Partners for a Healthier Community
Frank Robinson
P.O. Box 4895
Springfield, MA  01101-4895
413-794-7739
Partners for a Healthier Community is a non-profit organization committed to building a measurably healthier Springfield through civic leadership, collaborative partnerships, and advocacy. Since its inception over 12 years ago, PHC has always incorporated community organizing in its work to reduce health disparities.

Partners for Community
Heriberto Flores
11-13 Hampden St.
Springfield, MA  01103
413-272-2215
Partners for Community is a 501(c)(3) management services organization that provides multi faceted administrative support to non-profit social services organiztions. PFC's affiliates are New England Farm Worker's Council, Corp. for Public Management, Corp. for Justice Management, NE Partners in Faith, and Brightwood Development Corp. 

Phoenix Houses of New England
Patrick McEneaney
99 Wayland Ave., Suite 100
Providence, RI  02906
401-331-4250
Phoenix Houses of New England provides an array of substance abuse services including adult & adolescent residential programs, outpatient services, transitional services and recovery management. 

Pioneer Valley Area Health Education Center
95 State St
Springfield, MA  01103
413-787-6756
Pioneer Valley AHEC is a program of the Springfield Dept. of Health & Human Services that provides training and skills to enhance and increase the diversity of the health care workforce through our youth to health careers component (REACH), Medical Interpreter training program and Community Health Workers Coalition (COWNT).

Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity
MJ Adams
140 Pine St.
Florence, MA  01062
413-586-5430
Since 1989, Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity has been partnering with families in need to realize the dream of homeownership. With donated/discounted land and material, Habitat organizes volunteers to help the family build a safe, decent, modest home. Habitat raises the funds to build the home during construction, then sells the home to the family for the cost of construction, providing a long term 0% mortgage. Mortgage payments are recycled to build more Habitat homes.

Preschool Enrichment Team, Inc.
Vicki VanZee
293 Bridge St., Suite 322
Springfield, MA  01103-1435
413-736-3900
The Preschool Enrichment Team trains and supports early childhood educators so that they can provide quality learning environments where all young children can thrive. We also help parents find early education & out-of-school time care for their children. 

Regional Employment Board of Hampden County
J. William Ward
1441 Main Street, 1st Floor
Springfield, MA  01103
413-755-1547
The Regional Employment Board of Hampden County is a business-led, nonprofit corporation established by state and federal legislation and supported by local business, education, and labor leaders as the primary policy-making authority in developing workforce skills.

River Valley Counseling Center, Inc.
Matthew Haas
319 Beech St.
Holyoke, MA  01040
413-540-1160
Mental health services and medical and social services.

Riverside Industries, Inc.
Deborah Thomas
1 Cottage Street
Easthampton, MA  01027
413-527-2711
Riverside Industries, founded in 1968, assists people to acquire and maintain individual competitive jobs in their communities. Riverside has been a long-standing advocate for person-centered supports which empower people with perceived limitations and typical ambitions in their quest for satisfying jobs, life direction, and meaningful community membership. It provides these services by combining life skills development, employment options, and transportation services. The One Cottage Street building, located in the center of Easthampton, is not only the vibrant home base for Riverside, but also is the center of a thriving arts community with over sixty artisans in residence.

Safe Passage
LaWanza Lett-Brewington
43 Center Street, Suite 304
Northampton, MA  01060
413-586-1125
Hotline: 413-586-5066 or 888-345-5282
Safe Passage provides non-judgmental support, shelter, counseling, and resources to women, children and families affected by domestic violence. All services are free and confidential.

ServiceNet
Susan Stubbs
129 King Street
Northampton, MA  01060
413-585-1300
ServiceNet is a large nonprofit human service agency based in Northampton. Services include mental health recovery programs for adults and transitioned youth, residential programs for the developmentally disabled, shelter & housing programs, homecare, adult and children's behavioral therapy programs, an early intervention program, substance abuse treatment, and social enterprise. 

Sisters of Providence Health System
271 Carew Street
Springfield, MA  01104
413-748-9000
The Sisters of Providence Health System is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that provides a wide array of high quality services including acute care, behavioral health, rehabilitation, home care, hospice, skilled nursing facilities, retirement living, diagnostic imaging, and more. We are known for our tradition of high-touch, holistic approach to health care combined with state-of-the-art medical technology.

Springfield College Career Center
Scott Dranka
263 Alden Street
Belchertown, MA  01109-3797
413-748-3222
The mission of the Springfield College Career Center is to educate and empower students and alumni to explore careers and effectively manage their career/life planning by facilitating exploration and personal development; provide counseling and learning experiences that foster professionalism and career decision making; and assist in the successful transition to the workplace.

Springfield College School of Human Services
Robert Willey, Jr., Ph.D., Dean
263 Alden Street
Springfield, MA  01109
413-748-3982
Provides undergraduate and graduate degree programs in human services on weekends for working adults.

