CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC
EIN 04-2732721 · Mental Health & Crisis Intervention (F42Z)
What they do
CENTER for HOPE & HEALING, INC. (CHH) is DEDICATED to THE HEALING and EMPOWERMENT of SURVIVORS of RAPE and SEXUAL ASSAULT THROUGH COUNSELING, ADVOCACY, and EDUCATION. CHH is COMMITTED to CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT THAT is NOT RACIST, SEXIST, CLASSIST, or HOMOPHOBIC, and WHERE SEXUAL VIOLENCE and OTHER FORMS of OPPRESSION ARE ERADICATED. CHH is COMMITTED to CREATING A COMMUNITY WHERE INDIVIDUALS and SOCIETY CAN BREAK THE SILENCE THAT SURROUNDS THE ISSUE of SEXUAL ASSAULT.
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Money report from 2024The charity has a recent tax report to read.
They explain their jobThe charity tells us what it is trying to do.
They name their leaders9 people are listed in the latest report.
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MASADA JONESEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AMBER KOVACH TALBOTCO-CHAIR
GEORGE NUGENTDIRECTOR
LISA CASCIOSECRETARY
LONDON LAROUXDIRECTOR
NADIA MADDENCO-CHAIR
VANMEY MADIRECTOR
YASMINE WEIL-POURFARDDIRECTOR
ZOE DZINEKUDIRECTOR
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 1981
- Location
- 15 HURD STREET, LOWELL, MA 01852
- County
- Middlesex
- In care of
- AMBER KOVACH TALBOT
- Primary officer
- AMBER KOVACH TALBOT, BOARD CHAIR
How to reach them
Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2024
- Tax period began
- July 1, 2024
- Return type
- 990
- Tax preparer
- GRASSI & CO CPAS PC
- NTEE classification
- Mental Health & Crisis Intervention (F42Z)