Danvers Nonprofits and Charities

We first had contact with NSES when my elderly grandmother fell and broke her pelvis. When released from hospital, her insurance covered various services (home health aide, physical therapy, evaluation of the home, etc) which were coordinated through NSES. During the initial evaluation, the actual medical staff doing the PT and monitoring her recovery recommended various other services that were covered by her insurance and which NSES would coordinate and set her up with. <br><br>Trying to actually get them to provide those services has been nothing but an exercise in frustration. We managed to get someone coming a couple of days a week to help her get dressed and showered and such. But she was eligible for much much more, but it took months and dozens of calls to get anything done. Phone calls are never returned. And despite the fact that my grandmother has a doctors prescription or approval from the insurance for various services, NSES says they cannot provide those services because they do not have sufficient staff, or they just don't bother returning voice mails and when you talk to people who take your number and say they will look into it and get back to you, they don't. Meanwhile, my grandmother has had a few more slips and falls in the subsequent 18 months, and we have all been taking time off work and using sick and vacation days to be there for her 24/7. Dozens of calls and inquiries to NSES all get the same results.... "we haven't forgotten about you - and yes, she does qualify for the services you are looking for but we simply do not have the manpower to provide those services, we're short staffed. Have you considered just paying privately for the services you want? If you can pay privately - we can get someone out there tomorrow". Short staffed, eh? What a joke. <br><br>She was eligible for a hospital bed too after she had fallen and cracked a vertebra. We hounded them for weeks. We got a happy phone call (I am not joking) 11 weeks and 5 days into her 12 week recovery to say they were ready to bring the hospital bed the following day. Too bad we already paid to rent one from a local charity and she was going for a final checkup at her doctor the next day, where she got a clean bill of health and her prescription for the hospital bed expired. <br><br>I am sure some of the people working in this place are kind people with good intentions, but we have absolutely caught them in outright lies, and we have absolutely been told that her insurance does cover services but they have no staff, but if we agree to pay privately, they can get someone out there the next morning. We have gone up the chain of command (politely but firmly) and nothing changes, so this fish stinks from the head down, apparently.

We were entirely abandoned by the Hospice in the 4 days before my mother died. Repeated emails and phone calls were put off as we were clear that something was changing dramatically and my mother was extremely miserable. When finally they made a time to come, the nurse called last minute to postpone - she was asked to please come as soon as she could. I communicated our experience to the Chaplin and Social Worker who called to follow up - they indicated that they would relay my story. The only times I heard from them after that was from fund raisers.

I contributed yearly anonymously and very hardly. to your organization and I used your faculties to get married in 1975!! I have to tell you I have been harboring resentment since 2012 when I asked you to please help me built a ramp for my husband who was dying of lung and bladder cancer and you denied me and I want to say I forgive you and hope God will forgive you!! I needed your help so bad!! My husband suffered so much and had such a hard time getting to the car to go the hospital because he needed a ramp so bad!!

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states and in more than 70 countries around the world. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat works toward this vision by building and improving homes in partnership with individuals and families in need of a decent and affordable place to live.

What a great organization for diverse kids locally on the North Shore of MA.

I have known about Instrumental Change since shortly after the earthquake in 2010. I met the director, Jeanne Pocius, and have been impressed with her work ethic, the numbers and quality of instruments she has brought to give to schools and students in Haiti, and the caliber of volunteers whom she has helped sponsor to come and teach in Haiti. <br>Though Instrumental Change is small as non-profits go, the 100% effort and investment that is made by the company and those associated with it makes a huge difference here in Haiti. <br>

A great choice for volunteering & donations! Habitat for Humanity - North Shore in Lynn has is a vibrant Habitat Affiliate serving the North Shore of Boston. I've participated in their Saturday builds (right now in Lynn and Peabody). Great group of volunteers, well organzied, really fun! I Highly recommend this organization for volunteering or donating money.