Employees volunteered to shop for children via The Salvation Army’s Dress a Live Doll program.
Paying It Forward
In 2024, we raised about $26,000 through our employee-managed #PayingItForward Program to help 26 nonprofit organizations. For the past 14 years, our employees have supported local nonprofit organizations in our community by wearing jeans at work.
Every other Friday, employees donate a minimum of $5, and an organization is designated as the beneficiary. The organizations are nominated by employees and selected by the employee-based Pay It Forward committee. The only criteria for nominations is that the organization be affiliated with Cape Cod and a registered 501(c)3.
This holiday season, our employees worked in teams to use #PayItForward funds for the following holiday community programs:
Holiday Meal Deliveries
The Mashpee Chamber of Commerce is proud to organize and deliver holiday dinners to home-bound and in-need Mashpee residents. This year, our sponsorship helped with the cost of the meals. Our team also joined in to help make the deliveries!
Meals On Wheels
For the past 11 years, the Bank has provided holiday cards to be distributed with the Meals on Wheels deliveries for seniors served by the Barnstable Senior Center. We also have employees who volunteer to deliver meals on a weekly basis throughout the year.
#GivingTuesday
Our decade-long tradition of supporting local food pantries on Giving Tuesday expanded this year to include food distribution organizations in all 15 towns in Barnstable County.
Food pantries receiving $1,000 donations include:
- Barnstable – Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center (Hyannis)
- Dennis – Hands of Hope Food Pantry and Outreach Center (a program of Cape Cod Council of Churches)
- Harwich – The Family Pantry of Cape Cod
- Mashpee – Mashpee Tribal Council Food Pantry
- Provincetown – Soup Kitchen in Provincetown (SKIP)
- Sandwich – Sandwich Food Pantry/Food4Vets Program of Mass. Military Support Foundation
- Truro – Truro Community Kitchen
- Yarmouth – Yarmouth Food Pantry
Two pantries received an adjusted $500 Giving Tuesday donation. Both Friends Food Pantry in Bourne and Falmouth Service Center in Falmouth applied for and received grants from The Coop Foundation to help defray the cost of purchasing frozen meats, fresh produce and dairy items for their clients.
The Coop has also donated $3,000 to Lower Cape Outreach Council for its food pantries in Brewster, Chatham, Eastham, Orleans and Wellfleet. The additional $2,000 is a directed gift from two retiring trustees of The Coop Foundation.
Organizations providing food support to larger regions of the Cape are also part of the Giving Tuesday donations, including the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod food pantries in Hyannis and Provincetown, Family Table Collaborative, Sustainable CAPE, and Cape Kid Meals.