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Category: education and research

Goals: We partner with Maine’s year-round islands and coastal communities to ensure that they remain vibrant places to live and work.

Current Programs:

Island Fellows – bright, talented college or masters-level graduates who spend a 1-2 year on-island residency working to meet identified community needs in a wide range of focus areas.

Working-Waterfront Access – preserving the fewer than 20 miles of working waterfront left of our 5,300-mile coastline for fishing and other marine-related industries. Scholarships – more than $66,000 given this year to 57 island students for higher education; $10,000 provided for non-traditional, lifelong learning opportunities. Geographic Information System (GIS) Mapping – using the latest technology and satellite imagery to help communities identify and manage their resources more effectively. Convening & Coalition-Building – holding events requested by diverse constituencies; leading and/or facilitating the efforts of island and coastal communities.

Archipelago – a retail store that features the best of Maine’s island and coastal art, craft and design, and an art gallery showcasing island-inspired art by local and nationally known artists.

Grantmaking – grants to year-round islands through the Island Community Fund; funding to nonprofits, fishing co-ops and municipalities for affordable-housing and working-waterfront access projects

IT Education – Communities for Rural Education, Stewardship & Technology (CREST), a three-year $1.2 million NSF-funded IT project serving 100 students and teachers at 11 schools. Publications – Working Waterfront, a newspaper published 11 times a year with a readership of 40,000; Island Journal, an annual magazine with stories and photographs of island life, books and reports.

Monthly newspaper, Working Waterfront; annual Island Journal; occasional other monographs; Geographic Information System (GIS) capability offering advice on marine resource applications; and promotion of public discussion of environmental and economic issues.

Resources: see above

County: Knox

Region: midcoast