Hildebrand FY22 Annual Report

Photo Credit: Lawrence Crayton

FY22 ANNUAL REPORT

Table of Contents A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

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A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

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HILDEBRAND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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HOMELESS FAMILY DEMOGRAPHICS

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OUR IMPACT

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OUR FAMILIES

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OUR FUTURE

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NEWS ITEMS

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FY22 SUPPORTERS

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HILDEBRAND COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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AUDITED FINANCIALS

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1 Photo Credit: Lisa Fotios

A Message from the CEO Innovate. Transform. Disrupt. I have been the CEO of Hildebrand for the past 10 years.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked closely with the staff, Board, and families experiencing homelessness to make sure the organization is responsive, compassionate, and impactful, and that every child and their parents receives all the resources they need to move forward to find, and remain in, new homes. I can’t imagine a more rewarding job or working with a more inspiring and motivating team.

And yet, during this past year—FY22—Hildebrand’s work has been even more rewarding and uplifting than any of us could have imagined. As Hildebrand completed the final year of its previous Strategic Plan, staff and Board worked together to create a new, three-year plan to continue to strengthen and support the organization’s ongoing evolution. The new Strategic Plan is bold and expansive. It builds on Hildebrand’s strengths and experience with families experiencing homelessness, while also developing plans for growth and connections to more comprehensively meet complex needs of children, mothers, and fathers. Hildebrand’s vision is still every family has a home and now, to realize that vision, Hildebrand will innovate programs and resources, transform families and the organization, and disrupt the systems that lead to poverty and homelessness. Innovate. Transform. Disrupt. I am so proud that with this new Strategic Plan, and this bold, strong dynamic, Hildebrand will continue to change the lives of the more than 1,000 children, mothers, and fathers we work with every year.

This Annual Report also highlights many of Hildebrand’s FY22 accomplishments including the purchase of 12 Humphreys Street, Dorchester and our celebration event; the ongoing impact of the Student Success Education Initiative on school-age children in our shelters; Cradles to Crayons awarding the national Chairman’s Council Impact Award to Hildebrand; our eviction prevention community outreach and advocacy work with CHAPA; opening a satellite office on Groom Street, Dorchester; the Stabilization Services team’s ongoing success with moving families out of shelter and into permanent homes—the list goes on and on. As the need for shelter, supportive services, and housing increased, Hildebrand responded.

I thank all of you for your interest and support as Hildebrand moves forward with our new Strategic Plan, to innovate, transform, and disrupt. Together, in partnership, we can continue to fulfill Hildebrand’s vision that every family has a home.

Sincerely, Shiela Y. Moore CEO

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A Message from the Board Chair This year, as I worked together with members of the Board and the amazing Hildebrand staff on a new Strategic Plan for the organization, I was reminded of how powerful and life-changing the impact Hildebrand has on the children and families in its programs. Families come to Hildebrand at such a traumatic time in their lives: without a home of their own, often without employment or adequate financial resources, and possibly as new arrivals to the area with language, health and immigration barriers. And the impact of this trauma is felt by each and every member of the family. No matter who they are and what issues these families face, Hildebrand is always here for them—steadfast, resilient, ready to transform lives and disrupt this pathway of homelessness and poverty. Last year, Hildebrand worked with over 1,000 individuals through its shelters, supportive programs, and Stabilization Services team—and over 60% of those family members were children of all ages.

I was also reminded of how innovative and responsive Hildebrand is, and has been for the past 34 years. When COVID impacted the education of children in shelter, Hildebrand created the Student Success Education Initiative to keep each child on track with their educational goals and learning environments. The pandemic also brought significant mental health challenges for children and their parents, with the isolation of lock-down, health risks, and constant changes in safety protocols and procedures. Again, Hildebrand found extra resources, re-trained and hired staff, and connected with community programs to provide the emotional support and counseling needed by these vulnerable families. And the organization moved boldly forward with its own innovative planning and projects including increasing its permanent housing portfolio with the purchase of an 11-unit apartment building in Dorchester; creating a community outreach and education program for residents facing eviction; and completing a new Strategic Plan to guide Hildebrand forward for the next five years. This new Strategic Plan is bold and will require Hildebrand to grow and change as we tackle the systemic upstream factors of homelessness and poverty.

