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In 2018, The UPS Store® Inc. launched a fun and funny national advertising campaign to remind small business owners about their full suite of services. Research showed that, while most people knew UPS Store® locations offered packing and shipping, they didn’t know about the availability of copying, printing, faxing, scanning, notarizing, shredding, laminating, and other “ings” the company provides. Check out this video of Every ing at the Market to get the gist.
Community Foundations are full of “ings”: building, convening, collaborating, supporting, granting, and strengthening. Other nonprofits, too. I was reminded of this at the Institute for Nonprofit Practice’s recent graduation ceremony for the Cape and Islands Cohort. In May, 24 local leaders graduated from this intensive, year-long professional development program with a certificate in Social Impact Management and Leadership.
Marc Skvirsky, Management Seminar Faculty for the cohort, emphasized the importance of their mission-driven work helping, advocating, amplifying, developing, encouraging, enhancing, preserving, preventing, protecting, and providing every other “ing” our community needs.
“For the guests who are here today and the entire INP community, let's take a moment to reflect on the work of the class of 2023. They are providing safe and affordable housing and renewable energy; helping youth to reach their full potential as innovative and responsible citizens; offering services to prevent and resolve conflicts; preserving the environment through advocacy and education; providing access to high quality health care; educating about regenerative agriculture and food equity; advocating about the importance of shopping locally; providing philanthropy to strengthen the community; preserving and protecting the harbor, water quality, and shellfish resources; supporting local artists and developing and encouraging emerging artists and writers; amplifying the businesses owned by people of color and enhancing economic development among people of color; providing a full range of health care and social services that promote health and well-being; providing short term emergency food, clothing, and financial assistance; making healthy, local and nutritious food available to the community; addressing and preventing domestic and sexual violence; providing a space for people to discover, explore, and make connections to the community and its diverse heritage; conserving, maintaining, and managing natural areas and habitats; helping older adults and people with disabilities maintain well-being and independence; providing a nurturing space for preschool children to pursue their interests and learn about the world; enhancing connection among a network of health and human service government and town agencies to discuss topics of mutual interest and advocate for change; and providing housing rehabilitation and affordable housing.”
As detailed in our latest report, Connecting Cape Cod, The Cape Cod Foundation invests in partnerships with broad regional impact and nonprofit leadership development. This award-winning program utilizes both to strengthen our community. Since 2016, the Foundation and other funders have pooled over $500,000 to offset tuition for this program, investing in more than 120 leaders across the region. The funders collaborative has stepped up once again to support the 8th Cape and Islands Cohort this fall.
The official course description for this program goes something like this: Participants will build the skills, knowledge, and networks they need to make strategic, mission-driven decisions that center on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) and effect meaningful change in their organizations and beyond. In addition to individual development and group problem-solving, the program focuses on building a local peer network that will continue to support and strengthen leaders and encourage collaboration long after the program ends.
This mean so much more when you know all the wonderful “ings” this program supports throughout our community. Congratulations to this year’s graduates. And thank you for all the “ings” you do. Every. Single. Day.
Kristin O'Malley
President and CEO
The Cape Cod Foundation
komalley@capecodfoundation.org
508.790.3040
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2023 Institute for Nonprofit Practice Leadership Team and Graduates
In addition to the graduates shown above and listed below, we would like to recognize the leadership team at the Institute for Nonprofit Practice for bringing this transformational program to our community, faculty member Marc Skvirsky, and the senior fellows for Cape Cod and Islands cohorts: Jay Coburn, President and CEO, Community Development Partnership; David Kuehn, Executive Director, Cotuit Center for the Arts; and Independent Consultant Andi Genser, who just stepped down from her role after 5 years of service.
