FUND FOR GOOD

Wiscasset Creative Alliance’s Fund for Good supports community initiatives which further the Alliance’s mission of advancing and connecting the cultural, historical, and creative communities within Wiscasset.

Banner photo: After school youth art-making, “Your Art Matters, Your Voice Matters,” funded in 2024-25 season. Grant recipient was StudioB. Photo courtesy StudioB.

FUNDING REQUEST APPLICATION

All photos, including banner, courtesy of Your Art Matters, Your Voice Matters.

CALENDAR DETAILS

  • Applications are due by November 15, 2025.

  • Recipients will be notified by December 18, 2025.

  • Grant funds distributed after February 15, 2026.

About Wiscasset Creative Alliance and Fund for Good

Wiscasset Creative Alliance is pleased to announce a new fund to support community initiatives which further the Alliance’s mission of advancing and connecting the cultural, historical, and creative communities within Wiscasset.

 When the Alliance was founded in 2019, its primary purpose was to provide a non-profit home base for several community initiatives, none of which were non-profits, already underway in the community. Those original activities, Wiscasset Art Walk, Museum in the Streets, Holiday Marketfest, and Friends of Wiscasset Village, became the Alliance’s programs and have benefitted from being under the umbrella of a 501c3 incorporated non-profit.

 Several new initiatives have since joined the Alliance’s roster including Wiscasset Homes on Tour, Schoonerfest, and Wormfest; the Friends group disbanded after the conclusion of the multi-year Rte.1 construction project in Wiscasset Village.

 With the Alliance programs thriving and offering their community-building activities locally and regionally, the Alliance board of directors considered new ways to expand the non-profit’s reach into the community. The board decision was to support the good work of others in Wiscasset through philanthropy. According to board president, Alissa Eason, “Revenue from Homes on Tour gives us funds to support additional charitable activities, and we chose to support other programs throughout our community with goals similar to ours.”

In 2024, the Alliance tested the philanthropy world by sending small grants, unsolicited, to a small selection of local groups. Each group responded with appreciation for the injection of new funds to more easily accomplish a specific charitable goal, and Alliance board members were hooked.

 Applicants may be organizations, cohort groups, or individuals. A grant maximum is not being specified at this time, but grants are likely to be within a modest range. To receive an application by email, please send a message to wiscassetcreativealliance@gmail.com .

About Your Art Matters, Your Voice Matters project, a 2024 Fund for Good recipient.

“With support from the Fund for Good, Studio B partnered with Wiscasset Middle High School to lead five art-making workshops. Guided by the prompt, “What do you want adults to know about you or other teens’ lives?”, seven students created eight artworks, each paired with a personal story. The works were framed and presented in a one-day exhibition and community conversation at the Wiscasset Community Center, drawing 40 attendees. The project gave teens a platform for self-expression while offering residents meaningful insight into adolescent experience. By convening school-affiliated and unaffiliated community members, the event helped bridge divides and challenge misconceptions.

— Peter Bruun, principal, Studio B