I am thankful to be a part of Hildebrand—an organization fueled by resilience and innovation whose mission is to ensure that every family has a home. And every year, Hildebrand uses this unique combination to help more than 1,000 individuals—moms, dads, and children who are our neighbors and community partners—heal, stabilize, and find new homes. Hard to imagine a more rewarding mission! Thank you for your connection to Hildebrand, and I look forward to staying in touch.

Kelly Blackburn Chair, Hildebrand Board of Directors

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Hildebrand Board of Directors Officers

Members

Kelly Blackburn, Chair

Anthony D. Galluccio, Esq.

Kelly S. Mann, Vice Chair

Sarah A. Holmes

Glenda Allsopp, Treasurer

Jessica Howe

Michelle Meiser, Clerk

Wendell Joseph Clifford Long Dariela Villon-Maga Reverend Ellis Washington

Hope for the Holidays with Hildebrand Board members Anthony Galluccio and Pastor Ellis from St. Paul AME Church, celebrating with Hildebrand families!

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Homeless Family Demographics Homelessness in the United States

During 2021, federal rental assistance programs

On a single night in 2021, more than 326,000 people

enabled more than 10 million people in 5.2 million

were experiencing sheltered homelessness in the U.S.;

low-income households—including nearly 4 million

four in ten were people in families with children.

children—to afford modest homes.

(HUD Annual Homeless Assessment Report 2021)

(Center of Budget and Policy Priorities)

Half of all people experiencing sheltered

The number of enrolled students who have experienced

homelessness as part of a family with children were in

homelessness at some point during the last three

three states: New York, California, and Massachusetts.

school years has increased to more than 1.5 million.

The 2021 estimate for sheltered homeless families in

The greatest increases were for students in upper

Massachusetts was 9,666.

grades; homeless students in grades five, six, eleven,

(HUD Annual Homeless Assessment Report 2021)

and twelve all increased by 20-23%.

(National Education Association)

Homelessness in Massachusetts

On June 30, 2020, there were 3,096 families with

There is a shortage of 163,318 affordable rental

children and pregnant individuals in Massachusetts’

homes available for extremely low-income renters.

Emergency Assistance (EA) shelter program.

(National Low Income Housing Coalition/Massachusetts)

(Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless)

The maximum income for a 4-person extremely

In Massachusetts, about 24,658 public school

low-income household (at the state level) is $31,960.

students experienced homelessness over the course

The annual household income needed to afford a

of the 2018-2019 school year. Of that total, 206 students

2-bedroom rental home at HUD’s Fair Market

were unsheltered, 7,502 were in shelters, 1,620 were in

Rate is $78,984.

hotels/motels, and 15,330 were doubled up.

(National Low Income Housing Coalition/Massachusetts)

(United States Interagency Council on Homelessness)

$

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Our Impact Photo Credit: Kelly Sikkema

In FY22, Hildebrand helped our clients stabilize, increase self-sufficiency, and transition out of homelessness to safe and affordable permanent homes. Here we show Hildebrand’s impact by the numbers, although the full impact of safe and stable housing is immeasurable.

328 Families

NUMBER OF CLIENTS 5% Permanent Housing

Individuals

28% Stabilization Year 2

46% Emergency Shelter 21% Stabilization Year 1

AGE OF CHILDREN 11% 18–24 Years Old 18% 13–17 Years Old

31% 0–4 Years Old 40% 5–12 Years Old

42% Black or African-American

60% Children

259

School-Aged Children

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Families Placed In Permanent Housing

ETHNICITY 3% Other or Unknown

1,015

9% White

46% Latinx

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Families Stably Housed for 2 Years

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Our Families Hildebrand’s vision is that every family has a home and in FY22, the organization’s talented staff worked with 328 families to help realize that vision. Through its emergency shelter, supportive programs, Stabilization Services, and permanent housing, over 1,000 individuals—600 are children—are no longer experiencing homelessness. These children and their parents are sheltered, healing, and building the resources to be self-sufficient.

