Cumberland
Cumberland County at a Glance:
- The estimated poverty rate in Cumberland County is 11.1%.*
- Nearly 12% of children under 18 live in poverty.**
- 18.5% of children in Cumberland County receive SNAP benefits, 34.8% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**
- 20.4% of children are living with food insecurity.**
- The infant mortality rate in Cumberland County is 5.7 per 1,000.**
- 5 per every 1,000 children in Cumberland County are in DHHS custody.**
- 33.8% of children in Cumberland County participate in MaineCare.**
- 35% of people in Cumberland County are not currently in the workforce.*
- 19.7% of the population is under the age of 18.*
- 23.7% of the population achieved a high school degree; 44% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*
- The high school graduation rate for Cumberland County is 91.4%.**
*Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2012-2016
**Source: Maine Kids Count
Grants Awarded in this Region
| Date | Organization | Award | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | $40,000 | Two year grant to support the Comfortably Home program, which increases housing stability of low-income, elderly homeowners by increasing safety, minimizing maintenance burden, and lengthening tenure in their own homes. | Bath, ME |
| 2018 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $115,000 | To support Project Aim High, an engagement program for middle school aged students in Lewiston, Portland and South Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | City of Portland | $21,974 | To provide funding for a Lead Poisoning Public Outreach Mixed Media Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Conservation Law Foundation | $20,000 | To provide support for lead poisoning prevention, research, advocacy and technical assistance in Lewiston-Auburn and Portland. | Boston, MA |
| 2018 | Cultivating Community | $25,000 | To provide access to free, healthy food in Cumberland and Androscoggin Counties. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Falmouth Food Pantry | $10,000 | To provide food to food-insecure families from Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Westbrook, and Portland. | Falmouth, ME |
| 2018 | Frannie Peabody Center | $20,000 | To provide mental health and substance abuse counseling support for people affected by HIV/AIDS in Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | $90,000 | To provide support to the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth, mostly public school students in Portland, with paid learning opportunities. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Greater Portland Family Promise | $20,000 | To support the general operations of Greater Portland Family Promise -- providing families who are experiencing homelessness with shelter, food, case management, and community support while helping them establish a sustainable living situation. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Intercultural Community Center | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2018 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | $300,000 | Two year grant to support the Expanded Opportunity Passport program -- a financial capacity building, education, and matched savings program expanded to non-foster care youth who face challenges or have little or no family support. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Lake Region Senior Service | $7,000 | To provide support for the general operations of a transportation program serving low-income seniors and disabled residents throughout four counties in Southwestern Maine. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2018 | LearningWorks | $25,000 | To provide support for an intensive, interactive English Language and Literacy Instruction Program to address barriers to employment typically encountered by New Mainers. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Access Immigrant Network | $10,000 | To support direct services for low-income refugee and immigrant communities of Greater Portland -- such as help securing health, housing, energy, transportation and other related basic needs. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Inside Out | $48,500 | To support Maine Inside Out's Leadership Council, which is a year-long effort to develop the leadership, professional experience and social capital of formerly incarcerated older youth. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $4,300 | To provide funds to defray insurance co-payment expenses for low-income students accessing mental health counseling at the School-Based Health Center at Mt. Ararat High School. | Topsham, ME |
| 2018 | Mercy Hospital | $50,000 | To support two-generation behavioral health interventions and programming at Mercy Hospital's McAuley Residence, a residential treatment home for women with co-occuring substance abuse and mental health diagnoses and their children. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Milestone Foundation | $25,000 | To provide support for the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Muskie School of Public Service | $75,000 | To support the work of the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network, to include place-based work with vulnerable older youth in greater Portland and Sanford and youth leadership and engagement work across the Network. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | $315,000 | Two year grant to support the existing medical-legal lead hazard partnership in Lewiston and to replication the project in the Portland area. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide support for mental health services at school-based health centers at Portland's three high schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Portland Housing Authority | $100,000 | To replicate Bangor Housing Authority's successful enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program at the Portland Housing Authority. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs: the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast | $19,500 | To support, and to leverage a Department of Corrections investment in, a Lewiston-based Youth Court Early Intervention and Equal Opportunity Diversion program. | Belfast, ME |
| 2018 | Shalom House | $15,000 | To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for the provision of case management services to homeless children and their families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2018 | The Opportunity Alliance | $20,000 | To provide support for the Homelessness Prevention Project, which provides financial resources to low-income, at-risk families and youth so they can maintain and/or secure housing. | South Portland, ME |
| 2018 | The Progress Center | $25,000 | To support a community kitchen program distributing healthy food to low-income people in Oxford County, including home-delivered meals to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Norway, ME |
| 2018 | The Root Cellar | $24,500 | To provide food through the Friends and Neighbors Network to food insecure families in Lewiston and Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | $120,000 | To provide support for ConnectED, a “cradle to career” Portland-based approach focused around 5 key results: kindergarten readiness, 3rd grade reading proficiency, 8th grade math proficiency, high school graduation, and post-secondary completion. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | $25,000 | To support Women United and their two-generation work in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | $150,000 | To support Starting Strong, a subcommittee of ConnectED's cradle-to-career initiative, supporting Portland's students ages 0-8 in the areas of grade-level reading, school readiness, and summer learning. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | $100,000 | To support Thrive2027's initatives advancing grade level reading by third grade and education and employment opportunities in Greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | $125,000 | To serve as a match for new contributions to UWGP's Thrive2027 efforts to advance grade level reading by third grade and increase education and employment opportunities in Greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | $15,000 | To support United Way of Greater Portland's 2018 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to increase access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food in Cumberland, Oxford, and York counties. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Amistad | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Aspen Institute | $50,000 | To support the engagement of southern rural Maine in the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund grantee network. | Washington, DC |
