Close to Home
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Close to Home was founded in 2000 and their "mission is to foster community-wide responsibility to prevent and reduce the impact of domestic violence." [1]
- Eva T. Thorne - President
Supporters
Current Funders
- Boston Globe Foundation
- Boston Women's Fund
- Margaret Stewart Lindsay Foundation
- Ludcke Foundation
- Herman and Frieda Miller Foundation
- Mabel Louise Riley Foundation
- MA Department of Public Health, RISE Program
- MA Office of the Attorney General, Safe Neighborhood Initiative
- Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation
- Sovereign Bank
- Verizon Foundation
Past Funders
- Ashoka Innovators for the Public
- Boston Police Department
- Clippership Foundation
- Haymarket People's Fund
- Ms. Foundation for Women
Directors
- Lakshmi Balachandra, Treasurer, Harvard Business School
- Linda Bowen - Institute for Community Peace
- Vicky Gwiasda, Clerk - CALICO Center
- Jeannette Simmons, Interim Board President, Sovereign Bank
- Ellie Sonis - Landmark Residential, Hestia Fund
- Aimee Thompson - Close to Home
- Eva Thorne - (on leave), Brandeis University
Advisors
- Tania Allen - Guarino Design Group
- Catlin Fullwood - On time Associates
- Lori Michau - Raising Voices
- Andrew Wolk - Root Cause Institute
- Julie Zack - Root Cause Institute