Posts published in “From the Community”

Jamaica Plain-based Volunteers of America of Massachusetts (VOAMASS), a nonprofit that creates opportunities for individuals through residential and outpatient behavioral health treatment, re-entry services for justice-involved individuals, veteran services and senior living, announced that Director of Residential Services Anthony Joseph has received a national award for leadership from the organization’s national affiliate, Volunteers of America (VOA).

Ellis Early Learning has been awarded a $25,000 Massachusetts Farming Reinforces Education and Student Health (MA FRESH) grant to establish a farm-to-school initiative for growing local food and promoting food literacy and nutrition education among its Jamaica Plain preschool students.

Community Servings, a Jamaica Plain-based nonprofit provider of medically tailored meals and nutrition services, and a leader in “food is medicine” research, advocacy and policy, officially opened a new satellite distribution center in Mansfield, a 23,000-square-foot facility specially outfitted for meal packaging and delivery to hundreds of people living with critical and chronic illnesses across the region.