AUGUSTA Kennebec Savings Bank recently named Snow Pond Center for the Arts and Maine GearShare as the recipients of its Catalyst Grants. The two $30,000 gifts are designed to support creative concepts that might otherwise not be possible for the nonprofit organizations, according to a news release from Amanda Cooley, vice president and marketing […]
To promote outdoor recreation for Maine children, Gov. Janet Mills visited GearShare in Brunswick Tuesday. GearShare is a new non-profit that acquires, maintains and lends outdoor recreation equipment to trip leaders and nature-based educators to help connect students to the Maine outdoors. Mills, a hiker, donated a Maine Department of Inland Fish and Wildlife Maine […]
Outdoor Foundation announced its second cohort of Thrive Outside Communities in St. Louis, Twin Cities, MN, Philadelphia, and Maine.
The Outdoor Foundation’s Thrive Outside Initiative awards multi-year, capacity-building grants to communities to build and strengthen networks that provide children and families with outdoor experiences built with local and national partners and supported with three years of funding.
The Thrive Outside Communities were chosen by its Board of Directors based on written applications, virtual site visits, in-person interviews, and third-party consultant research. Each Thrive Outside Community grant requires the recipient community to provide a one-to-one funding match to ensure the sustainability of the network. One organization in each community manages the grant and facilitates the work of the network partners.