Thank You For Supporting Our Winter Fundraising Campaigns
All year long, Bay Cove and CASPAR provide a range of essential services to people experiencing homelessness. When winter arrives, keeping those we serve safe and warm becomes even more challenging, and we rely more than ever on the support of our Bay Cove Community.
We’re profoundly grateful to everyone who exhibited amazing generosity this winter in contributing to our two major winter fundraising initiatives: Bay Cove’s Winter Warmth Holiday Fund and the CASPAR Give Homelessness the BOOT! campaign.
The Winter Warmth Holiday Fund was set up to provide holiday meals and gifts of needed items to people served by Bay Cove’s homeless services programs, family supports program, and permanent supported housing programs. The donations given to the Winter Warmth Fund helped make the holiday season itself brighter for individuals we serve, while also making it easier for them to negotiate the difficult winter months more comfortably and safely.
Our Give Homelessness the BOOT! campaign supported neighbors experiencing homelessness in Cambridge and Somerville. Donors who participated in the campaign sponsored a person in need (or, in the case of a number of generous local companies and organizations, sponsored multiple people), allowing CASPAR to provide winter boots, winter coats and other warm clothing to guests at CASPAR’s shelters and people served by the First Step Street Outreach Team.
We’re grateful to report that, with the generous support of individual and corporate donors, we were able to equip every individual we serve with these vital winter needs!
Our deepest gratitude goes out to the following organizations, who made this year’s boot drive a huge success through their donations and volunteer support: Albireo, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Intellia Therapeutics, John T. Ice Consulting, Jounce Therapeutics, and Orna Therapeutics. And a special thank you to all the many individual and anonymous donors who contributed, for the tremendous difference they made to so many this holiday season.
Finally, we’re grateful to everyone who supported the sixth annual Warm Hearts for Warm Feet sock drive conducted by the City of Cambridge. Organized once again by Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and Vice-Mayor Alanna Mallon—in partnership with the Cambridge Police Department and local retailers Cambridge Naturals, CambridgeSide and Hilton’s Tent City—this Valentine’s Day tradition helped collect warm wool socks to be distributed by CASPAR to our unsheltered neighbors.
We thank our generous supporters for all the caring, impactful ways that you’ve helped the most vulnerable members of our community this winter and beyond!