2023

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2023 ARTS PROGRAM

Arts Education & Public Engagement

Abbe Museum
$40,000 over two years to provide general operating support

Apogee Arts
$10,000 to provide general operating support

ArtsFarmington
$5,000 to support general operations

Artsworth
$15,000 over two years to support general operations

ArtVan
$30,000 over two years to provide general operating support

Atlantic Harmonies Youth Choirs
$15,000 over two years to support general operations

Augusta Colonial Theater
$5,000 to support public arts programming

Bagaduce Music
$10,000 to provide general operating support

Bar Harbor Historical Society
$7,500 to support arts education programs that intersect with the history of Bar Harbor

Barn Arts
$7,500 to support after school theater education in four Hancock County elementary schools

Bethel Area Arts & Music
$10,000 to provide general operating support

Blue Hill Bach
$5,000 to support educational events and concerts promoting Baroque music

Bowdoin International Music Festival
$30,000 over two years to support community music concerts

Brick Store Museum
$15,000 over two years to support education and outreach activities

Center for Maine Contemporary Art
$20,000 over two years for robust hands-on arts education programs

Center Theatre Inc.
$5,000 to support its after school youth theater program

Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine
$7,500 to support the mainstage productions of its Centennial Season

Choral Art Society (D/B/A ChoralArt)
$5,000 to support a Spring choral performance of music by Brahms

Community Plate
$6,000 to support Community Plate's storytelling workshops in communities around Maine (fiscal sponsor: Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance)

DaPonte String Quartet Foundation
$15,000 to support general operations

Documentary Songwriters
$7,000 to help members of Maine's immigrant community tell their stories through songs

DownEast New Music
$2,500 to present a concert series of contemporary chamber music (fiscal sponsor: Fractured Atlas)

East Shore Arts
$15,000 to build bold and inclusive theater in Portland (fiscal sponsor: Creative Portland Corporation)

Eastport Arts Center
$60,000 over three years to support general operations

Ellsworth Community Music Institute
$7,500 to provide general operating support

Ethereal Roots LLC
$6,500 to support mobile arts programs in Piscataquis County (fiscal sponsor: Central Hall Commons)

Franco Center
$5,000 to support a paper art workshop for adults

Friends of Bear Mountain Music Hall
$5,000 to support its 2023 season of arts programs

Gateway Milbridge
$6,000 to support its summer concert series

Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center
$7,500 to support free immigrant artist music concerts in Portland

Halcyon Music
$3,000 to support youth art workshops that reflect on climate change

Hardy Girls
$7,500 to support its arts and activism camp for girls and nonbinary youth

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
$40,000 over two years to support local children and adults using technology in creative learning

Heart of Biddeford
$15,000 over two years to support free music programs

Hewnoaks
$4,000 to support events showcasing work made by Hewnoaks alumni

H O M E Inc.
$15,000 to support arts programs for underserved communities

Hudson Museum
$13,000 over two years to host the Wabanaki Winter Market

Illustration Institute
$10,000 to support free workshops and presentations with celebrated narrative artists

Indigo Arts Alliance
$40,000 over two years to provide general operating support

ISLE Theater Company
$2,500 to support an original play and storytelling event (fiscal sponsor: Blue HIll Community Development)

Islesboro Community Center
$7,500 to support youth dance and theater education

Katahdin Children and Families Foundation
$5,000 to support free arts education for children and adults in the Katahdin region

Kennebec Performing Arts Company
$10,000 over two years to provide general operating support

L/A Arts
$25,000 over two years to provide general operating support

Lamoine Community Arts
$3,000 to support general operations

Mad Horse Theater Company
$18,000 over two years to support general operations

Maine Jewish Film Festival
$16,000 over two years to support general operations

Maine MILL
$3,000 to support programs featuring Black artists

Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
$7,500 to support a series of events about photography making, collecting, and conservation

