Program Partners:

Organizations Supplying Food, Volunteers or services:

meals partner groups:

Everett

  • American Muslim Center

Malden

  • First Baptist Church

  • First Church in Malden, Congregational

  • First Lutheran Church

  • First Parish in Malden, Universalist

  • Malden High School Key Club

  • Massachusetts Senior Action Council Metro North Chapter

  • Outreach Community & Reform Center

  • Sacred Hearts Parish

  • St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Joseph’s Parish

Melrose

  • First Baptist Church

  • First Congregational Church

  • First United Methodist Church

  • Green Street Baptist Church

  • McNeilly Family & Friends

  • Melrose Highlands Congregational Church

  • Melrose Rotary Club

  • Melrose Unitarian Universalist Church

Peabody

  • Temple Tiferet Shalom

Reading

  • Church of the Good Shepherd

Saugus

  • Portuguese Baptist Church

Wakefield

  • Emmanuel Episcopal Church

food & services partners:

Organizations Collaborating with Bread of Life to provide services:

  • Mystic Valley Elder Services: Bread of Life’s Grocery Delivery Program delivers about 200 grocery orders per week to senior citizens, disabled residents and COVID-quarantined households in 13 communities, including clients of Mystic Valley Elder Services.

  • Malden Community Fridges: Bread of Life provides perishable and non-perishable foods once per week 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 .

  • Bowdoin Street Apartments, Malden: Resident services staff pick up groceries from Bread of Life for food-insecure residents as needed.

  • Housing Families Inc. Shelter for Homeless Individuals and Families, and Community Resource Hub: Bread of Life delivers meals and groceries weekly to HFI homeless shelters in Malden and Woburn. HFI staff also pick up groceries as needed from Bread of Life for food-insecure families to receive through the Community Resource Hub.

  • UMass Extension Nutrition Education Program FY 23: 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.

  • Malden Office of Housing Stability, operated by Housing Families Inc, does monthly outreach at the BOL evening meal to assist guests with housing issues.

  • 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.

  • The Bridge English Training Center: BOL partners with the Bridge to introduce our services to their students and involve them in volunteering at our pantry. The Bridge serves as a community resource and service to students with language-based learning differences such as dyslexia.