2010 Quimby Family Foundation Grantees and funded projects...
Androscogin River Alliance
For the “Free the Androscoggin” project to remove barriers to the millenia-old pattern of native fish migration between the Androscoggin River, the Gulf of Maine, and beyond.
Appalachian Trail Museum Society
To create a graphics-based traveling exhibition focused on the subculture of long-distance hiking on the Appalachian Trail.
Blue Hill Consolidated School
For support of the Blue Hill School Gardening Program to build an energy efficient, self-sustaining greenhouse at the Blue Hill Consolidated School.
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Bowdoin International Music Festival
For support of the Community Concerts and “Artists of Tomorrow” series, all of which are offered free to the public.
The Bay School
To fund a farmer teaching position, to create a professional fund to bring teachers with expertise to the school for specific projects, and to fund the purchase of snowshoes and a sap boiler.
Camden International Film Festival
To help with general operating costs for its annual festival and the Points North documentary film forum, and to help cover general expenses for the organization’s year round programs.
Cathedral School
For sound and lighting improvements for the Guild Hall stage used by the drama program.
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship
To launch a new program of evening and weekend courses in creative woodturning designed to fit the schedules of people who are employed full-time or who are full-time students and are unable to attend existing programs.
Center for Maine Contemporary Art
For a staff position and curatorial services that will enable the Center to execute reorganization plans for community outreach, donor and volunteer relationships, and exhibition and education programming .
Center for Wildlife
To help develop the Center’s onsite program capability to host tours and programs for high schools, scouting troops and individual community members.
Center Theatre
To help with planning and architectural work, equipment purchases, and operational support for the Dover Foxcroft Central Hall renovation project.
Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine
For the Growing Kids Greenhouse, a structure that will provide a hands-on environment for children and families to explore sustainable growing, seasonal foods, composting, pollination, and harvesting for neighbors in need.
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| Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine |
Cultural Resources
For a new exhibit called “Artists of the Forest”, a series featuring the traditional arts of people living in the Northern Forest region.
College of the Atlantic
To offer scholarship support for “Islands Through Time”, a two week learning expedition on the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, to needy students in 2010.
Denmark Arts Center
To support general operations and a new residency program in theater arts.
Ferry Beach Ecology School
To help fund “Science & Ecology: Live & Unplugged!”
Engine
To help cover general operating expenses, and to empower the organization to build communications, outreach, and technical infrastructure to insure the success of the organization’s mission.
Five Rivers Arts Alliance
To fund joint promotion of Maine ArtWalks through “ArtWalkMaine.org”, new media promotions, and a printed promotional piece that will be distributed through Maine visitor centers and other art destinations.
Foxcroft Academy Music Boosters
To fund a year of the Music Mentorship Program for high school students at Foxcroft Academy and for neighboring middle schools, where qualified adult musicians from the community mentor select students who are generally not able to afford to pay for private instruction.
Friends of Baxter State Park
To fund Year 3 of the Maine Youth Wilderness Leadership Program which provides 10 high school sophomores and juniors the opportunity to spend 8 nights immersed in the finest example of wild country in the State of Maine.
Friends of Deering Oaks
To fund the Seasonal Lighting Display, one of the Friends’ signature efforts. Initiated in 2002 and designed by celebrated local artist, Pandora LaCasse, the display is intended to enliven the park during the long winter months.
Friends of St. Lawrence Arts Center
To fund a full-time development director that will support the Board and Director in their effort to rebuild the sanctuary of the St. Lawrence Arts Center into a 400-seat performance hall.
Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed
To fund the “Outside After School” program, for area children in grades 3-5 at targeted elementary schools in our watershed.
Friends of the Eastern Promenade
To fund the Loring Memorial Trail project, a critical link to Portland’s City’s Park and Trails system.
Friends of Evergreen
To help create a landscape design plan for a 2.5 acre community garden on a vacant portion of the Evergreen Cemetery, which will accommodate a community garden, walking tours, and community events.
Friends School of Portland
To help support the “Parenting for Peace” speaker program, including speaker fees, publicity, and other event costs.
Geology Department-University of Maine at Farmington
To fund undergraduate student field research on alpine ponds in Maine as part of a multi-year effort to understand how the ponds respond to climate change.
