church<br />
Barbara & Neal Fitzpatrick<br />
David & Phyllis Fitzpatrick<br />
Fritz Fleischmann<br />
Carolee & Steve Fogg<br />
Susie Fontaine<br />
Rosalind Forber<br />
John Foreman<br />
Bernard & Kathleen Forletta<br />
Patricia & Stephen Fountain<br />
Caroline Fox<br />
Framingham Friends Meeting<br />
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Stephen Franks<br />
Katie & Michael Frassinelli<br />
Jamie Freidhof<br />
Martha Frigoletto<br />
Sheila & Don Friswell<br />
Carol & Howard Frutkoff<br />
Carrie Fuchs<br />
Lisa Fusaro<br />
Cathy Gallagher<br />
Jen Gandel<br />
Emily Gardner<br />
Susan & Matthew Gardner<br />
Dale & Robyn Garth<br />
Geoffrey Gass **<br />
William & Joan Gay<br />
Kathryn Gebski<br />
David & Pat Gentes<br />
Chris & John Gentry<br />
Stephen & Carol Geremia<br />
Raafia Gheewala<br />
Kerry Gibson<br />
Pam & Bob Gibson<br />
Susan Gibson<br />
Beth Gifford<br />
Trudy Gilarde<br />
Janice & Ray Gilkes<br />
Beth Gillece-Castro<br />
Denise Girardin<br />
Girl Scouts of Eastern MA<br />
Ellen Gitelman<br />
Jeanne Given<br />
Glen Glater<br />
Jeffrey & Janet Glidden<br />
Carol Gloff<br />
Sian Godwin<br />
Martha & David Gold<br />
Marshall Goldberg<br />
Stacey Goodale<br />
Peter S. & Nancy Goodall<br />
Lisa & Thomas Goran<br />
Abby Gordon<br />
Kathleen & Gary Goshgarian<br />
George Gotsis<br />
Lynn & Philip Gotwals<br />
Janice Gould<br />
Timm & Kathleen Gould<br />
Bonnie Gouveia<br />
Marjorie Gove<br />
Sidonie Granadillo<br />
Grant & Pottackal, PC<br />
Jacqueline Grant<br />
Pamela Green<br />
Glenn Greenberg **<br />
Kathleen Greer<br />
Kevin Greer<br />
Maryellen Griffin<br />
William Miniscalco & Sarah Guilford<br />
Carolyn Guttilla<br />
Chris Haberkorn<br />
Richard Haberkorn<br />
Hamilton Hackney<br />
Paul & Claire Haggerty<br />
Alia Haider<br />
Rebecca Hajjar<br />
Luke Halberstadt<br />
Thomas Halchuk<br />
Deborah Hall<br />
Elizabeth Hall<br />
Helen Hamel<br />
Sara Hanna<br />
Katharine Hanson<br />
Charlene Harrow<br />
Deborah Harrow<br />
Charmaine Hartnett<br />
Deborah Hastings<br />
Jaclyn Hatala-Matthes<br />
Kathleen Hauck<br />
Gerry & Dale Hava<br />
Kelly Hayner<br />
Karen Head<br />
Elizabeth Heiden<br />
Helen’s Handbags<br />
Janice Henderson<br />
Donald & Beth Henrich<br />
Carol Herman<br />
Joshua Herzig-Marx<br />
Clinton & Linda Heyd<br />
The Heyden <strong>Family</strong><br />
Michael Hill & Christine DeVelis-Hill<br />
Lawrence & Nancy Hines<br />
Peter Hoffmann<br />
Leo Hogan<br />
Margaret Holland<br />
Anne Holloway<br />
Garry & Elaine Holmes<br />
HOPE Sudbury<br />
Jere & Kimberley Hornung<br />
Barry Horwitz<br />
Jack House<br />
Lisa Howe<br />
Sonja Huie<br />
Richard Hunter<br />
Michael Hurley **<br />
Richard & Robin Hurst<br />
Sohail Husain<br />
Judith Hyatt<br />
Grace Idzal<br />
Marney & George Ives<br />
Edward Tomey & Maich Gardner<br />
Jon Jaboolian<br />
Briana Jackson<br />
Katie Jackson<br />
Cynthia & Jeffrey Jacobs<br />
Marc & Joanne Jacobs<br />
Carol Jankowski<br />
Joseph & Carol Jankowski<br />
Deanna Jantzen<br />
Ronald L. Jantzen<br />
Howard & Cherine Janzen<br />
Jill & Paul Jeter<br />
Main Street Jewelry Grapevine, LLC<br />
Melissa Johannes<br />
Bruce Johnson<br />
