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ELLSWORTH — The Maine Community Foundation awarded $282,500 in grants to 21 Maine organizations to support animal welfare, including several in the Turner Publishing circulation area.
The fund supports organizations dedicated to advancing animal welfare in Maine. Priority is given to organizations that help low-income or disadvantaged populations maintain ownership of their pets and prevent animal surrender/abandonment.
The next deadline for proposals to the Animal Welfare Fund is June 1, 2022. For application, guidelines and a complete list of 2021 grants, go to www.mainecf.org.
An anonymous donor established the Animal Welfare fund in 2007. It is further supported by the Doree Taylor Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., and the George F. Lyman and Ernestine Lyman Trust.
Franklin County Animal Shelter, Farmington, for the shelter’s spay/neuter voucher program: $10,000
Greater Androscoggin Humane Society, Lewiston, to support medical care for shelter and privately owned pets as well as community outreach vaccination clinics: $20,000
Harvest Hills Animal Shelter Inc., Fryeburg, to expand the spay/neuter voucher program and supplies for the in-house spay/ neuter clinic: $10,000
Humane Society Waterville Area, for the Angel Foster program: $20,000
Midcoast Humane, Brunswick, to support the Community Cats voucher program, which provides financial assistance to income-qualified rural cat owners and cat colony caretakers: $20,000
The Pixel Fund, Gorham, to support the Maine spay/neuter program for stray and abandoned animals: $10,000
Responsible Pet Care of Oxford Hills Inc., South Paris, to serve cats in overpopulation situations and fund grants to assist with cost of spay/neuter for low-income/elderly pet owners: $10,000
Somerset Humane Society, Skowhegan, for the low-cost voucher program to assist the public with spaying and neutering cats, $10,000
Spirits Place, St. Albans, to support the spay/neuter and medical care program: $10,000
For more information, visit www.mainecf.org.