The Good Life Center
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| The Good Life Center |
To fund the position/s of Farm Manager/gardener for 2010, who would provide oversight, direction and continuity for the whole property and gardens.
Gould Academy Art Department
To fund a term long Artist in Residence.
The Grand Auditorium of Hancock County
To fund a part time Development Director, to purchase new donor software, and to purchase a new laptop computer.
Guitar Doors, Instruments of Change
To fund the “12 Bar Blues” project, wherein a small group of prisoners will write, perform and record a CD of original music.
Harlow Gallery/Kennebec Valley Art Association
To fund staff support of board and committee work in the areas of development, outreach and education.
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
To help fund developing programs for Maine residents including programs for high school students, workshops for Deer Isle and Blue Hill Peninsula residents, and a workshop for adults from throughout the state.
Heart of Maine RC and D Kneading Conference
To fund the purchase of a Le Panyol mobil wood fired oven capable of bringing artisan baking skills to schools and communities and a facility to house it.
Hudson Museum
To create a fieldtrip fund for schools in Penobscot, Piscataquis, Washington, Waldo, Hancock, and Aroostook counties to help defray bus transportation costs and tour and performance fees for field trips to the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum.
Island Astronomy Institute
To fund the organization’s capacity through the addition of staff.
Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center
For continued support for the TESS after-school theater/art program serving local children, and to assist with the restoration of the theater.
Kennebec Messalonskee Trails
To assist with trail construction, signage and a trailhead kiosk for the extension of the Messalonskee Stream Trail in Oakland.
Kitchen Gardners International
To continue building capacity and for general operating expenses.
L/A Arts
For continued support of the Arts-in-Education programming for the 2010-2011 school year, and to support the “Play Me A Story” literacy workshops, and to support a free touring production of Maine playwright Linda Britt’s “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington”, a one-woman play about Margaret Chase Smith.
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McLaughlin Garden
For operating expenses to preserve and protect the property which is on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic Cultural Landscape.
Mahoosic Land Trust
To fund the planning and design of a new hiking trail in the community.
Maine Appalachian Trail Club
To fund the Caretaker/Ridgerunners program to provide protection and advance wilderness values to approximately 8,000 backpackers along the AT in Maine.
Maine Audubon
To support the innovative Portland Programs that provide free afterschool and school programs that reach many low-income and new immigrant children who have few opportunities to explore and learn about the natural world around them.
Maine Chapter of the International Appalachian Trail
To assist with the cost of travel and lodging of Maine volunteers for one-week of exploratory meetings in Spain and perhaps Morocco.
Maine Coucil-Atlantic Salmon Federation
To provide better habitat for wild Atlantic salmon and brook trout in a pristine branch of the Penobscot watershed that, due to natural barriers, does not include any non-native, invasive fish species.
Maine Discovery Museum
To assist with funding the “Art in the Heart of Downtown”, a project whose goal is to bring increased visibility to Bangor’s vibrant community of artists, demystify what it is that artists “do,” and encourage children and families to explore their own creativity by offering high-quality arts workshops at Maine Discovery Museum (MDM), Maine’s largest children’s museum.
Maine Fiberarts
To expand and to enhance the interactive online Tour Map posted at www.mainefiberarts.org.
Maine Huts and Trails
To assist the organization with their mission to contribute to the natural, economic and social environment of Maine’s Western Mountain region by creating and operating a world-class recreation corridor for current and future generations.
Maine Island Trail Association
To support the implementation of regionally-organized stewardship groups composed of local volunteers and other stakeholders.
Maine Jewish Film Festival
To support the organization’s mission of providing a forum for the presentation of films to enrich, educate and entertain a diverse community about the Jewish experience.
Maine Media Workshops
To increase support specifically for emerging young artists in Maine through the Maine Youth Scholarship Fund.
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Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
To provide support for the new farmer training programs and to help Maine businesses, particularly of young people, develop, with an emphasis on the Common Ground Country Fair.
Maine Rivers
To become an active participant in Maine’s Interagency Stream Connectivity Work Group and work on statewide legislative efforts to remove barriers from our waterways.
Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program
To train and sustain the work of volunteers in 2010 to monitor the health of Maine’s lakes and their watersheds.
