2008 Grants Awarded by the Hancock County Committee

Project Information Committee Grant Amount
Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, to sponsor "Community Free Sundays," a program to give free admission to Hancock County residets at both Abbe Museum locations every Sunday during peak season, May 22-Nov 8.  $1,000.00
Blue Hill Garden Club, to restore the gardens and grounds of the historic Holt House property of the Blue Hill Historical Society. $1,000.00
Blue Hill Heritage Trust, to create a strategic conservation plan. $1,500.00
Bucksport Bay Best Friends, Bucksport, to provide a social model adult day care program for adults with early to moderate dementia. $4,000.00
Camp Beech Cliff, Mount Desert, to work with local schools to develop a program as part of the curriculum, providing school children with year-around experiences in nature.  $4,000.00
Downeast Horizons, Ellsworth, to enable a social skills group of school aged children with special needs to plan, plant, and maintain a public garden with under the supervision of their direct service professionals. $1,125.00
Faith in Action Community Connection, Ellsworth, to conduct a strategic plan utilizing professional resources.
$2,000.00
The Grand Auditorium, Ellsworth, to hire a full-time box office manager. $3,000.00
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, to fund the Island Workshop Day and an artist's residency with knitter Katharine Cobey.  $3,400.00
Island Community Center, Stonington, to pay for a summer intern to work with children at Camp Kooky and in additional programs.
$3,000.00
Kneisel Hall, Blue Hill, to pay half the expenses of website redesign. $1,000.00
The Lobster Conservancy, Friendship, to measure the health and productivity of naturally occurring lobster nursery habitats over time, specifically by supporting volunteers in the Juvenile Lobster Monitoring Program. $3,000.00
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities, Ellsworth, to bring together school food service providers to make school meals healthier. $4,000.00
Peninsula Pan, Blue Hill, to host the 18th Pan New England Festival in Blue Hill in May 2008. $2,500.00
Penobscot East Resource Center, Stonington, to identify, purchase and implement an organizational capacity assessment tool for Penobscot East. $1,800.00
Salt Pond Community Broadcasting, East Orland, for the "20th Anniversary History of WERU-FM: We-R-U," to tell the story of WERU through community members speaking in their own voices to create a historical narrative. $4,500.00
Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor, to initiate a new children's summer program, the Schoodic Arts Show Choir Junior, that will run annually from June through August. $2,000.00
Trenton Elementary School, to reconstruct a donated greenhouse for the Trenton Horticultural Project. $4,650.00