The Springfield Institute
Aron Goldman
32-34 Hampden Street
Springfield, MA  01103
413-549-1193
The Springfield Institute exists to bring fresh perspectives, raise the level of debate, broaden participation in the debate, support community groups, and contribute to urban transformation. We are a think tank with a twist: a central commitment to outreach, inclusion, and community organizing.

Springfield Neighborhood Housing Services
Charles Rucks
111 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA  01109
413-739-4737
Springfield Neighborhood Housing Services is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that transforms families and revitalizes distressed neighborhoods through sustainable homeownership, rehabilitation and development of blighted properties, and resident empowerment. Springfield NHS is the first nonprofit licensed Mortgage Lender/Mortgage Broker in the state of MA.

Springfield Partners for Community Action
Paul F. Bailey
619 State Street
Springfield, MA  01109
413-263-6500
Spfld. Partners for Community Action is a federally designated Community Action Agency for the greater Spfld. area. Our mission is to empower people in need to attain self-sufficiency and economic stability.

Springfield School Volunteers
Denise Cogman
195 State Street, P.O. Box 1410
Springfield, MA  01102-1410
413-787-7015
Springfield School Volunteers is a nonprofit organization that has been reaching out to the community on behalf of the Springfield Public Schools since 1969. SSV annually brings in more than 2,400 volunteers who serve as tutors, mentors, readers, speakers and in a variety of other capacities to help students and teachers. SSV also manages the Spfld. Partners in Education Program, which helps to bring the resources of businesses, colleges and other organizations into the Spfld. Public Schools to help them meet their goals.

Springfield Vietnamese American Civic Association
Hang Tang
433 Belmont Avenue
Springfield, MA  01108
413-733-9373
Established in 1992, the mission of SVACA is to support Vietnamese immigrants and refugees in the city of Springfield to become engaged citizens through community empowerment, involvement and education.

Square One
Joan Kagan
959 Main Street
Springfield, MA  01103
413-732-5183
Square One is committed to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to succeed at school, at work and in life by providing educational programs, family support services, health and fitness resources, and a voice in the community. We know that children grow up to become better educated and productive when they have high quality early education, nurturing adults to care for them, and a safe and healthy community in which to live. At the core of everything we do is our belief, confirmed by research, that children who begin learning early become better learners in life.

Stop it Now! Inc.
Deborah Donovan Rice
351 Pleasant St., Suite B-319
Northampton, MA  01060
413-587-3500
Stop It Now! prevents the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families and communities to take actions that protect children before they are harmed. Help Services, Prevention Education, Public Engagement, and Policy programs work to move beyond just addressing the impact of child sexual abuse to seek out root causes and identify ways to prevent abuse before a child is harmed.  We also address situations where there is a risk for harm or where harm has likely occurred. Visit our Online Help Center.

Sullivan & Associates, Inc.
Linda Sullivan
551 East Columbus Ave.
Springfield, MA  01105
413-733-6100
We are a private, non-profit human service agency supporting adults with disabilities in community-based settings where failure is not an option. 

Sunshine Village
Gina Golash
75 Litwin Lane
Chicopee, MA  01020
413-592-6142
Sunshine Village has been improving the lives of people with developmental disabilities since 1967.

Tapestry Health
Leslie Tarr Laurie
296 Nonotuck Street, 2nd Floor
Florence, MA  01062
413-586-2016
Tapestry Health is dedicated to being a leader in providing high quality, caring health services and advocacy, for all those who are disenfranchised and under-served, with an emphasis on women and youth. For 37 years, Tapestry has played a key role in delivering reproductive health care and HIV counseling and testing to all those who live in Western MA. By combining caring, community-based health-care services with the most recent advances in medical practice, Tapestry has made sure that those who are most in need can get the care they deserve, regardless of ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or income.
Since 1973, Tapestry has been the only organization in the region to continually provide reproductive health care to the area's most neglected residents, teenagers, women living in poverty, recent immigrants, uninsured individuals, the homeless, injection drug users, and men and women with HIV or AIDS.

UMass Center for Public Policy & Administration
M.V. Lee Badgett
416 Thompson Hall, 200 Hicks Way
UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
413-577-0239
CPPA is the hub of interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching, and engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. CPPA teaches and conducts rigorous research to realize social change and solve problems for the common good. CPPA faculty and alumni are effective policy leaders from the local to the global levels in addressing topics such as family and care policy, environmental issues, emerging technologies, social inequalities, and governance.

United Way of Pioneer Valley
Dora Robinson
184 Mill St
Springfield, MA  01108
413-693-0221
United Way of Pioneer Valley mobilizes people and resources to strengthen our communities.

Valley Opportunity Council
Stephen Huntley
300 High Street
Holyoke, MA  01040
413-552-1554
A Community Action Agency with various social service programs.