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Cambridge Energy Alliance, Community Development Department, and All in Energy
We help Cambridge residents and small businesses access clean-energy, efficient, and affordable programs. We can help you learn if you're paying too much on your electricity bill and save you money.
Registration required
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Salvation Army
We provide an daycare and preschool center for families in-need, particularly those trying to break the cycle of homelessness and attain self-sufficiency.
Cambridge Housing Department
We offer access to affordable rental and homeownership units for low, moderate, and middle-income households.
Cambridge Police Department
This unit investigates sexual crimes and provides support and social services to survivors of sexual crimes.
Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee (CEOC)
Have you been feeling stressed or overwhelmed? CEOC has a service to help!
Cambridge Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Community Development Department, and Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP)
The guide is organized around six key themes: affordable housing, emergency housing, housing rights, legal and mediation services, safe & healthy homes, and financial assistance.
Health Resources in Action, Inc.
The Helpline is the only statewide, public resource for finding substance abuse treatment and recovery services.
Just A Start
We preserve and maintain affordable apartments that are home to low and moderate income Cambridge residents. Property management and community coordinators help ensure that everyone feels at home.
DHSP Multi-Service Center (MSC)
We work with individuals and families who need help with their housing.
City of Cambridge, Bay Cove Human Services, and Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP)
The Winter Warming Center is a welcoming and safe drop-in center where unsheltered adults can spend the night and be safe from the environmental hazards of the street during the winter months.
The Home for Little Wanderers
This is a program that provides a drop-in center for homeless and street-involved youth, ages 14-24, in Harvard Square, Cambridge.
The Network/La Red
Safehome: Up to 1 month stay in a confidential location for an individual or family. Transitional Housing: Up to two years of rental assistance for up to 16 survivors and their families.
Cambridge Public Library
We extend access to technology like Chromebook laptops and mobile WiFi hotspots by allowing patrons to check out devices.
Harvard University
We are a student-run civil legal aid organization committed to providing free representation to low-income and marginalized communities in the Greater Boston area.
Application required
DHSP Community Learning Center
The CLC offers five levels of English conversation, grammar, reading, and writing classes for Cambridge residents. There are daytime and evening classes. We do not offer online-only classes.
The Welcome Project
We provide language and interpretation classes, youth programs, multicultural community events, and other supports for immigrant families.
Enroot Education
Are you looking for a great way to give back to the community? Consider partnering with immigrant high school students in the Cambridge/Somerville community through Enroot!
Y2Y Harvard Square
We run an overnight emergency shelter for young adults (ages 18-24) in Harvard Square, open between October 15th and April 15th.
Cambridge Council on Aging
Our programs are offered to Cambridge home owners who are are over the age of 60 or a person with disabilities. Call 617-349-6220 for more information.
On The Rise
On The Rise is a daytime, drop-in program for unhoused women, trans, and non-binary people providing the relationships, safety and resources they need to move out of homelessness.
Cambridge Holistic Emergency Alternative Response Team (HEART)
Want to process tough emotions with someone who understands? Our confidential peer-run HEART Line is here to listen and talk on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm. Call us at 617-902-0102.
We can help you with applying for health insurance like MassHealth, Health Connector plans, Health Safety Net, Medicare and dental plans through the Massachusetts Health Connector.
We offer help in applying for SNAP/Food Stamps or completing annual recertifications and interim reports. We can also help you resolve problems that may lead to loss or reduction of benefits.
Cambridge Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Community Development Department, and Cambridge Public Library
Housed In Cambridge: Information to Open Doors is a citywide campaign designed to educate and inform residents on housing opportunities and housing-related resources and services.
City of Cambridge, Community Development Department, and Cambridge Human Rights Commission (CHRC)
Housed in Cambridge: Information to Open Doors webinar recordings.
Cambridge Community Television and Digital JEDI Consortium
Qualifying individuals can apply to receive affordable internet access and a new laptop.
Agenda for Children Literacy Initiative
We visit moms and dads of young children at a convenient location to share information about early literacy development, talking and reading with children, and community resources.
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