October 17, 2007
Sister Margaret Leonard, Project Hope’s Executive Director, was honored at the Family-to-Family Projects 20th Anniversary Celebration chaired by founders Paul and Katie Buttenwieser. This benefit was a celebration of community and social justice and aimed to engage a wider public in the campaign to end family homelessness.
"Under her guidance, Project Hope offered much more than shelter to the families who were its temporary guests. It became part of the
healing and revitalization of an entire neighborhood. Today, Project Hope, operating out of its original home in Dorchester as well as its handsome, new building in Dudley Square, has become the modern day counterpart of that early 20th Century institution, the Settlement House. In the great tradition of Jane Addams and Dorothy Day, Sister Margaret has nurtured a neighborhood over many decades, seeing it transformed from one of the bleakest sections of Boston into one of its most vibrant and hopeful communities....
In her work, she has provided a blueprint of what a community can and should be. When I was growing up, Jane Addams was the one who inspired me to become a social worker. But that was before I met Sister Margaret Leonard, who is now at the top of the list of people I admire and wish to emulate."
- Katie Buttenwieser, Founder of The Family-to-Family Project
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