Who We Are

Our Founders

	Sandra Albright
	Anna M. Bissonnette
	Joanne B. Bluestone
	Ruth Cowin*
	Ellen Feingold
	Elsie Frank*
	Diana Laskin Siegal
	*deceased

In 1991, these seven professional women with diverse experience in housing, finance, health, human services, and administration, volunteered to form a committee to address the then largery unrecognized problem of elder homelessness in Boston.

"We got tired of going to conferences and talking about the problem of frail elders who don't have places to live " Bissonnette told The Boston Sunday Globe in 1991. "We felt that it was time to do something about it "

Together, the committee provided the leadership for a coalition of public and private agencies working collaboratively to eliminate elder homelessness in Boston by creating permanent housing with supportive servcies for homeless elders.

To learn more about Heath's development, view Hearth's Timeline.