Communities

Maine's 15 year-round island communities - and their neighbors along the coast - are perhaps the last places on the Eastern seaboard where "real" people still live and work in traditional and natural resource-based industries, and they are at the core of the Island Institute's mission.

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Casco Bay
Chebeague Island
Cliff Island
Great Diamond
Long Island
Peaks Island
Coastal
Down East
Frenchboro (Long Island)
Great Cranberry
Islesford (Little Cranberry)
Swan's Island
Penobscot Bay
Isle Au Haut
Islesboro
Matinicus
Monhegan
North Haven
Vinalhaven

Firmly Committed

The Island Institute understands that communities are constantly evolving combinations of people, organizations, institutions, and much more. Maine's year-round island and working-waterfront communities face unique challenges, and our goal to help ensure that they remain vibrant places to live and work, continually inspiring us and all those who care about them.

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