In the Press
SALEM SHELTER HAS BECOME A MARBLEHEAD MISSION
By Kris Olson, Marblehead Reporter, February 2007
MARBLEHEAD--- When the Marblhead-based van Otterloo Family Foundation recently warded the Salem Mission a $250,000 "challenge grant," it was, in one sense, a pleasant surprise. In another, however, it was no surprise at all.
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SALEM SHELTER OFFERED BIG GRANT, WILL BEGIN RENOVATIONS
By Chris Cassidy, The Salem News, January 2007
SALEM - The city's homeless shelter has been offered the largest private donation in its history to convert a former rectory and three-story apartment building into permanent housing for the homeless.
The van Otterloo Family Foundation of Marblehead has agreed to donate $250,000 to the Salem Mission if the shelter can raise the same sum on its own
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SALEM MISSION AWARDED COVETED GRANT
By Lisa Guerriero, The Salem Gazette, January 2007
SALEM----The Salem Mission has a new, powerful ally in its fight to eliminate homelessness in the city. The van Otterloo Family Foundation awarded the mission in December a $250,000 grant toward its extensive Seeds of Hope project.
Although the Salem Mission serves as a homeless shelter, its broader goal is to end homelessness in Salem and, hopefully, on the NorthShore.
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FORMER PRIEST TO HEAD
HOMELESS SHELTER
By Tom Dalton, The Salem
News, December, 2005
SALEM — A former Catholic priest and African missionary
has been named the first full-time executive director of the
Salem Mission, the homeless shelter on Margin Street.
George Delaney, 61, comes here from New York City, where he
was deputy executive director of Coalition for the Homeless,
a multi-service agency in lower Manhattan that ran housing,
food and job-training programs.
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News article...
SALEM HOMELESS SHELTER
A 'MODEL' FOR NATION
By Tom Dalton, The Salem
News, August, 2005
SALEM - The nation's homelessness czar called the city's new
homeless shelter a model for the country.
"What you are doing here I can use as a model,"
Mangano said during a stop at the new shelter at the former
St. Mary's youth center on Margin Street on Friday. "I
can brag about Salem," he said. "We need more models
like Salem around the country."
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EXPANDED SALEM SHELTER
ADDS EDUCATION PROGRAMS
by Steven A. Rosenberg, The Boston Globe, July 24, 2005
SALEM - Since the Salem Mission opened 22 years ago on Crombie
Street, the North Shore's only 24-hour homeless shelter has
offered its guests, food, clothing, and a place to sleep. When
the shelter moves to the former St. Mary's church complex on
Wednesday, the organization will take on a new goal providing
increased social services and educational programs with the
intent of ending homelessness in the city.
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