Reza Jalai read from the book "Mainers, Portraits of Our Immigrant Neighbors" and then facilitated conversations between several of the immigrants featured in the book during the Hear Our Stories Cafe that took place in the CE Community Services Center on December 14,2009. This event was funded by a Fall 2009 CEEF grant.

Rebecca Bean, Middle School Music Teacher, shares her photographs from her African Encounters Tour. She received a grant from CEEF in the Spring of 2009 that provided the final costs for her to attend a three-week course (summer 2009) in Ghana on West African drumming, sound, dancing and culture.

2009 CEEF Thompson & Brownell Awards CEEF is connected to many terrific programs that are funded with our help, and for that we are really proud. As a community, we benefit from the most dedicated teachers around. To be connected to teachers each year through the Brownell and Thompson Awards is a thrill and an honor for our organization. Enjoy these photos from the 2009 ceremony. Photos by Claudia Dricot

On May 30, 2009 CEEF held their second annual Pasta With Purpose Dinner! The dinner invited all of Cape Elizabeth to come enjoy dinner provided by Willows and Market Fresh Produce on the eve of the Pond Cove 5K. The night was also a grants celebration displaying and demonstrating many of the grants that have been recently funded. All photos were taken by Patricia McCarthy.

The First Annual Maine Home & Design Kitchen Tour, presented by Sotheby's International Real Estate Proceeds from this successful inaugural event went to fund public education through the grant-giving of the Cape Elizabeth Education Foundation.

Richard Rothlisberger's high school art class creates digital images thanks to a CEEF grant that funded a digital darkroom.

As part of a more than $16,000 CEEF grant, a collaborative effort between joint groups yielded a renovated high school cafeteria, wonderful, healthy menus with local produce and visiting chefs, and enthused students and visitors from the community. The groups involved were high school students & staff members, the Cape Elizabeth Farm Alliance, Cape Elizabeth Historical Society, school board & SYSCO. Let's Go! seeded the Wellness Committee.

The Cape Elizabeth Middle School foreign language department received a CEEF grant for a multi-approach program called Global Connections. The program included a series of panel discussions, gathering immigrants from around the world to speak with middle school students about their journeys to Maine.