Special Events
From our Reach for the Stars gala to our Annual Meeting, we host several events throughout the year. Scroll down to learn more about each event and how you can get involved.
COLD WEATHER COULDN'T STOP OUR 2026 FALL FESTIVAL!
Thanks to all our amazing volunteers, sponsors, community partners, vendors, and festival attendees for showing up during the 2026 REACH Fall Festival! Despite some cold weather and gloomy skies, the festival was a massive success, and we had just under 200 folks show up to run in our second annual Fall Festival 5K.
An extra special thanks to Waltham Mayor Jeannette McCarthy for delivering an official proclamation recognizing the REACH Fall Festival and the positive impact it has on the local Waltham community.
The sponsors who supported the 2026 Fall Festival include Physician Management Resources, Commonwealth Cares, Watertown Savings Bank, First Technology Digital Credit Union, the Needham Domestic Violence Action Committee, Heartbreak Hill Running Company, The Waltham Times, and the Lion's Club of Waltham.
If you enjoyed the festival and you want to continue supporting our work, please consider donating to REACH. Every dollar we raise goes directly towards the critical advocacy and prevention services that survivors depend on.
Community Empowerment at Our 2026 Gala!
We threw our gala crowd a bit of a curveball this year by moving our Reach for the Stars Gala from a Saturday to a Thursday, but that didn't stop over 200 people from attending and helping us raise over $400,000 for survivors! Many thanks to everyone who helped make our 2026 gala into such a memorable experience, including returning emcee Jericho Tran and auctioneer Tom Best, our brave survivor speaker, the team at AE Events, Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio, and, of course, all of our gala supporters, donors, volunteers, sponsors, and attendees. We can't wait to celebrate with you all again next year!
Thanks to All of Our 2025 Holiday Gift Program Donors and Helpers!
Thank you to everyone who helped make our 2025 Holiday Gift Program another rousing success! Every year we put out the call to help support survivors and their families during the holiday season, and every year we're absolutely astounded by the wave of positive responses (though we really shouldn't be at this point, you all are amazing).
Here's what we accomplished with the 2025 Holiday Gift Program:
- 382 individuals served, including survivors and their families
- 16 shelter residents served along with advocacy clients
- 48 volunteers who helped with the giving space, item donations, gift sorting, and more
Whether you made a financial gift, donated in-kind items, volunteered, or contributed in any other way, you helped make the holidays brighter and warmer for our survivor clients. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!
AN AMAZING TURNOUT FOR OUR 2025 CORPORATE LUNCH!
We couldn't have asked for a better response to our 4th Annual Corporate Lunch event. Attendees showed up ready to engage with REACH staff and listen to our panel discussion featuring experts in the fields of domestic violence and employee law along with a brave survivor speaker. Our sincerest thanks go out to the Waltham Chamber of Commerce for helping us host the event, and to the Waltham Chamber's Executive Director, Molyna Richards, for moderating the panel. If you'd like to support survivors in your own community, whether in or out of the workplace, we encourage you to look into our prevention programming or to start your own community engagement initiative.
