Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of the Northeast Log A Load for Kids effort raises $292,746 in 2025
AUGUSTA, ME – The Professional Logging Contractors (PLC) of the Northeast raised $292,746 for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) in 2025 through its annual Log A Load for Kids fundraising efforts.
The total included funds raised at the PLC’s two Log A Load golf tournaments, the Log A Load live auction at the PLC’s 2025 annual meeting, and a Log A Load half marathon fund-raiser in December.
“This total represents the incredible generosity and commitment of the PLC’s Members, Supporting Members, friends, families and supporters,” Dana Doran, Executive Director of the PLC, said. “In a time of unprecedented challenges and struggle for the industry, this group rallied to once again achieve an amazing result for the children and families supported by Children’s Miracle Network, and everyone involved should be very proud of this accomplishment.”
On Jan. 23, Doran presented a check for the funds to representatives from Northern Light/Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor and MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland. Both are CMN hospitals.
The check was presented at the PLC’s office in Augusta, ME. Those accepting the check on behalf of the hospitals were Nichole Trainor, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center CMN Program Director; Tracy Jameson, Philanthropy Specialist for Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center CMN; and Meaghan McNamara, MaineHealth Senior Philanthropy Manager.
“We want to express our deepest gratitude to the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast for your continued support,” Trainor said. “Because of you, our youngest patients and their families feel comforted, safe, and deeply cared for. Thank you for standing with them – and with us.”
“We can’t thank the Professional Logging Contractors of the Northeast enough for their commitment to making a difference in the lives of our patients,” McNamara said. “The PLC – and the whole logging community who rallies around these fundraising events – helps to transform the care and services that we’re able to provide. And we are so grateful for that support!”
The PLC’s Log A Load efforts have now raised more than $2.9 million since 1995.
The PLC raises the majority of Log A Load funds each year during an auction at its annual meeting in the spring and at golf tournaments in Maine in August and September. In 2025 for the first time, additional funds were raised at the Millinocket half-marathon in Maine in December.
This year, the PLC’s 31st Annual Meeting on May 7-8 in Rockport, ME. will include a live Log A Load Auction. The annual PLC Log A Load golf tournaments are also planned for Aug. 28 at Lake Kezar Country Club in Lovell, ME.; and Sept. 18 at JATO Highlands Golf Course in Lincoln, ME.
The PLC and the Northern Light Health Foundation (formerly Eastern Maine Health Systems Foundation) have partnered in the Log A Load fund-raising effort since 1996. Donations have gone to support research and training, purchase equipment, and pay for uncompensated care, all in support of the mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor includes a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that has received support for years from the PLC’s Log A Load efforts. The PLC began partnering with MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland for the southern tournament in 2019, and in 2024 for the first time began partnering with the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital in Burlington, Vermont as well – also a CMN hospital.
Log A Load for Kids is an annual campaign which began in 1988 when loggers and others in the forest products community began donating the value of a load of logs to their local CMN hospital. Today, Log A Load is a leader in CMN Hospitals’ fundraising, raising more than $6.5 million annually through golf tournaments, fishing events, dinners, truckloads of log donations, and other events. For more information, please visit www.logaload.org
Founded in Maine in 1995 by a handful of loggers who were concerned about the future of the forest economy, the PLC has grown steadily to become a regional non-profit which provides independent logging and trucking contractors a voice along with a suite of other forest certification programs which are grounded in responsible forest management.
Learn more about the PLC at www.plcloggers.org
