Reporting Out: Community Building Grant Program, July 2022

Welcome to MaineCF’s second Community Building Grant Program Report, which shares information about the grantmaking process and decisions of our largest grant program. A PDF of this report can be found here. Our goals for this report: Be accountable to our nonprofit partners, communities, and donors by showing what was funded Share what we saw and […]

Celebrating Maine’s transgender community

Pride Month in June is an opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the progress made since the Stonewall Riots beginning on June 28, 1969, in New York City. But there is still work to be done for Maine’s transgender community. In this episode of our “Maine Ties” podcast, Quinn Gormley, executive director of Maine […]

Neha Kumar wins Thorndike Award

Neha Kumar of Bar Harbor has been honored with the 2022 Elizabeth Fritz Thorndike Award. The biennial award, managed by the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF), honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to community service on Mount Desert Island. Kumar, a senior financial analyst at The Jackson Laboratory, serves on the board of directors […]

Celebrating 40 years of Downeast Salmon Federation

For 40 years, Downeast Salmon Federation (DSF) has worked to bring the Atlantic salmon fishery back to Maine’s rivers. Executive Director Dwayne Shaw and founding board member Joe Robbins talk about technological and regulatory advancements and how the organization has worked to support the fishery over the past four decades. MaineCF’s Maine Land Protection grant […]

Landscape of Mental Health in Maine: A Conversation

Wednesday, June 22 10:30 a.m. – Noon The landscape in Maine continues to shift as we adapt to fallout from the pandemic, and increasing numbers of MaineCF grantees report mental health issues among clients, staff, and in their communities. The National Alliance for Mental Illness estimates as many as 223,000 Mainers struggle with mental health, […]