Emergency Shelter And Supportive Services Hildebrand provides 140 families with emergency shelter in Boston and Cambridge, with congregate, co-shelter, and scattered site living. Every family receives supportive services including case management, education and employment resources, housing search and benefits assistance, mental and physical health services, immigration support, and any other resources needed. Hildebrand also provides gifts, toys, clothing, personal items, and food resources to make sure that everyone is healthy, safe, and comfortable in their shelter situation.

Permanent Housing Since 1988, Hildebrand has been at the forefront of the movement to end family homelessness by helping families achieve stability and selfsufficiency so they can leave shelter and move into their permanent homes. Hildebrand currently owns 22 affordable apartments in Boston and Cambridge.

Photo Credit: Anna Shvets

Stabilization Services Once families move out of shelter and into permanent homes, they continue to work with Hildebrand’s Stabilization Services team for two years to make sure they stay stably housed. The Stabilization Services program is designed to prevent the recurrence of homelessness. Over the course of the two years, the families and the Stabilization Services team work together to develop a plan to increase economic mobility and establish other personal and family goals. All stabilization families work toward long-term self-sufficiency while in their safe, affordable homes.

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Our Future In FY22, Hildebrand staff and Board worked together to create a Strategic Plan that will shape the work of the organization for the next three years and beyond. The Strategic Plan will transform Hildebrand and its impact on families experiencing homelessness, while disrupting the systems that lead to it. The plan identifies four Strategic Directions, each with its own bold set of goals that will guide the growth and development of the organization into the future.

Strategic Directions

1 2 3 4

Develop or acquire real estate for more affordable housing and to support organizational growth

Goals 1.

Research possible models for the development of homes, services, and offices

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Develop and/or acquire real estate

3.

Build affordable housing

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Build a public policy and advocacy agenda

Bring about systems

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Work to influence legislation

change to disrupt the

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Change mindsets around causes and solutions to family homelessness

4.

Create strong partnerships

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Increase revenue

2.

Create a specialty shelter (e.g. for mental health focus, substance use disorders, immigrant populations)

3.

Hire subject matter experts in key areas (real estate, law, health, etc.)

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Ensure we have the workforce capacity to meet the growing needs of Hildebrand

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Create training programs based on client needs/feedback

2.

Provide or connect clients to affordable transportation

3.

Launch social entrepreneurship/Hildebrand business

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Provide a financial stability and asset building program (including home ownership)

cycle of homelessness

Build the capacity needed to grow the organization

Ensure access

to resources for clients

8 Photo Credit: Rodrigo Santos

News Items

Humphreys Street Celebration The light showers and cold temperature in May could not deter Hildebrand from celebrating its newest affordable housing acquisition, 12 Humphreys Street, Dorchester. Despite the weather, it was terrific! Speeches from Sheila Dillon, Chief of the Mayor’s Office

Above: Hildebrand Board member Dariela VillonMaga; CEO Shiela Y. Moore; consultant Christine Rogers; and Board member Cliff

of Housing, and Sara Barcan from

Long celebrate Hildebrand’s

CEDAC inspired and reminded

purchase of 12 Humphreys

attendees of the importance and

Street, Dorchester, an 11-

impact of Hildebrand’s vision that every family has a home.

unit permanent affordable housing building.

