NOAH NEWS

MISSION: NOAH, a community development corporation, promotes equity, community cohesion, environmental justice and economic resiliency. We increase access to affordable housing, create social and economic opportunities, and empower residents to be leaders of change.

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT TAX CREDITS

Consider making the most of your 2026 charitable donation with the impactful 50% Massachusetts Community Investment Tax Credit program, which enables donors of $1,000 or more to double the power of their financial support!

The Massachusetts State CITC program provides a 50% refundable state tax credit for donations made to qualifying CDCs like NOAH. Since 1987, NOAH has worked towards achieving the National Housing Goal of "a decent home and suitable living environment" for as many families in need as it can, both locally and regionally, assisting over 3,500 individuals remain housed over the last twelve months. By making a CITC donation, you can directly assist in helping some of the area’s most vulnerable families and residents to retain and obtain safe and secure housing. Homelessness continues to be an exponentially growing problem that needs to be addressed desperately. Many safety nets that kept many at-risk households afloat have ended. This leaves an extreme need for affordable and emergency housing-related assistance, along with a tremendous gap in service delivery. Please help NOAH fill that gap by making a donation.


With the MA CITC program, even donors who do not have any tax liability can be eligible to receive a 50% rebate; and donors who have a state tax liability can receive half of their donation to NOAH back in state tax credits. NOAH has reserved 50% tax credits for all 2026 donors of $1,000 or more, and can assist CITC donors in utilizing the fairly simple credit-claiming process. Please reach out to Linda Foster if you have any questions re CITCs at lmillerfoster@noahcdc.org or 617-418-8246.

CITC donations or contributions of any amount can be made by mailing a check to NOAH, 143 Border Street, East Boston, MA 02128, or online at NOAH's website www.noahcdc.org on the Donations page!

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COMMUNITY BUILDING & ENVIRONMENT

Manlio Méndez Retires after Twenty-Three Years at NOAH
Manlio Méndez was celebrated recently at his well-attended and well-deserved retirement luncheon at Spinelli's in East Boston. Manlio leaves NOAH after 23 years of dedicated work within the organization's Community Building and Environment department, spearheading many of our successful neighborhood programs, and advocating for our East Boston neighbors. Everyone at NOAH would like to extend our gratitude to Manlio for his commitment, service, and positive impact over the years!

Manlio's efforts were recognized through a citation from the Massachusetts State House
 presented by State Representative Adrian Madaro

Manlio also recived a citation from the City of Boston presented by Gabriela M. Ramirez (left) and
 Stephan Marin (right) of City Councilor of Boston Gabriela Coletta Zapata's office, 
both of whom are former NOAH Youth Development Program members

Leading NOAH's Community Building and Environment (CBE) programming, Manlio has had an incredible impact on NOAH's neighborhood initiatives. His efforts have directly furthered NOAH's community service, leadership development, and healthy, safe, and resilient neighborhood-related programing; as well as spearheading NOAH's ESOL and Citizenship readiness programing as an effective advocate for newcomers to Boston. 

Many colleagues and friends also took the opportunity to share impactful stories and to celebrate the amazing work Manlio has achieved over the years. Talking of Manlio and his incredible impact to the organization, NOAH Executive Director, Philip Giffee, writes:


"He is always at work building effective programs, projects, and relationships, especially in NOAH's multifaceted newcomer outreach initiatives. We are very proud; he should be too. I cannot measure the number of people and families who have found space and economic wellbeing due to his efforts" 

Manlio's work, kindness, and commitment to the East Boston community will leave a lasting impact on our organization as well as all those he has supported along the way. We wish Manlio the very best in this new chapter. Happy retirement, Manlio!

Community Clean-Air

Recent major milestones in our collaborative East Boston Clean-Air project includes the successful installation of the UFP sensor at Orient Heights, further strengthening the project’s ability to monitor neighborhood air quality. Members of NOAH’s Youth Development Program also hosted a Build Your Own Air Purifier Workshop led by the iSUPER team, where participants learned how to assemble purifier models using LEGO components. The event brought together NOAH youth members, participants from Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS), and students from East Boston High School who had previously worked with NOAH’s data for a science fair project. Youth members also met with Professor Amy Mueller of Northeastern to continue developing ongoing data analysis projects. Together, they set project tasks, such as designing a rating system to classify sensor locations and surroundings, while also identifying key times to examine sensor readings around schools, including recess and drop-off periods.

