MaineCF’s Community Building Grant Program continued to grow in 2022 with the largest grantmaking cycle in its history. Our county and regional committees distributed approximately $1.6 million to 192 nonprofit organizations. An additional 64 grants totaling $431,727 came from donors with donor-advised funds.  For the first time, we are keeping current Community Building grant applications […]

Arts organizations throughout the state may be eligible for grants from three MaineCF grant programs. Maine Expansion Arts, Belvedere Traditional Handcrafts and the Maine Theater Fund are now accepting online proposals from arts organizations and for arts-related programming throughout the state. Maine Expansion Arts supports arts organizations serving rural communities and those led by and/or […]

We are excited to announce that the Maine Women’s Fund is transferring its $3 million in assets to the Maine Community Foundation. The nonprofit will dissolve this summer, but its mission to make bold investments that transform the lives of Maine women and girls will continue through MaineCF. The community foundation will establish two field-of-interest funds, […]

Thoughts of Maine might conjure up lush landscapes, but 96 percent of Maine’s low-income and non-white residents live in a nature-deprived area. In this episode of “Maine Ties” Nan Cumming, executive director of Portland Parks Conservancy, and Tom Farrell, director of parks and recreation for the Town of Brunswick, discuss what they are doing to […]

Pride Month in June is an opportunity to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the progress made since the Stonewall Riots beginning on June 28, 1969,  in New York City. But there is still work to be done for Maine’s transgender community. In this episode of our “Maine Ties” podcast, Quinn Gormley, executive director of Maine […]