Abby's House
Non-Profit
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Counseling, Crisis Counseling
Domestic Violence Services The emergency shelter advocate provides crisis counseling to hundreds of survivors and their friends and families each year. Se...
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Counseling, Domestic Abuse Support
Domestic Violence Services The emergency shelter advocate provides crisis counseling to hundreds of survivors and their friends and families each year. Se...
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Furniture * (ANY/ALL Types)
Women in need receive merchandise at no cost. All remaining items are available at low cost to the public.
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Thrift Store
Donated clothing, furniture and household items are collected and attractively arranged in our thrift shop located at 52 High Street. Women in need receive m...
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Fundraiser, Volunteer
Abby’s budget consists of volunteer hours, in-kind donations of food and household items, and a cash operating budget of 1,000,000.00. Of this amount, only 3...
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Maintenance, Facility Maintenance, Volunteer
With four properties, Abby’s has plenty of tasks! Position: Seasonal Maintenance Staffer Hours: Tuesday – Wednesday 8:30am- 2pm Various days & times Com...
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Meal Preparation, Volunteer
Nutritious meals are provided for residents of Abby’s housing units and members of Abby’s Women’s Center. Approximately 20 diners have lunch and 15 diners pa...
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Meal Server, Volunteer
Nutritious meals are provided for residents of Abby’s housing units and members of Abby’s Women’s Center. Approximately 20 diners have lunch and 15 diners pa...
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Office, Data Entry, Volunteer
Abby’s has many clerical tasks, including data entry, reception office, mailings, etc. Position: Data Entry Staffer Hours: Monday – Friday, various time...
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Office, General Office Volunteer
Abby’s has many clerical tasks, including data entry, reception office, mailings, etc. Position: Reception Office Staffer Hours: Monday – Friday, variou...
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Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Volunteer
Shelter staffers provide hospitality to women, with or without children, at our 10 bed shelter and maintain a safe, confidential setting for shelter guests. ...
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Thrift Store, Volunteer
Our thrift shop provides clothing at no cost to shelter guests, and at low cost to the public. The money raised from the shop goes towards the operating cost...
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About this facility
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Notes
Abby Kelley Foster House, Inc. (Abby's House) was incorporated in 1976, and that year it opened one of the first overnight emergency shelters for women with or without children in the U.S. Abby's House was formed at the beginning of the battered women's movement there were no paradigms to follow in organizational development. Instead, the volunteers who ran the shelter listened carefully to the needs of the women and responded accordingly. The spirit of empowerment, sisterhood and mutuality embodied by the original volunteer activists continues to inform program delivery today.
Abby's House Facts
Abby's House is committed to ending homelessness, and in this spirit we have not expanded shelter services, rather we have greatly expanded our management of service-enriched, affordable housing. Beginning by renovating a former crack house into 16 beautiful, safe units of housing next to the emergency shelter, Abby's House now manages 78 units of housing in three locations near downtown Worcester, Massachusetts.
Every year at Abby's House
About 300 women and children stay in our emergency shelter, where they work with an advocate to achieve short-term goals and the stability needed to prevent future homelessness; over 100 women and children live in our long-term, service-enriched housing, where they work with advocates to achieve the highest possible level of independence; thousands of women speak with our emergency shelter advocate and obtain counseling and information on domestic violence and on emergency housing options; over 100 women access our Women's Center providing homelessness prevention programming to current and former shelter guests and residents; thousands of meals are served, and celebratory feasts are held at major holidays, including International Women’s Day; thousands of community members receive our newsletter, A Bright Spot in the City, and many community groups hear Abby's House speakers talk about issues of women living in poverty; about 200 active and enthusiastic volunteers receive training that will help them to provide welcome and a sense of safety to women and children who are trauma survivors.
Abby's House collaborates with many organizations in the community that provide specific services, such as: housing, legal services, mental and physical health services; and education.
We provide our programs with the financial support of individuals, community groups, private foundations, family foundations and corporations. Eighty-nine cents of every dollar donated to Abby's House goes directly to programs for homeless and battered women and children.