Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   JUST ADD COOKING SUPPORTS LOCAL CHEFS, NONPROFITS IN APRIL Partnerships include RESPOND, Inc., Casa B and TWK Winchester BOSTON—Just Add Cooking, which delivers fresh, New England ingredients and recipes to customers in Greater Boston, is announcing two local partnerships this month. First, Just Add Cooking is partnering up with Somerville-based domesticRead More

Mar 22, 2017 Daily Times Chronicle WOBURN - Woburn Memorial High School, in conjunction with the Shannon Lee Meara Foundation, welcomes a new partnership with Respond Inc. to support dating violence awareness and prevention for students! The Dating Violence Task Team comprised of student peer leaders and staff are excited about the new partnership with JenniferRead More

RapidSOS and RESPOND partner to support victims of domestic violence and provide enhanced emergency communication ● 240 million¹ 9-1-1 calls are made every year in the U.S.; over 70%² are from mobile phones, which fail to provide exact location to emergency dispatchers ● 40% of teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 17 reportRead More

Somerville Patch Just Add Cooking, a meal kit delivery service, and Somerville’s RESPOND are partnering to raise funds for programs to combat domestic abuse. By Alex Newman (Patch Staff) – January 17, 2017 1:30 pm ET SOMERVILLE, MA – Somerville-based domestic violence agency RESPOND Inc. is partnering with Boston meal kit delivery service Just AddRead More

Stoneham Patch Stoneham Police and Respond collaborated on the video urging the public not to be “frozen by fear.” By Joe Lipovich (Patch Staff) – December 14, 2016 11:57 am ET STONEHAM, MA — The Mannequin challenge is a video craze sweeping the nation, largely consisting of groups taking part in the challenge for fun.Read More

The Somerville News Weekly https://thesomervillenewsweekly.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/respond-video-library-mannequin-challenge-strangulation-prevention/    

2016 Cummings Grant Press Release CONTACT: Jasmine Lopez Calderon, RESPOND, Inc., 617-625-5996, jasmine@respondinc.org DATE: June 8, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RESPOND, INC. RECEIVES $100K GRANT FROM CUMMINGS FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SUVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOMERVILLE—RESPOND, Inc., New England’s first domestic violence agency and the second oldest in the nation, is thrilledRead More

  By S. Mathur For over forty years, RESPOND has been helping those suffering from domestic violence to find the help they need. As one of the first domestic violence preemption agencies in the country, it has decades of experience in helping victims and those concerned about them to identify the signs of an abusiveRead More

Contact Name: Kristen Elworthy Contact Phone: 617.718.0461 Contact Email: kristen.elworthy@gmail.com RESPOND, INC. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RECEIVES HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SCHOLARSHIP After Competitive Process, Jessica Brayden Awarded Admission to Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management SOMERVILLE—The Community Action Partners (CAP) of Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School announced that RESPOND, Inc. Executive Director Jessica Brayden has been awardedRead More