Susan Johnson<br />
Tamara Johnson<br />
Gail Johnston<br />
Joanne Jones<br />
Karen Joseph<br />
Paul & Lena Joseph<br />
Madhavi Kamakoti<br />
Andrea Kane<br />
Doris Louise Kane<br />
Beverly Kapustiak<br />
Jessica Kapustiak<br />
Susan Karelitz<br />
Victoria Karian<br />
Brad Karrfalt<br />
Sarah Lyn Kashou<br />
Constance Kaufman<br />
Kathy & John Kaufmann<br />
Janine Kayser<br />
Laura Kazanjian<br />
Nazik Kazimi<br />
Jeannine & Nathan Keedy<br />
Grace Keeney<br />
Mary Grace Kelemanik & Lorraine Horgan<br />
Bill & Lois Kelly<br />
James Kelly<br />
Alyssa Kence<br />
Dorothy Kennedy<br />
Kenneth W. Van Blarcom, Auctionneer–<br />
Appraiser<br />
John & Patricia Kenney<br />
Mary Kenney<br />
Caitlin Ketner **<br />
Kate & Armen Khachaturian<br />
Afroz Khan<br />
Amarah Khan<br />
Masarath Khan<br />
Niggo & Khalid Khan<br />
A. Karim & Sajida Y. Khudairi<br />
Ata Kiapour<br />
Lynn Kim<br />
Christine King<br />
Janet King<br />
Linda King<br />
Christine Kingsbury<br />
Kathleen & Eric Kirleis<br />
Julie & James Kittler<br />
Julie Koeninger<br />
Judith & Tom Kokinda<br />
Denice Koljonen<br />
Christine Konys<br />
We are honored to support <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> MetroWest<br />
because of the impactful work they do to assist hardworking<br />
people who are at a struggle point in their lives.<br />
FPM prepares individuals to become self-sufficient so<br />
they may take care of their families with pride.<br />
— Annelise & Doug Atamian, Donors<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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The <strong>Metrowest</strong> Women’s<br />
Fund is proud to support<br />
the educational dreams<br />
of women and girls at<br />
risk of homelessness.<br />
The excellent work of<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> makes<br />
this possible.<br />
— Rachel Sagan &<br />
Rebecca Parkhill,<br />
Co-Founders, <strong>Metrowest</strong><br />
Women’s Fund<br />
Lucie Kooyoomjian<br />
Carol Kosicki<br />
Cyndi Koss<br />
Naimesh Kotadia<br />
Anne Kottler<br />
Dolores Krasner<br />
Donald Kraus<br />
Sonja & Kurt Kreh<br />
Nisha Kurian **<br />
Jennifer Kurz<br />
Melissa LaBarge<br />
Sarah Labrie<br />
Crystalle Lacouture<br />
Philip Ladd<br />
William Ladd<br />
Lance LaFave<br />
Marci Landis<br />
Kathleen Lang<br />
Phyllis Larschan<br />
Rolf & Celeste Larson<br />
Amy Law<br />
Kathleen Lawlor<br />
Rose Lawrence<br />
Liane Leahy<br />
Norm LeBel<br />
Lauren Leber<br />
Carolyn Lee<br />
Roxy & Dix Leeson<br />
Clark, Valarie, & Nicole Lefavour **<br />
Beverly & Mark Lenci<br />
Tracy Lenehan<br />
Kathy Lentini<br />
Paula Less<br />
Brigitte Leu<br />
Janet & David Levesque<br />
Leslie Levine<br />
Theresa Levinson<br />
Nancy & Barry Levy<br />
Andrea Lewis<br />
Dino Liberti<br />
Jean Linke<br />
Kiki Loccisano<br />
Jennifer Looper<br />
Trudilyne Lord<br />
Jackie Loren<br />
Barbara Lorenzen<br />
Kerry Loughborough<br />
Louise Condon Realty, Inc.<br />
Amy Lousararian<br />
Donna Low<br />
Leslie Lowe<br />
Peter & Linda Lull<br />
Paul & Marilyn Luongo<br />
Christin Luttrell<br />
Anne Lysaght<br />
Carolyn MacGregor<br />
Marilyn MacIlvane<br />
Ann MacKay<br />
