In reviewing organizations and projects, the Harvest Fund will consider when grants are most timely and which have potential to create systemic change. The fund will give priority to groups that do not yet have significant or ongoing funding from other philanthropic institutions. Donors give to Maine Initiatives because they can have more impact. By pooling donations, screening applications, monitoring and evaluating funded projects, Maine Initiatives targets gifts to programs and projects that make a difference. The same stewardship and due diligence practices that inform all of our grantmaking will apply to the Harvest Fund.
Donors have the option of giving anonymously.
More importantly, donors have the opportunity to play a highly leveraged leadership role in a new grantmaking fund that will support a network of agricultural and rural innovation projects working to ensure that Maine's heritage is also Maine's future. Maine Initiatives welcomes foundations, corporations, family funds, and individual donors to contribute to The Harvest Fund . All donations to The Harvest Fund will be matched dollar for dollar thanks to a generous grant from the Sandy River Charitable Corporation.