How the Women's Fund of Essex has Provided Essential COVID Relief

Robyn Frost, executive director of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless in Lynn, remembers the great conversation she had just before the pandemic with people from The Women’s Fund of Essex County, an all-volunteer organization that provides funding to nonprofit programs to improve the lives of women and girls in Essex County. The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless was seeking a grant to expand its STEAM to Build DREAMS initiative, where local students design and build beds for children in poverty. “We gave them this beautiful presentation,” Frost says of the Coalition’s meeting with The Women’s Fund. “Then COV

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How the Women’s Fund of Essex has Provided Essential COVID Relief

The Women’s Fund of Essex County switched its funding method in March, allowing it to offer essential help to North Shore nonprofits needing to help more people than ever before.

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