• Published

  July 30, 2024

  My Alfond Grant program, parents and partners have invested half a billion dollars in Maine students

  With the oldest Alfond Grant recipients now almost through high school, the value of the $500 invested for them at birth is now worth $2,066, more if their parents banked NextGen 529 education savings.

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  June 27, 2024
  

  Maine’s community colleges receive $75 million grant to expand short-term workforce training

  The donation was made by the Harold Alfond Foundation to build on the success of existing programming that the organization believes can help ease Maine's labor shortage.

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  January 9, 2024
  

  Alfond Foundation donates $80 million more for UMaine athletic facility upgrades

  The gift, which comes on top of $90 million the foundation awarded to the university in 2022, will go toward building a new complex for soccer and track and field, expanding the Shawn Walsh Center and adding a new multipurpose practice facility.

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  June 29, 2023
  

  MaineGeneral Health seeks to expand Augusta cancer center, with $36 million project up for review

  Officials said the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care is seeing many more patients than anticipated when it was built, and demand for services is projected to continue increasing.

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  March 1, 2023
  

  Alfond Scholarship Foundation launches awareness campaign

  Ten years after every child born in Maine became included in the fund, many are not aware it can help their children.

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