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MDF is a non-partisan, statewide driver of sustainable economic growth in Maine. We connect people, decision-makers, and communities through trusted research, leadership development, and creative partnerships to stimulate new ideas, solve problems, and improve the lives of all Mainers.
Strength in Community: MDF’s 44th Annual Meeting & Champion Awards Celebration. Come celebrate the leaders, businesses, and communities whose efforts are benefitting entire commnuities and inspiring equitable and inclusive economic resilience.
Congratulations to Heart of Biddeford on winning the 2022 Great American Main Street America award! Watch this short video and learn why the organization and the Biddeford community so richly derserve this!
Attend an MDF event
18 Oct
Board Training: The Four Point Approach
This is the second of two Board Trainings offered annually by the Maine Downtown Center. The event will be held virtually via Zoom.
18 Nov
2022 Realize Maine Network Annual Showcase
This year we’re back to an in-person Showcase and couldn’t be more excited! Greg Marley, Senior Clinical Director at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Maine, will kick off the event as our guest speaker, sharing tips and coping strategies for navigating this complex, fast-paced and demanding world, even in Maine.
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Walking tour in Hallowell one of 20 organized ‘Jane’s Walks’ across Maine
MDF’s Maine Downtown Center and several other partner organizations across the state helped organize 20 volunteer-led walking community conversations as…“MDF is a special creature of state law, enabled to integrate private sector thinking and experience with state government planning and data. There is no other entity like it.”
Kay Rand, Former Chief of Staff, Governor Angus King
Champion circle members
