Beverly Bootstraps Community Services provides critical resources to families and individuals so they may achieve self-sufficiency. We offer emergency and long-term assistance including: access to food, housing stability, adult and youth education, counseling and advocacy.

We are community funded and supported.

We serve Beverly and Manchester residents primarily. Some services and classes have exceptions - please contact Outreach with inquiries.

Our building is not handicap-accessible. Please call for alternative means of service.

Donation Drop Off & Walk-in Hours:

Monday-Friday, 8:30am - 4:00pm

Food Pantry Hours:

The Tom Gifford Food Pantry is located in our main office at 371 Cabot Street in Beverly. Regular Pantry Hours: Monday - Friday, 11:00am –12:30pm and Tuesday & Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:00pm.

New client registration will no longer be held during regular pantry hours. To register, please visit Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday from 9:00am-10:30am and also Wednesday afternoon from 4:00-4:30pm. No appointment necessary. For more information, please call Kathy or Julia at 978-927-1561, x22.

Beverly Bootstraps
Visit our main office at 371 Cabot Street in Beverly

Meals

Looking for a lunch or dinner in Beverly? There are free dinners and lunches served most days. Please click here to get a full listing of locations.

Benefiting Bootstraps!

What if Beverly Bootstraps earned money every time you searched the internet or shopped? Read how here.

Going green?

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We have Beverly Bootstraps Community Services reusable shopping bags available for purchase at the main office and at Boots, Straps and More: Bargains for a Cause thrift store.

At $4 each, or 3 for $10, you can inexpensively get some for everyone on your shopping list.

Thrift Store Donations

Our many programs are benefiting greatly from your generous donations to Boots, Straps and More: Bargains for a Cause thrift store at 198 Rantoul Street in Beverly. Click here for a list of items we seek and avoid.

Beverly Bootstraps Community Services is proud to be a North Shore United Way Community Partner

Bootstraps Happenings:

Walgreens food drive

Thank you to everyone who donated the more than 727 lbs of food that Walgreens' employees (at left with Bootstraps staff) delivered yesterday after the food drive they sponsored with Coca-Cola and Monster Energy Drinks in the Walgreens parking lot on the corner of Rantoul and Elliott Streets.

We also thank Dick and June's Ice Cream and McDonald's for donating raffle items.

Back-to-School Program

The Back-to-School Program has been supplying backpacks filled with new school supplies to children living in low-income for the past 10 years. In 2009, more than 582 children came to Bootstraps for school supplies, an increase of over 15% from the previous year.

We seek the following new items now to distribute on August 18, 2010:

Backpacks, Folders, Pack of Erasers
Pencil Cases, Packs of Pens, Crayons
Pencil Sharpeners, Rulers, Safety Scissors
Packs of Pencils, Binders, Loose-leaf Paper
Spiral Notebooks, Colored Pencils, Highlighters
Assignment Pads, Composition Books, Protractors
3 x 5 Index Cards

Click to the left to see a video of backpack distribution in action!

We are excited to team with Staples and their DoSomething 101 campaign. Every dollar donated at Staples' 65 Dodge Street location in Beverly will come directly to Bootstraps Back to School Bonanza. And look for the Do Something 101 collection bins inside the store where you can donate new school supplies for needy Beverly and Manchester students.

We appreciate the community support!

Summer Reading

The Youth Literacy Program offers books to school-age read children through the on-site library to encourage children to read year-round. This program promotes the importance of reading and assists low-income youth to build their own home library. The child keeps any books he/she has chosen. During the summer months books are distributed to youth attending summer parks programs.

We are currently requesting NEW books from the Beverly Public Schools reading list for distribution this summer. Please use the links below to view the Summer 2010 Reading list:

Grades 1 - 5

Grade 6

Grades 7 - 8

Borders Bookstore has generously teamed up with Bootstraps for the 2nd year and is hosting a Summer Book Drive to benefit the beverly youth! Please shop the Peabody Store and donate a book today!

Summer Park Lunches

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Our Summer Park Lunch Program is an 8 week outreach to local children who are at risk of going without a noon meal.

Bootstraps supplies seven parks located in low-income neighborhoods with nutritious lunches.

Please consider donating any of the following:

~ Juice Boxes (100% Juice)

~ Individually packaged snacks

~ Granola bars

~ Individually packaged cheese sticks

~ Whole Fruits

~ Individually packaged vegetables

~ Individually packaged yogurts

Click here to view past events