Timothy & Rebecca MacLachlan<br />
Marcia & Rod MacLeod<br />
Kathy Madfis<br />
Mary Mahoney<br />
Jennifer Maiona<br />
Naheed Malik<br />
Ruth & Russel Mallett<br />
Sue Mandell<br />
Ron Manganiello<br />
Carol Manna<br />
Karishma Manzur<br />
Mona Marimow<br />
Rachel Marks<br />
Richard & Lauren Marks<br />
Michele Marotta<br />
Jacob & Elizabeth Martin<br />
Jennifer Martin<br />
Karen Martin<br />
Samantha Martin<br />
Susan & Steve Mascioli<br />
Jane Materazzo & Greg Kennan<br />
Robert & Ronda Matson<br />
Kristin Mawhinney<br />
Michelle May<br />
Linda Mazzola<br />
Maureen Mccaffrey & Jim Lillie<br />
Sean McCarthy<br />
Myles & Alison McCormick<br />
Kirsten & Lane McDonough<br />
Frank & Tracy McGrath<br />
Amy McGregor-Radin<br />
Katie McKay<br />
Chana McMillen<br />
Ed & Sheila McShane<br />
Joseph Meaney<br />
Marilyn Medler<br />
Elizabeth Meindl<br />
Hal Merrick<br />
Al & Susan Merson<br />
Jim Merullo & Amy Harris<br />
James & Jill Metcalf<br />
Melinda Milberg<br />
Amy Miller<br />
David Miller<br />
Jan Miller<br />
Bill Mills-Curran<br />
Mark & Sara Milone<br />
Marge Mitchell<br />
Patricia Mitchell<br />
Tarra Mitchell<br />
Cathy Molkenbur-Newman<br />
Joanna Mongiardo-Coogan<br />
Elizabeth Montemayor<br />
Diane Montgomery<br />
Whitney Mooney<br />
Peter Moore<br />
Kelly Morales<br />
Jennifer Moran<br />
Mario & Seeme Moreira<br />
Dayanna Moreno<br />
Marcia Morin<br />
Michael Morrissey **<br />
Jennifer Moshe<br />
Sandy Moskowitz & Susan Wilcove<br />
Janet Moyer Bronstein<br />
Elizabeth Mubarek<br />
Regina Mullen<br />
Helen Murphy<br />
Greg Young & Lori Murphy<br />
Martha Murray<br />
Lina Musayev<br />
Donald & Susan Mykrantz<br />
John Myles<br />
Keiya Myles<br />
Margaret Naeser<br />
Sue Naja<br />
Huma Najam<br />
Natick Sports & Racquet Club, Inc.<br />
Kira Nelson<br />
Allison Nelson-Eliot & Adam Tierney-Eliot<br />
Richelle Nessralla<br />
Arden Nguyen<br />
Sage Nguyen<br />
Mary Jo Nispel<br />
Judith Nitsch<br />
Jonathan Noel<br />
John O’Shea<br />
Karen Oakley<br />
Debbie O’Brien<br />
Kellye O’Brien<br />
Margaret O’Brien<br />
Anne O’Connell<br />
Young Oh<br />
David & Christina Oliver<br />
Richard & Lin Olsen<br />
Tracey O’Rourke<br />
Joshua & Jeanne W. Ostroff<br />
Anne O’Toole<br />
Benjamin Otte<br />
Yasmine Ouweijan<br />
Mark Owen<br />
Evan & Miho Owens<br />
David & Linda Palm<br />
Bradley & Lisa Palmer **<br />
Everett & Kyla P’an<br />
Yan Pan<br />
Nana Paresh<br />
Tricia Parmele<br />
Janice Parsons<br />
Ryan Payne<br />
Sandy Pease<br />
Stephanie Peck<br />
Laurence Perlmutter<br />
Judy Peters<br />
Olivia Petrasch<br />
Mary Petrini<br />
Patricia Phelan<br />
Dorothy & James Phillips<br />
Jackie & Eric Pierce<br />
*Contributor to our “A Place to Call Home” capital campaign.<br />
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Kenneth Pierce<br />
Amy Podolsky<br />
Alice Polley<br />
Julie Porter & John Griffith<br />
Judith Post<br />
Katherine Potter<br />
Cynthia Previdi<br />
Naomi Price<br />
Elyse Purbaugh<br />
Ashley Quates<br />
Gary Rabideau<br />
Jill Rabideau<br />
Judith Radley<br />
Ganesh Ramachandran & Smitha<br />
Radhakrishnan<br />
Gwyn & Robert Ramage<br />
Susan & Henry Rauch<br />
