WLP is still open and serving women every day. We are continuing to maintain all three of our core service areas – healthy meals, direct care and advocacy – despite the challenges brought on by COVID-19. Although this pandemic has forced us to temporarily shift to take-out meals, we are still serving over 200 meals each day! We miss our volunteers greatly and wanted to let you know a few ways you could be a "virtual volunteer"!
Read MoreWant to help WLP while shopping for your everyday essentials? Set up Amazon Smile and Amazon will donate to WLP each time you shop through the Smile page.
Read MoreFor daily updates on coronavirus in Boston, text BOSCOVID to 99411.
Read MoreThe leadership of Women’s Lunch Place has been monitoring the evolving conditions related to the COVID-19 emergency. Initially, WLP implemented prevention, education and response measures throughout our shelter programming.
Read MoreSeveral weeks ago, on an icy January night, WLP Executive Director Jennifer Hanlon Wigon joined hundreds of Boston volunteers to count the homeless living on the streets of Boston. Each year, volunteers work with city and state officials and comb through streets, alleyways, MBTA stations, and more to record how many people are sleeping outside. This data is then combined with overnight shelter and other transitional housing headcounts to get a better picture of homelessness and its impact in our city.
Read MoreThis Valentine’s Day, think about a gift that gives back. At Women’s Lunch Place in Boston, generous donations from our supporters have helped serve 104,715 healthy meals, provide 5,782 hot showers and 5,804 loads of clean laundry. As the need in the Boston community rises, we need help providing more meals for our guests experiencing homelessness and poverty.
Read MoreAs the holiday season approaches, so does brutally cold weather. This is an especially difficult time for our guests experiencing homelessness and poverty. During the seven days leading up to Giving Tuesday on December 3rd, help spread warmth to the approximately 250 women we serve each day, most of whom have experienced trauma, abuse, and loss.
Read MoreMake a difference in the lives of women experiencing homelessness and poverty this holiday season by selling Women’s Lunch Place (WLP) Winter Notecards. The artwork featured on each card was created by a WLP guest and features beautiful Boston winter scenes.
Read MoreWomen’s Lunch Place, a unique multi-service organization, providing a day shelter to more than 1500 women struggling with hunger, homelessness and mental health disorders, announces the hiring of Jennifer Hanlon Wigon as its new Executive Director. After an in-depth search, the Board is delighted that our search committee secured the strongest applicant who was already doing important work within Women’s Lunch Place.
Read MoreThe 19 members of Team WLP raised almost $23,000 and as of October 8, the event raised $424,404 of its $600,000 goal.
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