Through this ongoing collaborative initiative, NOAH also has been working with community partners including Mothers Out Front, Maverick Landing Community Services, and Air Inc. to facilitate access to improved data tracking of localized air quality in East Boston, while simultaneously mitigating immediate risk to marginalized individuals via providing free air purifiers and resident knowledge resources. NOAH is collaborating with these and other area non-profits and academic partners to expand our air quality monitoring sensor system; facilitating training opportunities for members of the Youth Leadership program to analyze and understand data; providing at-home air purifiers to at-risk families within the East Boston community; and ultimately, consolidating the collected data into a publicly accessible online format.

NOAH and MLCS co-hosted an air quality summit in East Boston in collaboration with GreenRoots, drawing approximately 80 attendees, including community members, advocacy organizations and local representatives. The event featured breakfast, opening remarks from Representative Adrian Madaro, a panel on air quality and health with Tristan Thomas of ACE, Alina McIntyre from Silent Spring, and Scott Hersey from Air Partners, as well as lunch, a resource fair, and group discussion.


NOAH's Andrea Amador installs a new sensor.

NOAH AmeriCorps VITSA, Vicente Pereira, helps Youth Development Program members assemble a DIY air-filter kit.

NOAH was a recipient of the very impactful 2026 MA Office of Environmental Justice and Equity’s Environmental Justice Capacity Building award. These funds have been critical in supporting this project moving forward. The City of Boston's Environmental Department also awarded NOAH a Community Clean Air Grant for this initiative. The Air Pollution Control Commission’s Community Clean Air Grant program funds community-based projects that reduce air pollution and carbon emissions in Boston. Originally piloted in 2021, this program supports initiatives that improve public health and address climate change at the local level. Additional support for this critical work has come from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) via the Urban Institute. NOAH was one of 30 organizations to receive RWJF grant funding to utilize local data to create healthier, more connected communities. In addition, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) also awarded NOAH an important Accelerating Climate Resilience Grant to accelerate climate resiliency in East Boston through an 'Eastie’s Clean Air' partnership in collaboration with Maverick Landing Community Services. We are incredibly grateful to all for this critical support and to our local partners!

East Boston is a heavily urbanized area and, as such, is susceptible to numerous environmental-related health risks, including extreme temperatures, coastal flooding and poor air quality. The residents within East Boston are recognized by the State of Massachusetts as an environmental justice population, and face distinctive environmental risk compared to other parts of the city.

NOAH Youth Organizers (N-YO)

The NOAH Youth Leadership Development program offers East Boston teens the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and gain experiential knowledge as they spearhead numerous community activities that address negative environmental issues. Fifteen local youth members took part in the program this summer. The Youth are continuing the air filter project, in which they address East Boston's poor air quality by building and distributing free air purifiers. As noted above, the Clean Air initiative also includes working with our partners (including Air Inc, Green Roots, Maverick Landing Community Services, Mothers Out Front and others) on community-focused educational events and air quality data tracking with multiple sensors in the homes of participating families.

Pictured, NOAH Youth members attend a data analysis workshop session with Professor Amy Mueller of NorthEastern. 

NOAH’s youth organizers also continue to help coordinate and host additional free bilingual activities and events for the community throughout East Boston, while continuing to maintain the neighborhood's newest tree canopy plantings to help address the 'heat island effect' in East Boston; and helped to plant new trees at Central Square with Tree Eastie. They also head spearhead a major Kayaking program at Constitution Beach this summer - many thanks to Save the Harbor, Save the Bay's Better Beaches for its grant support!

Community Fishing Activities this Summer
NOAH’s CBE and Youth programing is currently collaborating with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (Saltwater) and the Mystic River Watershed Association to expand community fishing activities this summer. As part of this effort, NOAH participated in a fishing workshop focused on both fishing skills and best practices for hosting a community fishing clinic. This training has helped prepare our team to run safe, engaging, and educational clinics for participants.

