The Hawthorne House has an opportunity to receive a grant from Bangor Savings Bank – Community Matters! Please read below, follow the directions and support the Hawthorne House by voting for it as your favoriteMaine non-profit organization. It will only take a few minutes and it really, really counts.
Please NOTE: Only Maine residents can vote and the voting interface asks for your zip code. If you are a Snowbird, please consider using your summer Maine zip code. Or, perhaps you could let your other Maine friends know they have an opportunity to help the Hawthorne House. You could direct them to this post or the link below. Thanks!
For Maine zip codes, please click on:
https://www.bangor.com/community/community-matters-more
It will say:
A total of 33 grants will be awarded to the nonprofit organizations listed on the ballot and to the top 11 write-in vote recipients (one per region). The top vote-getting nonprofit organizations in each region will each receive $5,000, with runner-up grants awarded as listed below.
- First Place Grants: $5,000
- Second Place Grants: $4,000
- Third Place Grants: $3,000
- Fourth Place Grants: $1,000
You may submit one (1) online ballot with up to five (5) different nonprofit organizations. Votes may be for organizations on the ballot, write-ins, or a combination of both, but cannot total more than five. Votes must be for 5 different nonprofits. Duplicate ballots and ballots with more than five organizations are invalid and will be removed.
After you click on the link above choose -VOTE NOW
The deadline is February 28th – please vote NOW!
Then – please type in your info. You do NOT have to check the box to receive stuff if you don’t want to. After, click NEXT. It seems slow here. Wait a bit and re-click – it should work.
Then click on Maine:
Then choose Cumberland County:
Now – here’s the big step! Please type Hawthorne Community Association until It shows up. Also, in partnership with The Full Center of Cumberland County we are asking Hawthorne House people to also vote for Fuller Center and The Fuller Center is asking its folks to vote for The Hawthorne House. Thank you!
Then scroll down to click on FINISH and you are done! Phew. Your support is so important for the preservation of the Historic Hawthorne House. Your vote counts.
Then you should submit and then you are done! Easy. I hope. This vote really makes a difference. Thank you for the support!
