New Ventures Maine has announced the winners of the statewide 2025 NVME Marketing Mini-Grant Competition.
Six Maine businesses have received cash grants of $1,000 awarded through a competitive application process to help promote and market their products and services.
The six 2025 grant winners are:
- Nonprofit Solution Hub (Northern/Downeast Maine) offers fundraising and marketing services to organizations throughout Maine and beyond, including grant research and writing, donor communications, graphic and web design, and Little Green Light implementation.
- Dancing Jaguar Inspirations (Central Maine) provides programs and products to help children and adults connect to their inner world through metaphysical tools and techniques, mindfulness, meditation, and nature.
- Nor’Easter Oyster Co (Southern Maine) is a growing, female-led Maine seafood business, that creates premium, value-added products from sustainably grown shellfish.
- Insightful Workplace Solutions (Western Maine) provides executive coaching, management training, and leadership development to small companies in Maine.
- 3B’s Catering Company (Midcoast Maine) specializes in creating memorable culinary experiences for events of all sizes throughout mid-coast Maine.
- Revive Wellness (Northern Maine) is a wellness clinic based in Presque Isle offering holistic services including IV hydration, wellness support, aesthetic treatments, and personalized weight loss programs serving women who want to feel better, look better, and take control of their health in a sustainable way.
Mini-grants will support new or expanded business marketing and promotional activities, such as printed marketing materials, tradeshow displays, website development, and social media campaigns.
“The number of applicants we had this year nearly doubled–we received over 150 applications versus 70 in our previous competition,” said NVME Microenterprise Program Manager Alicia LaFosse. “Local entrepreneurs need support during start-up and our participants say that mini-grants can make a real difference on their path to success.”
Criteria for small business applicants included: 1) Five or fewer full-time equivalent employees; 2) sales in the current calendar year; and 3) gross annual sales of no more than $150,000 from the previous calendar year.
The competition was sponsored in part by Katahdin Trust Company, Kennebec Savings Bank, and Norway Savings Bank.