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Amplify POC
Tara Vargas Wallace, Founder and CEO
Community Development Partnership
Pamela Andersen, Director of Business & Credit Programs
Community Development Partnership
Alex Hopper, Administrative and Fiscal Manager
Community Foundation
for Nantucket
Meg Browers, Development Director
Community Foundation
for Nantucket
Sunny Daily, Program Director
Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands
Kimberly Nahas, Director of Clinical Services
Independence House
Katia Regina Dacunha, Tri-lingual Domestic and Sexual Violence Counselor/Advocate
Island Grown Initiative
Merrick Carreiro, Director of Food Equity
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Island Health, Inc.
Shimmy Mehta, Chief Financial Officer
Love Live Local
Amanda Converse, CEO
Lower Cape Outreach Council
Katherine Wibby, CEO
Martha’s Vineyard Boys
and Girls Club
Barbara-jean Chauvin, Managing Director
Martha's Vineyard Commission
Christine Flynn, Economic Development & Affordable Housing Planner,
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Kate Ridenour, Associate Director of Audience Engagement
Martha’s Vineyard Mediation Program
Christine Homer, Communication & Outreach Coordinator/Youth Program Coordinator
Nantucket Conservation Foundation
Jennifer Karberg, Director of Research and Partnerships
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Nantucket Shellfish Association
Samantha Denette, Executive Director
Outer Cape Community Solutions
Alex Nelson, Network Coordinator
Outer Cape Health Services
Brianne Smith, Program Manager
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Lesley Marchessault, Chief Development Officer
Sage Montessori
Ed Stanford, Guide Leader (Head of School)
Slough Farm
Julie Scott, Executive Director/Farm Manager
TRI-The Resource Inc.
Melissa Vincent, Executive Director
Vineyard Conservation Society
Jeremy Houser, Communications Coordinator and Ecologist
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WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND COMMUNITY CHALLENGE
The Women and Girls Fund Community Challenge is on! Our goal is to raise a total of $200,000 by the end of 2024 to support programs and initiatives that strengthen the lives of women and girls throughout the region, now and in the years to come. To help kickstart fundraising, Eastern Bank
Foundation has pledged $50,000 to the campaign. Learn more about this initiative and the first round of grants we made earlier this year. Thank you for helping us reach our goal.
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CRAIG BOYCE JOINS FOUNDATION BOARD
Craig Boyce is the newest member on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. He has more than 25 years of strategic consulting and global private equity investing experience, including 18 years with Bain Capital in Boston and Hong Kong. Currently, he is a Managing Partner of the ALS Investment Fund, which supports and finances biotech companies that develop disease modifying therapeutics for ALS. Over the past two decades, Craig has held several Board positions at for-profit companies, including MYOB, Retail Zoo, and Fleetcor. He’s also volunteered with several nonprofits, including the Nauset/Brewster Regional Little League, The Angel Fund, and the ALS Association-MA Chapter. Craig received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with High Honors from Princeton University, his Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his master’s degree in business administration, general management from Harvard Business School. In 2018, he and his wife, Maureen, relocated from Boston to Orleans with their two school-aged children. Since then, he has been active in the community as a Scout leader for Eastham Troops 83 & 183 and a youth soccer, basketball, and baseball coach. We are extremely fortunate to have him on our leadership team.
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SEAT AT THE TABLE: ADVANCING CHILD CARE
Caitlin Buckley, our Capacity-building and Strategic Partnerships Officer, is representing the Foundation on the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce’s Early Education and Child Care Task Force, which works to address the region’s lack of affordable and available high-quality early education and care experiences for children. The task force, which formally launched in December 2022, is working with partners such as the Massachusetts Business Coalition for Early Childhood Education, Common Start Coalition, and Strategies for Children to provide feedback in shaping early childhood education policy and to create an integrated and accessible system of support for children, from prenatal through age 12, and their families. This recent article in the June 5 issue of the Cape Cod Times provides additional background.
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READ OUR LATEST REPORT:
CONNECTING CAPE COD
This report details The Cape Cod Foundation’s strategies, our initiatives to build flexible resources, our partnerships and leadership role in the community, and our efforts to strengthen the nonprofit sector through grants and other valuable resources.
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