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Am I eligible for an Alfond grant?
For every baby born a Maine resident since 2013, the Alfond Scholarship Foundation invests a $500 Alfond Grant for his or her future qualified higher education expenses. The Alfond Scholarship Foundation invests these funds until the child is ready to use them. The Alfond Grant can be used to pay for higher education expenses at eligible higher education institutions and must be used by the child’s 28th birthday. (learn more)
Maine babies born between 2009 and 2012 (and 2008 MaineGeneral-born babies) receive the Alfond Grant if a NextGen 529 account was opened prior to the child’s first birthday. Children born before 2013 for whom a NextGen 529 account was not opened by the first birthday deadline are no longer eligible for the Alfond Grant. (learn more)
Eligibility is initially determined by reports from the Maine Bureau of Vital Records (BVR). Children born on or after January 1, 2013 whose births were not reported by the Maine BVR can prove Maine residency at birth with documentation acceptable to FAME and Alfond Scholarship Foundation. A child who was not born a Maine resident may be eligible for an Alfond Grant if he or she is listed as the beneficiary of a NextGen 529 account that is opened on or before the child’s first birthday, and the child is a Maine resident at the time the account is opened. The Alfond Grant will then be linked to the NextGen 529 account established for the child. (learn more)
What is an Alfond Grant and why was the program started?
Harold Alfond was a Maine businessman and philanthropist who wanted every Maine baby to have the opportunity that higher education brings.
The Alfond Scholarship Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit organization he created to invest the $500 Alfond Grant at birth for every Maine resident baby for their future education. Learn more about ASF here.
For every baby born a Maine resident since 2013, the Alfond Scholarship Foundation invests a $500 Alfond Grant for his or her future qualified higher education expenses. (The Alfond Grant was also available on a more limited basis from 2008-2012. Click here to learn more about Alfond Grant Guidelines). The Alfond Scholarship Foundation invests these funds until the child is ready to use them. The funds can be used for education after high school – at eligible colleges, universities, certificate programs and trade schools. And the funds can be used in Maine or out of state. Children awarded the Alfond Grant have until age 28 to use it.
As of August 2019, $50 million in Alfond Grants has been invested for 100,000 Maine children.
Now it’s up to you and others to also invest in the future of Maine children.
ASF is here to help with our MyAlfondGrant (MAG) program, sharing resources and information to help Maine children on their journey to higher education.
Help us create a bright future for every Maine child!
Who was Harold Alfond?
Harold Alfond is the late business entrepreneur, founder of Dexter Shoe Company, and Maine philanthropist who, in 1950, established the Harold Alfond Foundation, the first private foundation in Maine. He had a lifelong commitment to the people of Maine and was deeply committed to his charitable causes.
Mr. Alfond believed that all children deserve the opportunity to achieve higher education and recognized that one of the biggest barriers to attending college is cost. So, he created the $500 Alfond Grant as a way to help families begin to prepare for higher education from the very start of a child’s life. He believed that you could transform individual families and Maine’s future prosperity by helping all Maine’s children aspire to higher education. MyAlfondGrant is his legacy gift to help make that future prosperity a reality.
Learn more about Harold Alfond at HaroldAlfondFoundation.org.
What organizations are involved in this program?
The Alfond Scholarship Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose goal is to increase Maine’s educational attainment by awarding a $500 Alfond Grant to every Maine resident baby. ASF is a supporting organization of the following Maine educational and non-profit entities: Educate Maine, Maine Community College System, University of Maine System, Maine Community Foundation, the Mitchell Institute and the Finance Authority of Maine.
The Harold Alfond Foundation (HAF) is the private family foundation that provides financial support for the program.
The Finance Authority of Maine (FAME) is a quasi-independent state agency that expands business and educational opportunities to help Maine people and businesses succeed. FAME offers a suite of programs and services to help Mainers meet their educational goals no matter where they are in life. FAME is the administrator of NextGen 529, Maine’s Section 529 plan. FAME also helps to administer the Alfond Grant program.
Who can get an Alfond Grant? And how?
Children born as Maine residents in 2013 and later have automatically been awarded the $500 Alfond Grant. For Maine kids born between 2008 and 2012 the grant was available on a more limited basis. Click here to learn more about eligibility for the program.
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They must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get.
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