Victory Programs

06/22/2026

Recovery is stronger when we do it together. 🩵 Our JP Recovery Center team recently joined Rise Again: The Sabrina Best Foundation for their annual Wiffle ball tournament! We are incredibly grateful for the vital work they do to support women and families navigating sobriety, and the JP Recovery team looks like they had an absolute blast!

06/20/2026

Happy First Day of Summer! 🕶️☀️

We are welcoming the new season with a huge thank you to our partners at Life Science Cares and the team from Delphia.

Just ahead of the summer heat, this group came together to pack $2,000 worth of seasonal hygiene kits. Packed with essentials like sunscreen, water bottles, cooling towels, and flip-flops, these kits help keep our clients safe, hydrated, and comfortable during the hottest months of the year. 💦

We are deeply grateful to Delphia and LSC Boston for their generosity, hard work, and for bringing so much care to our community just in time for summer.

☀️ Bring Your Team In This Summer
Want to get your company or community group involved in a meaningful hands-on project like kit-building? Contact us today to learn more about our summer volunteer and sponsorship opportunities.

06/19/2026

🖤 Honoring Juneteenth 🖤

Today, Victory Programs recognizes Juneteenth—commemorating the end of slavery in the United States and celebrating the resilience, culture, and liberation of Black Americans.

As we work daily to provide health, housing, and hope, we recognize that true liberation requires equity. The crises we address—homelessness, addiction, and health disparities—continue to disproportionately impact Black and Brown communities due to systemic barriers. We remain deeply committed to breaking down these inequities and fighting for a future of dignity and justice for all.

Our administrative offices are closed today in observance, but our shelters and residential programs remain open, providing continuous, compassionate care.

Wishing our entire community a meaningful and reflective Juneteenth.

06/18/2026

This Pride Month, we want to recognize some of the incredible LGBTQ+ volunteer groups who have partnered with us to build critical safety and prevention kits at our Victory Connector. These kits deliver essential resources, help prevent the spread of disease, and provide life-saving support on the front lines of health and harm reduction.

A sincere thank you to:
🩵 Gay For Good - Boston: These wonderful teams brought their energy and dedication to the Victory Connector, using their helping hands to assemble vital kits for our community. Thank you for showing up so beautifully for our neighbors.

🧬 : We are so grateful to OUTBio for bringing in a fantastic team to help assemble these resources. As the largest biotech community for LGBTQ+ professionals and allies, OUTBio does incredible work elevating voices in the life sciences through networking, education, and community service.

We are deeply grateful for your partnership, hard work, and shared commitment to health, housing, and hope for all. Happy Pride! 🌈🏠

Partner with Victory Programs
Want to bring your company or community group in for a hands-on experience? Contact us to learn more about our volunteer opportunities and sponsorships. Together, we can build a partnership that is deeply meaningful for your team and life-changing for our community.

06/15/2026

WE ARE HIRING: HR Generalist

In this vital role, you will serve as the go-to resource for staff, handling everything from routine benefits questions to complex state leave compliance. By managing daily benefits, onboarding, and leaves of absence, you'll ensure our frontline staff are fully supported to provide compassionate shelter, recovery, and care.

Step behind our red doors for a unique opportunity to learn, grow, and directly impact thousands of lives in crisis! 🏠❤️

We have additional exciting and meaningful opportunities open too. Visit https://www.vpi.org/careers/ to explore all our current openings.

06/15/2026

We are honored to be named a 2026 Tufts Community Grants recipient!

A massive thank you to Tufts University and the Tufts University Community Relations for selecting Victory Programs for a $5,000 grant! 🩵 We also want to shout out the Cummings Foundation for their incredible $150,000 matching gift that makes this vital funding possible.

Do you see members of our development team in the celebration photos? A huge thank you to the Tufts team for capturing our squad in action at the reception, with beautiful photography by Mike Ritter for Tufts University! 📸

From weekly art therapy and crochet circles to holiday kit-building, Tufts volunteers have poured so much love into our programs already.

This funding will purchase high-quality creative tools to bring therapeutic, stress-reducing art workshops across our sites. These tools will provide individuals navigating recovery, homelessness, and chronic illness with vital outlets for healing and connection.

We love our ! Read the full story of our award and partnership on our website at: https://www.vpi.org/art-healing-and-community-victory-programs-celebrates-a-2026-tufts-community-grant/ 🔗

06/08/2026

From finding her footing to running for the cause: Meet Phylee! Years ago, facing a life-changing diagnosis and searching for recovery, Phylee walked through our doors. She found a lifeline at LARC (Living and Recovering Community) and a true sanctuary at the The Boston Living Center. In her own words, the BLC wrapped her in a "warm, comfy blanket of unconditional love when she didn’t know where to go."

