To date CARE has provided grants that have funded more than sixty projects throughout Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.

We have divided the projects on this page by region so that you can easily locate them as you explore. Click on the regions in the map and it will take you to that section, or scroll down below to view all of them.

We hope that you enjoy visiting the various sites. Each one offers a different way to learn how to help protect our environmental assets and/or local history and culture. When you visit, please tell the sites that you learned about them through CARE.

Funded Project Organizations

Upper Cape

Heritage Museums and Gardens Water Refill Station

Heritage Museums and Gardens Water Refill Station

In keeping with their commitment to sustainability, a new water refill station was recently installed at Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich near the Special Exhibitions Gallery. It was  funded in part through a 2022 CARE grant.

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Garden Activity Carts-Heritage Museums & Gardens

Garden Activity Carts-Heritage Museums & Gardens

Activity carts provide a mobile educational platform in combination with a trained interpreter whose role is to engage with curious visitors. Interpreters are individuals trained in the use of inquiry-based discussion and hands-on techniques to connect visitors to...

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Bioswale Interpretive Panel-Heritage Museums & Gardens

Bioswale Interpretive Panel-Heritage Museums & Gardens

A new interpretive panel is being installed in the parking garden to greet visitors as they arrive. These signs provide an educational opportunity to share the bioswales’ function as integrated systems that work to trap and clean water runoff from the parking lot. A...

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Falmouth Bikeways Signage & Safety

Falmouth Bikeways Signage & Safety

In an effort to improve safety for all on Falmouth's Bikeways, CARE provided a grant for new signage. In addition to addressing safety concerns these signs include tips on etiquette. They replace existing signage that are now combined into one that are more eye...

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Falmouth Bikeway Guide

Falmouth Bikeway Guide

              This useful guide is available along the Shining Sea Bikeway and Falmouth Visitor Center. It offers a map of the route, points of interest along the way, bike etiquette, safety tips and...

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Falmouth Water Quality Shellfish Project

Falmouth Water Quality Shellfish Project

The Town of Falmouth is committed to cleaning up the nitrogen from Little Pond, using a variety of decentralized methods such as oyster aquaculture, in addition to sewering the Little Pond lower watershed. The Shellfish Aquaculture Demonstration Project...

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Falmouth Farmers Market: Food Scrap Collection & Education

Falmouth Farmers Market: Food Scrap Collection & Education

This project is a partnership between the Falmouth Farmers Market and Compost With Me. Compost with Me staff will collect food scraps from market-goers at each weekly market during the regular season. The set-up consists of one 10’x10’ market tent, signage, display...

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Mid Cape

JFK Hyannis Legacy Trail

JFK Hyannis Legacy Trail

John F Kennedy and the Kennedy family played a significant role in shaping the history of Barnstable, Cape Cod, and our nation. To honor the Kennedy legacy, in 2012 the Town of Barnstable created the Kennedy Legacy Trail, comprised of 10 signs located at significant...

Outdoor Play Oasis Story Sign

Outdoor Play Oasis Story Sign

On October 15th Cape Cod Toy Library, Inc. celebrated the “Outdoor Play Oasis” Grand Opening event for which its “Story Sign”, supported by CARE for Cape & Islands was and is prominently located as people enter the outdoor play space.The ribbon cutting was...

Landscapes of Change-Cape Cod Collaborative Art Network

Landscapes of Change-Cape Cod Collaborative Art Network

Landscapes of Change is a collaborative public art installation highlighting the ever changing landscapes in which we live, on both land and sea, and the effects of humans on our environment. This project will be multifaceted and will incorporate environmental...

Cape Cod Wildlife Collaborative Wildlife Festival

The Wildlife Festival is held annually on a Saturday in September at MA Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary. It's a fun family event that provides education around Cape wildlife and the organizations that work to protect it. CARE provided a grant to help fund a...

Interpretive Food Forest Exhibit

Interpretive Food Forest Exhibit

This project at MA Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary was completed and a "ribbon" cutting was held as part of CARE for the Cape & Islands Day, May 10th. Located in historic Cummaquid Village of Barnstable, this project will directly affect visitors’...

Victura

Victura

Cape Cod Collaborative Arts Network (CapeCodCAN), an organization providing inclusive programs in the performing and visual arts for teens and adults of all abilities, unveiled an original public art installation at the Barnstable Municipal Airport on Tuesday,...

Cape Cod Folk: the Story of Ralph and Martha Cahoon

Cape Cod Folk: the Story of Ralph and Martha Cahoon

The display is composed of eight educational elements that offer a fun, self-guided tour throughout the building's historic rooms and highlight some of its unique features, including how the Cahoons lovingly adapted it for their use as a gallery, home, and studio. The...

Bass River (Yarmouth) Village Walking Map

Bass River (Yarmouth) Village Walking Map

Once the home of the Pawkannawkut Indians of South Yarmouth, part of the Wamponoag Indian Federation, the Bass River Village contains more than 50 structures built before 1900 centered around the Bass River Historic District. Stroll down Old Main Street to admire...

