Maine

Program Name: Boating Facilities Fund Resource Type: State State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Grant Description: The Boating Facilities Fund funds the acquisition, development and renovation of public recreational boat access sites to the waters of Maine. The Boating Facilities Fund Grant Program, administered by the Department's Bureau of...

Program Name: Right-of-Way Discovery Grants Resource Type: State State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Grant Description: Right-of-way discovery grants helps communities find and assert public rights-of-way to the shore, which may be lost by the passing of generations and changing land ownership patterns. Benefits of these grants include: enabling...

Program Name: Pine Tree Development Zones Resource Type: State State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Tax Incentive Description: Pine Tree Development Zone (PTDZ) program offers eligible businesses the chance to greatly reduce or virtually eliminate state taxes for up to ten years. Our goal is to: create quality jobs...

Program Name: Municipal Tax Increment Financing Resource Type: State State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Tax Incentive Description: Municipal Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is a finance vehicle available to Maine municipalities (cities, plantations, towns) and the Unorganized Territory. These TIF-eligible entities propose and drive the creation and approval of...

Program Name: Revolving Loan Fund Resource Type: State State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Loan Description: In keeping with its long tradition of working in partnership with public and private entities throughout the state of Maine to permanently conserve significant natural lands, Maine Coast Heritage Trust offers conservation partners...

Program Name: Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Resource Type: State State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Economic Development Entity Description: Economic and community development is defined as the process of enhancing labor, capital and technology to improve the economy and our global competitiveness. Website: http://www.maine.gov/decd/index.shtml...

Program Name: Business and Industry Loan Guarantees Resource Type: Federal State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Repository Description: To improve, develop or finance business, industry and employment by bolstering the private credit Website: http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/me/CBP/BP%20Fact%20Sheets/2011/Business%20and%20Industry%20Loan%20Guarantee.pdf...

Program Name: Small Enterprise Growth Fund Resource Type: Economic Development Entity State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Dedicated Revenue Description: The SEGF is a Maine-based fund that focuses exclusively on investing in promising growth companies. The fund considers Maine based companies in almost all industry sectors, though the return...

Program Name: Maine Working Waterfront Loan Fund Resource Type: Economic Development Entity State: Maine, Northeast Agency: Program Source: Loan Description: CEI is committed to working with members of the community to preserve Maine's traditional fisheries and marine-related businesses which have been an integral part of Maine's coastal economy for...