Center for Maine Craft
Center for Maine Craft provides a showcase for the work of Maine Craft Artists, educates the traveling public and provides opportunities for craft artists to sell their work. Travel and tourism information…
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Community Legacy Tool Kit
This tool kit will provide how-to guidance for communities to establish, capitalize and operate endowment funds to support strategic community economic development initiatives.
Cut-to-Length Conversion Loan Product
The CTL loan product is a loan program designed to enable logging contractors to convert from traditional systems with incentives to help reduce the conversion costs and receive training on the new equipment.
Franklin County Tourism Network
The purpose of the Franklin County Tourism Network is to create opportunities for business growth and product development, focusing on Franklin County's four season destination offerings.
Information Management System
Developing a website to catalog information about organizations and initiatives working in the Maine Woods region.
Maine Nature-Based Tourism Initiative
Maine's natural resources have always been a strong attraction for visitors to Maine. Research shows there is a strong interest in Maine's watchable-wildlife, hikes, paddling adventures and in our heritage…
Maine Woods Discovery
A collaborative effort involving outdoor recreation leaders working together to offer visitors consistently high quality opportunities to experience the authentic cultural traditions and distinctive products…
Maine Woods Tourism Training Initiative
A long-term initiative intended to organize networks of existing tourism training providers to comprehensively meet educational needs expressed by tourism businesses and their employees.
Nature-Based Tourism GIS
A data base of all tourism and recreation assets across the Maine Woods Consortium needs to be collected in a single location.
Northern Heritage Development Fund
The NHDF is an economic development and affordable housing loan fund that provides access to capital for new and existing businesses in Maine's rim counties.
Northern Maine Anemometer Rental Program
NMDC would establish an anemometer tower rental program to make available wind testing equipment for regional organizations or individuals interested in developing locally-owned wind energy production.
Northern Maine Wood Products Initiative
NMDC and EMDC partnered to obtain funding from MTI and EDA for exploration of Phase II of a secondary wood products initiative for panellized wall components and biomass to energy.
Site Assessment & Signage
This is a project of the Maine Nature Based Tourism Initiative. To enhance tourism experience and assist with directing visitors to natural/cultural sites of interest, site assessment training and actual…
Small Business Energy Cost Reduction program
NMDC, in collaboration with Efficiency Maine, offers investment grade energy audits to small businesses in the region. Audit costs are written down by 60% through funding from the USDA RBEG program.
Somerset Grist Mill
A planed renovation of the old Somerset County Jail building is underway to site the infrastructure for processing local grown grains. The complex will also house a local foods grocery/cafe, the outdoor…
Washington County Leadership Institute
The Washington County Leadership Institute was formed in 1997 as part of a partnership between the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) and the Sunrise County Economic Council (SCEC) to help Washington…