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Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui announced today plans to launch a new Guaranteed Income Pilot Initiative, providing much-needed support for Cambridge’s most vulnerable residents. The initiative will offer $500 no-strings-attached monthly payments to 120 eligible single caretaker households over an 18-month period beginning in August. Participants will be chosen by lottery.

Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui awarded prizes to four 6th to 8th grade students for her Office’s Women’s History Month art contest, held in March.

Mayor Siddiqui’s Office and the City of Cambridge have displayed 121 white flags on City Hall lawn to mark the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the Cambridge community. The flag memorial will be displayed from Sunday, March 14, 2021 through Saturday, March 20, 2021.

I am so saddened by yesterday’s report of the brutal attack and murder of eight individuals, including six women of Asian descent, near Atlanta, GA, and stand in solidarity with my fellow Asian Americans.

Beginning March 15, 2021, the City of Cambridge will display a commemorative quilt at the Main Cambridge Library made from over 50,000 masks stitched together by local stitch lounge, Gather Here, and Boston Area Mask Initiative (BAMI).

After a successful pilot of the 2020 Local Parks Program last fall, the Office of Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, local nonprofit Elevate Youth, and the Cambridge Housing Authority’s Work Force Youth Program have expanded their partnership to include MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations for the 2021 Local Parks Program beginning this spring.

The Office of Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui is partnering with the Vice-Mayor Alanna Mallon, Cambridge City Council, CASPAR & Bay Cove, Cambridge Police Department, and CambridgeSide to collect and donate 2,500 wool socks to homeless residents for its 4th Annual “Warm Hearts, Warm Feet Sock Drive.”

In January, Cambridge Public Library and Mayor Siddiqui coordinated a drop off of 600 books to families living at 362, 364, and 402 Rindge Avenue.

Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, the Cambridge Public Health Department, and the Cambridge Food Heroes Committee awarded the 2020 Cambridge Food Hero Awards to community members, businesses and organizations who have worked to reduce hunger, increase access to good food, support local farms and so much more.

The Office of Mayor Siddiqui and the Cambridge Public Schools team, led by Lyndsay Pinkus Brown, Chief Strategy Officer, and Robin Harris, Director of Family Engagement, organized and hosted a total of eight Family Resource Fairs throughout Cambridge between August 22, 2020 - November 14, 2020