Our Partners

Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod, Year 24 Team Members

AmeriCorps Cape Cod

We are proud of our park partnerships that continue to flourish and grow within the national seashore. A mix of government, non-profit organizations, and institutional and for-profit groups work together to protect and research park resources, and provide visitor services and programs, enhancing the ability of the National Park Service to carry out its mission. There are several park partner groups that operate through partnership arrangements, as well as formal fundraising agreements.

Cape Cod National Seashore also recognizes private philanthropy as both a long-standing tradition of the national parks and as a vital element of National Park Service (NPS) success. Funds raised by partner organizations and volunteer hours contributed by individuals and organizations provide a strong connection between the donor and the park.

The national seashore has a park-wide Donor Recognition Plan it is available on request. Request the Donor Recognition Plan by email.

 

Partner Organizations

 

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore

Since 1978, Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore, a not-for-profit charitable organization (501 c 3), has supported the National Seashore, which operates under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service by raising funds for specific projects. FCCNS was incorporated in Massachusetts on March 1, 1978 as a tax-exempt organization under section 501©(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are tax exempt as provided by law.
Primary Contact: Joan Francoloni
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Eastern National

Eastern National, founded in 1947, is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit cooperating association, that promotes the public’s understanding and support of America’s national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products, and services. Eastern National operates the America’s National Park Stores at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham and the Province Lands Visitor Center in Provincetown. They also operate the store and tours at Highland Light in Truro.
Primary Contact: Lisa Mitchell, Eastern National Regional Manager, Metro Boston
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

 

Nauset Light Preservation Society

Nauset Light Preservation Society's mission is to preserve, maintain and interpret the Nauset Light Station, a lighthouse built in 1877 and moved to its present location in 1923 and then again in 1996. It was founded in 1993 by a group of citizens in Eastham,

Primary Contact: Susan Abbott, President
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Friends of Herring River is a non-profit organization, founded in 2008, working to promote the restoration and protection of the Herring River and its estuary for its values to people and nature. The Herring River Restoration project will revive 1,100 acres of tidal salt marsh that was highly productive before the dike at Chequessett Neck Road, installed in 1909, impeded the tidal flow, decimated the herring run, and caused general ecological degradation. The estuary restoration is the largest project of its kind in the Northeast United States.
Primary Contact: Dale Rheault, Chair of the Board of Directors
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Cape Cod Modern House Trust

Cape Cod Modern House Trust was founded to collect, archive, and share documentation of the outer Cape’s exceptional modern architecture, restore a group of important, endangered modern houses, and to relaunch them as platforms for new creative work.
Primary Contact: Peter McMahon
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Truro Historical Society

The Highland House Museum was established in 1967 by the Truro Historical Society when CCNS was created. Our mission is to inspire all people to explore, discover and experience the rich heritage of Truro and the Outer Cape from valued artifacts, living history exhibits, and ongoing community interactions that emphasize their influence on society today.

Primary Contact: Helen McNeil Ashton
Email: [e-mail]

 

Cape Cod NS's Pamet Coast Guard building now used by N.E.E.D. and Hostelling International.

NPS

N.E.E.D. (National Environmental Education Development) Academy - The rogram provides the opportunity for 5^th grade students to live, explore, and study in a beautiful setting within the Cape Cod National Seashore. Our living space is a former Coast Guard Station with some grand views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pamet River valley. Our classroom consists of the beaches, dunes, woods, marshes, bogs, swamps, and ponds of the National Seashore. N.E.E.D. is run by the Dennis-Yarmouth, Monomoy, and Falmouth school districts, which send all their fifth-grade classes. The program was established as a Collaborative in 1974, and hosts between 750 and 1,000 students each school year for their 2 ½ or 5 day-overnight environmental education experience.
Primary Contact: Eleanor Moody, Director
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Hostelling International

Hostelling International manages the Truro Hostel on North Pamet Road. HI USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, member-based organization that reinvests our surpluses back into hostels and programs so they can have an even greater impact, year after year. HI USA’s mission is to help all, especially the young, gain a greater understanding of the world and its people through hostelling. For over 80 years, HI USA has provided a network of affordable hostels in converted mansions, reinvented lighthouses, and historic urban buildings across the country.
Primary Contact: Briana Santos
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Center for Coastal Studies