John & Sara Raveret<br />
Judy Ravindra<br />
Syed & Tahera Razvi<br />
Deborah Redding-Sampson<br />
Mahitha & Uma Reddy<br />
Pooja Reddy<br />
Shruti Reddy<br />
Carrie Reepmeyer<br />
Dianne & Dianne Rees<br />
Paul & Ann Regan<br />
Marcia Reinstein<br />
Jason and Helen Rennie **<br />
Thomas & Kim Reohr<br />
Walter Reuning<br />
Barbara Reynolds<br />
Meredith Reynolds<br />
Tracey & Amir Reza<br />
Deborah Riester & George Bargamian<br />
Chris Riffle<br />
Karen & Ron Riggert<br />
Frederic Ripley & Sharon Kirby<br />
Paul & Patrica Riseman<br />
Phillip Risinger<br />
Lisa & Rick Rizoli<br />
Marjorie Roberson<br />
Cornelia Clark Roberts<br />
Jim & Ruth Roberts<br />
Philip Roberts & Gail Weston-Roberts<br />
Lisa & Peter Roblin<br />
Marjorie Rochon<br />
Jane H. & Carl Roddy<br />
Susan Rodman<br />
Lynn & Pedro Rodriguez<br />
Brian Roessler<br />
Jaime Rogers<br />
Lydia Rogers<br />
Margaret Rolph<br />
Lorien Romito<br />
Beth Rosen<br />
Marissa & Brook Rosenbaum<br />
Carl Rosenblatt<br />
Mikal Rosendahl<br />
Jean Rosseau<br />
Jessica Rubinstein<br />
Steven & Gail Ruether<br />
Melissa & Jon Rutherford<br />
Jennifer Sabatini<br />
Helen & Bob Sagan<br />
Melissa Sagendorph<br />
Evan Saks<br />
Nadia & Carl Salerno<br />
Noor Salman **<br />
Carol & Roy Salvi<br />
Kevin & Mary Salvi<br />
Briton & Emory Sanders<br />
Jeffrey Saperstone<br />
Agni Sarmnoite<br />
Sassamon Trace Golf Course<br />
Tedd Saunders<br />
Debra Sayre<br />
Mary Schaefer<br />
Lynn Scheller<br />
John & Lily Schlafer<br />
Karl Schlemmer<br />
Andrei Schor<br />
John Schorum<br />
Amy Schraut **<br />
George S. Schutte<br />
Lisa Schwarzwald<br />
John Scibetta<br />
Donna Scott<br />
Talia Seavey<br />
Chelsea Sebastian<br />
Shana Seidenberg<br />
William Serjak & Betsy Blackmer<br />
Paul Shackford<br />
Robin & Afroze Shaikh<br />
Jenna Sharkawy<br />
Andi Shaw<br />
Zahra Sheikh<br />
Elizabeth Sherwood<br />
Kate & Raleigh Shoemaker Jr.<br />
Sara Siciliano<br />
Irshad & Nafisa Sideeka<br />
Marvin & Joan Siflinger<br />
Joyce Simon<br />
Dustin & Nikki Simone<br />
Sisco Berluti, Inc.<br />
Michael Slattery<br />
Susanne Smart<br />
Donald & Sybil Smith<br />
Erika & Jaime Smith<br />
Richard & Wendy Smith<br />
Sandra Smith<br />
Debra Socia<br />
Marc Soloway<br />
Amy Sommer<br />
Trudy & Stephen Sonis<br />
Rosemary & Dave Sortor<br />
Liz Sower<br />
Sara Spalding<br />
Lynda Sperry & William Wiberg<br />
Naren Srinivasan<br />
Beverly & Larry St. Clair<br />
Robert St. Germain & Roberta Jackson<br />
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church<br />
Erinn Staley **<br />
Jessica Stanton<br />
Candace Steingisser<br />
Tammy Steinman<br />
Linda Stepzinski<br />
Randi Sterrn **<br />
Diane Stevens<br />
Erroll & Karen Stevens<br />
Sylvia Stevens<br />
Joyce & Geoffrey Stewart<br />
Pamela & Craig Stirrat<br />
Wayne & Anita Stolle<br />
Diane Stone<br />
Lyndsy Stopa **<br />
Steve & Laurie Strout<br />
Katherine Sullivan<br />
Weslie Surman<br />
David & Elizabeth Sutcliffe<br />
Julie Sutherland<br />
Bonnie Swart<br />
Ann-Marie Sweeney<br />
Kirsten Sweet<br />
Michelle Syed<br />
Mary & Jay Sylva<br />
Arthur & Marianne Talis<br />
Elizabeth Tangerini<br />
Reva Tankle & John McArthur<br />
