April 23, 2024
The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) announces the hiring of six new staff members.
MaineCF welcomes three community partners to its community impact team. Community partners support nonprofit organizations and communities and facilitate grantmaking and community engagement in all 16 Maine counties.
From left to right: Caitlyn Barker, Tracey Hair, and Lane Sturtevant
- Caitlyn Barker will serve Penobscot County and statewide organizations. She was previously the community engagement coordinator for Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and a fourth-grade teacher in RSU #19. She lives in Dixmont.
- Tracey Hair will serve Hancock and Washington counties. Hair was previously the executive director of H.O.M.E. in Orland, where she worked for nearly 20 years. She serves on the Maine Health Access Foundation board and is a speaker with Maine Humanities Council Speaks. She was previously on the Statewide Homeless Council and chair of the Region III Homeless Council. Hair lives in Bucksport, where she is a member of the Town Council.
- Lane Sturtevant will serve Knox and Waldo counties. They previously worked as an organizer with Democracy Maine and in youth engagement for OUT Maine and New Hope for Women. They have been a school board member and facilitated sexuality education classes for middle schoolers. Sturtevant lives in Warren.
Additionally, MaineCF welcomes three new staff to its philanthropy team. The philanthropy team secures new commitments to support the foundation’s mission to build a better Maine.
From left to right: Nathan Finberg and Amy Minton
- Liz DeLois is the foundation’s newest director of philanthropy. She advances MaineCF’s mission through the engagement of individual and institutional donors. DeLois previously held senior positions at CARE USA and American Jewish World Service, where she managed high-level donor relationships and led strategic partnerships to resource change.
- Nathan Finberg joins MaineCF as philanthropy associate. He provides direct support to the vice presidents of philanthropy and donor engagement and helps facilitate daily operations for the philanthropy and donor engagement teams. Finberg was previously a software engineer at Athenahealth. He is a registered Maine Guide and leads kayaking tours at Portland Paddle. He graduated from Tufts University with a degree in quantitative economics.
- Amy Minton is the new director of prospect research. This role advances the foundation’s mission by leading efforts to identify, research and profile individual, corporate and foundation prospects. Minton most recently led development research at Bowdoin College and is a longtime member of the New England Development Research Association. She has degrees from the University of Maine and Syracuse University.
