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BARNSTABLE COUNTY
AMERICORPS CAPE COD
VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT
INVOLVING THE CAPE’S CITIZENS
Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod (ACC) AmeriCorps Cape Cod also partners with towns
engages community members of all ages in volunteer and organizations to mobilize volunteers for a variety
service every year by planning Signature Events such of projects including CoastSweep and Canal Cleanup,
as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and as well as smaller service projects such as trail
National Volunteer Week. This year, MLK Day was maintenance and herring run clearings. This year,
held at Camp Lyndon where members and members planned and implemented additional
volunteers packaged meals (two meals a day for five weekend service projects with the hope of engaging a
days) for students on the Free and Reduced Lunch wider range of volunteers. These included the
Program in the towns of Mashpee and Barnstable. In Harwich Tour de Trash, the Town of Barnstable
Orleans, National Volunteer Week 2015 expanded the Trails Cleanup, and Beautify Brewster. These events
partnerships among AmeriCorps Cape Cod, Nauset ultimately engaged several hundred additional
Regional Middle School, and Orleans Elementary community volunteers.
School. For this event, ACC members cleared a trail
around Boland Pond, installed an outdoor classroom, ~ Brittany Quaglieri, Program Specialist
constructed a shed for the Middle School greenhouse,
and taught a variety of experiential, environmentally-
focused lessons to the students.
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AMERICORPS CAPE COD
VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT
INVOLVING THE CAPE’S CITIZENS
Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod (ACC) AmeriCorps Cape Cod also partners with towns
engages community members of all ages in volunteer and organizations to mobilize volunteers for a variety
service every year by planning Signature Events such of projects including CoastSweep and Canal Cleanup,
as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and as well as smaller service projects such as trail
National Volunteer Week. This year, MLK Day was maintenance and herring run clearings. This year,
held at Camp Lyndon where members and members planned and implemented additional
volunteers packaged meals (two meals a day for five weekend service projects with the hope of engaging a
days) for students on the Free and Reduced Lunch wider range of volunteers. These included the
Program in the towns of Mashpee and Barnstable. In Harwich Tour de Trash, the Town of Barnstable
Orleans, National Volunteer Week 2015 expanded the Trails Cleanup, and Beautify Brewster. These events
partnerships among AmeriCorps Cape Cod, Nauset ultimately engaged several hundred additional
Regional Middle School, and Orleans Elementary community volunteers.
School. For this event, ACC members cleared a trail
around Boland Pond, installed an outdoor classroom, ~ Brittany Quaglieri, Program Specialist
constructed a shed for the Middle School greenhouse,
and taught a variety of experiential, environmentally-
focused lessons to the students.
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