Northeast Legal Aid (NLA)—through its board, management, and staff—helps low-income and elderly people of Northeast Massachusetts obtain justice and empowerment through skillful, creative, and persistent advocacy for systemic change and high-quality individual representation.
To end homelessness in Greater Boston by providing a supported pathway to self-sufficiency that begins with a home, together with critical services such as life skills, financial literacy, and job training.
Promote literacy skills that empower adults to realize their goals by providing free, private, flexibly scheduled, confidential and individualized tutoring in basic literacy and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) through the use of professionally trained and supported volunteer tutors.