Maine State Music Theatre
$7,500 to support sensory friendly performances

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
$5,500 to offer free adult writing workshops for the BIPOC community in Lewiston

Mayo Street Arts
$40,000 over two years to provide general operating support

Meetinghouse Arts
$10,000 to provide general operating support

Opera in the Pines
$5,000 to support Opera in the Pines' presentation of a new opera in Maine (fiscal sponsor: Fractured Atlas)

OUT Maine
$15,000 to support an arts retreat at Haystack for Maine LGBTQ+ high school students

Penobscot Bay Language School
$7,500 to support performances in Rockland by New Mainer artists

Penobscot Theatre Company
$60,000 over three years to support general operations

Pineland Suzuki School
$15,000 over two years to support general operations

Portland Ballet
$10,000 to support general operations

Portland Chamber Music Festival
$20,000 over two years to provide general operating support

Portland Symphony Orchestra
$60,000 over three years to support youth education programs

Portland Youth Dance
$37,500 over three years to support general operations

River Tree Arts
$36,000 over three years to support general operations

Saco River Theatre
$10,000 to provide general operating support

Searsmont Town Library / Town of Searsmont
$5,000 to support free live music events at the Searsmont library

Skidompha Public Library
$3,000 to engage youth in the development of an original performance piece

Smudge Studio Incorporated
$3,000 to support a participatory exhibition

Snow Pond Center for the Arts
$10,000 to offer community arts programs to youth-serving nonprofits in Kennebec County

SPACE
$40,000 over two years to Sonic Visions Fund and other initiatives to support Maine musicians

SPEEDWELL projects
$4,500 to underwrite community discussions and workshops on the work of Alison Hildreth

St. Cecilia Chamber Choir (SCCC)
$7,500 over two years to support general operations

Tear Cap Workshops
$7,500 to create hands-on learning programs for adults

TEMPOart
$2,500 to encourage engagement with a public art piece at Portland's Western Promenade

The Strand Theatre
$60,000 over three years to support general operations

The Theater Project
$7,500 to provide general operating support

Tides Institute & Museum of Art
$2,500 to host a performance, community workshop, and exhibition featuring Wabanaki artists

Una Voce Chamber Choir
$10,000 over two years to support an auditioned community choir

Vigorous Tenderness
$7,500 to support an outdoor chamber music concert by marginalized composers (fiscal sponsor: SPACE)

Wabanaki REACH
$20,000 to create a community-devised play focusing on historic Maine Indian land claims

Waldo Theatre
$60,000 over three years to support general operations

Wendell Gilley Museum
$45,000 over three years to support arts and nature education programs for all ages

WMPG Radio
$3,000 to educate the public about jazz through film screenings (fiscal sponsor: USM Foundation)


Arts Sector Capacity Grants

Cultural Alliance of Maine (CAM)
$75,000 to support the Cultural Alliance of Maine's statewide advocacy (fiscal sponsor: Maine Association of Nonprofits)

Cultural Alliance of Maine (CAM)
$150,000 over two years to support the Cultural Alliance of Maine's statewide advocacy (fiscal sponsor: Maine Association of Nonprofits)

Data Innovation Project, Catherine Cutler Institute for Health and Social Policy, USM
$27,475 to enable the Data Innovation Project to develop a tool to help arts organizations collect and analyze demographic data about their audiences and participants

Maine Association of Nonprofits
$5,000 to enable 10 arts organizations to participate in the Oped Project workshops

Maine Crafts Association
$2,900 to convene Maine craft-serving organizations' leaders

Maine Crafts Association
$20,000 to provide general operating support

Maine Dancemakers Collaborative
$4,000 to support a weekend-long gathering for the Maine dance community (fiscal sponsor: SPACE Gallery)

OUT Maine
$30,000 to build inclusive arts organizations serving LGBTQ+ communities


