Career Support, Food Resources

Our guide is a great way to learn about and connect to free and low-cost foods in Cambridge.

Every Saturday, we open our place to the people in need and provide them with hot meals.

We offer nutritious food to those in need, no questions asked! Individuals and families can receive help once per week.

We provide lunch at noon every day and a continental breakfast six days each week through our drop-in Day Shelter.

Our food and supply pantry is open to all on a first come, first served basis until supplies run out.

Our cadet training program is a paid, benefitted full-time position with a two-year commitment for Cambridge residents between ages of 18-23 who are interested in pursuing a career in public safety.

This program is designed to help youth to acquire the professional skills and coaching experience needed for working within the parkour industry, while also building valuable professional skills.

We offer a free dual enrollment program with Bunker Hill Community College. Students take two classes and receive advising support to prepare for their next steps, such as college or career training.

When people come in we can help them use their digital devices (smartphones, tablets, computers), apply for services online, learn digital literacy and safety/privacy tips, and get access to devices.

MPF is recruiting Fellows to lead youth programs for youth in grades 6-12 at one of our partner schools, city agencies, and non-profits across Massachusetts! Apply today!

Qualifying individuals can apply to receive affordable internet access and a new laptop.

We offer summer jobs to Cambridge teens, from age 14 through the summer after they graduate high school.

As part of our program, we hand out various combinations of sandwiches or bagged lunches, juice boxes, snacks, socks, some seasonal items, toiletry kits, and more to the community.

Restaurant prepared hot meals served primarily to unhoused persons.

The Literacy Project offers free classes in English conversation, job hunting and resume writing.

A free program that can help Social Security beneficiaries go to work, get a good job that may lead to a career, and become financially independent.

This program offers paid school-year internships at Harvard University for CRLS juniors and seniors.

We offer discounted MBTA passes to income-eligible Cambridge residents between the ages of 19-25.