Dana Reyes
Executive DirectorRan the pantry as a volunteer for six years before anyone offered to pay her.
About us
Seventeen years, seven towns, one question.
Harborlight began in 2009 with a card table outside the fish co-op and forty pounds of donated potatoes. The question we asked then is the same one our case workers ask now: is anything else broken this week?
What we actually do
Three programs, run out of one warehouse on Dock Street. The harbor pantry is open four days a week with no intake queue and no means test. The winter heat fund pays for emergency oil and propane between November and April. The after-school kitchen serves a hot meal to ninety kids in the two schools without a cafeteria program.
We are small enough to know the names, and stubborn enough to keep it that way.— Dana Reyes, Executive Director
Last fiscal year, audited
The numbers we publish whether or not they flatter us.
91¢
of each dollar to programs
4,180
households served
14
days, gift to grocery shelf
312
volunteers on the roster
The people
Staff & board
Ruth Abiola
Programs LeadBuilt the heat fund after a winter of driving oil cans in her own trunk.
Marcus Feld
Warehouse & LogisticsRetired lobsterman. Knows every road on the peninsula in the dark.
Transparency
Radical, boring transparency.
Our audited financials, IRS Form 990, and the auditor's management letter are posted the week we receive them — not summarized, not spun, not buried three clicks deep.
Food purchase & distribution58%
Heat & emergency assistance21%
After-school kitchen12%
Administration6%
Fundraising3%