2023 ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM

Advocacy and Movement Building Grants

Center for an Ecology Based Economy
$20,000 to provide general support

Maine Climate Action Now
$20,000 to provide general support

Maine Environmental Education Association
$30,000 to conduct a landscape analysis of Maine’s Youth Climate Movement

Maine Philanthropy Center
$5,000 to hire a part-time facilitator for the Environment and Climate Funders Network

Maine Youth for Climate Justice
$15,000 to support its operations and activities (fiscal sponsor: Maine Climate Action Now)

Natural Resources Council of Maine
$20,000 to advocate for climate resilience and healthy lands and waters

New England Grassroots Environment Fund, Inc.
$60,000 over two years to support grantmaking and convening in Maine

Sierra Club Maine Chapter
$50,000 over two years to support education and mobilization activities conducted by Sierra Club Maine (fiscal Sponsor: Sierra Club Foundation)

Slingshot
$30,000 over two years to enable Slingshot to provide training and other support to facilitate environmental organizing by communities in Maine (fiscal sponsor: Conservation Law Foundation, Inc.)

The Climate Initiative
$30,000 to launch the Maine Collegiate Climate Policy Institute


Equitable Outdoor Access Grants

Adaptive Outdoor Education Center
$11,500 to offer inclusive outdoor programs for people living with disabilities

Bangor Young Mens Christian Association
$20,000 to include more youth of color in its Leader School

Bicycle Coalition of Maine
$20,000 to provide general support

Center for Community GIS
$30,000 to enable Maine Trail Finder to increase access to trails for people living with disabilities (fiscal sponsor: Quebec-Labrador Foundation)

Cobscook Institute
$10,000 to ensure access to high quality youth outdoor programs

College of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, University of Maine System
$19,200 to support training for teachers to bring their classroom outdoors

East Coast Greenway Alliance
$30,000 to support trail development and connectivity in Maine

Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust
$20,000 to support Indigenous-centered interpretive planning for the Wildlands Preserve

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School
$15,000 to support wilderness expeditions for Maine youth

Intercultural Community Center
$30,000 over two years to support outdoor experiences for New Mainer youth and adults

Journey ONEderland
$15,000 to offer science and wellness outdoor experiential learning opportunities to youth (fiscal sponsor: Land in Common)

Khmer Maine
$15,000 to establish its Land & Justice Program

Kindling Collective
$10,000 to support its educational activities to encourage queer and disabled people to access the outdoors (fiscal sponsor: Mission Earth)

Kivulini Afro Yoga Studio
$10,000 to enable it to engage New Mainers in outdoor excursions (fiscal sponsor: Wounded Healers International)

Lake Stewards of Maine
$25,000 to provide general support

Land Trust Alliance
$20,000 to support a regional Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice learning cohort for land trusts

Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation
$50,000 over two years to provide general support

Maine Community Integration
$25,000 to support outdoor and nature experiences for New Mainer youth and families

Maine Environmental Education Association
$26,000 to provide outdoor learning mini-grants to Maine public schools

Maine GearShare
$40,000 to support general operations

Maine Huts & Trails
$20,000 to support website upgrades and outreach for the Outdoor Access for All program

Maine Initiatives
$50,000 to support the Maine Outdoor Equity Fund

Maine Lakes
$30,000 over two years to provide general support

New Learning Journey
$50,000 over two years to support the First Light program to increase access to land and water for Wabanaki people

Pine Tree Society, Inc.
$20,000 to enable people with disabilities to attend its summer camp

Rippleffect
$30,000 to support its Outdoor Leadership Education program

SailMaine
$10,000 to remove transportation barriers to participation in sailing programs

Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative
$680,000 over two years to provide financial and technical assistance to land trusts in Maine

Speaking Up For Us
$40,500 over two years to increase access to the outdoor by disabled Mainers through training and partnerships with conservation organizations

Susan L Curtis Charitable Foundation
$15,000 to support general operations

Teens to Trails
$25,000 to support planning to make programs more inclusive for disabled youth and youth of color

The Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation
$22,000 to develop the canoe and leadership skills of Wabanaki Youth

The Third Place Inc.
$40,000 over two years to enable the ECO-BIPOC network to affirm the autonomy of the BIPOC community as it furthers the community's connections to nature

Tracker Certification
$14,500 to support Maine's first wildlife tracking workshop for people of color

Trekkers
$40,000 over two years to provide general support

Wells Reserve at Laudholm
$40,000 over two years to provide general support

WinterKids
$10,000 to provide general support

Women for Healthy Rural Living
$27,000 over two years to support the Outdoor Women Lead and Owlette programs


NATURE LEARNING GRANTS

Androscoggin Valley Soil and Water Conservation District
$8,000 to support free youth environmental education in Androscoggin and Sagadahoc Counties

Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust
$15,000 to support its nature-based education programs

Climate Change for All Educators Inc.
$60,000 over two years to establish the Maine Climate Education Hub

Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education
$40,000 over two years to support environmental literacy programs

Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters
$50,000 over two years to support the Katahdin Learning Project

Greater Franklin Food Council
$15,000 over two years to support its elementary school garden education program (fiscal sponsor: St. Joseph Church)

Gulf of Maine Research Institute
$40,000 over two years to support its science-based education programs

Herring Gut Coastal Science Center
$15,000 to provide general support

Maine Audubon
$30,000 over two years to expand science-based environmental education to Lewiston and Bangor schools

Maine Early Childhood Outdoors (MeECO)
$30,000 over two years to train child care providers to offer play based nature learning for pre-k children (fiscal sponsor: Maine Association for the Education of Young Children)

Maine Lakes
$20,000 over two years to establish the Maine Freshwater Education Network

Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance
$60,000 over two years to support the professional development of educators using the Teach ME Outside curriculum

Maine TREE Foundation
$30,000 over two years to support forest-based education across Maine

Piscataquis County Soil and Water Conservation District
$25,000 over two years to support nature learning programs across Piscataquis County

Rural Aspirations Project
$15,000 to support place- and nature-based education in Piscataquis County

Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park
$25,000 to expand seasonal education staff for its Education Adventure program

St. Mary's Nutrition Center (St. Mary's Regional Medical Center)
$30,000 over two years to support school garden nature learning programs

The Ecology School
$50,000 over two years to provide Maine students with immersive ecology education

University of Maine System acting through the University of Maine
$40,000 over two years to enable Maine Sea Grant to bring marine science to inland learners

Wild Seed Project
$20,000 to support experiential ecological learning in Maine schools


2023 SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES GRANTS

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
$10,000 over two years to support the activities of the Lewiston Clubhouse in light of the October 2023 mass shooting

Environmental Grantmakers Association
$2,200 to support the Blue Sky Funders Forum

Grantmakers in the Arts
$1,100 to support general operations

Maine Association of Nonprofits
$3,000 over two years to support general operations

Maine Philanthropy Center
$8,350 to support general operations

Maine Philanthropy Center
$2050 to subsidize grantee attendance at its biannual conference

Maine Philanthropy Center
$7,500 to provide partial support for its 2023 Foundation Giving in Maine report

Maine Public
$45,000 over two years to enable the Climate Desk to hire a full-time editor

NAMI Maine
$20,000 over two years to support in-person courses for area nonprofit organizations on trauma-informed care

New Learning Journey
$50,000 as a Solidarity Deposit to establish a Wabanaki Self Determination Fund

Roux Institute
$27,500 to pilot an entrepreneurship course for environment nonprofit organizations (fiscal sponsor: Northeastern University)

Technology Association of Grantmakers
$500 to support general operations

Tree Street Youth
$10,000 over two years in reponse to the October 2023 mass shooting

Tri-County Mental Health Services
$20,000 over two years in reponse to the October 2023 mass shooting

Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness
$40,000 over two years to support the development and sustainability of its fundraising team