Even with the pandemic, Housing Assistance’s 11th Annual Big Fix-A-Thon was a success with volunteers helping raise nearly $20,000 for our Workforce Housing Relief Fund. Some even embraced the spirit of the annual event by donating their time to [...]
This year, we’re excited to announce our Walk for Hope is going virtual! This means you can walk wherever you are and take meaningful steps to connect our neighbors in need to safe, stable housing. Scheduled for Saturday, June [...]
In 2017, the Stratford Capital Group completed the renovation of the Coady School into a 58-unit apartment building in Bourne for residents aged 55 and older. It was around that time that Robert Evers, who had applied for one [...]
Homeowner Johanna Crosby (middle) poses with Big Fix-A-Thon volunteers Cheryl Codair and Heather Ferris. At the beginning of October, 340 volunteers came out on a sunny, seasonable day to make a big difference in the lives of 16 [...]
Since Housing Assistance’s Big Fix-A-Thon started in 2010, each year has taken on a slightly different personality. This month, more than 300 volunteers will tackle a range of small improvement projects at 16 homes in Hyannis and Centerville. Like [...]
Juliet and Gerry Tierney of Centerville, are one of 16 homeowners who will benefit from our 10th Annual Big Fix-A-Thon on October 5. For much of his life, Gerry Tierney has been the one doing the helping. [...]
Lawrence holds one of the tomatoes he helped grow this summer. The garden has provided him with a sense of productivity. Most mornings or evenings, you can find Andrew watering the garden behind his Hyannis house. It’s an [...]
Barbara and Chris Mack join volunteers, which include staff from Cape Associates, who donated their time fixing up the Harwich couple's home. Outside Chris and Barbara Mack’s Harwich house, volunteers were busy painting the trim, landscaping the yard, [...]
Volunteers work on a home during last year’s Big Fix in Falmouth. This year’s Big Fix is coming to Harwich on Saturday, September 22. A total of 15 Harwich homeowners will benefit from the generosity of HAC volunteers as part [...]
Clifford Long repairs a front step during the Big Fix in Falmouth last month. With one knee on the ground, Falmouth’s Clifford Long hammered a nail into a piece of wood, repairing the front steps leading into John Martin’s North [...]
A sampling of some of the creative cook designs made during last month's holiday party organized by the Harwich 4-H Club. Candy canes covered in red and green stripes, a gingerbread man adorned with a smiley face and green sweater, [...]
Telethon host Matt Pitta from Cape Cod Broadcasting Media interviews Lin Rohr, the director of HAC’s Angel House shelter. Pitta will be returning, along with WCAI’s Mindy Todd, to serve as hosts of this year’s telethon. For the 13th straight [...]
HAC’s Liz Belcher with her Big Fix team which made improvements to Joan Graham’s Brewster home Early on a mid-September Saturday morning in Brewster, as complete strangers started clearing brush and cutting back overgrown trees from her Main Street yard, [...]
Sunny Fellman, chair of the Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Young Professionals Network, with the donations that her organization dropped off to HAC this month. They will eventually go to HAC clients who are transitioning out of shelter [...]
A young boy from The Village at Cataumet tends to the garden as staff, volunteers and clients fill the garden beds with compost and loam. You don’t [usually] see people who work at a place put so much care and [...]
John Murray (left) of Cotuit and Allyson Murphy of Marstons Mills were just a few of the volunteers from Cotuit Federated Church who donated their time to painting the rooms at our NOAH Shelter. We’re a little tiny church in [...]
HAC's Big Fix is a great opportunity to donate your time to help those in need. This year the Big Fix is coming to Brewster. What do you get when you bring together over 200 volunteers who donate a few [...]
Cornell University students were joined by guests at the NOAH Shelter and HAC staff in building a barn at the agency’s Community Green property. A little more than a week before five Cornell students visited Cape Cod at the end [...]
Sannie Rocheteau (second from left) of Whole Foods poses with HAC’s Mary LeClair (from left), Deanna Bussiere and Lin Rohr. A stuffed monkey, building blocks and a Hot Wheels car were just a few of the toys complete strangers bought [...]