This support will allow us to offer accessible fishing opportunities to community members while building outdoor recreation and environmental education into our summer programming. We are very grateful for this partnership and excited about the opportunities it creates for our participants.

The Massachusetts Environmental Trust

NOAH has received impactful funding support from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust to aid in our efforts to integrate a community-focused holistic approach to addressing East Boston’s water resource issues. As part of this funded project NOAH will be coupling environmental advocacy with interactive educational activities that will inform local residents and families of steps they can take to improve our aquatic habitats as well as conserve and protect threatened and endangered marine species. 

The Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) funds and coordinates projects to restore, protect and improve aquatic resources and ecosystems, and conserve threatened marine animals. Grant funds are generated from the sales of the Right Whale, Brook Trout, Striped Bass & Blackstone Valley license plates, and from donations. You can buy a specialty plate that will help the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) continue to safeguard the Commonwealth’s aquatic ecosystems and at-risk marine animals and native fish for the benefit of all. The purchase of these plates allows MET to support organizations such as NOAH, who are working to protect the state’s water-related resources: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/get-an-environmental-trust-license-plate

NeighborWorks Week and Jazz in the Park
From May 23 though to June 7, NOAH joined nearly 250 NeighborWorks America network organizations across the nation to amplifying the message of NeighborWorks: creating opportunities, strengthening communities and expanding access to safe, affordable housing!

NeighborWorks America is a congressionally chartered and funded nonpartisan nonprofit which support organizations that provide communities with affordable housing, financial counseling and coaching, training, and resident engagement and collaboration in the areas of health, employment and education.

As part of our participation in NeighborWorks Week, NOAH hosted a free Jazz in the Park event in East Boston. The event was a great success, with an estimated attendance of over 150 community residents. We received many positive comments, and it was wonderful to see so many families enjoying the music, activities, and time together.

The unique event featured no-cost family-friendly activities including face painting and bubbles for children; a wooden canvas painting station; and a food station. NOAH also provided information on community resources, free hygiene products (received through regular donations), as well as diapers for families in need. Thank you to NeighborWorks and to all those who attended!

NeighborWorks America Senior Relationship Manager, Emily Rosenbaum attends NOAH'S NW Week event

English for Speakers of Other Languages
NOAH’s ESOL program is a workforce training tool that helps new Bostonians learn, improve, and practice their use of the written and oral English language in a comfortable, communal environment, and encourages engagement in building a stronger community.

The program educates between 75-100 individuals annually though ESOL-related programing. NOAH is very proud of its dedicated instructors, great volunteers, current attendees and all our past graduates!

If you are interested in NOAH's English for Other Languages classes or would like to find out more about any of NOAH’s related programing, please contact Andrea Amador at aamador@noahcdc.org

NOAH’s Rental Homelessness Prevention and Emergency Housing Assistance programming, largely funded by the City of Boston Office of Housing Stability, helps residents maintain or obtain their apartments and avoid or mitigate homelessness. This programming assists those who are newly homeless to obtain shelter or a new apartment - especially fire, flood and other emergency victims - as well as working to prevent evictions 'up-stream'. These efforts are part of our commitment to low- and moderate-income Boston residents in need of support related to accessing affordable housing opportunities. 


As part of this impactful programing, NOAH’s Rental Homelessness Prevention work assists families actively facing housing displacement, providing individualized case management to help clients find access to the aid they need to achieve housing stability. In a household that is already rent-burdened, an emergency medical bill or other unexpected cost can result in significant rental arrears and quickly push residents toward eviction. The Emergency Housing Assistance program assists families who have already been displaced from their homes. Typically, a family is directed to NOAH following a fire or flood, or some other emergency that renders their apartment suddenly uninhabitable. NOAH’s case managers assess residents and then provide assistance as needed, including placing clients in temporary hotel housing or obtaining other shelter and/or assisting them through the housing search process. NOAH also supports families as they transition from a temporary placement into their new permanent apartment homes, helping with move-in costs and continued stabilization services, as needed. This initiative is also assisted by an AmeriCorps volunteer - Jeffrey Tellez - who works to increase NOAH’s capacity to effectively serve Boston communities - thank you, Jeffrey!

