Poverty in a Pandemic

The virus has exposed the realities and conditions of financial insecurity in America. But, it has also exposed how misunderstood conceptions of poverty are, what poverty looks like, and who is at risk.  Consider this: before the pandemic, 140 million Americas...
Meet our Lend A Hand Intern

Meet our Lend A Hand Intern

LAH has been fortunate to have Malaika Moyer, a senior at Boston University studying advertising and film and television production with a minor in Deaf studies, as a marketing intern in the summer of 2019 and 2020. She’s worked on a variety of outreach, data, and...
LAH Introduces New Online Referral System

LAH Introduces New Online Referral System

For our agency partners, a new online referral system for LAH was designed in 2019 by MIT Code for Good  IAP project. Thanks go out to Christina Warren, Tiffany Trinh, and Angelica Castillejos, computer sciences majors at MIT, for their work in building the...
Donation from Fundraising Event

Donation from Fundraising Event

Grant Francis presents a check for money he and friends raised by hosting a St. Patrick’s Day fundraising party to benefit LAH. This was a wonderful gesture as the money raised will go directly to help a family in an emergency situation. In her remarks, Nancy Cooper,...