Caritas in the News
Nonprofit proposes 34-unit building for ‘extremely low-income’ residents in Quincy
THE DORCHESTER REPORTER − A nonprofit organization says it plans to tear down its recently updated rooming house on Winter Street and the house next door and replace them with 34 studio apartments...
Two visions for Uphams Corner to ponder next to Strand
DORCHESTER REPORTER — Responding to a request for proposals issued by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) earlier this year, two teams vying to redevelop a city-owned block in Uphams...
Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Distributes More Than $400,000 to 25 Nonprofits
FRAMINGHAM SOURCE — Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation, the nonprofit, private charitable foundation established by Middlesex Savings Bank, one of the largest mutual banks in Massachusetts,...
13 Arlington Organizations Receive Community Development Block Grants
PATCH, ARLINGTON, MA — Arlington's Department of Planning and Community Development has announced the recipients of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding for Program Year 48, which began...
Two bidders pitch plans for key Uphams Corner parcels
DORCHESTER REPORTER — Two experienced development teams have submitted proposals for key city-owned properties in Uphams Corner, setting out very different approaches in a process that failed to...
Caritas Communities Goes Solar
BOSTON REAL ESTATE TIMES — Nonprofit housing provider Caritas Communities has partnered with locally-based Sunwealth, a clean energy investment firm, to install solar arrays on ten properties,...
Cohasset High student “Two Weeks of Love” aids area’s impoverished
WICKED LOCAL, COHASSETT MARINER — Since a young age, Tess Wilcox has had an eye towards social justice and empathy. Raised in a family that counts service among their core values, Wilcox has always...
Caritas Communities Honors Eastern Bank’s Quincy Miller, $850,000 Raised in Live Online Gala
BOSTON REAL ESTATE TIMES — Caritas Communities broadcast its 36th Annual Housing for All Gala live online on Wednesday, November 17, raising over $850,000 for its permanent housing and supportive...
Mayor Janey Celebrates Grand Opening Of O’Connor Way Senior Affordable Housing Development In South Boston
PATCH, WEST ROXBURY, MA — Mayor Kim Janey, South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation, Caritas Communities and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) celebrated the grand opening of the O'Connor...
Grand Opening of O’Connor Way Senior Housing Development Celebrated in South Boston
CITY OF BOSTON — Mayor Kim Janey, South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation, Caritas Communities and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) celebrated the grand opening of the O’Connor Way Senior Housing Development today in South Boston.
Caritas Communities has created its first endowed fund
NEW ENGLAND REAL ESTATE JOURNAL — Caritas Communities has created its first endowed fund named after a Caritas incorporator, Paul McGrath, who passed away in August of 2020. The fund will support...
Shut down DCF’s homeless pipeline
COMMONWEALTH — Nicole, a youth at More Than Words, turned 18 this month and was terrified. The milestone would be dampened for anyone during this pandemic, but Nicole was losing her housing and...
Cohasset High School student organizes food drive
WICKED LOCAL, COHASSET MARINER — Tess Cassel, a freshman at Cohasset High School, has organized a food drive to benefit low-income residents of Caritas Communities on the south shore, including...
Real estate boom threatens rooming houses at bottom of the housing market
WBUR—Feb. 10, 2020 A hot real estate market in Boston and surrounding cities is fueling rent hikes and evictions in what has long been one of the cheapest housing options in poor neighborhoods —...
Caritas Communities Appoints Karin Cassel Mitterando as ED
Mass Non-profit News—March 22, 2019 Caritas Communities, a Braintree-based nonprofit that provides very low income individuals with permanent housing, recently announced that Karin Cassel Mitterando...
40-year fixed loan will help Caritas continue mission of helping low income
MPH NEWS — One of Greater Boston’s most effective providers of homes for very low-income and formerly homeless individuals has ensured its ability to provide affordable housing for years to come...
Southie To Get 47 Affordable Housing Units For Seniors
Boston Herald—December 18, 2015 A new 47-unit affordable housing complex for senior citizens is set to rise on a vacant site in the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing development in South Boston....
Caritas cares for its disadvantaged neighbors in a most fundamental and essential way.
WSB TOWN CRIER — Everyone should have a safe place to sleep at night. Caritas Communities provides for that basic need for nearly 900 people across eastern Massachusetts, many of whom are formerly...
Whole Foods Market’s Goodwill for the Grill Benefits Bedford Veterans Quarters and Caritas Communities
THE BEDFORD CITIZEN — More than 150 hungry shoppers participated in Whole Foods Market Bedford’s “Goodwill for the Grill” cookout on Friday, June 27, 2014, raising more than $1,000 for Caritas...
Caritas Communities, Improving Lives, One Room at a Time
BAY STATE APARTMENT OWNER — It's all about considering someone's life outside of the present moment, says Mark Winkeller, executive director of Caritas Communities in Braintree. "Many individuals...
Caritas in Braintree wins $100K grant for housing project
WICKED LOCAL, BRAINTREE — The $100,000 affordable housing grant Caritas Communities of Braintree won through the TD Charitable Foundation’s Housing for Everyone grant competition will be used to...
BU funding rehab or Caritas housing
BOSTON COURANT — The brownstones on the edge of Bay Village that serve as a transitional shelter will soon get a $5.7 million renovation with the help of $1 million from Boston University. As part...