WHCA Funders News
News about funders of Washington Hancock Community Agency.
Quimby Family Foundation Suppports Maine Farmers' Market Convention
Down East Business Alliance has been awarded a grant from the Quimby Family Foundation to support its annual Maine Farmers' Market Convention and its work to help establish a Maine ...
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Point Harbor Fund Supports Families in Crisis
Washington Hancock Community Agency has received a grant of $5,000 from the Point Harbor Fund of Maine Community Foundation to support its Family Crisis Fund. WHCA's Family Crisis Fund is ...
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MCF Funding Will Help Launch Peninsula Care
Washington Hancock Community Agency has received a grant of $6,000 from the Hancock County Fund of Maine Community Foundation to fund its Peninsula Care project. Peninsula Care is a non-profit ...
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Homeless Shelter Without Walls Receives Funding from HAC
WHCA's Housing Retention and Stability program has received a grant from the Housing Assistance Council to support our efforts to reduce homelessness in Washington and Hancock counties. The funds will ...
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Llewellyn Foundation Supports Friendship Cottage
The Llewellyn Foundation has made a grant to Friendship Cottage to support the volunteer/activities coordinator position. The volunteer/activities coordinator recruits, trains, and manages a dedicated group of volunteers and arranges ...
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United Way Funds WHCA Programs
Washington Hancock Community Agency has been selected to receive United Way of Eastern Maine community impact funding for two of its programs. Helping Hands Garage, which helps low-income working people ...
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Rotary Makes Donation to Friendship Cottage
The Ellsworth Rotary Club has donated $500 to Friendship Cottage toward the purchase of a wheelchair lift van. Friendship Cottage provides transportation to and from the adult day service program ...
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Caregiver Resource Center Receives Funding
The Caregiver Resource Center at Friendship Cottage has received a donation from the Wing-Benjamin Trust to purchase a computer. Caregivers will be able to use the computer to do research ...
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Hancock County Fund Supports Homelessness Prevention
The Maine Community Foundation has donated $2,000 through its Hancock County Special Grant fund to support homelessness prevention. WHCA will use the funds to support its efforts to assist those ...
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THAW Fund Receives $20,000 Donation from Belvedere Fund
The Heating and Warmth Fund has received a generous $20,000 donation from the Belvedere General Charitable Grantmaking Fund through Maine Community Foundation. THAW, a program of Washington Hancock Community Agency, ...
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Realtors Make Donation to Senior Safe
Washington Hancock Community Agency will be able to make nearly $3,000 worth of safety improvements in local seniors' homes, thanks to the Hancock-Washington Board of REALTORS® (HWBOR). The funds go ...
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Camden National Bank Sponsors Maine Farmers' Market Convention
The second annual Maine Farmers' Market Convention has backing by bankers. Sarah Joy Chaples of Down East Business Alliance accepts a check for $500 from John Lynch of Camden National ...
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Bank of America Supports MFMC
Bank of America Charitable Foundation has provided a grant of $4,000 to support the Maine Farmers Market Convention. The foundation is dedicated to providing opportunity for all in its commitment ...
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Betterment Fund Supports Maine Farmers' Market Convention
The Betterment Fund has awarded Down East Business Alliance a $15,000 grant to support the Maine Farmers' Market Convention. The Betterment Fund supports projects that provide economic opportunity, in this ...
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Ladd Charitable Corporation Provides Lead Gift
Friendship Cottage is one step closer to the purchase of a wheelchair accessible van thanks to a generous $5,000 donation from the Helen and George Ladd Charitable Corporation. Friendship Cottage ...
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Machias Savings Bank Supports Small Business
Machias Savings Bank has awarded Down East Business Alliance a $7,500 grant to fund its Business Energizer Loan program. The funds are available to graduates of DBA's Incubator Without Walls ...
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