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Blair Marvin leads a workshop at the Kneading Conference. The Maine Grain Alliance was among 12 nonprofit organizations to receive grants from the Western Mountains Committee of the Maine Community Foundation.
Photo courtesy Maine Grain Alliance
The Western Mountains Committee of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded $72,613 in grants to 12 nonprofit organizations.
Grant recipients include:
• Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset counties, to empower adults who are less literate to achieve progress on self-selected goals and improve foundational literacy with community education programming.
• Maine Grain Alliance, to support essential workers in grain-based businesses to survive and thrive through and beyond the disruptions of the 2020 worldwide pandemic.
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A volunteer distributes surplus greens grown by a local farm to a Waldo County food pantry as part of Waldo County Bounty s Gleaning program. (Photo by Veggies for All)
The Waldo County Committee of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded $43,000 in grants to eight local nonprofits through the Community Building Grant Program.
Grant recipients include:
County of Waldo, to fund anti-racism joint training for sheriff s department leadership, deputies, corrections officers, and community members
Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, to continue and expand in-person programming that reengages the community and represents a low risk for COVID-19 transmission
Unity Barn Raisers, to increase Waldo County Bounty s communications, promotional, educational, and fundraising capacity.