Ellis Enters Capacity-Building Partnership With Neighborhood Villages

Originally Appeared in massnonprofit news

February 4, 2020

Ellis, a Boston nonprofit that provides intervention and counseling services to children, disabled adults, elders, and families, today announced it has entered into a capacity-building partnership with another Boston nonprofit.

The partnership with Neighborhood Villages, which promotes strong communities through delivery of quality, affordable child care and education, will fund two positions, an operations manager and a family support navigator, who will be hired by and work for Ellis.

Lauren Cook, chief executive officer of Ellis, said, the new staffers will free up early childhood specialists to function more efficiently, which will "help us do our jobs better." She added that "we are proud to be at the forefront of Neighborhood Villages’ vision to create systems change in early childhood that includes an infusion of critical support at the micro level.”

Ellis joins a cohort that includes The Epiphany School and East Boston Social Centers.

Ellis currently employs 54 people and annually serves 300 children from different economic backgrounds from Boston neighborhoods, as well from outside the city.