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Midcoast MAIN
Building Community, Helping Neighbors, Speaking Out!Coastal Community Action Program (CCAP) in Knox County presented a welcomed grant of $3,000.00 to Midcoast MAIN in 2004. This funding helps us do work on issues that help our community. Thank you again, CCAP.
During the late summer and fall, Midcoast MAIN worked on a voter engagement project. We rallied community volunteers to make phone calls, deliver absentee ballots, educate voters on the tax cap referendum and give rides to the polls. On Election Day, we had a network of 20 people to assist Lincoln county residents to get out and vote. I think our greatest achievement was knocking on doors and talking with folks in our own communities. Thanks goes out to MAIN and Maine People's Alliance for finding the funds to support this work. Also thanks to MEJP staff and others for their support and guidance, and to all of the wonderful volunteers.
Midcoast MAIN donated $250.00 to the Community Housing Improvement Project (CHIP) in Lincoln County several days before Christmas. A local newspaper article about our gift helped to raise awareness about the shortage of heating assistance funds. It also encouraged donations to CHIP, a small, local faith-based charity. For twenty years, CHIP has filled the gap where public program dollars fall short. CHIP says donations are coming in.
Midcoast MAIN is also working with Lincoln County Development Office and others in the community on a pre-application for Community Development Block Grant funds for Lincoln County.
Also…we now have our own website: www.midcoastmain.org We're creating a resource guide on the site. Please visit us, and offer suggestions!
Midcoast MAIN is less than a year old, yet the collective strength has enabled us to become a recognized community group. We've been in the local papers, in our neighborhoods, and at community meetings in service to the low-income people of Knox and Lincoln counties. The steps have been small but each has a compounded positive effect. A special thank you goes to all MAIN members for their support and commitment to advance our cause and realize these accomplishments in 2004.
Russell Anderson is a long-time Waldoboro resident, MAIN vice president and coordinator of Midcoast MAIN. 832-4754 advocate@direcway.com