Design Your Day on Cape Cod: Maritime Meanderings

Design Your Day on Cape Cod: Maritime Meanderings

Looking for new ideas of things to explore on Cape Cod? The Cape Cod Chamber, aided by a CARE grant has developed a series of useful guides to allow you to discover landmarks and local history. The first guide in a planned series, is centered around maritime history...

Lower Cape

Bite-size marine debris

Bite-size marine debris

The marine debris artist Cindy Pease Roe, d/b/a UpSculpt, was commissioned by the Cape Cod National Seashore to construct a life-size sculpture of a white shark from debris items collected by the Center for Coastal Studies on beach cleanups conducted in the Seashore....

No Refuge: Cape Cod’s Coastal Crisis

No Refuge: Cape Cod’s Coastal Crisis

Cape Cod has an erosion problem.The Atlantic Ocean is ravenously gnawing at the shoreline bluff of Morris Island in Chatham, Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge. On the Cape’s southernmost point, erosion has taken between 30 and...

Kate Gould Park Water Bottle Filling Station

Kate Gould Park Water Bottle Filling Station

A water bottle filling station was installed at the Kate Gould Park, located on Main Street in Chatham. The park is frequented by visitors and residents who take in band concerts and the annual "Art in the Park" event.  

Water Bottle Filling Station – Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

Water Bottle Filling Station – Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

This grant has funded the installation of an Elkay Next Generation Wall Mount Water Bottle Refilling Station The water bottle fill station enhances sustainability by minimizing dependency on disposable plastic bottles. It is a complete ADA compliant cooler and bottle...

Coast Guard Beach Water Filling Station

Coast Guard Beach Water Filling Station

An exterior water bottle filling station located at Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham to help reduce single use plastic. Please bring your own reusable bottle and fill up!

Chatham Water Bottle Filling Station

Chatham Water Bottle Filling Station

Located at one of the busiest locations in Chatham, the water fountain and filling station will provide a means to reduce single use plastic bottles. The fish pier is a busy port for local fishermen offering a spectacular view of the harbor from the newly...

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

  The Chatham Shark Center is an education center for children and adults of all ages. Our exhibits are designed to educate people about the ecology of the white shark and other local marine life, the research being done on the white shark here on Cape Cod, the public...

Outer Cape

AWSC Shark Center Provincetown

AWSC Shark Center Provincetown

AWSC’s second Shark Center is located on the historic MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown. The new Shark Center offers visitors an in-depth look at great white sharks through interactive exhibits, videos and displays, as well as provide insight into groundbreaking local...

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SEA Space Marine Discovery Center

SEA Space Marine Discovery Center

Experience the natural wonders of Cape Cod under the expert guidance of our dedicated educators at SEA SPACE Marine Discovery Center. Located at Whaler's Wharf, 237 Commercial Street Provincetown. For more information.

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Marconi Beach Water Filling Stations

Marconi Beach Water Filling Stations

In a continued effort to keep our beaches and waterways free from plastic pollution, we were happy to partner with the Friends of Cape Cod National Seashore to fund this water bottle refill station at Marconi Beach.

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Cape Cod Whale Trail – Interpretive Signage

Cape Cod Whale Trail – Interpretive Signage

The Center for Coastal Studies which has been studying whales and their habitats on Cape Cod for nearly four decades is supporting the creation of a mini whale trail on Cape Cod similar to one out West. The Center routinely leads education walks during the spring...

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ReFill Wellfleet Water Station

ReFill Wellfleet Water Station

An exterior water filling station at Mayo Beach Recreation Center located across from Wellfleet Harbor was funded and recently installed through our 2018 grant program. Eliminating single-use plastic bottles through this filling station is part of Wellfleet's Zero...

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Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket

Codfish Park Walking Tour

Codfish Park Walking Tour

Nantucket Preservation Trust created a walking tour and accompanying attractive take-home brochure highlighting Codfish Park, a neighborhood located in Nantucket’s easternmost village of ’Sconset. Codfish Park has historically been home to a diversity of residents of...

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Martha’s Vineyard Deaf Heritage Tour

Martha’s Vineyard Deaf Heritage Tour

Martha's Vineyard is known as the birthplace of American Sign Language, and in fact for approximately 150 years, the Island was know as "the place that spoke by hand' according to Nora Ellen Groce, author of Everyone Here Spoke By Hand; Hereditary Deafness of Martha's...

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Linda Loring Nature Foundation-Interpretive Signage

Linda Loring Nature Foundation-Interpretive Signage

The Linda Loring Nature Foundation (LLNF) is dedicated to preserving and protecting Nantucket’s biologically diverse ecosystems. The Foundation’s property, a living laboratory for research and education, advances broad community support for environmental understanding...

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Island Grown Initiative-5 Year Anniversary Grant

Island Grown Initiative-5 Year Anniversary Grant

Island Grown Initiative, recipient of our 5 Year Anniversary Grant, developed waste stations for the Agricultural Fair, held August 16-19, 2018. A record 40,000 people attended.  The waste stations allowed for separation of food, recycling and waste. These waste...

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Beach Trash to Treasure on Nantucket

Beach Trash to Treasure on Nantucket

Maria Mitchell Association offered a two-week artist in residence program combining art, up-cycling, education, and conservation led by Cindy Pease Roe. Nantucket, as an island community, values its ocean resources tremendously as a continued source of food and...

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