What We Invest In: Strategic Partnerships with Broad Regional Impact
The Cape Cod Foundation supports strategic partnerships with broad regional impact. By working together, we can reduce duplication of efforts, leverage resources, create economies of scale, and expand impact throughout the community. We serve on several committees and boards to inform our work, share information, shape strategies, and influence policy. We also invest in strategic nonprofit partnerships that promote collaboration to expand impact. The Cape Cod and Islands Funders’ Network and The Massachuetts Community Foundations Partnership are ongoing partnerships.
“Individually we’re one drop, but together we’re an ocean.”
—Ryonosoke Satoro
The Cape and Islands Funders’ Network
Several years ago, The Cape Cod Foundation formed an informal partnership with a variety of local funders to share information about community needs, initiatives, and resources; review proposals from the nonprofit sector; and discuss collaborative funding for greater community impact. The pandemic strengthened the network, which is now a more formalized, strategic partnership. In 2022, we enlisted Philanthropy Massachusetts, which serves a diverse membership of highly engaged philanthropic organizations and individuals with interests in Massachusetts, to serve as the network facilitator.
The Network is open to anyone who is funding or who is interested in funding nonprofit initiatives across Cape Cod and the Islands. Our goal is two-fold: to inform each funder’s individual grantmaking so we can fund unmet needs across the region without duplicating efforts; and to pool resources to fuel larger initiatives that lead to systemic change.
To date, The Cape Cod Foundation and other funders have pooled over $600,000 to support the Institute for Nonprofit Practice’s Core Certificate Program on Cape Cod and the Islands. MORE INFO
The Cape Cod Foundation, Cape Cod 5 Foundation, Inc., and The Cooperative Bank of Cape Cod also awarded a $12,000 collaborative grant ($4,000 each) to Duffy Health Center to support Phase II of its study to create a medical respite program on Cape Cod for those experiencing homelessness.
The Massachusetts Community
Foundations Partnership
In 2020, The Cape Cod Foundation joined The Massachusetts Community Foundations Partnership, a new statewide coalition of community foundations designed to help stabilize, strengthen, and advance the social sector in communities across the Commonwealth. The partnership, formed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, is made up of 15 community foundations across Massachusetts. Its goals are to strengthen the Massachusetts nonprofit sector to achieve greater impact, work collectively to lead on common challenges facing our communities, and to improve the effectiveness of community foundations and their collective missions.
The partnership has co-funded a virtual series of technical assistance and capacity-building programs for nonprofit staff and board leaders. In addition to training, nonprofit participants will have the opportunity to network with peers, troubleshoot common issues, and exchange best practices.
In 2023 and 2024, the Partnership convened a Community Foundation Summit, providing a day of learning and networking for members. Because of its success, it is now an annual event.
Cape Cod Foundation President and CEO Kristin O’Malley currently serves as a Co-Chair of the CEO Advisory Group.
Together, we have invested more than $106 million in grants and scholarships in the Cape Cod Community. For good.
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