Haley House Inc

Food, meals, and famring: each year, soup kitchen volunteers serve more than 36,000 made-from-scratch meals 9 times a week and distribute over 10,000 bags of food through the weekly food pantry. These programs are coordinated by a live-in community of long-term volunteers who donate their time in exchange for room and board. Haley house, inc. Is responsible for two plots of reclaimed urban land in roxbury and the south end, which provide seasonal produce for the soup kitchen, bakery cafe, and other programs. Other programs include take back the kitchen, a hands-on cooking program taught by professional chefs reaching over 400 young people and their families each year and the transitional employment program (tep) offering jobs and life-skills training for people returning from incarceration.

Social enterprise bakery cafe: located in roxbury since 2005, the bakery cafe has been described as a community center disguised as a cafe. In addition to delicious, healthy, and affordable food, the social enterprise restaurant offers dignified work and job skills training for people transitioning out of incarceration and is home to extensive arts and cultural programming.