12 Humphreys Street, Dorchester.

Hildebrand And CHAPA Neighborhood Emergency Housing Support Program Hildebrand partnered with the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), United Way, and The Boston Foundation for a six-month, state-wide pilot homelessness prevention program: the Neighborhood Emergency Housing Support Program (NEHS). The goal of the NEHS Program was to prevent unnecessary foreclosures, evictions, and homelessness in communities most impacted by the current health and economic crisis. Through Hildebrand’s community outreach and education activities, Boston residents became aware of financial assistance and other resources to help households with emergency housing payment assistance including rent, mortgage, and utility costs; these are clients who were currently housed but in danger of losing their housing and becoming homeless. The barriers most often faced by clients who sought this financial assistance were: they didn’t know about these programs and needed help with the applications; language; immigration; and lack of appropriate technology. Along with completing and submitting the applications for rent and utility assistance, Hildebrand provided help with additional supportive resources such as SNAP, legal services, and workforce development. Hildebrand is proud to have been a partner in this community-based eviction and homelessness prevention initiative and to have helped keep Boston residents safely housed and out of homeless shelters.

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Another Family Moves Into Their Permanent Home!

We are so excited to share that yet another family that was in shelter with Hildebrand, at one of the congregate shelters in Cambridge, has gotten their Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP) voucher and moved into their permanent home! And – more wonderful news for Hildebrand – the apartment they moved into is owned

by Hildebrand. The family will now work with Hildebrand’s Stabilization Services team for the next two years to help them maintain their housing stability. The family has three sons who attend schools in Cambridge so by

Hildebrand Now Has An Office In Dorchester

finding a permanent apartment in Cambridge, the children

Hildebrand has opened an office at 3

will continue their education without the stress and

Groom Street, Dorchester to increase

interruption of re-locating. Many thanks to the Cambridge

access and availability to the families in the

Public Schools for helping this to happen also. The father

Boston neighborhoods currently working

was so happy that he literally jumped for joy!

with the organization.

Hildebrand Received The Cradles To Crayons FY22 Chairman’s Council Impact Award!

Hildebrand received a wonderful recognition of its work from Cradles to Crayons: the 2022 Cradles to Crayons Chairman’s Council Impact Award. This national award recognized Hildebrand’s leadership, relentless advocacy, and holistic care for children and families experiencing homelessness. The award came with a $10,000 grant that helped provide additional items and space to Hildebrand’s Resource Center and enhanced resources for families in shelter. Cradles to Crayons hosted a national virtual event in June for the presentation of the Chairman’s Council Impact Award, with a presentation and conversation with Hildebrand’s CEO, Shiela Y. Moore and the Founder and CEO of Cradles to Crayons, Lynn Marghiero.

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FY 22 Supporters

INDIVIDUALS John Alam and Sylvie Gregoire Glenda L. Allsopp Michelle Baildon Destanie Baker Kelly Blackburn Wendell C. Bourne Mark Burnham Smith and Carolyn Edelstein Joshua Chaitin-Pollak Brian and Beth Clymer Richard and Judith Cohen

Elizabeth Glowacki

Gregory Sydney

Irene F. Goodman

James Tall

Phillip Hazard

Caitlin Thornbrugh

Stacia Johanna

Dariela Villon-Maga

Wendell C. Joseph

Marcia Walsh

Siddharth Joshi

Reverend Ellis Washington

Jane Kamensky Aftab Kazmi Samir Kendale

Kathryn Wells Mary Rita Weschler

Marnie Klein Clifford Long Kelly Mann

Christopher Cook

Michelle Meiser

Dorothy Derick

John Melaugh

Kelly Dishner

Debbie Monosson

Maureen Dolan Harris

Shiela Y. Moore

Larry Ellenberg

Vivien Morris

Samuel Ennis and Berit Lindell

Michael Plourde

Kirk Fackre

Jane Preotle

Sherri Fiore

Ellen Semonoff

Nadia Foster

Mary Shetterly

Anthony Galluccio, Esq.

