Strategic Emergency Response Fund Grant Recipients

MARCH 2020-PRESENT
TOTAL RAISED TO DATE: $5,660,000
TOTAL DISTRIBUTED TO DATE: $4,887,460
All grants to nonprofit organizations are in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Falmouth Service Center*
To provide emergency financial assistance to residents; to support the food pantry, mobile food pantry, and the “To Go Grocery Program” partnered with the local Council on Aging to deliver food to elders in need

Fishing Partnership Support Services*
To provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs

Food 4 Kids
For supplies, transportation, and site coordination for summer food pick-up sites for families on the Lower and Outer Cape

Friends of the Bourne Council on Aging, Inc.-Bourne Friends Food Pantry*
To purchase food for the pantry and meal delivery program

Gosnold, Inc.*
To purchase personal protection equipment to increase safety when screening clients entering detox; to provide hazard pay for front-line staff; to support expansion of recovery coaching and school-based counseling

Harbor Health for Harbor Community Health Center
To adapt program delivery and services to meet current needs

Harwich Ecumenical Council for the Homeless*
To provide financial support for rent, utilities, transportation, and other emergency needs; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs; to support continued operations for The Children’s Center, which provides affordable child care for low-income Cape Cod working families.

Health Imperatives
To provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households for costs related to meeting basic human needs; for staff expansion to strengthen internal and external immigrant support services; to address food security on Cape Cod; to improved utilization of WIC benefits, equip families to prepare low-cost healthy meals, and increase food security among Cape Cod clients through the provision of supplemental groceries.

Health Ministry
To support vaccine education and outreach and other services available to the Brazilian community on Cape Cod; for staff expansion to strengthen volunteer services and allow more opportunity to focus on strategic development

Helping Our Women
To establish a center for women’s wellness and peer support on the Outer Cape

Homeless Prevention Council*
To increase capacity for case managers responding to increased demand for support; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs

Housing Assistance Corporation*
To support basic needs, safety measures, and staffing in four family shelters; to provide direct rental assistance for families in the HomeBASE program to help them stay in their homes; to provide rental assistance for currently homeless individuals in need of safe housing; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs; to support an agency-wide case management systems and software assessment to create a holistic, comprehensive case management model

Hyannis Public Library
To establish a Communications Laboratory to increase community access and utilization of library and community programs.

Independence House*
To provide emergency shelter and other basic needs for survivors of domestic violence or other clients impacted by COVID-19; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs; to support comprehensive capacity building

Kennedy Donovan Center*
To provide food cards and other emergency financial assistance to client families; to purchase additional personal protection equipment for Center; to provide hazard pay for frontline staff in four residential sites; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs

Latham Centers*
To purchase personal protection equipment for Center; to purchase a temperature and tracking system for staff, residents, and visitors; to provide hazard pay for front-line staff in four residential sites; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs

Love Live Local
To foster strategic program and development growth through staff expansion and revenue development planning

Lower Cape Outreach Council*
To provide food through the nine food pantries and mobile delivery program; to provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households to meet basic human needs; to support re-launching, ehnancing, and expanding the Food to Ecourage Program, a holistic food security program

Massachusetts Military Support Foundation
To provide food for veterans and active military on Cape Cod who have been impacted by COVID-19

Monomoy Community Services
To provide direct economic support to qualifying individuals and households for costs related to meeting basic human needs

National Alliance on Mental Illness Cape Cod*
To support an additional staff person to respond to the increase in help line calls which have more than tripled since the start of the health crisis; to purchase four new computer monitors with cameras to facilitate remote outreach and the development of new hybrid models of service

Outer Cape Health Services
To adapt its food delivery and services to meet current needs; to support the organization’s diaper bank

Salvation Army Hyannis*
To buy food for the pantry and to provide prepared meals

Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands
To support a more robust website that will serve as an information hub for all constituents and offer enhanced fundraising and donor functionality; to support comprehensive capacity building assessment and implementation

Sandwich Food Pantry*
To purchase food for the pantry

Sharing Kindness
For clinician and volunteer training to transform their peer grief support model

Soup Kitchen in Provincetown*
To support the food pantry and meal delivery service

South Shore Community Action Council
To support sustaining and expanding their nutrition programs for children and their caregivers in their Cape Cod childcare sites via staff expansion

Sustainable Cape-Center for Agricultural Preservation and Education
To address food insecurity and support access to local produce; to support sustaining and expanding their Veggie Rx program, school gardening program, and fresh produce programs

The Community Health Center of Cape Cod
To adapt program delivery and services to meet current needs

WE CAN Corporation
To continue programming; to building a strong, accessible, and scalable hybrid program delivery system

Wellstrong*
For staff expansion to increase services, revenue, evaluation, and impact

Yarmouth Food Pantry*
To purchase food for pantry

YMCA Cape Cod/Childcare Services*
To support an emergency childcare program for essential workers; to support food, packaging, and delivery for 20 summer camp meal sites; to expand provision of meals to low-income Cape Cod youth through renovations and upgrades to the Camp Lyndon Sullivan Hall Kitchen

*Indicates nonprofit organizations whose grants are supported fully or in part with funding received by The Cape Cod Foundation from the Massachusetts COVID-19 Relief Fund. The Fund supports those across the state most impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis, focusing on essential frontline workers and vulnerable populations including the homeless, immigrant populations, people with disabilities, and those facing food insecurity. The Fund works in concert with regional community foundations and nonprofit leaders who partner with local leaders to understand the response and relief landscape, strategically filling in where gaps are pronounced. For more information, visit MACOVID19RELIEFFUND.ORG.