We would like to express our deep gratitude to the wonderful primary supporters of these important service lines, especially Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Chief of Housing and Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Sheila Dillon, for the essential City of Boston funding of this programming! Thanks so very much also to the Liberty Mutual Foundation and the Cummings Foundation for their very generous contribution to this initiative, as well. We are grateful, too, to all our other great supporters of this work!


For more information on NOAH's Rental Homelessness Prevention Services please contact Director Linda Foster at linda@noahcdc.org or call 617-418-8246.

NOAH has been selected as one of 150 nonprofits to receive funding through the Cummings Foundation’s annual grant program, which awarded $35 million this year! We are incredibly grateful for this impactful support. Since its founding, Cummings Foundation has awarded more than $650 million to Greater Boston nonprofits. The complete list of this year’s grant recipients, along with additional information about the Foundation and its grant programs, is available at CummingsFoundation.org.

This year’s grant recipients represent a wide variety of causes, including social justice, homelessness prevention, affordable housing, education, violence prevention, and food insecurity. The nonprofits are spread across 43 different cities and town. Support from the Foundation will be critical in assisting NOAH to provide no-/low-income households with bilingual homelessness prevention services including case management, home retention or new placement via assessment, shelter, housing search, and emergency rental payments.

Project Bread's Adriana Mendes-Sheldon (Cummings Foundation Selection Committee) joins NOAH's
Phaulnie Gauthier, Crystal Carrillo-Gamboa, Director Linda Foster, and Executive Director Philip Giffee

NOAH recently welcomed Eloisa E DePina (pictured left) , who is joining the NOAH team as a Homelessness Prevention Case Manager. Eloisa brings a wealth of experience and passion to the role in which she will be helping no-, low- and moderate-income Boston families avoid homelessness via eviction prevention efforts, assisting households to find suitable affordable apartments, and though trauma-informed case-management.

NOAH also welcomes Joelle Sonet (pictured right) as an AmeriCorps Volunteer! Joelle will be serving as a fundraising-related Capacity Building VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America). She brings a passion for community service and a valuable eagerness to learn; we are incredibly grateful to have her join the team! Over the next year, Joelle will be engaging in resource development and fundraising-related activities to further build on NOAH’s long-term efforts.

Landlord Education!
New in 2026, NOAH now offers specialized Landlord Education Workshops for prospective and current landlords on protecting their investment while staying compliant with Massachusetts State Laws. Sessions cover essential topics such as landlord-tenant relationships, maintaining your property, and using strong written leases. Participants will also gain practical tips on budgeting for repairs, keeping accurate records and communicating professionally with tenants.

Whether you are a new or experienced landlord, these workshop (available in English or Spanish) can help you to understand your rights and responsibilities. Additionally, first-time landlords purchasing a multifamily property with a closing date fast approaching can take advantage of our Emergency Landlord Sessions, specifically developed for buyers who need to complete the Landlord Education requirement quickly.

For more Information on NOAH's Landlord Education Programs please contact Carolina Suarez at 617-418-8261 or csuarez@noahcdc.org.


Pictured, NOAH Foreclosure Prevention Counselor, Carlos Grajales - Thrall, and Financial and Housing Counselor, Thais Gandica, tabling at the East Boston Farmers Market

Financial Capability

NOAH offers free bilingual financial capability programming including individual coaching for those who need assistance with managing their finances. NOAH's Financial Capability initiative operates on an ongoing basis designed to give participants the knowledge, skills, and tools to feel confident in their financial decision-making. Make a plan to reach your financial goals, manage your spending and improve your credit! To learn more or sign up, please contact Thais, NOAH's Financial Services Counselor, at 617- 418-8263 or email thaisg@noahcdc.org

First-Time Homebuyers

NOAH's First-Time Homebuyers (FTHB) classes cover everything one might need to know about buying a first home, including addressing unique challenges presented by rising home costs and the current economy. NOAH annually offers 15 or more CHAPA-certified FTHB workshops as well as an on-demand online course – both in Spanish and in English. To view upcoming FTHB class dates and learn more about registering please scroll down to the 'Upcoming Events' section of the newsletter. If you would like to learn more, please contact Carolina at 617-418-8261 or csuarez@noahcdc.org.

