Mystic Valley Elder Services: Bread of Life’s Grocery Delivery Program delivers groceries to clients of Mystic Valley Elder Services and to other mobility-impaired senior citizens, disabled residents and those experiencing emergencies in Malden and Everett.
Malden Community Fridges: Bread of Life provides perishable and non-perishable foods once for four Malden Community Fridges open to the public 24/7 and located on Canal Street across from CHA, at Beebe School, in Linden Square across from Dunkin, and on the bike path behind U-Haul .
Housing Families Inc. Shelter for Homeless Individuals: Bread of Life delivers meals and groceries weekly to HFI homeless shelter.
UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program FY 25: this program will provide food demos and nutrition education events at the BOL Malden pantry during the upcoming year. We are aiming to demo multi-cultural dishes with input from pantry members and utilizing pantry ingredients.
Tri-City Hunger Network: BOL convenes the Tri-City Hunger Network every 2nd Tuesday of the month to bring together organizations and agencies fighting food insecurity in Malden, Medford and Everett. Participants include representatives of the Greater Boston Food Bank, Project Bread, ABCD, Cambridge Health Alliance, Melrose-Wakefield Healthcare, Tufts Health Plan, WIC, Mass Senior Action Council, YWCA Malden, YMCA Malden and local food pantries.
School Transition and Special Education Programs: BOL provides a site several days per week where groups of students from Malden, Everett and Stoneham, who will not be receiving diplomas when they leave high school, can practice job skills volunteering in our food pantry.