BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College student-run Common Good Grant Committee is receiving proposals from community organizations for this year’s grant.

The grant is intended for use between April 9, 2014 and April 9, 2015.

In its 13th year, the Common Good Grant provides more than $10,000 each year to nonprofits that serve Greater Brunswick, made possible by an anonymous donor interested in providing Bowdoin students the opportunity to learn philanthropy while developing relationships with nonprofit groups and communities.

Grant proposals will be reviewed and selected on a competitive basis by the Common Good Grant Committee — a group of twelve Bowdoin students advised by the staff of the McKeen Center for the Common Good.

An additional group of students is raising funds to further the impact of the program while learning the important skills of community fundraising.

Common Good Grant recipients in 2013-14 included Friends of Casco Bay, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, Riding to the Top, Riverview Foundation, Sweetser, The Teen Center and Wolfe’s Neck Farm.

Local nonprofits that serve Brunswick, Harpswell, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Freeport, Topsham, Bath, Bowdoinham, Woolwich, Lisbon, Lisbon Falls, Bowdoin and Yarmouth are invited to apply by Friday, Jan. 31. Applicants will be notified before April 2. Grants will be awarded April 9 at Bowdoin’s Common Good Grant Awards Ceremony.

For more information, contact students Danielle Orchant at [email protected] or Emily Mitchell at [email protected].

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