ELLSWORTH – The Maine Community Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2002 Noyce Award for Non-Profit Excellence.

This year’s award, which includes a $5,000 unrestricted grant, will honor a nonprofit organization that best strengthens the connections between groups and organizations that have not traditionally worked together successfully.

While many programs build bridges between dissimilar groups, the Noyce Award recipient will display creativity in its program approach and assume greater risk for long-term community benefit.

Eligible nonprofits include those with programs that have created new ties and higher levels of trust between diverse groups and then used these relationships to benefit the community.

Completed nomination forms and attachments must be mailed to the Maine Community Foundation and postmarked no later than April 15, 2002. Nomination forms may be downloaded at www.mainecf.org or by contacting Amy Pollien at (877) 700-6800 or apollien@mainecf.org.