Public Benefits and Community Assistance

We offer diverse, high-quality programs promoting leadership and youth development through enrichment activities, unique experiences, and opportunities to develop relationships with adults and peers.

Strategic Services, Project Management & Implementation, Marketing & Communications, Providing Physical and Online Support, and more...

Cambridge HEART envisions interconnected local communities that practice care, healing, transformative accountability, self-determination, and that are free of carceral systems.

Onsite & online interactive classes, workshops, and cultural events in dance, fitness, martial arts, music, theater, and more, for all ages and abilities, by our talented and diverse faculty members!

A unified system with a strong main library and six active branch libraries each tailored to the unique needs of its neighborhood.

We provide specialized diagnostic and therapeutic mental health services to children & adolescents (primarily ages 6-17) who are court-involved or at risk of being court-involved and their families.

We holistically support the education achievement and overall wellness of under-resourced children and families.

Free early literacy program for all families in Cambridge with children birth to 8 years.

We provide free legal services to low income residents of Cambridge, Somerville, Arlington, Woburn and Winchester in civil legal matters including denials for public benefits claims.

We collect used bikes and give them away for free to people who need them.

We are committed to working with the community to make the City of Cambridge a safe and desirable place to live, work or visit. We solve problems and improve public safety.

Since 1972, Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services (SCES) has been the area's aging information and service center.

De Novo provides free civil legal assistance and affordable psychological counseling to low income people.