2008 Quimby Family Foundation Grantees and funded projects...
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
… for the Appalachian Trails MEGA-Transect Initiative which is a long-term study matching citizen science volunteers with research institutions to study the environmental health of the Appalachian Trail Range along the trail in fourteen states.
Appalachian Trail Museum Society
… for a digitization/archival processing and social networking website development project focused on the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s collection of more than 12,600 Polaroid’s celebrating nearly thirty years of thru-hikers reaching the psychological halfway point of their trail journeys.
Center Theatre for the Performing Arts, Dover-Foxcroft
… to purchase and renovate property connected to the Center Theatre. This will increase the theatre’s capacity, and return ownership of this property to its original owner.
Cultivating Community
… to support stewardship and sustainability education throughout southern Maine by funding program staff and by supporting collaborative work with Lots to Gardens.
Dexter Historical Society
… to prepare large photographic prints and accompanying materials for a traveling exhibition of Bert Calls photographs of Maine. This exhibit will educate local people and tourists about the history and beauty of the north woods of Maine and what it can inspire.
Downeast Salmon Federation
… to support an expanded outreach program. This project will directly support endangered salmon recovery and salmon watershed conservation in Washington County.
Eastport Arts Center
… to support the executive director position as well as a facilities manager.
Forest Ecology Network
… to launch the climate change and forest restoration campaign to build public understanding of the importance of forest restoration as a means of enhancing carbon sequestration and mitigating climate change.
Frenchman Bay Conservancy
… to assist in the acquisition of 600 acres of wetlands and associated uplands known as Northern Corea Heath, on the Corea Peninsula in Gouldsboro, Maine.
Friends of Baxter State Park
… for a one-week pilot project for ten high school students to learn the meaning and value of wilderness through a backcountry camping experience at Baxter State Park.
Katahdin Regional Development Corporation
… to partially fund the first Trails End Festival, September 13th-14th 2008 particularly for assistance with payment of musical acts, art prizes and other general expenses as needed.
Kennebec Valley Art Association
… for general operating support to allow for increased staffing in support of the recent renaissance of the 50 year old Kennebec Valley Art Association.
Kennebunk Conservation Trust
… to complete essential repairs to the historic Goat Island Lighthouse in Cape Porpoise, Maine.
Maine Appalachian Trail Club
… for support of the caretaker and ridge runner program, which provides environmental education to Appalachian Trail users in Maine.
Maine Island Trail Association
… to support the permanent expansion of the trail downeast and allow it to become a more significant driver of sustainable recreation-based tourism in this environmentally rich but economically challenged region.
Maine Media Workshops
… to support the New Vision Campaign to address physical plant, program, and equipment needs.
Maine Olmstead Alliance for Parks and Landscapes
… for contemporary photographic images that will be in a book, which celebrates Maine’s historic designed landscapes. The Alliance and Downeast Books are collaborating to highlight the brilliant legacy created by landscape architects and the designers who have worked in Maine.
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
… to support the cost of the new Maine Based Field Organizer that has been hired to do the personal outreach and relationship building.
Northern Forest Canoe Trail
… to operate year three of the successful stewardship internship program and to launch a campaign to create an Intern Fund to secure a long future for this effective and meaningful program.
Piscataquis County Economic Development Council
… to assist in the renovation of the parking lot at the Monson Trailhead of the Appalachian Trail, making it safer for through hikers and day hikers.
Portland Museum of Art
… to support the preservation and interpretation of the Winslow Homer Studio at Prouts Neck.
Portland Trails
… to continue work creating trail access to the Presumpscot River by working as part of a larger initiative to preserve land and build trails all along the river, 26 miles from Falmouth to Sebago Lake.
Schoodic Arts for All
… for general operating support of programs, workshops and performances in order to keep the fees affordable.
Somerset Economic Development Corporation
… to assist in the purchase of the soon to be vacant Skowhegan Jail to store and process harvested organic grain and to offer studios, artists living units, classrooms areas within cell spaces, and to create a retail gallery.
The Pierre Monteux School
… to cover program fees and partial travel costs for three conductors and three instrumentalists attending the Pierre Monteux School during the 2009 season.
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
… for general operating support towards renovating a new space for the Institute, launching a new website and database, and re-designing the photography curriculum in order to shift to a digital program.
The Student Conservation Association
… to partner the Student Conservation Association with a past grant recipient the Chewonki Foundation. The SCA crew will be at Debsconeag Lake Wilderness Camp for three weeks in the summer of 2009 to work on camp property and trails.
Veggies4All Garden Project
… to uproot hunger in Waldo County Maine by producing fresh, organically grown, and nutritious produce for residents who have the least access to healthy foods.
WERU-FM Community Radio
… to support the hire of a LEED-certified architect and building engineer to begin preliminary assessments of their building, and for maintenance issues, recycling programs, exterior maintenance programs, and systems upgrades.
Wildlife Alliance of Maine
… to support litigation concerning wildlife habitat protection and the protection of individual species from dangerous animal harvesting methods as well as a survey of wolves in northern Maine in partnership with a University of Maine Wildlife Tracker.