{"id":1486,"date":"2017-07-16T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T16:57:32","slug":"wintergreen-receives-grant-from-the-maine-community-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wintergreen-receives-grant-from-the-maine-community-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintergreen receives grant from the Maine Community Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MCF-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1487 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MCF-Logo-300x127.png\" alt=\"MCF Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MCF-Logo-300x127.png 300w, http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MCF-Logo.png 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Presque Isle, Maine<\/strong>\u2014The Directors of the Maine Community Foundation recently awarded a $1,000.00 advised grant to the Wintergreen Arts Center.\u00a0 This grant is made from a component fund of the Maine Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Advised grants are made from funds established by individuals who make recommendations from time to time as to how the income and or principal is spent.\u00a0 The donor who recommended this grant to Wintergreen gave anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to receive this $1,000.00 grant from a component fund of the Maine Community Foundation,\u201d said Kim Guerrette Michaud, chairman of Wintergreen\u2019s Board of Directors.\u00a0 \u201cAnd, we are extremely grateful to the very generous individual or individuals who gave anonymously without seeking recognition or asking anything in return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $1,000.00 grant will help support Wintergreen\u2019s summer arts programming initiative to serve youth in the Presque Isle Housing Authority\u2019s Birch Street Neighborhood, as well as senior citizens at three care facilities in the Star City.\u00a0 It helps move Wintergreen towards the Center\u2019s goal to take art directly to people who may not otherwise be able to get to its 149 State Street location.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Wintergreen Arts Center:<\/strong><em>\u00a0 The Wintergreen Arts Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2006. It is located in downtown Presque Isle, Maine.\u00a0Wintergreen is an organization based on the idea that creativity, advocacy, and community can produce great things. Our mission is to provide meaningful experiences that encourage an appreciation of the arts, stimulate creativity and innovation, and offer an artistic community space where all are welcome.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presque Isle, Maine\u2014The Directors of the Maine Community Foundation recently awarded a $1,000.00 advised grant to the Wintergreen Arts Center.\u00a0 This grant is made from a component fund of the Maine Community Foundation. Advised grants are made from funds established by individuals who make recommendations from time to time as to how the income and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/W.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGGri-nY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wintergreenarts.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}