Story #20: The Start of Y2Y
Y2Y Network is a shelter in Harvard Square that serves young adults experiencing homelessness. Originally founded at Harvard Square in 2015, Y2Y has since added an additional location in New Haven.
Mre than 500 people filled the chapel at First Parish Church in Cambridge last Friday afternoon to celebrate the opening of Y2Y Harvard Square, a homeless shelter for young people founded by Sam Greenberg ’14 and Sarah Rosenkrantz ’14. There were thanks and praise and giddy eruptions of applause, a vocal quartet singing “Lay Up Your Treasures in Heaven,” and a gospel artist belting out Mariah Carey’s “Hero” to a grand-piano accompaniment. There were rousing speeches and performance poetry, a presentation of awards, and, amid an interfaith blessing, a bright string of origami cranes unveiled from a Tupperware container by John Bach, the Quaker chaplain at Harvard.
Read all about the journey Sam Greenberg ’14 and Sarah Rosenkrantz ’14 embarked on to found Y2Y here: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/11/cambridge-youth-shelter-opening
