Community Safety Department Begins Responding to Needle Pickup Calls
Starting this week, the Cambridge Community Safety Department’s CARE (Community Assistance Response and Engagement) Team began responding to needle pickup calls in public spaces across Cambridge. Needle pickup calls are the first call types that the CARE Team is being dispatched to.
Creating a new ECKOS system
More than five acres of new and renovated public open space will be created in Kendall Square and Eastern Cambridge over the next few years. The Eastern Cambridge Kendall Square Open Space (ECKOS) Planning Study is working to shape these new parks.
Participatory Budgeting
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process that empowers community members through civic engagement to decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB was first developed in Brazil in 1989 and is now used in over 1,500 cities around the world.
Initiatives Supporting & Inspiring Early Educators
This December, applications will open for the Cambridge Preschool Program (CPP), a joint initiative of the City and Cambridge Public Schools, which will offer free school-day, school-year preschool to every 4-year-old in Cambridge and some 3-year-olds.
Cambridge Community Iftar 2026
The Office of Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui, in collaboration with the City of Cambridge Office of Equity and Inclusion, the Cambridge Public Schools Office of Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Cambridge Community Foundation, and the Islamic Society of Boston, is proud to host the Cambridge Community Iftar.
Arbor Week Celebration at the Main Library
Join the Department of Public Works Urban Forestry Division outside the Main Library from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., weather permitting. Members of the community are invited to come learn about Cambridge’s Urban Forest. Staff will be giving away free seedlings, coloring books, crayons and more!