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 […]

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 […]

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 […]