MaineCF grants available to support animal welfare

May 2, 2024 Grants from the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Animal Welfare Fund are available to organizations and projects that advance animal welfare for small companion animals in the state. In 2023, the Animal Welfare grant program awarded a total of $408,980 to 29 organizations. Grantees included Somerset Humane Society, for a low-cost spay and […]

MaineCF distributes $1.9 million to 29 nonprofits supporting Lewiston recovery

April 22, 2024 The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) distributed $1.9 million to 29 local nonprofit organizations supporting the area’s mass shooting recovery efforts through its Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund Broad Recovery & Organizations Fund. The fund received a total of $1,900,132 in contributions following the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shootings in Lewiston. All funds […]

MaineCF welcomes new staff

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. Caitlyn Barker will serve Penobscot County and statewide organizations. She was […]

Full Circle Investments

Maine is fertile ground – and water – for innovation. That’s why MaineCF is putting its primary pool portfolio to work; to invest in opportunities that blend return potential and support initiatives across the state. These investment returns are expected to boost fundholders’ portfolios to support their charitable activities while investing right here in the […]

Your Voices, Our Focus

Connected. Collaborative. Engaged. Resilient. Hardworking. Scrappy. These adjectives are among words used to describe Maine people and communities by participants in the Maine Community Foundation’s Statewide Needs Assessment and Issue Identification project. The project, conducted in partnership with Elkin Consulting, began in May 2023 with the goal of answering the questions: What are our communities’ […]