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The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation Gives $600,000 for Rogerson House Redevelopment

Rogerson Communities today announced the award of a $600,000 grant from the Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation in support of the organization’s redevelopment of its Rogerson House memory care facility in Jamaica Plain. The award, one of several that Rogerson has garnered this year in support of the project, will be directed toward the construction of a new six-story building with 66 new memory care units, in addition to 41 new affordable independent living apartments for older adults, to replace the existing Rogerson House building on site. The new building will include space for the organization’s memory care social day program and a Fitness FIRST center, and feature more than 20,000 square feet of outdoor space, including four…

Linn Foundation Gives $250K for Rogerson House Redevelopment

Rogerson Communities announced today the receipt of a $250,000 grant from the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation in support of its Rogerson House redevelopment project in Jamaica Plain. The project consists of building a new six-story building with 66 memory care units, in addition to 41 affordable independent living apartments for older adults, to replace the existing Rogerson House building on site. The new building will include space for the organization’s memory care social day program, a Fitness FIRST center, and feature more than 20,000 square feet of outdoor space, including four garden areas, portions of which will…

Caring for Those Who Care

Mumtaz Budwani’s life has been one of transitions: from her native Bangladesh to the United States; from Chicago, where she spent much of her adulthood, to Boston; from mother to grandmother. And from a teacher, depended upon by hundreds of families to educate, nurture, and care for their children, to an older adult in need of care herself. For Mumtaz, who now lives in Boston with her daughter, that means depending on family for support. But her daughter and son-in-law—both physicians, and parents to small children of their own—have limited capacity to provide the care and attention that Mumtaz deserves. That’s why she boards a Rogerson van outside her…

The Boston Foundation Gives $10K in Support of LGBTQIA+ Resident Health and Fitness

Rogerson Communities today announced the receipt of a $10,000 award from The Boston Foundation in support of enhancing exercise and increasing socialization at its Joy Street Residence on Beacon Hill. The grant was awarded by The Boston Foundation’s Equality Fund, which works to advance the equitable treatment of LGBTQIA+ individuals and their families and support nonprofit organizations in the Boston area that serve and strengthen the LGBTQIA+ community. The Joy Street Residence, a sober and drug-free independent living residence with supportive services for low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, was developed by Rogerson in partnership with Fenway Health (formerly AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts). Today, Joy Street Residence houses 21 people, ranging from 29 to 75 years old, many of whom identify as…

For Eduardo: A Home Where Hope Lives

There is a difference between working to make ends meet, clocking in and out of a job, and experiencing a calling—a deeply felt conviction that you are meant, fundamentally, to serve a purpose. Eduardo Pereira is one of those fortunate enough to feel that his life’s purpose has been made plain to him. Indeed, he believes it’s a purpose we all share: to use our lives for the benefit of others. “I believe that there is no difference if I’m helping you or I’m helping myself,” he declares, sitting in his tidy, sunlit one-bedroom home at the Joy Street Residence on Beacon Hill. For him, this essential human interconnectedness mean that our actions,…