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The Maine Community Foundation gives Maine arts organizations a boost to help them serve their communities.

The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Land Protection grant program seeks proposals from organizations and projects in Maine dedicated to helping Maine people access and connect to the outdoors. The Maine Land Protection grant program provides...

The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Expansion Arts Fund is accepting proposals from nonprofits for grants of up to $10,000 for certain arts

The Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Theater Fund is accepting grant proposals from local, regional and statewide nonprofit theaters or theater groups in Maine. Funds will be awarded for programmatic, capacity-building, operating and capital...

Arts fund receives $2.5 million grant Share Under the supervision of Penobscot artist Barry Dana, students Maddie Thorndike, left, and Carly McCabe built a wigwam on the west lawn of the Skowhegan History House campus summer 2020. The wigwam construction was the first phase of a two-year exhibit, “Wabanaki Voices: Connecting Past, Present, Future,” organized by the SHH with support from a Maine Expansion Arts Fund grant in 2019. Photo by Susan Cochran MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett have a...

Maine Expansion Arts Fund receives $2.5 Million gift Wed, 06/23/2021 - 6:45pm Under the supervision of Penobscot artist Barry Dana, students Maddie Thorndike, left, and Carly McCabe built a wigwam on the west lawn of the Skowhegan History House (SHH) campus last summer. The wigwam construction was the first phase of a two-year exhibit, “Wabanaki Voices: Connecting Past, Present, Future,” organized by the SHH with support from a Maine Expansion Arts Fund grant. (Photo by Susan C...

Mon, 01/25/2021 - 1:15pm Kittery Land Trust intern Kate Loughlin delivers fresh produce from the Giving Garden to the Kittery School Nutrition Program. (Photo by Jen Clifford/KLT) Maine Farmland Trust, in Belfast, is one of eight nonprofit organizations across the state to share a $250,000 grant from Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Land Protection grant program. Launched last year, the program provides grants for land acquisition or land conservation easement projects. The Trus...

Read Article ‘Hands Around the Capitol’ is canceled AUGUSTA — The “Hands Around the Capitol” event, scheduled for the statehouse on Saturday, Jan. 23, has been canceled due to safety concerns. The event has been held annually for 47 years since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. Participants rally, march and encircle the statehouse to pray that all will come to realize the value of human life from conception to natural death. For more informat...

Tue, 01/19/2021 - 1:15pm Snowy trails at Marsh River Preserve in Edgecomb provided Hearty Roots Outing Club participants with perfect conditions for identifying animal tracks. (Photo by Jess Donohoe/Hearty Roots) Hills to Sea Trail Coalition, of Unity, is one of 18 Maine nonprofit organizations sharing in $206,000 worth of grants through the Conservation for All program within Maine Community Foundation. Hills will use its $10,000 share for general operations to maintain programs, ...

Downeast Innovation Fund awards $95,000 in grants ELLSWORTH — The Maine Community Foundation’s Downeast Innovation Fund has awarded $95,000 in grants to 11 nonprofits located in or serving Hancock and Washington counties. Launched in 2018, the Downeast Innovation Fund Grant program supports nonprofit organizations that provide programs to improve or increase entrepreneurship and innovation in business and the local economies in Hancock and Washington counties. The 2020 grantees include: Cit...