Support Our Annual Fund. Help Make Health Happen.
Your gift provides the flexible, year-round support needed to meet urgent and evolving health needs across Downeast Maine.
Every day, Healthy Acadia works to meet ongoing community health needs while responding to emerging crises across Hancock and Washington counties. From food security and chronic disease prevention to recovery support and health equity, our programs are designed to create lasting, positive change right here, where we live, work, and play.
The Annual Fund fuels this work.
As our core fundraising campaign, Healthy Acadia’s Annual Fund provides essential, unrestricted dollars that allow us to act quickly when health priorities shift. These funds strengthen our programs, build community resilience, and help us support the people and systems that keep our communities well—including our staff, volunteers, interns, and Board of Directors.
Whether you're passionate about early childhood development, healthy aging, or accessible mental health care, your Annual Fund gift provides the foundational support that makes it all possible.
You can choose to support the Annual Fund generally or direct your gift to one of our eight key focus areas:
Strong Beginnings We support healthy growth and resilience at every stage, from birth through adulthood.
Healthy Food for All We work to ensure that all people have access to nutritious, affordable food, and to make the healthy choice the easy choice.
Active and Healthy Environments We work to ensure that our indoor and outdoor public spaces are safe, healthy, and promote physical activity and wellness.
Healthy Aging - We work to ensure everyone can age with strength, dignity, comfort, and grace.
Substance Prevention and Recovery - to support people of all ages to live lives free of substance misuse and substance use disorder, and to support individuals and their families throughout their recovery journey.
Health Promotion and Management - We work to strengthen community support for a wide range of health needs, from cancer patient navigation and stress relief to removing barriers and helping manage chronic disease and pain.
Basic Needs - We work to improve access to important resources that affect health, such as stable housing, safe transportation, healthy food, clean water, and help finding and using support services. This helps address social factors that may lead to poor health and health outcomes.
Health Equity - We work to remove obstacles to health and wellness resources, and to foster just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities that support the well-being of all people, regardless of background or circumstance.
Your support makes an immediate difference.
Your gift—of any amount—helps us reach our $650,000 fundraising goal for fiscal year 2025. More importantly, it helps us respond to health needs in real time and plan for a healthier tomorrow.
Community support is essential to our mission. To see how your contribution makes a difference, we invite you to subscribe to our newsletter, and explore our financial statements and annual reports.
Join us in creating healthier communities.
Make your gift to Healthy Acadia’s Annual Fund today. Whether you want to contribute to a specific initiative, honor a loved one, or simply support health and wellness across Downeast Maine, your generosity matters.
Click here to donate and join us as we work to build healthy communities together. Thank you for your support!
For questions or to discuss giving options, please contact Shoshona Smith at Shoshona@HealthyAcadia.org or (207) 667-7171 Ext. 210.
*Healthy Acadia’s fiscal year begins on October 1 and ends on September 30.