Cooking and Gardening, Volunteering, Legal Help

We work with 175+ diverse agencies in Cambridge and beyond. These agencies rely on community volunteers to help deliver services, support operations, or lead on their boards of directors.

We provide one-to-one mentoring to youth and adults with disabilities to reach their full potential.

We can help you with many housing-related services, including signing up for the Cambridge Affordable Housing list, preventing eviction, resolving issues with property managers, and more.

We currently provide lists of resources, information, and legal advice for people of color and immigrants.

Cambridge Camping provides an in-person STEAM-centered cooking program during the February school vacation week. 

We work to stabilize housing for eligible Cambridge tenants through mediation and dispute resolution services.

We provide a year-round, in-person leadership program at the Hurley Street Farm. Youth will learning leadership skills through urban gardening and environmental activism.

The City of Cambridge can help address concerns and questions about housing resources, tenants, homeowners, landlords and property management companies, and court-related information.

From maker space workshops to a dance studio, a Food Lab to a performance space, The Foundry’s array of spaces will serve your individual or group needs. Bring your creative spirit!

We are a student-run civil legal aid organization committed to providing free representation to low-income and marginalized communities in the Greater Boston area.

We provide language and interpretation classes, youth programs, multicultural community events, and other supports for immigrant families.

Are you looking for a great way to give back to the community? Consider partnering with immigrant high school students in the Cambridge/Somerville community through Enroot!

We offer various clubs and after-school sports for students.

Contact the MSC if you are living on the street, in emergency shelters or at risk of losing your housing and need help.

Summer Flag Football programs for girls ages 10-18.

Housed in Cambridge: Information to Open Doors webinar recordings.

We offer a tuition-free summer program where youth learn about gardening, STEM activities and experiments, environmentalism, leadership, and team building games.

We help girls develop courage, confidence, and character through community service, exploration, workshops and adventures, including lessons in STEM, outdoors, life skills, entrepreneurship.

Our Immigration Services assist individuals to process immigrant visa or becoming a permanent resident.

We connect Massachusetts nonprofits with pro bono legal assistance, education, and resources to help them strengthen their operations and support their communities.

Lawyers Clearinghouse connects people in need of free legal assistance with volunteer lawyers who can assist them with civil legal matters on a pro bono basis.

Offers people who have Massachusetts-based criminal records (CORI) the opportunity to seal or expunge their records with free assistance from volunteer lawyers.

Prepare for your high school equivalency tests or improve your reading, writing and math skills!

We work to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline by offering children mental health services that improve their long-term health and well-being.

Deliver groceries to folks in Somerville and Cambridge on the first Tuesday morning of each month!

Become a Connect Advocate volunteer for Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services!