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Read Article In its second year of grant making, the Maine Community Foundation’s Start Up/Scale Up Grant Program is providing $225,000 to 11 Maine nonprofit organizations that are helping new ventures start and grow through shared workspaces and incubator and accelerator programs. MaineCF donors and partners made an additional eight grants totaling $183,141. The local 2021 grantees include: • Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Farmington, to create a maker-space within its downtown retail store so that youth can strengthen skills and engage in entrepreneurial ventures; • Main Street ...

Briefs Noble High students named winners in academic competition Four Noble High School students are winners in the Academic World Quest competition by the World Affairs Council. Team members Sofia Dillon, Sage Study, Ryan Menter and team captain Rain Bugado now move on to represent Maine in the national competition in April. The first ever regional, virtual Academic World Quest competition was organized in collaboration with seven sister councils of the World Affairs Council of Maine. Twenty-six teams slogged through 100 questions detailing everything from the future of the U.S. Foreign Serv...

The Maine Community Foundation’s Start Up/Scale Up Grant Program seeks applications from Maine nonprofit organizations that help new ventures start and grow through programs such as collaborative workspaces and incubator and accelerator programs...