Our mission is to sustain an educational setting within which people can cultivate understanding and enrich life through experiences in the natural surroundings, with our cultures and traditions, and through access to the arts.

    The CCLC is a social change initiative, created and forwarded by people in easternmost Maine, which has succeeded in establishing itself as part of the community fabric.  Grounded in the philosophies of popular, folk, indigenous and experiential education, community organizing is a core value and goal of the Center.  The CCLC started in January 1999 as a community research project and coalesced in October 1999 with a Core Group of twenty local people – all volunteers – dedicated to bringing their vision of a healthier community to life.

Today the CCLC exists as a 501(c)3 that owns a fifty-acre campus on Cobscook Bay in Washington County.  In October 2004 we moved into our first building that houses our office, pottery studio, community meeting room, computer room/library, and children’s activity room.  In August 2006, construction started on the center’s next main campus building, the Community Commons.  The CCLC stands as a community homeplace* that enables us to come together to improve our lives, learn from one another, and grow together as we identify, address, and transform the economic, social and environmental challenges of our lives.

CCLC Non-Discrimination Statement

The CCLC reflects the diversity of the people of the Cobscook region and celebrates the diversity of all people.  We do not discriminate against current or prospective participants and employees on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, age, or disability.

*Belenky, Mary Field. Women’s Ways of Knowing.  Belenky and her colleagues coined the term ‘community homeplace’ and define it as, “a space where diverse groups of people are made to feel truly welcomed and at home.  Feeling at home, people begin to tell their stories; they listen to one another with real care.  People feel heard – often for the first time.  Sympathetic understanding spreads over the land.  The conversations grow deeper and deeper.”

As a non-profit community organization, the work of fulfilling the mission and vision of CCLC depends on thoughtful contributions of individuals, businesses and foundations.  Please consider making a donation to support the ongoing efforts of the Learning Center.  Contributions may be given online by Clicking Here or may be mailed to 10 Commissary Point Road; Lubec, ME  04652.  Thank You.