Spotlights

Community Preservation Act

In November 2001, Cambridge voters approved adoption of the Community Preservation Act (CPA), a state law that allows the city to receive ma...

Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation

One of the characteristics that distinguishes Cambridge from other cities and towns with similar-sized populations is its recognition that 1...

Cambridge Health Alliance

Cambridge Health Alliance is a regional public, safety net health care system that provides mental health, substance abuse, and outpatient s...

Cambridge Police Department

Cambridge police commissioner Robert Haas always knew he wanted to be in law enforcement since he was a kid growing up in New Jersey. That d...

Cambridge Fire Department

The Cambridge Fire Department is one of the most highly recognized and trained departments not only in Mass., but also in the United States....

Business Assn. of East Cambridge Carl Fantasia

The Business Association of East Cambridge began as an effort to address the needs of local businesses and the neighborhood through the effo...

Central Sq. Business Assn. Carl Barron

The Central Sq. Business Association was founded in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, to enable the local merchants to better comb...

City of Cambridge Business Associations: Harvard Sq. Business Assn. Denise Jillson

The nation's truly authentic urban village is Harvard Sq. Since as early as 1636, commerce has been a key ingredient of life here in the hea...

City of Cambridge Business Associations: Combined Cambridge Business Assn. Carl Barron

This group is an organization that is most unique and probably has no counterpart in any part of the United States. Carl Barron, the energe...

Voices of the Community

In many ways Cambridge combines the benefits and opportunities of a large city in a manageable size and at a human scale. Within in its comp...