Moving Forward to a Brighter Future: Under One Roof
Garden Planter Sponsorships
We have 13 raised garden planters along the bike path filled with beautiful flowers and plantings gracing our new building at 54 Eastern Ave Malden! Sponsorships are available for $2,000 each and your name will be displayed for hundreds to see each day along the bike path side of the planter and along the new building side. Sponsorships are going fast - contact Patty Kelly to secure your sponsorship and let everyone know you’re supporting Bread of Life! Patty.Kelly@breadoflifemalden.org
Our Grand Opening on August 11th was a triumph, capping 20 years of faith, labor, perseverance and funding on the part of many, many people in the community - and two years of construction! At the beginning of August, we moved out of our three leased sites at 109 Madison, 214 Commercial and the First Baptist Church into our new facility. Our UOR project created a beautiful, efficient state-of-the art building that brings all BOL programs under one roof – food pantries, evening meals, backpacks, motel shelter food provision, grocery delivery and food access – along with our offices and a multi-purpose hall for expanded programs. The facility also provides 14 affordable studio apartments owned and operated by Metro North Housing Corp (MNHC)* that provides permanent housing for very low-income formerly homeless individuals. Thank you for your support for this project to provide food security and permanent housing! We are deeply grateful to the 1,200+ individuals, businesses, foundations, civic groups, schools and faith communities that contributed over $4.5 million toward our $5.8 million project, with cornerstone grants from the Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation, Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing Inc, Clipper Ship Foundation, Donovan Family Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Craig & Sara Brandon, and City of Malden ARPA, CDGB and Community Preservation Committee. We could not have done it without all of you!
Gabriella Snyder Stelmack, Executive Director, Bread of Life
* Metro North Housing Corp (MNHC) was founded in 2015 to provide affordable housing for low income and homeless people in Malden, Medford, Everett, and surrounding communities. Metro North’s ultimate focus is to end homelessness and provide safe affordable housing that allows extremely low income people to have a stable foundation for development and growth. Toward that end, Metro North specializes in providing permanent supportive housing for homeless adults, including individuals with disabilities. In addition to the current project at 54 Eastern Ave, Metro North owns and manages 2 properties with 25 units of housing; our Washington Street development is a 14-unit building for homeless men and women, and the other is the Kaszanek House on Charles Street, which is an 11-unit building for homeless and at-risk college students from area colleges.
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If you would like more information about our "Under One Roof" Capital Campaign, please email Patty Kelly, Development Director at patty.kelly@breadoflifemalden.org.
Note: Total project cost is $11.4 million. Bread of Life has financing, donations, and grants totaling $5.76 million, including: City of Malden ARPA, CDGB amd CPC grants of $1.2 million and Massachusetts grants and budget earmarks of $600,000. MNHC has financing and grants of $5.64 million, including: North Suburban HOME Consortium award of $1.65 million; Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Program and Eastern Bank (through a FHLB Member Loan) award of $1.4 million; Malden Community Preservation Committee award of $412,000; and MA Department of Housing and Community Development award of $1.98 million.