Merrymeeting Arts Center
To place the Center on a more sustainable footing by accomplishing a critical "next step" for the all-volunteer organization which is to create and fund a part-time Center Coordinator.
Museum of African Culture
Towards the salaries of snExecutive Director, presently an unpaid position, and the hiring of an administrative assistant to support day to day management of the museum and its programs.
Nasson Community Center's Little Theatre
To fund a sound system.
New England School of Metalwork
To foster support to metal artists by providing access to a local educational opportunity in the art/craft of metal smithing by covering the stipends and travel expenses paid for world class metal artists to come to Maine.
New Surry Theatre
To improve the theater space and programs. Specifically, to improve acoustics, install signage and subsidize acting classes for teens.
Ogunquit Museum of Art
To make needed improvements to the facility and grounds in order to increase attendance and enhance the visitors’ experience at the Museum.
Partners in Island Education
To fund arts and enrichment programs for the youth of Vinalhaven, Maine. including: artists-in-residence , afterschool art programming, author visits and other cultural opportunities.
Patten Lumberman's Museum
To build a focal point at the museum showcasing the steam powered Lombard Log hauler and its importance in Maine’s history, as well as United States history.
Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians
To cover full program fees and partial travel expenses for three conductors and three instrumentalists, and partial fees for an additional three conductors and three instrumentalists.
Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance
To help support general operating expenses including salaries and office rent.
Penobscot River Restoration Project
To support the mission of the project to restore the Penobscot River ecosystem.
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Portland Ballet
To support the updating of the ballet's technical infrastructure incuding replacing components of the audio systems, purchasing a theater speaker system, and obtaining 3 new computers, and purchasing a new database/relation management system.
Portland North Land Trust
To support general operating expenses related to on-going activities of coordinating accreditation preparation and developing stewardship programs for the three member land trusts.
Portland Symphony Orchestra
In support of a Digitial Media Initiative which will allow the PSO to provide open accessibility to high-quality orchestral music and education programs for all Mainers to enjoy through their home or library computers.
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust
To assist with the work between corridor landowners to create trail linkage in gap areas and to develop and implement signs for the trail system.
Readfield Union Meeting House
To assist with the restoration of The Union Meeting House
RESTORE, The North Woods
To support the work of maintaining Maine Environmental News as the most comprehensive compilation of conservation news in Maine.
Rippleffect
To fund the Cow Island Conservation Corps, a six month intensive training program for future environmental and community leaders.
River Arts
To strengthen and support programming over the next year.
Rufus Porter Museum
In support of education in the traditional arts.
St. John Valley Soil and Water Conservation District
To establish a food-sustainability education campaign titled, “Local Foods for Healthy Tables.”
The Salt Institute
To help Salt realize their goal to become a nationally recognized program and a leader in the field of documentary studies.
Schoodic International Sculpture Symposism
To enlarge upon the potential of the Sculpture Trail Map.
School Ground Greening Coalition: to bring nature to the spaces where children play and learn before, during, and after school.
Space Gallery
To support SPACE’s broad range of visual, performing and literary arts programs.
Susan L. Curtis Charitable Foundation
To complete the integration of our Arts, Adventure, Environmental and Leadership training into a more comprehensive and sustainable curriculum for our Leadership Education Program.
Tides Institute and Museum of Art
To support its “Arts/Place” initiative that will significantly advance the access to and dialogue with the arts along the eastern coastal Maine.
Trails End Festival
For the third annual Trails End Festival on September 10-12, 2010.
Two Roads Maine
To offer two 4 day programs to eight Maine residents at no charge, including food, transportation and facility costs.
University of Maine Press
For editorial and printing services for the publication of a new book: Art in Maine: New Art for a New Century.
Wabnaki Vision
For our start up costs including: procuring a federal 501c3 number, website development, brochure development, and supplies and equipment.
Washington Hancock County Community Agency
To assist the agency in their work with farmers and farmers’ market managers to enhance their ability to earn greater market share and increase production capability.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
To assist with critical building maintenance/upgrade issues this year including roofing, electrical safety upgrades and mold/mildew abatement.
Wayside Theatre
To assist with repairs and upgrades to the facility.
Wintergreen Arts Center
To support the capital campaign for the center's new location, the historic former Wight Furniture Building in downtown Presque Isle.