Invest in Maine: 2010-11 Report to the Community

• Giving to Maine's Future
• Partners in Prosperity
• Membership Has Its Legacies
• Four Ways You Can Invest in Maine
• Four Ways the Community Foundation is Investing in Maine
  • An Educated Workforce
  • Involved Citizens
  • A Healthy Environment
  • Thriving Communities
• Fatuma Hussein: United and Committed
• A Vision for the Maine Woods
• A Community Rolls Out the Barrel(s)
• New Funds
• Financial Summary (PDF). For more complete financials, please visit the Financial Information page.

Cover photo: Two Somali girls in Lewiston’s Hillview Aspirations program try on snowshoes for the first time as part of a WinterKids program to introduce young Mainers to winter activities. Photo by Marion Doyle, with special thanks to Carla Harris, Lewiston Housing Authority

Page 2: Maine Community Foundation Board Chair Anne Jackson and President and CEO Meredith Jones in Portland. Photo by Amanda Kowalski

Page 3

• Top: George and Anna Shaw in the Orkney Islands
• Bottom: Debbie Schettino, a visually impaired tenant at the Iris Park Apartments, receives assistance from her guide as she prepares to hit the ski slopes. Photo courtesy of The Iris Network

Page 4

• Top: Annah Kimball (center) from Gardiner Area High School accepts first prize for her sculpture The Fallen Man at the opening of “A Matter of Conscience,” Harlow Gallery’s juried art show for Maine high school artists (March 2010). Pictured with her are art teacher Cheryl Herr-Rains (left), who helped organize the exhibition, and Cheryl Harper, a nationally recognized artist and curator from Philadelphia, who juried and judged the competition. Photo courtesy of the Kennebec Valley Art Association
• Bottom: Gannett Scholarship recipients meet in Portland at a networking luncheon hosted by Madeleine Corson, an advisor to the fund. Left to right: Justin Chenette, Kegan Zema, Julia Butler, Corson, Nick McCrea, Eliza Duggan, and Peter Logue. Photo by Carl Little

Page 5

• Top: Fatuma Hussein leads a meeting at the United Somali Women of Maine in Lewiston. Photo by Joshua Shea
• Bottom: Jason Ridlon on board the Brunswick Explorer. Ridlon is one of the original members of the Midcoast Collaborative for Access to Transportation. Photo by Jim Pierce

Page 6

• Top: Loggers from M & H Logging, Rangeley, Maine. Photo courtesy of Bruce Kidman, Keeping Maine’s Forests
• Bottom: Hannah Anthony works on a poetry writing exercise at the Waldoboro Public Landing on the Medomak River Estuary. She and her classmates in Nicola Taylor’s sixth-grade class at the Miller School in Waldoboro took part in the Quebec-Labrador Foundation’s Questing to Learn program. Photo courtesy of the Quebec-Labrador Foundation

Page 7

• Top: Jean Gauthier, director of MaineGeneral Medical Center’s Food and Nutrition Services, and David Gulak, manager of Barrels Community Market, stand in front of the market in Waterville. Photo by Aerin Raymond
• Bottom: Workers from Chabot’s Construction of Greene remove brick from the back wall of the Norway Opera House as part of the reinforcement and renovation. The bricks will be stored until complete renovations occur. Photo by Brenda Melhus

Back Page: Students from Brewer High School present checks to Make-A-Wish and Camp Capella as part of the Jumpstart Our Youth philanthropy program. Photo courtesy of Catherine Hartnett, Jobs for Maine’s Graduates

Graphic design by Z Studio, Bar Harbor, Maine.