Support Our Work

Why give to CEOC? For 60 years, we have been fighting poverty in our community. We run super-lean, so you know your gift has a direct, positive impact on the lives of your neighbors in need. We have leapt over many hurdles in our 60 year history, but we are facing some of the most severe challenges yet. With your support behind us, we are confident we’ll be able to keep our food pantry full, fill the gaps, and continue to provide free assistance with housing, taxes, health insurance, financial education, and mental health.

DONATE

There are many ways you can contribute to our mission. Besides a monetary donation, you can help stock our food pantry with household goods by purchasing from our registry!

Buy off our registry!

Or, while you're doing your grocery shopping, pick up a grocery store gift card for a neighbor in need and drop it off to us.

Just last year we provided:

CEOC's Central Square food pantry distributed food to nearly 8,000 individuals

Health insurance enrollment assistance for 5,224 individuals

$2.55 million in tax refunds through free tax preparation and assistance for over 1,500 low-income tax filers.

Over $224,000 in direct, small cash grants to our community.

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Individual financial coaching to 199 participants, assisting them with budgeting, debt resolution, credit card management, and bank services.

Housing case management and advocacy and emergency funds to 1,123 Cambridge tenants to help maintain stable housing and avoid eviction.

SNAP enrollment assistance to get money for food to 1,233 individuals.

Journey to Hope wellness support service to 77 individuals, where participants' depression decreased by an average of 66%.