Campaign for Androscoggin

An opportunity to increase grantmaking for “greater community benefit”

 

Turner Center for the Arts Board Chair Garrick Grant and Director Jennifer Wadsworth  take a tour of the juried exhibition “Circle of Life.” The center received a grant from MaineCF’s Androscoggin County Fund to cover fees for artists submitting work to next summer’s juried show—“a way to expand participation,” says Wadsworth.
Photo Anne Ritchie

Thanks to a challenge grant from The Betterment Fund, the Androscoggin County Committee of the Maine Community Foundation will receive a dollar for every two dollars it raises—up to $100,000—through October 15, 2008.

A successful campaign will expand the committee’s grantmaking activities in the county. “The Androscoggin County advisors hope many community-spirited individuals and businesses join our efforts to achieve this goal,” said William Hiss, chair of MaineCF’s Androscoggin County Committee. “A successful campaign will enable us to invest in more projects for greater community benefit,” he said.

Established in 2000, the Androscoggin County Fund has grown from $50,000 to just over $225,000 today. Since making its first grants in 2001, the committee overseeing the fund has awarded 60 grants totaling more than $165,000 to nonprofits and public agencies in Androscoggin County.


The Betterment Fund has now awarded four challenge grants aimed at helping to spur the growth of MaineCF county funds.