The Cape Cod Foundation Releases Report About the Region’s Current Needs, Resources, and Opportunities for Community Engagement

The Cape Cod Foundation recently released a report, Connecting Cape Cod: Building Resources. Granting Opportunities. Strengthening Community, to share information about the region’s current needs, resources, and opportunities for community engagement with key stakeholders and the community at large.

“This report details The Cape Cod Foundation’s strategies, its initiatives to build flexible resources for unmet needs, its partnerships and leadership role in the community, and its efforts to strengthen the nonprofit sector through grantmaking and other initiatives,” said Kristin O’Malley, President and CEO of The Cape Cod Foundation.

She said the report also includes emerging trends, promising practices, and hard and anecdotal data about the Cape Cod community.

“A community is dynamic. Needs change; resources change. During the pandemic, everything changed,” O’Malley said. “People want to know how they can help, where their support will have the most impact. This report gives them access to our community knowledge and the strategy built around that knowledge to inform and empower their individual philanthropic efforts and/or to engage with the Foundation to increase community impact.”

O’Malley said the report is an extension of the Foundation’s ongoing series of virtual community forums, which began in 2021 and were designed to inform and connect the community on key issues, such as food security and access, housing, mental and behavioral health, and youth development.

“It takes a community to change a community,” said O’Malley. “Our goal is to bring change-agents from all sectors of community life together to look at challenges holistically, problem-solve collectively, allocate resources strategically, and drive systemic change.”

O’Malley said the Foundation’s major focus for 2023 is to continue to build and strategically deploy flexible, discretionary resources to help strengthen the community.

“We know no one person or organization can solve our community’s challenges alone,” she said. “However, the collective model of a community foundation is powerful, and we look forward to continuing to use our leadership role, community knowledge, and flexible resources to expand impact—together.”

The digital report is available online at capecodfoundation.org. To learn more about The Cape Cod Foundation initiatives and opportunities for engagement, contact Kristin O’Malley at komalley@capecodfoundation.org or 508.790.3040.