| Project Information |
Committee Grant Amount |
| Deer Isle - Stonington Historical Society, Deer Isle, to publish "At the Place of Lobsters and Crabs: Indian People and Deer Isle 1605-2004 by William Haviland |
$3,500.00 |
| Downeast Health Services, Ellsworth, for the Hancock County Children's Council to develop a Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention education and community outreach program in Hancock and Washington counties |
$3,000.00 |
| Forest Society of Maine, Bangor to explore a community forest vision for 5,000 acres of unfragmented forest in Amherst |
$4,500.00 |
| Friends of Taunton Bay, Hancock to create a Taunton Bay Education Center providing access to electronic information, maps, archives of research data, exhibits and a meeting room |
$5,000.00 |
| Healthy Island Project, Deer Isle, for "Winterfest", a three-day event for Island families at no charge |
$3,500.00 |
| The Good Life Center, Harborside to expand the educational programs |
$2,000.00 |
| The Grand Auditorium, Ellsworth for a hands-on arts workshop for children and teachers in collaboration with performing artists |
$3,500.00 |
| Hospice of Hancock County, Ellsworth to support volunteer training programs and community education programs |
$1,500.00 |
| Island Astronomy Institute, Bernard, for the "Starlit Communities Project", a grassroots outreach project to promote individual and public stewardship for Maine's night sky |
$3,500.00 |
| Island Community Center, Stonington, for organizational support to facilitate the process of building and maintaining an indoor community swimming pool for the Deer Isle and Stonington area |
$3,000.00 |
| Island Connections, Bar Harbor, for the Board and Staff Development Project, to increase the effectiveness of Island Connections practices in the area of board governance and encourage the sharing of this knowledge with other MDI Nonprofits |
$1,000.00 |
| Island Heritage Trust, Deer Isle, for a summer outreach program with the Island Community Center to hire an educator to manage the Walks and Talks program and coordinate joint programs with Camp Kooky |
$1,500.00 |
| Maine Alliance for Arts Education, Augusta, for the LINC-Arts mentor project to match outstanding Hancock County Arts students with local artists for advanced arts training and for the PASS program to enable students to attend local arts and cultural events |
$2,500.00 |
| Maine Association of Nonprofits, Portland, to partner with the Washington and Hancock County Funds of MaineCF to develop and offer two two-day programs for capacity building for nonprofits in both counties |
$3,000.00 |
| Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport, for a documentary video about the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium |
$2,000.00 |
| Opera House Arts, Stonington, for the film project "Life by Lobster: Young Fishermen and Our Future" |
$5,000.00 |
| Peninsula Pan, Inc., Blue Hill for "Last Night!", a free and substance-free family oriented New Year's Eve celebration at ten locations throughout Blue Hill village |
$1,500.00 |
| Pierre Monteux Memorial Foundation, Hancock to reinstate free annual children's concerts at the School to increase visibility and attendance |
$2,000.00 |
| Primary Source, Inc., Bangor, for the project "Stories Told in Many Ways: Teaching African Culture through the Arts", a five-part late afternoon seminar series for K-12 educators |
$2,500.00 |
| Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor, to purchase additional instruments to expand two children's steel bands |
$2,000.00 |
| Special Children's Friends, Inc., Ellsworth to follow through on strategic planning commitment for a community needs assessment of parents, providers, key community members and several focus groups to identify services for special needs children in Hancock County |
$2,500.00 |
| Sumner Adult Education, Sullivan, for the "Real World Connections",a project to provide adult learners with hands-on work experience |
$4,000.00 |
| Sunrise Trail Coalition, Ellsworth to provide a community transportation center/ interchange/trailhead and help meet a match requirement for a federal feasibility study |
$1,000.00 |
| Toddy Pond Environmental Association, Orono to purchase a Dissolved Oxygen Monitor and related hardware for use in monitoring water quality at four lakes in the TPEA area |
$1,922.00 |
| Washington Hancock Community Agency, Ellsworth, for the Hancock County Affordable Housing Partnership to increase the capacity of local towns and organizations to develop, finance and build affordable single family housing units |
$3,000.00 |