For the past dozen years, Ellwood has led CFLeads, the country’s network of community foundations, working together to increase their effectiveness and impact. She has transformed a small “coalition of the willing” into the go-to organization for community foundations seeking to strengthen their community leadership muscle, share field innovations, and tackle the key issues of […]

As Black History Month comes to a close, it serves us well to remember – all year – the shared experiences of African Americans as part of our collective American history. In Maine, we won’t soon forget an artist and storyteller who touched many lives from his home on Little Cranberry Island. When Ashley Bryan […]

Feedback from MaineCF’s grantees goes a long way toward understanding needs in Maine’s communities, challenges nonprofit organizations face during the pandemic, and how we can adapt our grant programs to better meet their needs. Our new “Reporting Out” shares the experiences of 283 grantees funded from our regular competitive grant programs in 2020. Some snapshots: […]

Sarah Marston has joined MaineCF as grants administrator. She helps process donor-advised grant recommendations and other transactions across MaineCF grantmaking programs. Prior to joining MaineCF, she worked as operations manager at Fox Forestry in Orland and then as a real estate paralegal at Fellows, Kee, Tymoczko and Lewis in Bucksport. Marston is a 2016 graduate […]

MaineCF’s Downeast Innovation grant program awarded $60,000 to six nonprofit organizations that provide programs to support or increase entrepreneurship and innovation in Hancock and Washington counties. Two additional organizations were awarded $20,000 from donor-advised funds held by MaineCF. The grant program, which ended in 2021, was part of the foundation’s strategic goal work on entrepreneurs […]