Jared Tardy<br />
Diane Tarlin<br />
Janet Tarlin<br />
Kalyan Tatavarti<br />
Gail Teach<br />
Rachael Tearle<br />
Amee Tejani<br />
Chris & Anne Ten Eyck<br />
Jane Thompson<br />
Amy Till<br />
Bruce & Debbie Tofias<br />
Kristine Tomey<br />
Joyce Toomre<br />
Scott Tougas<br />
Thomas & Janis Townsend<br />
Elyse Trockman<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong> provides an array of<br />
services and supports that can truly change the<br />
trajectory of families facing homelessness. They<br />
are flexible and creative and, most of all, they run an<br />
organization immersed in kindness and compassion<br />
that treats everyone with dignity and respect.<br />
— Marilyn Martino, Executive Director,<br />
The Sudbury Foundation<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
2017<br />
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Allison Turner<br />
United Methodist Women<br />
United Methodist Women of Fisk<br />
Memorial UMC<br />
Christina Van Dyke<br />
Anne VanArsdell<br />
Phil Vance & Deb Crossley<br />
Angela Vanderslice<br />
Kris & Michael Vanin<br />
Christine Velyvis<br />
Joy Vemula<br />
Jeanette Vernon<br />
Neetha Vuppala<br />
Gerald & Margery Wadness<br />
Michael Wadness<br />
Janet & Dominic Walsh<br />
Nancy Walton<br />
Susan & Jim Walton<br />
Aimee Wang<br />
Barbara Ward<br />
Natalie Warren<br />
Lisa Watanabe<br />
Mike & Pam Webb<br />
Michael Webber<br />
Daniel & Kristine Weddle<br />
Karen Weierman<br />
Jennifer Weiner<br />
Joe & Mary Anne Weiss<br />
Susan Weiss<br />
Fran Weisse<br />
Christine Weithman<br />
Liz Welburn<br />
Heidi Wesolowski<br />
Christine West<br />
Susan Westmoreland<br />
Pamela Wetherbee<br />
Dana White<br />
Kathleen White<br />
Anna Whiting<br />
Joan & Bob Whitman<br />
Steven & Edith Whitney<br />
Al Wiegman<br />
Heidi Wiesel<br />
Jane & Jack Wiggin<br />
Gil Williams & Susanne Rheault<br />
Brianna Wilson-Byrne<br />
Craig & Chris Winterfeldt<br />
Mark Wirling **<br />
William & Lauren Wirth<br />
Greg Withers<br />
Robin Wolk<br />
Halina Wong<br />
Jodi Wood<br />
John E. Wornham Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Polly Broman Wright<br />
Beth Wyers<br />
Barbara Yates<br />
Michael & Ronda Yeomans<br />
Mark Yerkes<br />
Robin Young<br />
The Yunus <strong>Family</strong><br />
Janet Zambuto<br />
Raymond Zambuto<br />
Britta Zecher<br />
Farhana Zia<br />
Catherine Zimmerman<br />
Jeffrey Zonderman<br />
Anonymous (15)<br />
Pro-Bono Service Donors<br />
Goulston & Storrs PC<br />
MediaBoss<br />
Painter’s Pride<br />
Perpetuart<br />
Matching Gift Companies<br />
AAFCPAs<br />
Abrams Capital Management, LLC<br />
Alexion Pharmaceuticals<br />
Amica Mutual Insurance<br />
Arbella Insurance Foundation<br />
AstraZeneca<br />
Bank of America<br />
CNA Insurance Companies, Inc.<br />
Dell Technologies<br />
The GE Foundation<br />
Google<br />
Great-West Financial<br />
Guardian Life Insurance Company of<br />
America<br />
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation<br />
Knowing that our family is helping empower others<br />
to make positive changes in their lives is gratifying<br />
and leaves us hopeful that if everyone makes<br />
