The Aroostook County Fund recently made a grant to Presque Isle Minor Hockey to support the creation of a girls’ varsity team. Tim Crowley, a member of the Aroostook County Committee, presents a check for $4,500 to Hillary Albert, captain of the girls’ hockey team, and her teammate Catharine Hamilton. Looking on are MaineCF Foundation Officer Pam Scheppele (left), and Dennis Albert, Cindy Albert, and Mary Hamilton, members of the Girls’ Varsity Hockey 2009 Committee.
Total grant dollars requested last cycle: $102,282
Total grant dollars awarded last cycle: $19,500
Percentage of proposals that received full funding: 6%
Percentage of proposals that received partial funding: 38%
Maximum grant award: $10,000
Average grant size last cycle: $2,438
Application deadlines: January 15, May 15
In 1986, Aroostook County businesses and individuals established the Aroostook County Fund to ensure the county would have local charitable resources to address community issues and challenges. Over the years, the fund has grown to more than $500,000 and the Aroostook County Committee has awarded more than $314,000 in grants.
The Maine Community Foundation manages the Aroostook County Fund, and local leaders, knowledgeable about their communities, help review grant applications.
Recent grants from the Aroostook County Fund
- Empowering Life, Houlton, to provide fresh vegetables and firewood to the working poor and elderly
- Halfway Home Pet Rescue, Caribou, for public school education, spay/neuter funding, vaccines, and expansion of cattery space
- Town of Stockholm, to create a fitness center in the Stockholm Community Center
Complete list of 2010 Aroostook County Fund grants
Other ways MaineCF is serving the region
- Since 2002, the foundation has generated more than $143,300 in additional grant support for projects serving Aroostook County from its network of donors through proposals submitted to the foundation’s competitive grant programs.
- The Maine Community Foundation manages more than $97,000 in endowments for several nonprofit organizations in Aroostook County, which provide support for the arts, youth, the environment and economic growth.
- Aroostook County Scholarships
To make a donation or to learn more about the Aroostook County Fund
Please contact the Maine Community Foundation by phone, toll-free, at (877) 700-6800, or by e-mail at grants@mainecf.org.
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Aroostook County Committee
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Linda Alverson, Oxbow
Gregg Collins, Caribou, Vice Chair
Timothy Crowley, Presque Isle
George Dumond, Fort Kent
Sandra Gauvin, Mapleton
Frances Gendreau, Saint David
Coyle “Pete” Huntress, Limestone
Lynwood “Len” McHatten, Ashland
Jon McLaughlin, Houlton, Chair
John B. Pelletier, Van Buren
Kari Wells-Puckett, Presque Isle
Lori Weston, Houlton
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