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LGBTQ+ Commission
This guide is an overview of some of the organizations that serve to support LGBTQ+ older adults. There are local organizations, national organizations, and other information.
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Community Development Department
We enhance the city's quality of life by improving our transportation system and city-wide mobility.
Cambridge Energy Alliance, Community Development Department, and All in Energy
We you make your home more energy-efficient and help to save you money on your utility costs if you qualify for our low-income programs.
Registration required
City of Cambridge
We help Cambridge residents access and navigate affordable housing opportunities, obtain eviction and tenant displacement prevention, and other housing related resources and services.
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture! Learn about the animals of the zodiac in this fun scavenger hunt across two museums, perfect for all ages.
Material Aid and Advocacy Program (MAAP)
We provide meals and materials to individuals who are low-income or extremely low-income, and who are experiencing homeless, are housing insecure, or living in persistent poverty.
Application required
CDD Economic Opportunity and Development Division (EOD)
We partner with local businesses and organizations to sponsor free events in parks across the city.
Cambridge Public Library
We offer lots of free events throughout the year for people of all ages with a love of learning!
The Cambridge Public Library offers free computer classes, book groups, English classes, makerspace workshops, and lots more upcoming opportunities to learn.
We offer a monthly delivery of library materials to Cambridge residents who are unable to visit a library due to short- or long-term disability or infirmity.
We have over 200 collections and nearly 2,700 books, spanning the 17th - 21st Centuries, featuring the political and social history of Cambridge.
Cambridge Police Department
We provide several support services for senior citizens in Cambridge each year including regular outreach meetings, education on common scams or general safety, and our Secret Santa for Seniors event.
Jewish Family and Children's Service (JF&CS)
We help aging individuals and their families navigate life transitions and changing circumstances through a variety of support services.
Harvard University's Schacter Memory Lab
This is a paid, two session study. The entire study will be approximately 5.5-6 hours long, and requires participants to come in on two separate days.
Catholic Charities
This program serves families looking for help with food, rent, utilities, clothing, infant supplies, holiday assistance, refugees and immigration services, substance abuse support, and more!
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Cambridge Council on Aging
Creative Colorful Creations on Fabric with Phyllis Wadlington. Discover your creative side, working with different fabrics. Explore the possibilities of what can be painted on fabric.
Monday, December 8, 2025
12PM – 2PM
More dates available: Monday, December 15, 2025
This is a low impact, easy to follow, 45-minute Latin-inspired dance class. This class is appropriate for adults of all fitness levels and participants can go at their own pace.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
1PM – 1:45PM
More dates available: Thursday, December 11, 2025 Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Thursday, December 18, 2025 Tuesday, December 23, 2025 Tuesday, December 30, 2025 Tue, January 6 2026
Unlock your creative potential with our Documentary Photography Class! Every Friday afternoon, we'll dive into taking the best possible image you can take with your Smartphone.
This class provides opportunities to improve balance standing and seated on mats or chairs. The objective is to increase our self-confidence and joy standing and moving.
Friday, December 12, 2025
10:30AM – 11:30AM
Put on your dancing shoes to improve flexibility and balance, strengthen muscles and have fun!
11AM – 11:45AM
More dates available: Monday, December 15, 2025 Monday, December 22, 2025 Mon, January 5 2026 Mon, January 12 2026 Mon, January 26 2026
This fun, friendly dance class is suited for all fitness levels. You will learn basic steps geared towards improving one’s balance. Seated warm up and cool down exercises are performed.
1PM – 2PM
A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry. 1997. 603p.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
11:45AM – 1PM
Join us for a workshop to make a small quilted potholder or trivet. Using the ‘assembly line” quilting method, you will plan, cut, and sew a quilt using our sewing machines.
1PM – 3PM
More dates available: Thursday, December 18, 2025
This program, led by Zeenat Potia, will introduce and utilize mindfulness techniques to help us examine and regulate everyday life changes with a focus on aging.
9AM – 10AM
More dates available: Monday, December 15, 2025 Monday, December 22, 2025
Join the Acrylic Painting Workshop at our North Cambridge location and unleash your artistic talents with the guidance of a skilled instructor. You'll also get to take home your very own masterpiece!
9:30AM – 12PM
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