Building Resilient Rural Communities

NorthLight Foundation is supporting innovative approaches to resilience in targeted rural communities.

2025 Partners

Telluride Foundation

Telluride Foundation provides year-round support to local organizations involved in the environment, arts, education, athletics, health, human services and other community-based efforts. Telluride Foundation grants work to identify and execute creative, entrepreneurial solutions to help solve the communities’ most pressing challenges.

COLBY COLLEGE

Colby is a key partner in launching the Center on Resilience & Economic Impact, which is aligned with our strategy of supporting rural communities through funding innovative, scalable approaches that build climate resilience, tackle education challenges, and improve healthcare access. This significant grant is to support the building fund, which will pay for construction of the Center itself.

 

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Katahdin Woods and Waters receives $1M grant toward monument’s visitor center
Katahdin Woods and Waters receives $1M grant toward monument’s visitor center

The campaign has received support from over 200 donors including leadership gifts from the Roxanne Quimby Foundation, Elliotsville Foundation Inc., Burt’s Bees, L.L.Bean, the National Park Foundation and the NorthLight Foundation. 

Colby College’s Center for Resilience and Economic Impact to Launch on Port Clyde Waterfront
Colby College’s Center for Resilience and Economic Impact to Launch on Port Clyde Waterfront

The former general store will be rebuilt as a community space and the home of a new interdisciplinary research center

Intersection of environmental justice and engineering the focus of new $2.5M endowed professorship
Intersection of environmental justice and engineering the focus of new $2.5M endowed professorship

The gift represents a cross-discipline approach to sustainability and equity.