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Updated: July 20, 2021
Nonprofit Notebook: MCF Hancock County grants, Maine State Credit Union scholarships
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Ellsworth Public Library will use a $5,740 grant from the Maine Community Foundation for an outdoor library set up during the pandemic to provide safe and sufficient Wi-Fi access to students, job seekers and others,
The Ellsworth Public Library and Trenton Elementary Schools are among 27 Hancock County nonprofits that will share $197,918 in grants from the Maine Community Foundation, it announced Monday.
Grants come from the Hancock County Fund, a permanent endowment built from community donations that supports projects and nonprofits that strengthen communities in the county.
Proposals are submitted through Maine Community Foundation's Community Building Grant Program and are reviewed by a committee of local leaders.
Ellsworth Public Library will use its $5,740 grant for an outdoor library it set up during the pandemic to provide safe and sufficient Wi-Fi access to students, job seekers and others. Trenton Elementary School received $10,000 to make structural and maintenance upgrades to its greenhouse, outdoor learning spaces and community food cupboard.
Grant recipients and amounts
Acadia Family Center, Southwest Harbor: $8,577
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor: $5,000
Common Good Soup Kitchen Community, Southwest Harbor: $10,000
Deer Isle Adult Education/CSD #13: $10,000
Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic: $8,800
Ellsworth High School Gender Sexuality Diversity Alliance: $5,200
Ellsworth Public Library: $5,740
Families First Community Center, Ellsworth: $10,000
Hancock Grammar School: $9,300
Healthy Acadia, Bar Harbor: $10,000
Healthy Island Project, Deer Isle: $10,000
Healthy Peninsula, Blue Hill: $7,500
HOME Inc., East Orland: $10,000
Hospice Volunteers of Hancock County, Ellsworth: $10,000
Kids’ Corner Inc., Bar Harbor $5,000
Little Cranberry Yacht Club Community Sailing & Education Foundation: $5,000
Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry, Ellsworth: $8,600
NextStep Domestic Violence Project, Ellsworth: $10,000
Opera House Arts, Stonington: $5,000
Opiate-Free Island Partnership, Inc., Stonington: $7,500
Reversing Falls Sanctuary, Brooksville: $5,251
Salt Pond Community Broadcasting Co., East Orland: $5,000
Schoodic Arts for All, Winter Harbor: $6,300
The Simmering Pot, Blue Hill: $10,000
Threadbare Theatre Workshop, Brooklin: $5,150
Trenton Elementary School: $10,000
Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center, Ellsworth: $5,000
Maine Community Foundation donors also made 11 additional grants totaling $64,400 from donor-advised funds.
The Maine Community Foundation, headquartered in Ellsworth with additional personnel in Portland, Dover-Foxcroft, Mars Hill and Rockport, works with donors and other partners to provide strong investments, personalized service, local expertise, and strategic giving to improve the quality of life for all Maine people.
Maine State Credit Union scholarships
Separately on Monday, the Augusta-based Maine State Credit Union announced that 64 scholarships worth a combined $100,000 had been awarded to Maine residents by the Normand R. Dubreuil Scholarship Fund at the Maine Community College System and Maine Maritime Academy.
The fund was created in 2020 by the Maine State Credit Union board of directors in memory of longtime CEO Normand R. Dubreuil and funded through annual donations.
Of the 64 scholarships just awarded, 62 will go to students studying trades at community colleges, and two to students at the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine.
Tucker Cole, CEO of the Maine State Credit Union, noted that Dubreuil was a "great believer in the people of Maine" and would be proud knowing how many people the scholarship fund has helped on his behalf.
The Maine Community College System and the Maine Maritime Academy administer the fund and award the scholarships every year.
Students who receive the scholarships do not need to be members of the Maine State Credit Union but need to meet requirements set by the schools concerned. Since its start, Maine State Credit Union has donated more than $150,000.
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