Nonprofit groups in Alna, Harpswell and Wiscasset are among the nearly 30,000 eligible to share up to $7.5 million from the Chase Community Giving program.
Thousands of Chase customers and employees contribute to the program. A total of 196 charities will share in $5 million, and those that accept their nominations by Aug. 30 will equally share in $2.5 million.
Following the voting phase, which runs through Sept. 19, Chase begins the awarding of donations.
Hidden Valley Nature Center is one of the candidates. Owned by Bambi Jones and Tracy Moskovitz, Hidden Valley encompasses 1,750 acres in Whitefield, Alna and Jefferson. Jones and Moskovitz, who are organic farmers bought 850 acres of forest abutting their property in 2004. In 2009, they founded their nonprofit, the Hidden Valley Nature Center, as a model of sustainable forestry.
The Orr’s and Bailey Islands Fire Department serves all of Orr’s and Bailey Islands and portions of Great Island east of the Mountain Road bridge and south of the Nazarene Church on Route 24 in Harpswell.
The Chewonki Foundation is a nonprofit institution in Wiscasset, which runs educational programs with an environmental focus.
The foundation runs a fourmonth high school program, Chewonki Semester School (formerly the Maine Coast Semester), boys and girls summer camp programs, wilderness trips for teenagers and families, and an organic farm. There also is a traveling natural history program where non-releasable wildlife are brought to schools and libraries, as well as week-long environmental education programs for school groups around New England.
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