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Honoring Elsie Frank

April 27, 2011

Bob Glassman and Pam Feingold of Eastern Bank present a plaque for the Elsie Frank House to Barney Frank.

Bob Glassman, Ellen Feingold, Barney Frank, and Anna Bissonnette

Bob Joy of Morgan, Brown & Joy with Hearth founder and board member Ellen Feingold

BOSTON (April 27, 2011) - - Hearth, a Boston non-profit organization dedicated to ending elderly homelessness, announced that it is honoring the memory of Elsie Frank, mother of Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, by naming their first residence for homeless elders, which originally opened in 1992, the “Elsie Frank House.”

As part of a series of 20th anniversary milestone celebrations, longtime Hearth supporters Bob Glassman, Pam Feingold, and Eastern Bank have made an exciting Leadership Grant of $25,000 in Elsie Frank’s memory to create an operating reserve for Hearth and to name Hearth’s first residence the Elsie Frank House. The $25,000 Leadership Grant kicks off a fundraising effort to encourage other donors to contribute an additional $75,000 towards this reserve that will enable Hearth’s housing programs to withstand fluctuations in public and private funding.

The April 26 event took place at the offices of Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP where Elsie worked for ten years of her career. Congressman Barney Frank and his family attended the event to honor his mother, who with six other women founded Hearth as The Committee to End Elder Homelessness Inc. in 1991.

You can learn more about making a donation to the operating reserve in honor of Elsie Frank here, or contact Annie Garmey, Director of Institutioanl Advancement at Hearth, at 617-369-1555 or by email.