MaineCF President and CEO Meredith Jones presents a check for $25,000 to representatives of the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock. They are (left to right): Ronald Schwizer, Executive Director; Bruce Mallonee, Board President; and Douglas Kimmel, Co-Chair, Capital Campaign Committee. The school is one of 19 nonprofits that successfully completed endowment challenge campaigns (complete list below) through the Maine Community Foundation. Photo courtesy of Pierre Monteux School
All 19 of MaineCF's 25/25 Nonprofit Endowment Challenge Partners have successfully met their $25,000 fundraising match requirement.
Congratulations to the following nonprofit organizations:
- Acadia Senior College, Mount Desert
- Center Theatre, Dover-Foxcroft
- Frenchman Bay Conservancy, Hancock
- Great Auk Land Trust, Milbridge
- Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, Orland
- Healthy Island Project, Deer Isle
- Mahoosuc Land Trust, Bethel
- Maine School of Science and Mathematics, Limestone
- Milbridge Public Library, Milbridge
- Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport
- Opera House Arts, Stonington
- Penobscot East Resource Center, Stonington
- Pierre Monteux School, Hancock
- Rangeley Region Health Center, Inc., Rangeley
- Robert Frost Memorial Library, Limestone
- Salt Pond Community Broadcasting, East Orland
- Western Mountains Alliance, Farmington
- Whitneyville Library and Whatnot Association, Inc., Whitneyville
- Woodie Wheaton Land Trust, Durham
As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, the Maine Community Foundation awarded $25,000 challenge grants to 19 nonprofits in Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Piscataquis, Aroostook, Washington, and Hancock Counties to establish new permanent endowments or expand existing endowments. The challenge grants recognize the foundation’s origins in rural Maine and in Hancock County, where MaineCF has been headquartered since its founding in 1983.
The 25/25 Nonprofit Endowment Challenge was a one-to-one matching opportunity that required selected organizations to raise $25,000 in new funds within 18 months in order to secure the challenge grant, resulting in $50,000 of new or additional endowment dollars.
The nonprofits received technical assistance from MaineCF to help them develop a case for support for their endowment-building campaigns and explore new advancement opportunities such as bequests and other planned gifts.
May 10, 2010
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