Six students attending college within the University of Maine System have received the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Chet Jordan Leadership Awards. The awards are given annually to emerging leaders with the ability to turn a vision into reality and engage others to make lasting impacts on their community.  First-time recipients Lillian Bray of Woodland will […]

Greater Portland nonprofit organizations may be eligible to submit grant proposals to the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Welch Charitable Fund. Eligible organizations and projects must serve the Greater Portland area and focus on youth, education, health care, substance-use recovery or the arts.     In 2022, the Welch Charitable Fund awarded 21 grants totaling $285,641. Grantees included:  […]

MaineCF welcomes Rebecca Yturregui as vice president, donor engagement.   Yturregui has nearly 30 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations and was most recently vice president, donor relations and philanthropic impact, at Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston. She is based in MaineCF’s Portland office and oversees donor engagement.  “For 40 years, MaineCF has connected […]

Nearly 500 acres of land have been conserved in Waldo County in one year, thanks to an effort by Coastal Mountains Land Trust and support from MaineCF. The Waldo County Conservation Initiative met its one-year goal by adding land to the Meadow Brook Preserve in Swanville and Mount Tuck and Main Stream Preserves in Stockton […]

The Maine Community Foundation announces the promotion of Laura Lee to vice president of community impact. Lee joined the foundation in 2015 as a program officer and previously was director of grantmaking. She is based in MaineCF’s Portland office and oversees the foundation’s grantmaking and community impact operations. She also leads the program team, which […]