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Freedom Community Historical Society and Swan’s Island Historical Society are among 18 private nonprofit organizations to receive one-for-one matching grants for maintaining historic buildings in Maine. Maine Preservation, partnering for a second.
Nonprofits across Maine are sharing $100,000 in charitable grants that will support building preservation and maintenance and have a long-term impact on local economies, according to the funder.
The Rhode Island-based 1772 Foundation awarded matching grants from $2,000 to $10,000 to 18 nonprofits from Kennebunk to Eastport, representing historic preservation groups in 11 of the state s 16 counties. The money can be used for exterior improvements like painting, surface restoration, fire and security systems, as well as repairing and restoring chimneys, porches, roofs, windows, foundations, sills and masonry.
Margaret Waldock, president of the 1772 Foundation, said the grants are an investment in protecting assets that are important to communities and their economic development.
Maine Preservation announces Friends of the Greenville Depot as 1772 Foundation historic preservation grant recipient Contributed • May 6, 2021
YARMOUTH Maine Preservation, partnering for a second year with The 1772 Foundation, awarded historic preservation one-for-one matching grants totaling $100,000 to 18 private nonprofit organizations maintaining historic buildings in Maine. The grants ranged in amount from $2,000 to the grant maximum of $10,000, with one organization receiving the latter amount.
YARMOUTH Maine Preservation, partnering for a second year with The 1772 Foundation, awarded historic preservation one-for-one matching grants totaling $100,000 to 18 private nonprofit organizations maintaining historic buildings in Maine. The grants ranged in amount from $2,000 to the grant maximum of $10,000, with one organization receiving the latter amount. Among the recipients is the Friends of the Greenville Depot in Greenville.
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Tara Kelly, an executive with the Municipal Art Society of New York, has been named executive director of Maine Preservation. She takes over from Greg Paxton, who retires next month.
Kelly, who now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., but plans to move to Maine, has a decade of experience in historic preservation, nonprofit management, policy and advocacy initiatives, public and education programming and fundraising, according to a news release from the Yarmouth-based nonprofit.
For the past five years, Kelly has been vice president of policy and programs for the Municipal Art Society of New York, a 128-year-old advocacy organization that promotes historic preservation, urban planning and public art in New York City. Previously, she was executive director of Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts in Manhattan.