The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) has established the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund in response to the devastating mass shooting events on Oct. 25 in Lewiston, Maine. The fund will collect and allocate donations to support victims of Maine’s worst gun tragedy on record and the organizational efforts that will help heal the city.  Adilah Muhammad, […]

MaineCF awarded a total of $408,980 to 29 nonprofit organizations that advance animal welfare in the state through its Animal Welfare Fund. View all 2023 grantees here. The Animal Welfare Fund supports projects and organizations that help low-income people stay with their pets through hardships, support population control and/or educate pet owners and communities about […]

The preservation of 25 historic buildings across the state was recently boosted by $328,202 from the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Belvedere Historic Preservation and Energy Efficiency Grant Program. 2023 grantees include: Gardiner Library Association, to restore brick corbels that help support the roof structure: Moosehead Marine Museum, to restore the port side deck of the […]

The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) announces a new brand and logo that reflects the foundation’s future and mission to build a better Maine.  This year marks MaineCF’s 40th anniversary. In 1983, the founding president of the College of the Atlantic, Ed Kaelber, retired and received a $10 startup gift from friend and philanthropist Bob Blum. […]

More than $400,000 in grants from the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) will support organizations throughout the state that are led by and serve people of color. MaineCF’s Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Fund (BIPOC) awarded 33 grants totaling $327,000. Another 17 grants totaling $114,750 were made by people with donor-advised funds at MaineCF. 2023 […]