The Community Development Partnership holds a number of educational workshops, as well as several fundraising events throughout the year. We encourage you to check our Events Calendar regularly to stay informed of CDP programming, news and events.
17th Annual Housing with Love Walk!
July 13 – 19, 2009
For the past sixteen summers, Bob Murray of HECH has walked the entire length of Cape Cod, through all 15 towns, to raise money for a variety of housing programs.
His annual 108-mile, seven-day Housing With Love Walk raises money to help families from becoming homeless, to prevent homes being foreclosed on, to help homeless families access housing, to help the disabled find decent, safe and affordable housing.
For the past 3 years, the CDP has been one of the housing agencies participating and benefitting from the Walk. Our walkers have raised over $14,300 for the CDP’s Housing Programs.
How can you help the CDP with the Housing with Love Walk?
You can walk!
Can you walk a block, a mile, the length of a town? Any distance and you are helping the CDP with our efforts! CDP walkers raise money for the CDP’s Housing programs – every dollar comes to us! You can raise money from your friends, family, and the CDP can help you!
Be creative! Gwen Pelletier, the CDP’s retired Executive director, biked from Esatham to Provincetown, down to Chatham and back to Eastham! Gwen biked over 100 miles and raised over $3,000!
You can sponsor a “Celebrity Walker”
Do you know of a special person who has done a good thing for your, your family or your community? You can honor that person by sponsoring them as a “Celebrity Walker”! With a pledge of $500 – they will noted in publicity, and on the walk with a special “Celebrity Walker” t-shirts, with their name and yours!
Who are our past Celebrities and their Sponsors?
2006: Gail Eldredge, Eldredge Surveying and Engineering, LLC, Chatham; Lisa V. Still, Esq., Chatham, Mark. T. Vokey, Insurance Agency Peter Hunter, Resident Manager, CDP’s Canal House, A Sober Living Facility, Nikki Carter, Prudential Broker Patty Tracy, Tracey Home Inspection Weinman, Schnee, Morais, Inc. (New York)
2007 Gail Eldredge, Eldredge Surveying and Engineering, LLC, Chatham Richard Sullivan, Friends of Richard Sullivan Susan Kadar, The Green Family
2008 Gail Eldredge, Eldredge Surveying and Engineering, LLC, Chatham Scott Kerry, Kerry Insurance Agency, Inc., Eastham
You can make a pledge!
Our goal is $5,500 this year – one we are hoping to raise $25 at a time – and you can do that with your pledge! Write a check to the CDP and put “Walk” in the memo portion and send it to: CDP, 3 Main Street Unit 7, Eastham, MA 02642.
Or pledge online! Click here for fast and secure online payment through PayPal.
(Please enter “Walk” in the Item field of the PayPal checkout form.)
You can double your support with a Challenge Pledge!
Double your support of the CDP’s Housing Programs by challenging your family, friends, colleagues to support the CDP’s Housing programs. Your challenge pledge can be $100, $250, $500 – you pick the amount!
For more details on any of the above opportunities, please contact Chris Perry at 508-240-7873×22,or via email .
Let me know how you would like us to make this year’s Housing with Love Walk our best one ever!
We look forward to hearing from you!
Community Partners on the Air
CDP Radio Show
Tune in to WOMR 92.1fm on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. to hear co-hosts Elizabeth Bridgewater and
Christiane Perry interview guests about local projects, programs and issues.
The Community Development Partnership’s e-newsletter is the best way stay informed of CDP programming, news and events. Join our email list or view the e-newsletter archives.
CDP Updates
CDP Receives Key Funding
For Harwich Affordable Housing Project
At a recent press conference Governor Deval Patrick announced that the Community Development Partnership (CDP) was awarded $1.5 million by the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to develop a 12-unit affordable rental project at 35 Main Street Extension, North Harwich. The CDP will enter into a 99-year ground lease with the Housing Authority and also provide long-term management of the completed rental complex.
The project will provide housing to twelve households at a range of income levels under 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI). One, two- and three-bedroom units will be available and include features of Universal Design to allow for ease of access or for future accommodations for disabled and elderly residents and visitors. The development has been accepted in to the Mass Technology Collaborative’s “Affordable Green Homes Initiative,” which will fund LEED construction and green upgrades including photovoltaic panels for electricity.
Says Elizabeth Bridgewater, CDP Executive Director: “The CDP is pleased to work closely with our local communities to increase the availability of affordable housing on the Lower Cape. This grant from DHCD, our partnership with the Harwich Housing Authority and the financial commitment made by the town through CPA funds and Affordable Housing Special Revenue Funds are excellent examples of how collaboration can work to leverage resources to create a more economically diverse and vibrant community on the Lower Cape”.
Each year the Community Development Partnership publishes an Annual Report in conjunction with a meeting of the Membership. “Community Partnerships” was the theme for this year’s Annual Meeting. The CDP formally unveiled its new name “Community Development Partnership” and logo while acknowledging the many partnerships it has forged in the Lower Cape community. These partnerships have allowed the CDP to offer a variety of programs to the community, all with a small number of staff.
