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 […]

The Maine Community Foundation’s Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund awarded $198,213 to 29 organizations that support underserved or vulnerable communities in Auburn, Bath, Biddeford, Brunswick, Greater Portland, Lewiston, Saco and Sanford.  The grantees include:  Maine Boys to Men, for Boot Camp for New Dads, a program for expectant fathers  The Ecology School, to provide hands-on […]