BELFAST — Belfast Creative Coalition earlier this year received a grant of $3,500 from the Arts Expansion Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to improve the organization's membership program. This grant is in support of strengthening BCC's capacity efforts for the arts and culture in the Belfast area. The use of these grant dollars will further enable BCC's mission to cultivate the creative economy of Waldo County by strengthening both internal and external capacity, as well as its technical capacity to manage the membership database.

Receiving this grant also enables BCC to assign the role of membership coordinator to Julia Clapp. As membership coordinator, Julia now offers support to members and organizes their presence on the BCC website and BCC social media in order to promote their work. Julia is also the BCC administrative assistant, working with the executive director to assist with planning and organization. Julia was previously the Belfast Art Walk intern, first coming to Belfast Creative Coalition in 2014.

The Belfast Creative Coalition's mission is to cultivate arts and culture to attract people and business to the Belfast area. BCC is a creative placemaking initiative doing community building through engaging a variety of cultural assets in the area, locally and regionally.

The Maine Community Foundation works with donors and other partners to improve the quality of life for all Maine people, via various project initiatives which power nonprofits and the public sector. As a state leader in, their deep commitment to building strong community is an asset of which all Maine people benefit from. The foundation provides an avenue for good philanthropic work to run on and their work provides a lasting, positive impact on the special communities we have in Maine. To learn more about the foundation, please visit mainefc.org

For more information visitbelfastcreativecoalition.org or call Kimberly Callas at 207-323-8692.