the effort to support one another—no matter in<br />
big or small ways—our world will be a much more<br />
equitable place.<br />
— Chris & Kelli Connors, Donors<br />
I support <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>Promise</strong> because the<br />
work they do helping<br />
families is crucial to the<br />
wellbeing of our world.<br />
— Mercy Wheeler,<br />
Donor<br />
Intel Foundation<br />
John Hancock<br />
JPMorgan Chase<br />
Liberty Mutual<br />
Mass Mutual<br />
McKesson<br />
MFS Gives<br />
Microsoft<br />
NVIDIA<br />
Oracle<br />
Pfizer<br />
Sanofi US Services, Inc.<br />
State Street Foundation, Inc.<br />
TripAdvisor<br />
Vertex Pharmaceuticals<br />
VMware Foundation<br />
Walmart<br />
Wellington Management Company, LLP<br />
Wells Fargo<br />
We also extend our gratitude to the 895<br />
additional donors who gave under $100<br />
in <strong>2020</strong>. We are grateful for each one<br />
of you.<br />
While every effort has been made to<br />
ensure the accuracy of this list, we<br />
apologize for any errors or omissions.<br />
Please contact us at admin@<br />
familypromisemetrowest.org<br />
with corrections.<br />
* <strong>2020</strong> contributor to our “A Place to<br />
Call Home” capital campaign.<br />
** Donation includes matching<br />
corporate gift.<br />
22 <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Promise</strong> <strong>Metrowest</strong>
Our Staff<br />
Susan Crossley, Executive Director<br />
Carole Brodrick, Director of Development<br />
Amanda Elkin, Assistant Director<br />
Eliz Portal, LIFE Program Coordinator<br />
Stephanie Di Dio, Shelter Program Coordinator<br />
Paula Brown, Outreach & Network Coordinator<br />
Kathy Rodman, <strong>Family</strong> Program Assistant<br />
Bianca Hudson, Administrative Assistant<br />
Tamara Nevens, Finance Coordinator<br />
Sharon Mann, Van Driver<br />
The resilience and<br />
tenacity of our families<br />
is incredibly inspiring.<br />
I love helping them<br />
create lasting and<br />
generational changes!<br />
— Kathy, <strong>Family</strong><br />
Program Assistant<br />
Our Board<br />
Carol Virshbo, Chair<br />
Kelli Connors, Vice Chair<br />
Dan Seaman, Treasurer<br />
Heather A. Connolly, Clerk<br />
Emmanuel Badoo<br />
Karen Patterson Greene<br />
Harriett Hallagan<br />
Delisa Joseph<br />
Jeffrey Kinney<br />
Dayanna Moreno, Esq.<br />
Jason Rutherford<br />
Thomas Teich<br />
We would like to thank Donna Richer, Yusuf Kalule, Maureen Nguyen, Tammy Retalic, and Maureen Wooster<br />
who all retired from our board in <strong>2020</strong> and 2021. These valuable members all played essential roles in guiding<br />
and supporting FPM over the last few years. We are deeply grateful for their lasting impacts on our organization<br />
and the families we serve.<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
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Contact Us:<br />
6 Mulligan Street, Natick, MA 01760<br />
508-318-4820<br />
www.familypromisemetrowest.org<br />
info@familypromisemetrowest.org<br />
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facebook.com/familypromisemetrowest<br />
instagram.com/familypromisemetrowest<br />
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