Foreclosure Prevention

NOAH's Foreclosure Prevention Program has a focus on assisting consumers who are in imminent default and in danger of losing their homes. The program offers homeowners help in understanding their options and determining the best and most affordable solutions based on their own personal financial situations. ​Our HUD-approved counselors meet with clients one-on-one to develop an action plan based on individual needs, to create budgets, to work to obtain loan modifications, and to contact lenders to advocate for homeowners. All programming is offered in English and Spanish - with other languages also available with translation services - and is free of charge. If you or someone you know has received a petition for foreclosure, please contact Carlos, NOAH's Foreclosure Prevention Counselor, at 617-418-8268 or cgrajalest@noahcdc.org.

NOAH’s bilingual homebuyer services remain accessible over Zoom, and the staffers continue to have various bilingual virtual speakers from financial institutions and other companies to provide expert advice to first-time homebuyer course attendees. Last year, the Department served over 400 households. If you have any questions about the Homebuyer Services Department programming, please contact Director Diana Franco at 617-418-8266 or dianaf@noahcdc.org.

SENIOR HOME REPAIR

NOAH’s Senior Repair Services program has been helping vulnerable senior homeowners and residents remain safe and independent within their own homes for the past 39 years. We provide in-home consultations and directly perform free minor repairs, as well as facilitate low-cost, or even no-cost, rehabilitation projects and larger-scale emergency repair services for over 60 income-eligible elderly and disabled homeowners each year. Long-term Program Manager Anthony D'Andrea and Assistant Carpenter Thomas Granara complete some 350 repairs annually.

These repairs are typically health- and safety-related services that make it possible for seniors living on fixed incomes to remain in their homes. Every job, regardless of size, is important to the elderly residents who often have no other options. Free safety repairs include: installing bathroom grab-bars, replacing unsafe doors/locks, replacing broken windows, fixing leaks and faulty electrical switches/lights, patching roofs, replacing gutters/down spouts, and more. 

In 2026, the Senior Saves program has increased it's funding assistance toward replacing an older heating system to up to $12,000! This impactful program helps seniors replace failing heating systems. Information on how to apply can be found on the flyer below. If you know of any Boston senior homeowners in need of a new heating system, please have them reach out to Program Manager Anthony D'Andrea or leave a voice mail at 617-418-8246.

Since 1987, NOAH has utilized this successful program to help over 4,000 elders remain safe by performing over 12,000 safety-related, emergency, and handicapped accessibility repairs. We remain deeply grateful to the City of Boston Mayor's Office of Housing and the Boston Home Center Division for their long-term support of this service line! Thank you, also, to Sailors Snug Harbor of Boston, the Charles F. Farnsworth Trust, the Bushrod H. Campbell & Adah F. Hall Charity Fund and the Harvard Memorial Church - we appreciate all of your wonderful assistance.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

NOAH's Property Management staff have been working hard to maintain and upgrade NOAH's properties and offices! NOAH owns 427 rental units & five commercial units in East Boston, Holliston, North Andover, Carlisle, Webster, Middleborough, and Taunton. Altogether, over 875 individuals reside in NOAH rental homes.

If you have any questions, please contact propertymanagement@noahcdc.org.

Pictured: NOAH's Director of Portfolio Operations, Mal Nelson

Seeking an Administrative Coordinator
NOAH has had to say a sad 'Goodbye' to Gladys Orellana Vega, NOAH's Property Management Administrative Assistant as she has moved on and up in her career. To help replace her, NOAH's Property Management team is seeking a full-time Administrative Coordinator to provide professional, friendly and responsive front-office support to NOAH residents, clients, applicants, vendors, contractors and visitors. The position serves as an important first point of contact for the office and managed properties, while assisting office staff with day-to-day administrative and property management operations.

