Family Promise Metrowest

🎉 Big news! Family Promise Metrowest has been awarded a $225,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation, providing increased support over the next three years.

When a funder chooses to deepen its investment, it sends a powerful message: the work is making a difference. Family Promise Metrowest is honored to receive a renewed three-year grant totaling $225,000 from the Cummings Foundation. This increased investment reflects a shared commitment to helping families overcome housing instability and build brighter futures.

The grant will strengthen our ability to provide critical housing, prevention, and stabilization services for families facing homelessness, helping parents and children move from crisis to security and from uncertainty to long-term stability.

We are deeply grateful to the Cummings Foundation for its continued partnership and confidence in our mission. Their support goes beyond funding—it represents a belief in sustainable solutions, collaborative community efforts, and the lasting impact that becomes possible when families are given the resources and support they need to thrive.

Together, we are creating pathways to housing stability and building a stronger community where every family has the opportunity to succeed and a place to call home.

Our Shelter and Homeless Prevention Coaches recently worked with a family who had taken the significant step of leaving state shelter. Together, they recognized that the family needed additional time, support, and stability beyond what our transitional housing program could provide. Through trust, transparency, and a client-centered approach, a new plan was created that truly met the family's needs, including a transition back into shelter.

At Family Promise, shelter is more than a place to stay. It's safety, stability, wraparound support, and a foundation for long-term success.

As the family shared: “I’m grateful for the opportunity for more time. The caring transparency of your coaching truly helps us.”

We're honored to walk alongside families at every stage of their journey and grateful for team members like Marilia and Bianca, whose compassion and dedication make a difference every day. 💙

Our Volunteer Appreciation Party was truly a special evening, generously hosted by Raymour & Flanigan in Natick, who provided a beautiful space, delicious food and beverages, and a fun creative rock-painting activity. The painted rocks will be sealed and placed in the volunteer garden at the FPM Center later this summer alongside a bench honoring longtime volunteer Maureen Wooster. 💚

We were proud to celebrate all of our amazing volunteers while recognizing some extraordinary individuals and groups whose dedication goes above and beyond:

👏 Our Board Members in attendance: Dean Blackey, Nick Balster, and DeLisa Joseph
💚 Most Supportive to Staff: Sylvia Haber & Carol Virshbo
👨‍👩‍👧 Most Involved Family: Daria, Grayson & Sophie Cho
🎨 Most Versatile Volunteer: Mike Clune
🛠️ Attention to Detail Award: Jerry Burke, for tirelessly painting shelter bedrooms and bathrooms as families transition to permanent housing
🌙 Honorary Residential Support Specialists: Colm McGarry & Carol Virshbo, who each spent 9 nights as overnight shelter volunteers
💡 The Innovators: John Brackett, Jeff Merritt & Lois Doerr, for piloting our Walk with a Family Program
🤝 The Great Connectors: Steve Beling, Robert Sun & Rachel Vingsness, for strengthening vital business, faith, and community partnerships
🏆 Walk to End Homelessness Top Fundraising Teams
Christ Lutheran Church of Natick & Islamic Center of Boston
🌟 Special shoutout to Team Hope 2025–26—the many incredible youth and teens who stepped up to serve FPM families through volunteering and their own www donation drives.

To every volunteer who gives their time, energy, compassion, and heart: thank you!

Steps to Success Coordinator Kathy Rodman recently joined longtime Family Promise Metrowest volunteer Steve Beling at Analog Devices, Inc.’s Social Impact Fair, proudly representing Family Promise and sharing our mission with the community. As an Analog Devices employee and dedicated FPM volunteer, Steve has been instrumental in building a meaningful and lasting partnership between our organizations—one that has brought not only generous financial support, but also donations of essential items like backpacks, nonperishable food, and cleaning supplies for the families we serve.

In recognition of his incredible commitment, Steve was recently honored as one of our “Great Connectors” at our annual Volunteer Appreciation Party. We are deeply grateful to Steve and Analog Devices for their continued partnership and unwavering support of Family Promise families.

Summer is almost here—and every child deserves the chance to enjoy the simple joys of the season: splashing in the pool, riding bikes, exploring outdoors, enjoying a cold treat, and making carefree summer memories. Our Summer Drive helps bring those moments to the children in Family Promise Metrowest families while giving caregivers extra support during the months school is out. We’re building momentum, but we need your help to make this summer extra special! Every summer bag and gift card helps create joy, adventure, and a little breathing room for families working hard toward stability.

Summer Bags and Gift Cards are due at Family Promise by Thursday, June 4. Drop off at 6 Mulligan Street, Natick, on Mondays – Thursdays, 9 am – 4 pm, or by appointment. Our public entrance and parking face South Avenue.

Please click the links in the comments section below to get involved! Thank you so much!

This Mother’s Day, we celebrate the extraordinary love, strength, and resilience we witness every day at Family Promise Metrowest. We honor the mothers working tirelessly to create safer, more stable futures for their children, as well as those who have overcome hardship and returned to lift up the next family in need. We also recognize that the spirit of motherhood extends far beyond biology—living in the compassion, care, and generosity of our staff, volunteers, donors, caregivers, and supporters who show us every day what community truly means.

Still buzzing with gratitude after Sunday’s Walk to End Homelessness. The energy, smiles, and community spirit made it unforgettable. Photos continue pouring in, and we can’t wait to keep sharing these special moments with you. Thank you for being part of something so meaningful.

What an incredible day at our Walk to End Homelessness yesterday as our community showed up with heart, energy, and purpose. We are so grateful for everyone who joined, supported, and made it unforgettable. Here are just a few highlights, with many more to come. Thank you all and please share your photos below❤️

This is so much more than a Walk—it’s a feel-good community celebration for all ages. Arrive early and dive into an exciting pre-walk party filled with FREE activities for every registered walker. Enjoy music, laughter, and family-friendly fun before we even take the first step. Come for the cause, stay for the unforgettable experience. Check-in and activities open at 12pm!

The 12th Annual Framingham Family Fair: A Celebration of Young Children, Families, and the Importance of Early Education, hosted by the Early Childhood Alliance of Framingham, was held on Saturday, April 11th and welcomed families to come enjoy fun, interactive activities and performances offered by 30+ local early educators and community partners. Family Promise Metrowest added a meaningful social justice component with “Houses for Change,” a hands-on social justice initiative that engages children in meaningful giving. At the same time, families received essential items like underwear and Bombas socks, offering both practical support and a sense of dignity.