The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) seeks reviewers to evaluate grant proposals to its Maine Expansion Arts grant program. MaineCF values the perspective and input of people with experience and understanding of the arts and nonprofit arts organizations in Maine. Expansion Arts funds projects and nonprofit organizations that serve Black, Indigenous, and other people of color […]

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 […]