EASTERN NATIONAL

Eastern National promotes the public's understanding and support of more than 130 of America's national parks and other public trusts. At Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastern National manages the bookstores in the visitor centers, returning a percentage of the proceeds to the seashore for interpretation, education, and research. The bookstores are an extension of the seashore’s interpretive program; items are selected because they reflect the seashores resources and themes, they have educational value, and they enhance public understanding.

Eastern National's contributions have benefited the seashore and visitors in many ways. Eastern National frequently sponsors interpretive programs for visitors, such as National Junior Ranger Day and speaker programs at visitor centers. For many years Eastern National has underwritten the seashore’s Junior Ranger Program, exposing thousands of youngsters to the unique resources here and the importance of protecting them in the future. Eastern National funds are used to produce the annual seashore newspaper, as well as research about significant seashore resources, such as Old Harbor Life-Saving Station and the historic hay barge that is on display at Salt Pond Visitor Center. Eastern National’s most recent commitment to the seashore is sponsorship of the new cell phone interpretation program.

Eastern National was chartered in 1948. Its policies and programs are guided by an elected board of directors. The board, the members and the staff are dedicated to the preservation and use of the parks for the benefit of all Americans, visitors from all nations and future generations. Eastern National currently operates educational retail outlets in 30 states, from Maine to the Caribbean. Since 1947, Eastern has donated over $95 million to the National Park Service.

Link here to Eastern National's retail website, EParks.

HIGHLANDS CENTER

Highlands Center, Inc. is a non-profit, community-based organization created to support the mission of Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore, which is to foster the unique cultural and natural heritage of Cape Cod by facilitating scientific research, the arts tradition, and educational programs atop the dramatic sea cliffs of the Atlantic Ocean.

FRIENDS OF THE CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE

Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore is a non-profit organization of caring individuals who have a very special love and respect for this spectacular National Park. Their purpose is to support and enhance people's enjoyment of the seashore by:

• funding worthy environmental, historical, educational, and recreational programs such as refurbishing the Old Harbor Life-Saving Station in Provincetown, replanting areas after removal of invasives species, and sponsoring summer band concerts;
• publicizing issues that affect the protection and preservation of the seashore's resources; providing volunteers for important projects such as as trail maintenance programs, beach clean-ups and dune grass plantings;
• managing several special funds that contribute to important educational, archival and research projects at the seashore.

NAUSET LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Nauset Light, located within Cape Cod National Seashore, was originally built in 1877. Eastham residents formed the non-profit Nauset Light Preservation Society in 1993 in order to move the light from the imminent danger of erosion. In 1996 the light was successfully moved. The current mission of the Society is to preserve and restore the lighthouse and oil house.