David Smith

Alice Poltorick

11 Photo Credit: Kindel Media

FOUNDATIONS

ORGANIZATIONS

Cambridge Community Foundation

Beacon Hill Nursery

Cummings Foundation

CHAPA

CORPORATIONS

Cradles to Crayons Dignity Matters

Amazon Smiles

Follen Community Church

Boston Beer Company Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation

Greater Boston Morehouse College Alumni Association

Cambridge Trust Company

Harvard Memorial Church

Citizens Energy Shelter Winter Assistance Program

Lovin’ Spoonfuls

Harpoon Hong Kong Restaurant iCorps Technologies Network for Good Novartis Salesforce Town Fair Tire Foundation

PUBLIC FUNDERS

MIT Office of Government and Community Relations Northeastern University Latinx Student Cultural Center Omega Si Phi St. James Church St. Paul AME Church Trinity Parish United Way of Mass Bay and Merrimack Valley

City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Housing City of Cambridge Homeworks Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development

Hildebrand received a donation of backpacks from Cambridge Trust Company for the “Back to School’ Drive. Left to right: Hildebrand’s Ryan Schwartz, Claribel Baez, Tatiana Frizzell, and CEO Shiela Moore, with Michelle Meiser, a member of Hildebrand’s Board of Directors, who works at Cambridge Trust Company.

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Hildebrand Community Partners American Civil Liberties Union Massachusetts

FamilyAid/CHIME Mapping Project

Big Brothers Big Sisters

Families First Parenting Program

Birthday Wishes

Furnishing Hope

Boston College

Harpoon/Mass Bay Brewing Company

Boston Continuum of Care

Homes for Families

Boston Health Care for the Homeless

HomeStart

Boston Housing Authority

Horizons for Homeless Children

Boston Medical Center

Institute of Contemporary Art

Boston Public Schools

Institute for Health and Recovery

Boston University

Jewish Vocational Services (JVS)

Budget Buddies

Led2Serve

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Lesley University

Cambridge Community Learning Center

Lovin’ Spoonfuls

Cambridge Community Television

Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless

Cambridge Continuum of Care

Metro Housing Boston

Cambridge Health Alliance

MIT

Cambridge Housing Authority

The Mission Continues

Cambridge Multi-Service Center

The Parenting Journey

Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition

Project Hope

Cambridge Public Schools

Project Place

Central Square Business Improvement District

Providers’ Council

CHAPA

Share Our Strength

Colgate University

Somerville Food Program

Community Servings

Suffolk University

Cradles to Crayons

Tufts Health Plan

Department of Children and Families

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley

Dignity Matters Everett Public Schools

YMCA of Greater Boston

13 Photo Credit: Joe Yates

Audited Financials Statements of Activities

2022

2021

Program Fees

$7,531,246

$7,089,428

Grants

$382,819

$585,540

Contributions

$98,964

$104,447

Investment Income

-$26,062

$43,955

$25,195

$571,295

$8,012,162

$8,394,665

Housing & Supportive Services

$6,424,126

$7,066,003

General & Admin Support

$907,507

$728,803

Fundraising

$169,589

$162,547

$7,501,222

$7,957,353

2022

2021

Current Assets

$4,356,636

$3,828,915

Property & Equipment

$4,139,063

$802,908

$344,143

$258,962

$8,839,842

$4,890,785

$787,314

$639,750

Long-Term Liabilities

$4,125,520

$834,967

TOTAL LIABILITIES

$4,912,834

$1,474,717

$3,788,275

$3,294,971

Temporarily Restricted

$138,733

$121,097

TOTAL NET ASSETS

$3,927,008

$3,416,068

TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS

$8,839,842

$4,890,785

REVENUE AND SUPPORT

Other Income TOTAL REVENUE

EXPENSES

TOTAL EXPENSES

Statements of Financial Positions ASSETS

Other TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES Current Liabilities

NET ASSETS Unrestricted

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OUR VISION

Every family has a home.

OUR MISSION

Hildebrand’s mission is to transition families out of

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homelessness to safe, affordable, permanent housing while working to disrupt systems that lead to poverty and homelessness.

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