Land for Communities

Spring 2026 Committee Grants

Blue Hill Heritage Trust Inc, to obtain a permanent conservation easement on a working farm, Moon Beam Farm: $20,000
Bomazeen Land Trust, to maintain and repair the land we hold in trust for land-based cultural activities: $25,000
Downeast Coastal Conservancy, to purchase a 15-acre parcel in Machias that will protect and enhance Healthy Acadia's Downeast Restorative Harvest, a community agriculture project: $50,000
Downeast Lakes Land Trust, to improve a road owned by Downeast Lakes Land Trust, providing access to land owned by the Passamaquoddy Tribe in Sakom and Ooiton T4ND Townships: $20,000
Green Ellsworth, to grow Ellsworth's Everybody Harvests Community Garden to cultivate an extended community where everyone can benefit from locally-grown produce and the land that sustains us: $25,000
Khmer Maine, to launch a community agriculture program focused on growing Cambodian and Southeast Asian culturally relevant crops for distribution and sale: $20,000
Maine Coast Heritage Trust, to return a culturally significant coastal island to Wabanaki stewardship as an intertribal resource and support long‑term, collaborative stewardship shaped by Wabanaki community priorities: $50,000
Masqewuloq Bark & Roots Society, for a Wabanaki birchbark canoe apprenticeship and community program reconnecting youth and families to traditional lands and waters while strengthening Indigenous food sovereignty and cultural stewardship: $22,851
Presente! Maine, to improve our community farm’s infrastructure, boosting food production, accessibility, and engagement while creating shared spaces for learning, connection, and collective benefit: $20,000
The Wild Blueberry Collective, to create a permanent space in nature for our community and members of the Wabanaki Confederacy to have access to wild-harvesting, hunting, education and recreation: $50,000
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness, to contribute toward the ownership of the land known as Ihtoli Kikehtahsuitmok, the Gathering Place, located in a sacred area to the Wabanaki people: $50,000

Spring 2026 Donor Grants:

Alan Day Community Garden, to expand opportunities for youth and families to grow and access nutritious food: $25,000
Georges River Land Trust, to conserve and steward 101 acres of unique habitat in Union to serve as an outdoor classroom, expand a wildlife corridor, and provide public access: $25,000
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust, to acquire 570 contiguous acres adjacent to other conserved land to create public access to the top of the watershed providing drinking water to Ellsworth: $50,000
Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, to build a small commercial kitchen that allows MeANS students to process produce grown on the school farm/greenhouses into food products for the larger community: $2,000
Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association, to continue programs for marginalized Maine farmers and farmworkers to build community resiliency and support land access: $5,000
Town of Cushing, to acquire a property for public water access, a key waterfront project for a coastal town with no public access: $25,000
Wabanaki Youth in Science, to engage and support Wabanaki young people in paid land stewardship restoring medicine trails, removing invasive species, and caring for Wabanaki lands in Maine: $25,000

Fall 2025 Committee Grants

Bomazeen Land Trust, Portland, to renovate and update the cabins, kitchen, buildings, and deck for future events and land-based activities at Lemon Streams: $25,000
Cultivating Community,Portland, to support BIPOC immigrant farmers in reaching their farm business and land access goals by building cross-organizational capacity and continuing to lead community farming programming: $25,000
Healthy Acadia, Ellsworth, to purchase Folklore Farm land and expand its nutrition, equity, educational, and community goals, protecting vital farmland while increasing access to healthy food: $50,000
Land Peace Foundation, Bangor, to complete a sustainable gathering structure on the ceremonial grounds of our land-based campus, Wicuhkemtultine Kinship Community: $25,000
New England Arab American Organization, Portland, for a community-led gardening and agricultural education initiative empowering New Mainer women to grow food, reclaim cultural practices, and increase healthy food access in Maine: $8,150
New Learning Journey, Hulls Cove, to support the acquisition of 3,200 acres for the Mi'kmaq Nation, doubling their land base and providing land for hunting, fishing, and harvesting medicines: $50,000
New Roots Cooperative Farm, Lewiston, to expand land stewardship, food access, and youth education for Somali Bantuand immigrant farmers, strengthening community relationships to farmland and cultural food traditions in Maine: $25,000
Nibezun, Old Town, to implement a soil to gut program, promoting wellness in Wabanaki communities, nurturing a spiritual relationship between food, health and Mother Earth: $25,000
Niweskok, Milford, to provide support for the acquisition and rematriation of our Wabanaki foodhub in coastal Penobscot territory: $41,850
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point, Perry, to acquire title to land within traditional Passamaquoddy Territory, and once again, be the stewards and care takers of the land: $50,000
Sacred Connections, Yarmouth, to protect 40 acres of wild blueberry fields, honoring Wabanaki stewardship while creating community access, education, and climate-resilient agriculture: $50,000
Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine, Lewiston, to identify and support marginalized farmers to access land to grow culturally important foods and develop livelihoods with support from key partner organizations: $25,000
Sunrise County Economic Council, Machias, to reconnect boys and young men to culture, language, and community through traditional seasonal food harvesting and multigenerational mentorship in the Passamaquoddy Youth Harvest Program: $25,000
Trust for Public Land, Portland, to support the Wáhsehtəkʷ effort and the return of 30,000 acres in the Katahdin Region in partnership with the Penobscot Nation: $50,000
Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness, Bangor, to contribute towards the ownership of the land known as Ihtoli Kikehtahsuitmok, the Gathering Place, located in a sacred area to the Wabanaki people: $50,000

Fall 2025 Donor Grants

Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Topsham, to assist the Native organization Maqeyhik in their reclamation of Picture Rocks as a cultural and community hub for the Wabanaki: $25,000
Scarborough Land Conservation Trust, Scarborough, to renovate and update the cabins, kitchen, buildings, and deck for future events and land-based activities at Lemon Streams: $50,000
Sea Meadow Marine Foundation, Yarmouth, to educate underrepresented participants in sustainable aquaculture through hands-on mentorship, use of boats and equipment, and workforce development to foster equitable access to Maine’s waterfronts: $25,000