DONOR SPOTLIGHT | Cape Cod 5 Leaders of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank see the housing crisis from many angles, whether it’s first-time homebuyers who are priced out of the market or employees who have to endure [...]
Are you looking for other ways to support Housing Assistance Corporation beyond writing a check or using a credit card? We asked three Housing Assistance supporters to tell why they chose three tax-efficient ways to give. Qualified Charitable Distributions [...]
From left to right: Patricia Mitrokostas, Catherine Clark and Kathryn Eident Housing Assistance recently named Patricia Mitrokostas, Catherine Clark and Kathryn Eident to senior positions within the organization. Patricia Mitrokostas was hired as senior director of grants [...]
When Liz Belcher, information client services manager for Housing Assistance, was asked to help with the organization’s efforts to assist the Venezuelan migrants, it brought back a lot of memories for her family. Her mother, Allison Alewine, performed a [...]
Will you embrace the season of giving and help our many neighbors in need? Our 19th Annual Telethon for Hope starts on November 28, as we engage our supporters virtually throughout a 12 Day Give-A-Thon. Using our social media [...]
Friends and supporters of Housing Assistance are invited to attend a Home for the Holidays Open House at the new Housing Assistance office in Orleans. The event will take place from 3-6 p.m. Monday, December 12, at 78 Route [...]
It made national news in September when 48 migrants, many of them Venezuelan, landed on Martha’s Vineyard in two charter planes sent by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As the only local contractor designated by the state Department of Housing [...]
By Alisa Magnotta Cape Cod is losing nearly 1,000 households a year. Many of these households are making $100,000. That bleak figure is expected to rise to 1,500 households annually over the next two years. This data is from [...]
While most of Housing Assistance’s services were able to continue in the midst of the pandemic, our Energy Department was forced to take a brief pause. The department, which conducts energy audits of people’s homes, didn’t have protocols in [...]
Liz Belcher, HAC’s Information and Client Services Manager, in the agency’s newly redesigned reception area. In the coming weeks, HAC will be altering the way it conducts intake for those seeking assistance at its Hyannis office on 460 West Main [...]
With the stock market trading at all-time highs, and the possibility that the new tax reform package that was recently passed in Washington, D.C. may limit the benefit next year, now is a terrific time to donate stock to HAC [...]
HAC founder and former CEO Rick Presbrey with office manager Lynne Perry at his retirement luncheon which took place at the end of January. In 1974, Rick Presbrey founded HAC, operating the fledgling nonprofit out of a cramped West Yarmouth [...]
With the New Year comes a fresh start for HAC. Our Incoming CEO Alisa Galazzi has begun work, starting a period of orientation before officially becoming the CEO. With her arrival here in the office, there is lots of talk [...]
In her spare time, Dolores Barbati-Poore likes to paint. She has over a dozen original paintings in her Bourne home, the result of the popular paint nights that allow friends to socialize, all while nurturing their creativity. If Dolores were [...]
Many people were surprised a few months ago when the Boston Globe came out with a comprehensive nationwide study of the causes of homelessness. Turns out, lack of affordable housing is a bigger factor than poverty when it comes to [...]
Alisa Galazzi with her husband, Chris, and their three children, Francesca, Michela and Eliana. Alisa will start her now role at HAC on January 3. Over 3,000 miles and three time zones separate Los Angeles from Cape Cod, but that [...]