The Center for Coastal Studies is a non-profit organization dedicated to understanding, preserving and protecting marine ecosystems and the coastal environment through applied research, education and public policy initiatives. CCS collaborates with local, national and international organizations and works with government agencies to promote environmental stewardship and develop policies and management strategies drawn from solid scientific research. CCS conducts research with emphasis on marine mammals of the western North Atlantic and on the coastal and marine habitats and resources of the Gulf of Maine; provides educational resources and programs that encourage the responsible use and conservation of coastal and marine ecosystems; and collaborates with other institutions and individuals whenever possible to advance the Center’s mission.
Primary Contact: Douglas Karlson
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Americorps Cape Cod

Americorps Cape Cod

Since 1999, the Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod program has engaged service-minded adults to fulfill a variety of environmental and disaster preparedness needs across Cape Cod. Each year we recruit, train, and host 20 national service members, who make an 11-month full-time volunteer commitment to Cape Cod. Our program is dedicated to bringing in skilled young professionals to serve on capacity building projects for municipal governments and non-profit organizations across all 15 towns of the Cape. Our focus areas include natural resource management, disaster preparedness and response, environmental education, and volunteer engagement. Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod is funded by Barnstable County government and with a grant provided by AmeriCorps the Agency. Housing for Corps members and live-in program staff is provided by Barnstable County, the Cape Cod National Seashore, and the Town of Barnstable.

Primary Contact: Kat Garofoli
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Payomet Performing Arts Center is a volunteer driven, non-profit performing arts organization committed to gradual and sustainable growth in order to remain true to our core mission: to produce exciting professional live music, theatre, circus arts and humanities events rooted in strong social values. Founded 1998.
Primary Contact: Kevin Rice
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Email: [e-mail]

 

The Peaked Hill Trust is a 501©3 membership organization, incorporated in 1986 with the mission of protecting, maintaining, and preserving for use, the dune shacks of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Central to PHT’s mission, is providing time and space within the dune colony to artists and creative visionaries, as well as the community-at-large, predicated on the belief that low-impact living in the unique beauty and solitude of the Outer Banks of Cape Cod is of intrinsic value to all people. The Peaked Hill Trust manages five shacks that are available for use by lottery to its membership, and through residencies in the arts and sciences.
Primary Contact: Executive Director: Bette Warner
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Email: [e-mail]

 

The Outer Cape Artists in Residence Consortium was founded in 1995 in response to a request by the Cape Cod National Seashore (Seashore) to establish a residency program in one of its historic dune shacks at the edge of the Atlantic “back shore” in Provincetown. It offers the artist the creative stimulation that isolation and solitude provide. In the summer of 1995, OCARC was awarded the Margo-Gelb shack by the Seashore, with the first residencies being held in 1996.

OCARC is made up of four non-profit organizations - three arts organizations [the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (FAWC), Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (Castle Hill)] and a dune shack advocacy group, Peaked Hill Trust (PHT). PHT oversees the maintenance of the Margo-Gelb shack as well as provides the transportation to/from the shack on Saturdays.
Primary Contact: Janet Whelan
Email: [e-mail]

 

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has served a single purpose for more than 50 years: to create an inclusive and supportive arts community by providing a wide range of artistic experiences to students at all levels of ability. Energized by a faculty of distinguished artists and writers and enlivened by a welcoming and engaging community, Castle Hill offers workshops, lectures, exhibitions, performances, special events and short-term artist residencies. Located in an exquisitely beautiful rural setting, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill provides unique and inspiring learning experiences to all who come here. Castle Hill was founded in 1972.
Primary Contact: Cherie Mittenthal
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Provincetown Community Compact

The Provincetown Community Compact, Inc. was established in 1993 as a 501©3 non-profit organization by artist Jay Critchley. It is organized as a community-building and philanthropic organization to support artists and the vitality of the community.

The mission of The Compact is to advance the health and cultural well-being of the community of Provincetown and the Lower Cape – its people, the natural environment and the economy. Our initiatives include: The Swim For Life, Dune Shack Residencies, our Think-ubator program, Prayer Ribbons and special projects and initiatives.
Primary Contact: Jay Critchley
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Email: [e-mail]

 

Founded in 2009, Sustainable CAPE’s mission is to create a deeply rooted food system on Cape Cod to serve as an integrative, replicable model for community health. We celebrate local food while educating about the health of our bodies, community and environment. Our goal is to educate, empowering individuals to become agents of change – thereby creating a decidedly more delicious, healthy and sustainable world.
Primary Contact: Geraldine Ramer
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Email: [e-mail]