March
Spotlight
Clean Power Now started on Cape Cod in 2003 and has grown to 9000 members strong. We are a non-profit grassroots organization informing citizens and empowering them to support viable renewable energy projects and policies, and to secure their local and regional benefits.
We believe that the timely development of such projects, in conjunction with energy efficiency and conservation, will bring about a clean, healthy environment, an improved economy and a more secure, sustainable America.
Our immediate focus is to increase citizen support of offshore wind power in Nantucket Sound. For more information, please check out their website. |
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Mission statement: The Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the mission of Cape Cod Community College, its students, its faculty and staff, and the community by raising and managing funds, encouraging endowments, and supporting the college's objectives.
Private donations are essential to the long-term quality and growth of the Educational Foundation. To learn more about its work and achievements or about ways you can help the foundation by volunteering or making a donation, visit their home page. |
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Small Deeds Matter
by Allen Larson, President Cape Cod Center for Sustainability
 Small deeds matter, and, in their aggregation, significant accomplishments result. The history of the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation exemplifies this notion. It's a history that pertains not only to the college and its educational role but also to other priorities that relate to our quality of life on Cape Cod and the Islands. The establishment and subsequent development of the college's Educational Foundation are a wonderful example of how regional benefits accrue from individual contributions of time and resources.
Unique to this region as the only open-admission, post-secondary institution of higher learning, Cape Cod Community College's importance is greater than the educational and training services it provides. The college is a major employer. It hosts cultural and civic events that welcome any resident or visitor to the region. Its administrators, staff, and faculty reside throughout the Cape and connect the college directly with the concerns and priorities of each of our fifteen towns. Its board members reside both on the Cape and off. Their networks extend beyond the region and help link the college to the priorities and resources of the Massachusetts Commonwealth.
And supplementing these efforts for the past twenty-five years is a separate foundation that was founded at a time when financial and other limitations constrained the college's ability to fulfill its educational mission. At that time, it was uncommon for a private foundation to raise funds for a public institution. Taxpayers perceived inaccurately that the state's tax revenues sufficiently funded its operations. Actually, the college derived nearly half of the revenue it needed then. Today the college generates 56 percent of the revenues it needs to fund its operations.
In getting started, the foundation set some small, attainable goals. MORE
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All In A 'Day in the Life'
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Massachusetts Power Shift
 A weekend-long climate change summit happening in Boston, April 11-14th. Power Shift 2007 drew over 5,500 students to Washington D.C., and the upcoming Massachusetts version hopes to unite both students and community members from Massachusetts and the Northeast to bring about strong solutions to the climate and poverty crises at hand. Please check out the website to learn more.
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A Sense of Wonder
 Kaiulani Lee has just brought her stage play "A Sense of Wonder" to video fulfilling her long-sought goal to expand the reach of her message into schools and homes, and to nature enthusiasts who may not have yet experienced the play first-hand. The 52-minute color high-definition video adaptation of the stage play, shot in 2007 at Rachel Carson's actual summer cottage on Southport Island, Maine - is, in a word, stunning. Viewers are treated to Carson's words from the actual location where they were written, to the accompaniment of Beethoven's Violin Concerto (Carson's favorite classical work).
By visiting the new film's website you can learn more and even get your own "sneak peek" at the new production. Plans are to offer the film for sale in DVD format later in March, via the Web site.
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We'll make a $25 donation for any stories or photographs that we publish. MORE
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