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Community Newsletter
July, 2018
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Keeping you up to date on the many ways Beverly Bootstraps provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency.
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America's Housing Crisis is a ticking time bomb
For decades, housing costs have risen faster than incomes. Since 1960, renters' median earnings have gone up 5 percent while rents have spiked 61 percent. So many of our clients are facing this issue right here in Beverly. We have already seen a big increase in requests for housing assistance in recent months. If our clients can no longer afford to live here where they work, they will face higher transportation costs, longer commutes and therefore more time away from their families, more childcare costs, loss of support networks and much more. Our various programs, from free school supplies to food assistance, will become that much more crucial to their survival, and thanks to your continued support, we will be here to assist them as needed.
The housing crisis is the ticking time bomb at the heart of the American economy, wiping out savings, increasing inequality and reducing the ability of workers to weather the next recession. It has been in front of us all along, but now, finally, it is impossible to ignore.
Read the full article
here.
Huffington Post 6/19/18
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Exciting News:
Beverly Bootstraps offering Case Managment to Acord Food Pantry clients
Thanks to a generous donor, Beverly Bootstraps is now collaborating with Acord Food Pantry to provide their clients with Case Management services. Acord, founded in 1991, has a similar mission to Beverly Bootstraps: empowering individuals and families to feed themselves in a nutritionally balanced way. We are excited to be help residents of Essex, Hamilton, Ipswich, Manchester, Topsfield and Wenham with services including SNAP Benefit application assistance, tax preparation, budget assessment, and more.
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How you can help:
Donate Cereal at Homecoming Lobsterfest
On Wednesday, August 1, the Thrift Shop will be holding their annual Yard Sale table during Lobsterfest at Lynch Park. Not only will you be able to purchase some amazing merchandise and our usual bargain prices, but you can also donate to our cereal drive while there. Bring a box or two of healthy cereal down between 10am and 5pm.
If you can't make it on Aug 1, you can also drop off cereal at our 35 Park Street facility, or in the donation bins at Stop & Shops on Enon and Elliott Street.
Summer Family Volunteer Opportunity
This program encourages parents to explain to children that there are other families right here in Beverly who are in need and some that don't even have enough food to keep them full and healthy, especially during the summer while school is out.
Participants bring their children shopping to help buy healthy kid's snacks and then
prepare snack packs with the food they have purchased in the Food Pantry. While here, children can see first-hand what a Food Pantry is like and the kinds of food given out. They will also be given a tour of our entire facility to get a feeling for the other challenges a family in need might face and how, with the generosity of people in the community just like them, Beverly Bootstraps helps support these families.
If you and your family would like to volunteer in this program, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Leslie Colten at
lcolten@beverlybootstraps.org or 978-927-1561 for more information.
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Thank you!
Office Furniture Auction
Thank you to Sensitech, Inc. who recently auctioned off their used office furniture and donated the proceeds to local organizations including Beverly Bootstraps.
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Lemonade Stand
On a recent summer day, a local group of teenagers sold lemonade and donated the proceeds to Beverly Bootstraps. Thank you to these young entrepreneurs!
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All American Donation
Thank you to the kids who won 2nd prize for their Freedom Trail Float in the Ryal Side 4th of July Parade. They very generously donated the prize money to Beverly Bootstraps.
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Happenings
Community Yoga
1st and 3rd Sunday of the Month, at 8:30am
The Healing Center, 317-319 Rantoul Street, Beverly
The Healing Center will be holding a Community Yoga class on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month from 8:30-9:30am. This is a basic hatha yoga class where beginners are welcome and encouraged. Practice meaningful, accessible asana, and support a local charity while you're at it! All proceeds will go to Beverly Bootstraps. Bring yourself, some water, and a mat. Mats will be available to borrow if needed!
Suggested Donation: $5-$10 (but any and all contributions are welcome!)
North Shore Bank Backpack Drive
Now thru August 3
North Shore Bank's Beverly and Danvers branches will be holding a backpack drive until August 3rd. Please contribute new school supplies and backpacks - (click here for
school supplies
needed) at either branch. All items collected will be used in Beverly Bootstraps' Back-to-School Bonanza backpack program to get local kids in need ready for success in the new school year.
Beverly Branch: Appleseed's Square, 50 Dodge Street, Beverly.
hours: Monday - Wednesday 9am-4pm, Thursday & Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-12pm
Danvers Branch: 48 Elm Street, Danvers
hours: Monday - Wednesday 9am-4pm, Thursday & Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 9am-12pm
Thrift Shop Yard Sale Table and Cereal Drive
Wednesday, August 1 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
David S Lynch Park, 55 Ober Street, Beverly
Come visit the Thrift Shop Pop Up Yard Sale to shop the sampling of the Shop's typical merchandise at our great bargain prices. We will also be holding a cereal drive to help stock our Food Pantry shelves! So please let you family and friends know to bring a box of healthy cereal if they are coming to Lobster Fest.
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To learn more, click on these handy links:
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Beverly Bootstraps | 35 Park Street, Beverly, MA 01915 | 978-927-1561
BeverlyBootstraps.org
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