EDITED TO CLARIFY: We want to make a quick note that Phylee is actually raising vital funds for our wonderful organization on the Cape, the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod (ASGCC), during their Provincetown 5K! While she is a beloved volunteer here at the BLC, we are incredibly proud to back her as she runs to support our wider community of care. Help her hit her goal! 👇

From finding her footing to running for the cause.

Whether she is prepping meals in the kitchen or shaking up her legendary fresh-muddled lemonade to the beat of the music, Phylee pours pure joy into our community. She went from relying on our programs to being one of our fiercest volunteer advocates.

Let’s show her the ultimate support as she runs for the community she loves!
🔗 Support Phylee's race and donate to her page here: https://raceroster.com/events/2026/130308/asgcc-provincetown-5k/pledge/team/1010450

06/05/2026

One Day of Service. Three Sites. Massive Community Impact.

Yesterday, our programs were bursting with energy, hard work, and incredible hearts! We are sending a huge shoutout to the team of volunteers from Flagship Pioneering, coordinated by our wonderful partners at Life Science Cares, for dedicating an entire day of action to Victory Programs.

To show you the true depth of what a passionate group can accomplish in a single morning, take a look at how this crew spread out across our community to transform our spaces:

The Boston Living Center: Volunteers jumped right into our commercial kitchen, slicing, dicing, and prepping nutritious ingredients to fuel our daily meal program for community members navigating HIV/AIDS and chronic health conditions.

16 Williams in Brookline: A team rolled up their sleeves for an intensive weeding and property cleanup session. This is our newest residential project—and while our overall plans for the space are just starting, we are deeply committed to this community and keeping it looking great from day one!

Arborway: Another group tackled outdoor yardwork and grounds care at our permanent housing program for women exiting homelessness. Their hard work helps ensure our residents have a peaceful, beautiful, and dignified outdoor space to call home.

From cooking warm meals to clearing outdoor gardens, these volunteers showed us exactly what is possible when community leaders step up to support individuals and families on their journeys toward healing and housing stability.

Thank you, Flagship Pioneering and Life Science Cares, for helping Victory Programs bloom! 💚✨

06/05/2026

Honoring our history, connecting our present. Today, on the 45th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases, we are incredibly proud to amplify the launch of an essential new podcast: The Women Who Stayed.

The first episode features Sally Deane, the trailblazing first Director of Fenway Community Health Center. Sally reflects on the earliest, most challenging years of the crisis in Boston—and honors the extraordinary women who stepped forward as caregivers, advocates, and fierce community leaders when safe spaces were few and far between.

At Victory Programs, this history lives in our DNA. Our The Boston Living Center (BLC) was founded out of this exact era of community resilience, serving as a sanctuary for those impacted by HIV/AIDS. Understanding where we began is vital to how we continue to provide judgment-free, compassionate care today.

🎧 Listen to Episode 1 on Spotify now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0B05deq65ZjvSXT1O66yOs

❤️ Celebrate Community with us Next Week!
Speaking of the BLC community, we have an exciting event happening right here next week! Whether you are a long-time member, a supporter, or new to our mission, we would love for you to join us.

📅 Get all the details and RSVP on our Facebook Event page here: https://www.facebook.com/share/18qfEeAvcz/

🎙️ Episode 1 of The Women Who Stayed is now live!

Today, on the 45th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases, I am proud to launch The Women Who Stayed featuring Sally Deane, the first Director of Fenway Community Health Center.

In this opening conversation, Sally reflects on the early years of the AIDS epidemic in Boston, the challenges facing healthcare providers and patients, and the extraordinary women who stepped forward as caregivers, advocates, and community leaders during a time of crisis.

The Women Who Stayed is a weekly, multi-episode podcast that documents the untold stories of women whose contributions were essential to Boston's response to the AIDS epidemic—stories that deserve to be remembered and shared.

🎧 Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0B05deq65ZjvSXT1O66yOs

06/03/2026

To kick off Pride Month, we are showcasing this sweet artwork created by members at The Boston Living Center (BLC).

Since 1989, the Victory Programs has been a sanctuary for people impacted by HIV/AIDS and chronic illness—a history deeply intertwined with Boston's q***r community.

For our members, creating art isn't just about expression; it's a practice of survival, healing, and joy.