2006 Quimby Family Foundation Grantees and funded projects...

 Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, Winter Harbor, Maine
...to build the organizational capacity of Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, and also serve individual donors enabling them eventually to become self-supporting.

Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, Massachusetts
...to help fund the publication of 4,000 copies of a revised edition of The Wildest country: A Guide to Thoreau’s Maine, a book which has been out of print since 1992.

The Chewonki Foundation, Wiscasset, Maine
...to create a full time position for a coordinator of the Girls Program at the Chewonki Foundation.

Coastal Recycling Corporation, Hancock, Maine
...to complete renovations at their recycling center and upgrade the facility to meet all the required federal and state regulations.

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine
...for start-up costs for the Colleges Green Media Center. This Center is an innovative place for students to do their work in the arts while also learning how to do so in an environmentally sensitive way.

Forest Ecology Network, Augusta, Maine
...for the publication and distribution of The Maine Woods to inform the public about the Moosehead and Plum Creek issues in the North Woods.

GE Free Maine, Thorndike, Maine
...towards the operating costs of their new facility, hosting various lectures and presentations, and publishing the GE Free Maine newsletter.

Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine
...for a three-month exhibit of photographs of the Alaska Wildlife Refuge at Gould Academy’s Owen Art Gallery. This exhibit will serve as a touchstone for discussions about conservation and the politics and importance of wilderness.

International Appalachian Trail/Le Sentier International des Appalaches, Freeport, Maine
...to produce an updated membership brochure.

Maine Alliance for Arts Education, Augusta, Maine
...for the support of the Learning in Community program during the year 2006-2007.

Maine Animal Coalition, Portland, Maine
...to maintain, redesign and update the Maine Animal Coalition website.

Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust, Portland, Maine
...to collect and present a natural resources inventory of the Maine high peaks region, design maps and sponsor the Maine Mountain Conference at Saddleback Mountain.

Maine Farmland Trust, Belfast, Maine
...for general operations as Maine Farmland Trust forges ahead with their programs to prevent non-agriculture development of Maine’s farmland, and strives to ensure that the next generation has access to that land.

Maine Woods Forever, Bangor, Maine
...for general operating support as well as to maintain the momentum of Maine Woods Forever successful roundtable forums.

Monson Historical Society, Guilford, Maine
...to repair structural problems in the Monson Museum, which has been neglected for many years due to lack of funding.

Moosehead Regions Futures Committee, Greenville, Maine
...to create the Moosehead Region Geographic Systems — maps of high value, woods, wildlife habitat and essential nature tourism sites.

Natural Resources Council of Maine, Augusta, Maine
...to protect the biological diversity and wilderness character of Maine’s North Woods and defeat inappropriate development proposals before Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission.

New England Natural Resources Center, Boston, Massachusetts
...to pay for research and writing of a chapter on significant events in Maine as part of the history of 20th century conservation in New England.

Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Waitsfield, Vermont
...to start an internship/stewardship program. The interns from local colleges would be responsible for stewardship, research, and scientific testing.

Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
...for general operating support towards hiring an additional full time staff member, marketing and subsequently increasing the number of programs.

Two Roads Maine, Freeport, Maine
...to fund scholarships for program participants. In order to have diversity in their programs, Two Roads Maine hopes to reduce the travel costs for some of their participants.

United Society of the Shakers, New Gloucester, Maine
...to protect permanently our nation’s last remaining active Shaker community. Permanent conservation and preservation easements will be placed on their land.

Unity College, Unity, Maine
...to continue supporting scholarships for students from Maine.

Wildlands Project, Richmond, Vermont
...to analyze and synthesize the results of the scientific data which has been gathered in the focus region, Maine, one of the most threatened states in our country because of development and loss of diversity.

Wildlife Alliance of Maine, Bangor, Maine
...for general operating support, and towards work in the legislature and possibly any legal challenge they may have to face this coming year.