Jarvis Court, Fairfield, CT - 8 units of supportive housing for previously homeless families that has been developed on a site that formerly housed Navy wives. Sponsor: Operation Hope, www.operationhopect.org.

Familias Unidas, Roxbury, MA - 9 units of supportive housing for people in recovery, and a community center for program participants and graduates. Sponsor: Casa Esperanza, www.casaesperanza.org.

Lazarus Hope, Lawrence, MA - 20 units of supportive housing for families. Sponsor: Lazarus House Ministries, www.lazarushouse.org.

The Women's Institute renovated an historic, former school building in the Acushnet Heights section of New Bedford for an innovative mixed-use development. This project combines a community center with 12 units of affordable housing. The community center will house adolescent, after school, education and family support programs and other services geared towards tenants and the surrounding neighborhood.

The Women's Institute coordinated a first-in-the-nation project sponsored by the YWCA that provides a full continuum of housing, including an emergency shelter, transitional efficiency units and permanent one-bedroom apartments, designed for formerly homeless and low-income individuals. The YWCA of the Hartford Region initially retained the Women's Institute to do a strategic assessment of its existing housing program. The Women's Institute assembled over $9 million in public and private resources to create housing for up to 71 individuals. In addition, the Women's Institute brokered a partnership between the YWCA and Chrysalis Center, a well-respected provider of case management services to very low-income people in the Hartford region. As a result, residents of the redeveloped Soromundi Commons will have access to significantly enhanced services, including employment and training.

The Women's Institute developed a surplus parcel of land in Newton as a mixed-income community. Twenty units of energy efficient townhouses were constructed on a new street. Eight units were sold at market rate, eight were sold to moderate-income home buyers and four were purchased by the Newton Housing Authority and rented to low income families who have been victims of domestic violence. As the developer, the Women's Institute was responsible for all phases of project development.

ASIAN SHELTER ADVOCACY PROJECT (ASAP)
Boston, MA - 1994

BISHOP HOUSE (COMMITTEE TO END ELDER HOMELESSNESS)
Jamaica Plain, MA - 1993

BROOKVIEW HOUSE
Dorchester, MA - 1990

DUNMORE PLACE, CASA ESPERANZA
Roxbury, MA - 2003

CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ
Roxbury, MA - 1993

CASA NUEVA VIDA
Jamaica Plain, MA - 1999

ELLINGTON STREET COOPERATIVE
Dorchester, MA - 1994

GRANDFAMILIES HOUSE
Dorchester, MA - 1998

HARBORCOV
Chelsea, MA - 2003

HOPE PARTNERSHIP
Old Saybrook, CT - 2006

HORIZONS I (THE WOMEN'S UNION)
Mattapan, MA - 1995; 2005

KAFANM (CREOLE FOR "HOME OF HAITIAN WOMEN")
Mattapan, MA - 1999

MORELAND STREET APARTMENTS
Roxbury, MA - 1995

PROJECT FAMILY INDEPENDENCE
Boston, MA - 1990

RE-VISION HOUSE
Dorchester, MA - 1991; 1997

RUAH, BREATH OF LIFE
Cambridge, MA - 1994

RUTLAND CORNER HOUSE
Brookline, MA - 1995

SAFE PASSAGE
Hampshire County, MA - 2002

THE SECOND STEP
Newton, MA - 1991

SOJOURNER HOUSE
Roxbury, MA - 1993

TRANSITION HOUSE
Cambridge, MA - 2001

VICTORY PROGRAMS
Boston, MA - 1995

WINCHESTER INTERFAITH HOUSING CORPORATION
Winchester, MA - 1993

WINGS (WOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR NEW GROWTH AND SUPPORT)
Roxbury, MA - 1994

WOMANSHELTER/COMPANERAS
Holyoke, MA - 2005

WOMEN, INC.
Roxbury, MA - 1991

YWCA OF NEWBURYPORT
Newburyport, MA - 1997; 2007