Marianne Pinkham
Wed, 01/13/2021 - 7:45am
Rotary District 7780 grants are small grants awarded each year on a competitive basis to Rotary Clubs in Southern, Midcoast Maine and New Hampshire in support of a humanitarian projects either in a Rotary Club’s home community or internationally. Last spring the Rotary Club of Damariscotta-Newcastle applied for and recently received a COVID-19 Feeding Our Community - Lincoln County Food Initiative - Community Navigation District 7780, Rotary year 2020 – 2021, grant in the amount of $4,500. The club made an additional contribution of $500 bringing the total award to $5,000, the sum that was needed to staff the backbone of the Lincoln County Food Initiative (LCFI), the hot, community navigation help-line from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2020. On the 11th of January Kate Martin, executive director of Healthy Lincoln County, LCFI’s fiscal agent, accepted the funding support checks on behalf of LCFI from D/N Rotary Club President Roberta McLaughlin, Marianne Pinkham, Club Foundation Chair and Past President Jane Gravel, owner of Main Street Grocery whose initial delivery of meals to families in need during the last week of March quickly morphed into LCFI.