MAINEBIZ:
Fifteen nonprofits in Hancock and Washington counties have been awarded a total of $106,305 from the Maine Community Foundation's Downeast Innovation Fund.
The Downeast Innovation Fund Grant program, created two years ago, supports nonprofit organizations that set out to boost entrepreneurship and innovation in business and the local economies of those two counties.
Recipients in the latest funding round include Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, which will use the $5,000 grant to create a new maker space serving local communities.