August 15, 2024   The Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund awarded $194,216 to 34 Greater Portland nonprofit organizations. The grant program supports organizations and projects that serve disadvantaged, underserved, and/or vulnerable communities in Auburn, Bath, Biddeford, Brunswick, Greater Portland, Lewiston, Saco and or Sanford. Grantees include: Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, general […]

July 30, 2024   The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) welcomes four new members to its Board of Directors. They will begin their first term in September. “MaineCF is thrilled to welcome these four community leaders to its board of directors,” said Adilah Muhammad, MaineCF board chair and founder and executive director of The Third Place. […]

July 18, 2024   The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) welcomes Kim Boucher in the new role of nonprofit agency fund officer, based in the foundation’s Ellsworth office. As part of the investment team, she works on all aspects of MaineCF’s agency fund program, with an emphasis on marketing to and acquiring new and prospective agency […]

Support available to organizations that support vulnerable communities July 16, 2024   Greater Portland nonprofit organizations may be eligible for grants from the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Welch Charitable Fund. Eligible projects must serve the Greater Portland area and focus on youth, education, health care, substance use-disorder recovery and/or the arts and culture. The fund […]

June 3, 2024   The Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) awarded $430,000 to organizations serving Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). MaineCF’s BIPOC Fund awarded 39 grants totaling $350,000. Donors with advised funds at MaineCF awarded an additional 13 grants totaling $80,000. 2024 grantees include: Food for All, to provide food-insecure immigrants with access to […]