Investing in the Schoodic Community Made with Xara About the Schoodic Community Fund A community that believes in itself is a community that needs to invest in its future. The Schoodic Community Fund provides exactly this opportunity and does so at a time of declining State support for local government and education. The Schoodic Peninsula consists of the towns of Gouldsboro and its constituent villages of Birch Harbor, Corea, Prospect Harbor, South Gouldsboro and West Gouldsboro, and the town of Winter Harbor. The Schoodic Community Fund allows the residents of the Peninsula to invest in their own community in ways that will demonstrably improve the quality of life for Schoodic residents.  SCF grants may be made, for example, to improve the physical structures of local meeting places, assist Schoodic Arts for All, beautify our villages and towns retrofit public buildings to make them environmentally friendly, support libraries and health clinics, strengthen local education through support for specific projects. All such projects are either not supported or are inadequately supported by tax revenues. Effectively, the SCF is self-taxation for the sake of the community but decides for itself, without government involvement, how the funds can best be used. Because only a small percentage of the endowment is spent in any one year, the Fund will continue indefinitely to assist future generations of Schoodic residents.