A gift of green: A MaineCF fund helps maintain trees at Portland’s historic cemeteries. Corey Templeton photo
- Contribute to Invest in Maine, a fund that ensures we’re ready to respond with grants for programs and projects that need them most. Recent grants from this fund have addressed impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Contribute to your community through county funds, established so every Maine county has permanent resources to support local nonprofit organizations – now and long into the future. This year we’re celebrating notable anniversaries of the Oxford County Fund, York County Fund, and the Western Mountains Fund for Somerset and Franklin counties.
- Support issues that matter to you through MaineCF funds focused on specific areas of interest. Examples include the environment, climate change, or support for organizations led by Black, Indigenous, and other people of color.
- Establish your donor-advised fund (DAF) so you can recommend grants to qualified organizations that match your interests within Maine or across the country. Our staff is ready to help you with broad knowledge of Maine’s communities and our Giving Together program provides advised fund donors online access to vetted grant proposals.
- Create your own designated fund to provide your chosen organization permanent funding and premier investment management services from MaineCF. For instance, a fund was established at MaineCF to fulfill Harry E. Cumming’s wishes to provide an annual distribution to the City of Portland for the maintenance and beautification of Eastern and Western cemeteries.
For more information, contact Director, Gift Planning, Jennifer Richard at 207-412-0833 or jrichard@mainecf.org.
The Alan Day Community Garden in Norway, with support from MaineCF’s Oxford County Fund, creates space for neighbors to grow their own food and learn sustainable farming methods. Photo courtesy Alan Day Community Garden
In 2021, one donor advisor’s grant supported a lending library of basketmaking blocks to preserve brown ash and sweetgrass basketmaking through a collaboration with the
Hudson Museum at the University of Maine and the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance. Hudson Museum photo