Please send resumes to NOAH's Director of Portfolio Operations, Mal Nelson, at mnelson@noahcdc.org 

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

PACO Rehab: NOAH has worked with a team from the City, the Commonwealth, Rockland Trust and the BHA to preserve 110 units of affordable rental housing in 29 buildings. Eighteen of these buildings, purchased with City support to prevent tenant displacement, were on the cusp of foreclosure until this team stepped up and provided financial products to stave off this demanding threat. This was a very complex transaction in which NOAH had invested $2.4M of our own funds over six years to pay debt service to help cover rents and pay lenders their mortgages. If this team had not worked together so successfully over recent months, the properties would very likely have been sold to investors, who would have displaced the residents and turned them into condominiums; and NOAH would have lost millions of dollars. Thank you to all! In 2026, rehabilitation will begin an upgrade of these older triple-decker apartment homes. Additional rehab funding will be sought in a different financing arrangement a few years from now. Rep Adrian Madaro and Councilor Gabriela Coletta made it abundantly clear during the past two years that the community could not afford to lose these at-risk properties and low income, working families. In addition, preservation is significantly less expensive than building new housing, and it is much faster, as well.

Ayer: The Town directed NOAH to this site at 65 Fitchburg Road, as a way to help them add quality housing to their commercial/industrial area. The 10.5-acre site is a vacant former lumber yard, part of which is wetlands. The project has recently won a $4M earmark spearheaded by Senators Markey and Warren to whom we are very grateful for their support! The Town also received a $500,000 infrastructure grant from the State in order to run sewer lines to the site. NOAH is currently preparing an updated financing application of approximately $39M to be submitted to the State at the end of summer, with more details submitted in a very competitive December One-Stop round. The first phase of the project will be 64 low-rise units followed a few years later by a higher density structure with 42 units. The Town of Ayer is very supportive of the project and has garnered multiple letters of support to help prove the demand for the project. Tania Hartford, former COO at Mass Development, is currently consulting to help pull the fully permitted project together. NOAH has hired ICON Architecture to assist in redesigning this 106-unit, affordable/workforce project.

Please reach out to NOAH Executive Director, Phil Giffee, for details at pgiffee@noahcdc.org or 617-418-8240.

NOAH would like to say THANK YOU to all our wonderful recent funders for their support:

AAFCPAs, Adrian Madaro Committee, Alfred E. Chase Charity Foundation - Bank of America, N.A., Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund, the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, Save the Harbor, Save the Bay (Better Beaches), Mr. & Mrs. David Blake, BlueHub Capital, Bushrod Campbell & Adah Hall Charitable Fund, Mr. & Mrs. David Bryant, the Cabot Family Charitable Trust, Cambridge Savings Foundation, Charles H. Farnsworth Charitable Trust - Bank of America N.A. Trustees, the City of Boston, City of Boston SuccessLink Partnership, Dawn Clark, Edmund & Nina Coletta, Andrew Cohen, John Connell, the Cummings Foundation, Ernani DeAruajo Esq., Dedham Savings Foundation, Dimella Shaffer, Adam Dobson, Bob & Mirriam Dorfman, the East Boston Foundation, Eastern Bank, English for New Bostonians, Melissa Fish Crane, Rose Fiore, Philip Freehan, Greater Boston Association of Realtors (GBAR), Hackett Feinberg P.C., Hancock United Church of Christ, Harvard Memorial Church, Rick High & Anne Perkins, the City of Boston's Small Community Grants Trust Program (George O. Hovey), Joy Street Design, George & Carolyn Koehler, Susan Koffman Esq. & Tom Cooper, Gail Latimore, the Liberty Mutual Foundation, Maury E. Lederman, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the M&T Charitable Foundation, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), Massachusetts Division of Banks, MA Environmental Justice Capacity Building Grant, Massachusetts Office of Environmental Justice and Equity, Massachusetts Environmental Trust, Massachusetts Mortgage Bankers Assoc. Foundation, Medford Wegmans, the Mifflin Memorial Fund, Needham Bank, NeighborShare, NeighborWorks America, Northern Bank Charitable Foundation, O’Donoghue Insurance Agency, Pentecostal Tabernacle, Red Sox Foundation, Rockland Trust, Rockland Charitable Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Salem Five Charitable Foundation, Santander Bank N.A., Sailors’ Snug Harbor, Kristin & David Shapiro, John Smolak Esq./Smolak & Vaughan LLP, Mary Otis Stevens, the Suffolk County DA's Office, TD Charitable Foundation, United Way of Mass. Bay & Merrimack Valley, Washington Trust Mortgage, Webster Bank, Renee West, the Wood/Perry Family Trust, The Yevette B. Morrill Charitable Gift Fund, and an anonymous donor.

