Horizon Foundation
Grants Made in December 2007
| A Company of Girls | Odelle Bowman, Director | Portland, ME |
| One-year grant of $8,000 for general operating support. | ||
| Cultivating Community | Craig Lepine, Executive Director | Portland, ME |
| One-year grant of $8,000 to support the Youth Growers 2008 program. | ||
| Genesis Community Loan Fund | Liza Fleming-Ives, Associate Director |
Damariscotta, ME |
| One-year grant of $15,000 to help create affordable housing and vital community facilities on Maine's year-round islands. | ||
| Isles, Inc. | Grace Egan, VP Resource Development | Trenton, NJ |
| One-year grant of $25,000 to support the Healthy Region Initiative. | ||
| Maine Island Trail Association | Doug Welch, Executive Director | Portland, ME |
| One-year grant of $13,000 to build the outreach capacity of Maine Island Trail. | ||
| Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute | Shippen Bright, Executive Director | Nobleboro, ME |
| One-year grant of $15,000 to purchase a tow truck to transport the floating classroom. | ||
| Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program | Scott Williams, Executive Director | Auburn, ME |
| One-year grant of $8,500 to support the training of new volunteer Water Quality Monitors and Invasive Plant Patrollers. | ||
| Massachusetts Audubon Society | Ian Ives, Sanctuary Director | Barnstable, MA |
| One-year grant of $12,500 to help support the construction of a Salt Marsh Educational Boardwalk at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary. | ||
| Mitchell Institute | Colleen Quint, Executive Director | Portland, ME |
| One-year grant of $10,000 to support the Mitchell Institute's role in statewide education initiatives. | ||
| Moosehead Region Futures Committee | Wendy Weiger, Coordinator and Steering Committee Member | Greenville, ME |
| One-year grant of $12,500 to support MRFC's participation in and follow-up to Land Use Regulation Commission hearings on Plum Creek's proposed plan for the Moosehead Region. | ||
| Mountain Counties Heritage | Bruce Hazard, Director | Farmington, ME |
| One-year grant of $18,000 to support the Franklin County Tourism Network. | ||
| Northeast Wilderness Trust | Kathleen Fitzgerald, Executive Director | Boston, MA |
| One-year grant of $17,500 to support the Howland Research Forest Conservation Campaign. | ||
| Northern Forest Canoe Trail | Kate Williams, Executive Director | Waitsfield, VT |
| One-year grant of $18,000 to support the Northern Forest Explorers Program. | ||
| Northern Forest Center | Chris Bicknell, VP for Development | Concord, NH |
| One-year grant of $6,000 to support the Northern Forest Rural Destination Tourism Collaborative. | ||
| Patriots Theater Foundation | Molly Sword McDonough, President | Trenton, NJ |
| One-year grant of $10,000 to support student educational presentations during the 2007-2008 season. | ||
| Red Door Media | Wendy Hebb, Partner | Damariscotta, ME |
| One-year grant of $8,000 to bring the OUR TOWN documentary to communities and schools throughout New England. | ||
| Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association | Maureen Hoffman, Executive Director | Newcastle, ME |
| One-year grant of $10,000 to help secure land in the Stetser and Carleton/Peaslee Preserves and to build two new public trail systems. | ||
| The Telling Room | Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Executive Director | Portland, ME |
| One-year grant of $8,000 to support the From the Wild to Words writing program for Portland middle school students. | ||
| Trenton After School Program | Tina Blackledge, Executive Director | Trenton, NJ |
| One-year grant of $10,000 to support the Environmental Stewardship in Trenton program. | ||