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BTEO’S General Meetings Reminder
3rd Monday of the month, September-May, except April, at 6pm.
We are meeting in person at the St. Barnabas Old Parish Hall right behind the tent. Please come, your neighbors need you. We sometimes meet via Zoom in the winter, so watch for e-blasts from us or email cao.bteo@gmail.com and ask.
General Meetings are for volunteers and others interested in what we do.
Claddagh Bowl 2024 Recap
March 16, 2024 Thank you to all who participated and sponsored at BTEO's Claddagh Bowl at the Trade Center [...]
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Claddagh Bowl 2024 Recap
March 16, 2024 Thank you to all who participated and sponsored at BTEO's Claddagh Bowl at the Trade Center Bowl. The event featured a friendly tournament, with prizes for [...]
Falmouth Homeless Prevention Group To Buy Palmer Avenue House
The Enterprise
The homelessness prevention group Belonging To Each Other is poised to purchase the Gerald Flynn House on Palmer Avenue, the group’s first real estate acquisition.
The house has seven bedrooms for residents and one for an on-site manager.
No current tenants will be asked to leave, Belong To Each Other’s executive director Gina Torielli said. Instead, BTEO envisions a transitional period, where their network of social workers can support residents’ move to more traditional housing. The group home can then house Falmouth’s homeless residents during the off-season.
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Breakfast With BTEO
Hear about Belonging to Each Other’s efforts to address homelessness in Falmouth.
Advance registration is required by Monday, January 15 at the latest. More details about the Breakfast >
BTEO Awarded Grant from Cape Cod Foundation
The Women and Girls Fund of the Cape Cod Foundation recently awarded $50,000 in grants to five nonprofit organizations, and BTEO was one of the recipients. The Foundation launched the Women and Girls Fund in 2022 to build resources and provide grants for initiatives that empower women and girls across Barnstable County. Read more >
Longest Night Vigil 2023
View photos from the 2023 Longest Night Vigil held in recognition of National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day.
Falmouth Residents Sleep Out To Raise Awareness About Homelessness
The Enterprise
The sun set at 4:15 PM in Falmouth on December 21. Some Falmouth residents spent that night - the longest night of the year - in tents or cars in the parking lot of the First Congregational Church to honor the 49 Cape and Islands unhoused people who died in 2023. The event began with a vigil at the church in recognition of National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Read more >
BTEO Honored With Human Rights Award
The Enterprise
Belonging to Each Other was selected as the 2024 Human Rights Award group recipient by the Church Women United of Cape Cod. A celebration of the award is planned for mid-January.
Since 2006, Church Women United has held events nationally to recognize individuals and groups that have supported the cause of human rights by maintaining a high regard for the dignity of others. Read more >
Longest Night Vigil Aims to Bring Hope
The Enterprise
The longest night of the year - December 21 - is designated as National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day, and this year marks 33 years of honoring those without homes who have died. Belonging to Each Other (BTEO), the Falmouth-based nonprofit providing winter shelter and year-round support services for Falmouth men and women experiencing homelessness, is helping to organize the vigil. Read more >
Interfaith Candlelight Service
National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 6 p.m.
First Congregational Church of Falmouth
Simple meal following in Fellowship Hall.
Donations of travel size toiletries welcome.
The community is invited to sleep out in tents or cars that night to experience what it is like to be homeless.
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A Roomier Rental For Falmouth’s Homeless
The Enterprise, By Elizabeth Saito
An outreach group is upgrading to more spacious quarters to house women experiencing homelessness in Falmouth through the winter months. Belonging To Each Other has teamed up with Saint Barnabas’s Church to offer a home with more bedrooms and common areas than they have had in the past as a refuge from November through April. Read more >
Concert to Benefit BTEO
Songs of the Sea
Folk & Celtic Music & More
With Julie & Denya
October 15, 2023 at 2PM
All proceeds benefit Belonging to Each Other.