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Androscoggin River Watershed Council
The ARWC mission is to continuously improve environmental quality, encourage stewardship and promote healthy and prosperous communities in the Androscoggin Watershed. The Council stewards more than 50 access sites on the Androscoggin River Trail, conducts the Annual Source to Sea paddle (20 days), restores and protects brook trout habitat and creates a forum for many diverse interests in the watershed. Protecting, improving and marketing the water resources of the region provide recreational and economic opportunities for residents and visitors. |
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Community Concepts Finance Corporation
Community Concepts Finance Corporation (CCFC) is a multifaceted Community Development Finance Institution that provides homeownership services such as homebuyer education, pre-purchase counseling, foreclosure counseling as well as residential and business lending and technical assistance throughout our coverage area. CCFC serves hundreds of clients annually in the area of homeownership and business services. |
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Inland Woods + Trails
Inland Woods + Trails is a nonprofit dedicated to creating economic growth and prosperity by connecting communities through the development, maintenance, and promotion of a multi-use recreational trail network for human-powered activities for all ages and abilities. |
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Mahoosuc Land Trust
The Mahoosuc Land Trust is a community based conservation organization working in central Oxford County, Maine. Its mission is to conserve natural areas to benefit communities of the Mahoosuc Region as a means to achieve a healthy future where people of the Mahoosuc Region enjoy clean rivers, lakes and streams, abundant wildlife, inspiring vistas, and sustainable forests and farming. |
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Northern Forest Center
The Northern Forest Center builds economic and community vitality while fostering sound forest stewardship across the Northern Forest of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York. The Center combines a strong land ethic, leadership, new ideas, investment and public policy expertise with an economic development strategy based on a diversified, value-adding economy including wood products innovation, modern wood heat and experiential tourism, to advance the work of rebuilding the region’s economy and revitalizing its communities. |
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Oxford County Wellness Collaborative
The Oxford County Wellness Collaborative is a network of people and organizations who are invested in working together to improve community health. We support effective collaboration so that partners can achieve more by a “smarter, not harder” approach to shared work toward shared goals. Strong relationships are at the heart of our work. |
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Regional School Unit 56
RSU 56 is a public school district located in Oxford County, Maine. There are approximately 791 students from PRE-SCHOOL – 12th grade. RSU 56 includes 3 schools and covers the towns of Canton, Carthage, Dixfield, and Peru. |
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River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition
The mission of the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition is to promote community-wide health and wellness by working together with individuals, businesses, and organizations in the Greater River Valley region to provide education and positive support services. |
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Rural Aspirations Project
The Rural Aspirations Project is a 501(c)3 organization committed to expanding educational opportunities in rural Maine to develop and honor community while stimulating the innate curiosity of students and teachers. The organization is designed to work collaboratively with schools, institutions, non-profit organizations and agencies to build and expand educational and professional learning opportunities for rural students and teachers. |
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Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land’s mission is to create parks and protect land for people, ensuring healthy livable communities for generations to come. Every park, playground, or public space we help create is an open invitation for everyone to explore, wonder, discover, and play. From Maine’s majestic mountains to productive forests to picturesque and scenic coastlines, we don’t just save land – we save land for people to enjoy. |
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Western Foothills Land Trust
Western Foothills Land Trust is dedicated to the conservation and protection of native ecosystems, farm and forestlands, watersheds, and scenic landscapes for the benefit of wild and human communities in western Maine. We protect over 7,000 acres in a ten-town service area and provide 32 miles of mixed use trails and recreational assets at six preserves. WFLT is part of Sebago Clean Waters (sebagocleanwaters.org) a regional collaboration protecting a forested Sebago Lake watershed for water quality. The Trust also partners with Healthy Oxford Hills and the Oxford Hills School District to support health, active lifestyles, and nature-based education in the Oxford Hills area. |
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Bryant Pond 4-H Camp & Learning Center
The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Bryant Pond 4-H Camp and Learning Center is dedicated to training educators and youth in traditional outdoor skills – including hunting, fishing, guiding, wildlife, soil and water conservation – and promoting an ethic of conservation of Maine’s natural resources, and a passion for the outdoors. The organization serves roughly 4,000 youth annually and partners with schools across Oxford County as a resource in providing experiential learning opportunities and raising student engagement and aspirations for success. |
