Grant Application Information

The Common Good Grant Program is now accepting Letters of Intent (LOIs) for our 2026-2027 cycle.

Please submit a letter of intent by Friday, November 13th at 5 PM. Learn more about this year's prioities and criteria here.

Information for the 2026-2027 Cycle

We are delighted to inform you that 91�� will again offer the Common Good Grant through the McKeen Center for the Common Good. The Common Good Grant provides over $30,000 to local non-profits that serve Mid Coast Maine and who collaborated on Community Immersion Orientation Trips 2026 with our office. Please review this document for full details about eligibility and process before applying.

We are requiring a Letter of Intent (LOI) from interested organizations as the first phase of the application. by Friday, November 13th at 5 PM. You will be notified by mid-December regarding your status and, should you advance, be invited to submit a full grant application electronically in January. This grant is intended for use during the time-period between April 2027 and April 2028.

2026-2027 Letter of Intent

Your organization’s letter of intent (LOI) should be no more than one page, single spaced, and written, if possible, on the letterhead of your organization. In the letter, addressed to the Common Good Grant Committee, we ask you to provide the following information:

A brief history of your organization and its programs;
How much funding you are applying for ($4,000 or less) and what your objectives are with the funding;
What outcomes you expect from the grant;
Additional support, financial or programmatic, your organization has for the grant;
Contact information for your organization’s grant steward.

2026-2027 Committee Areas of Emphasis

Over the last few years, the Common Good Grant Committee students have identified certain areas of need that they wish to emphasize in a given year. The committee will likely fund more than one grant from some of these areas, but this commitment is based on the committee recognizing the importance of diverse group of non-profits that do many different types of important work.This year, the committee has made a commitment to fund at least one organization providing services in each of the following five areas listed below. Click on each title for a full description of each area of emphasis to drop down on the webpage.

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