NOAH would also like to extend a special extra 'thank you' to: the Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, MAPC, and the Cambridge Savings Bank for their wonderful awards; in addition to the Cummings Foundation and the Liberty Mutual Foundation for their very generous awards to our affordable housing preservation service line; and to the State of Massachusetts and to the City of Boston, for all of their wonderful ongoing support!

And, as always, a great big THANK YOU to our fantastic long-time funding partners NeighborWorks America and United Way of Massachusetts Bay!

With our generous supporters, we are able to continue to create and maintain more sustainable neighborhoods, community services, and affordable housing opportunities than ever before.

If you would like to make a donation or have any questions, please reach out to Linda Foster at linda@noahcdc.org or 617-418-8246, or donate online at noahcdc.org/donate! 

NOAH would additionally like to thank those who have joined us to volunteer! Volunteer opportunities range from long-term law school and college interns and AmeriCorps volunteers to half-day project volunteers, with activities such as working in our youth-led community garden or performing maintenance upkeep at Trinity House for the formerly homeless in East Boston, as well as with first-time homebuyer education and financial capability workshops, and working on work-force preparation skills. We thank you all!

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NOAH today. To donate online CLICK HERE.   

Please consider making a donation to NOAH today! There is a mounting crisis in the area of housing and shelter in Greater Boston. Over our 39-year history we have never seen anything like it. The numbers of families reaching out for housing assistance continue to grow exponentially. NOAH helped 6,000 individuals from over 2,700 families last year. Of these, over 1,600 households were housing-related clients - and over half of these were children. Your financial support at any level at this time can make a major difference in the lives of local residents struggling to retain or obtain their homes. Since 1987, NOAH has created investments totaling $659.3 million in the Greater Boston regional economy. Please help now, if you can.

UPCOMING FIRST TIME HOMEBUYER PROGRAMMING

Click Here to Register for an upcoming First-Time Homebuyer class or reach out to Carolina Suarez at 617-418-8261 for more information.

FTHB English Language Classes: 
Tuesday, September 15 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. (Part 1)

Wednesday, September 16 from 5:30 p.m to 9:45 p.m. (Part 2)

FTHB Spanish Language Classes (Español):
Sábado, 12 de Septiembre - 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Part I)

Domingo, 13 de Septiembre - 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Part II)

Landlord Education
Register Here for an upcoming Landlord Education Workshop or reach out to Carolina Suarez at 617-418-8261 for more information.

Landlord Workshop (English)

Tuesday, September 22nd - From 5:30PM – 9:00PM

Taller para propietarios (español)

miercoles, 21 de octubre 2026 - Desde las 5:30PM – 9:00PM

To schedule an Emergency Landlord Session, please contact Carolina Suarez at (617) 418 - 8261 or csuarez@noahcdc.org.

Help NOAH Keep Constitution Beach Clean and Turn Recycled Materials into Works of Art
with support from Massachusetts Environmental Trust


September 19, 2026
October 3, 2026
October 10, 2026

For details, please reach out to CBE's Sury Chavez at schavez@noahcdc.org.

NOAH's new ESOL classes are starting the week of September 22nd!


Level I on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6 to 8:30PM
Level II on Tuesdays and Fridays from 6 to 8:30PM

Please contact CBE's Andrea Amador at aamador@noahcdc.org for more information about ESOL classes.