| 2017 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $50,000 | To support the Brain Gain Read! Summer Learning Loss Prevention Program. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Community Financial Literacy | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Cultivating Community | $15,000 | To provide local food for people with low to no income, including asylum-seekers. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2017 | Gedakina | $20,000 | To support the LifeWays Program, which focuses on increased access to direct services for Native American families in Portland and Bangor. | Bangor, ME |
| 2017 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | $100,000 | To support the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth to paid summer learning opportunities. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Intercultural Community Center | $50,000 | To support a summer academic enrichment program targeted to served the needs of immigrant children in Portland and Westbrook. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2017 | Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To provide support for JCA's food and diaper pantry. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Lake Region Senior Service | $9,000 | For general operating support. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2017 | Locker Project | $5,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | $50,000 | For general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Mercy Hospital | $15,000 | To provide support for their Patient Assistance Fund for adults in treatment for cancer or blood disorders who need financial help to defray the cost of non-medical expenses. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2017 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Portland Adult Education | $25,000 | To provide education, employment and financial literacy services to New Americans in greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide funding for a social worker to focus on trauma screening with all new pediatric patients. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Preble Street | $296,000 | To support Preble Street's First Place, a transition-in-place housing program for homeless youth, and for the expansion of the transition-in-place model through the Maine Transitional Living Collaborative. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Preble Street | $65,000 | To provide support for the transition of the older youth at the First Place Transitional Housing program into stable housing. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2017 | Telling Room | $29,950 | To provide project-based summer literacy programming and creative writing instruction to English Language Learners and other under-resourced elementary and middle school students in the Greater Portland and Bangor areas. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Tri-County Mental Health Services | $25,000 | To provide intensive family and community-based treatment for chronic and violent juvenile offenders. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $25,000 | To support the Women United two generation strategy. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $141,000 | To enable UWGP to serve as the backbone organization for the Greater Portland Workforce Initiative. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $175,000 | To support Starting Strong's strategies in 2017-2018. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $100,000 | To support Portland Public School's development and implementation of district-wide social-emotional learning strategies. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $100,000 | To support Portland Public School's development and implementation of district-wide equity in learning strategies. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $150,000 | To serve as a match for new and increased 2017 Annual Campaign pledges. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | $15,000 | Support for United Way's 2017 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Amistad | $15,000 | General operating support to address the needs of individuals with mental illness and other life challenges. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | To provide support for people transitioning from homelessness to affordable housing in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | To provide comprehensive technical assistance services to four Maine Public Housing Authorities as they replicate Bath Housing’s Community Aging in Place Program. | Bath, ME |
| 2016 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $38,315 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Lewiston, Portland and South Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | City of Portland | $16,963 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Community Concepts | $224,000 | To support data analysis, the ability to conduct a strategic analysis of its housing capacity, and greater efficiency in transportation scheduling. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2016 | Community Financial Literacy | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to provide financial education courses and individual financial and college access counseling sessions. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Cultivating Community | $15,000 | To provide support for programs that increase access to healthy food. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Dean Snell Cancer Foundation | $10,000 | To provide financial assistance to cancer patients being treated at New England Cancer Specialists in Brunswick. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | Freeport Community Services | $15,000 | To support staff and programs that serve the most vulnerable residents of Freeport and Pownal, including low-income seniors and children. | Freeport, ME` |
| 2016 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | To provide donated furniture to people in the Greater Portland area who lack basic home necessities. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2016 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | $95,011 | For the Gateway to Opportunity pilot, an employability initiative offering at- risk youth meaningful, work-based learning projects during the summer months. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Intercultural Community Center | $5,000 | To help low-income immigrants access housing, education and employment. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2016 | Intercultural Community Center | $40,000 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Westbrook. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2016 | Island Institute | $300,000 | A three year grant to provide business support services to small businesses in rural coastal areas and islands in Maine. | Rockland, ME |
| 2016 | Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To support the food and diaper pantry, which serves those in need in the Portland area. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To provide support for programs that provide transportation to low-income seniors, disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2016 | Lydia Home Association | $150,000 | A two year grant to support Safe Families for Children, which arranges homestays for children in families experiencing immediate crises. | Whiting, ME |
| 2016 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To support programs that provide food to low- income families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | Milestone Foundation | $25,000 | To support Milestone's Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $50,000 | To support Maine LEAP, a coordinated delivery of two evidence based programs to improve education and career outcomes for youth in foster care. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $40,000 | For the Data Innovation Project to provide technical assistance to Foundation-supported projects, including research and data support for Portland ConnectED. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $65,000 | To support an enhanced level of coordination and organization among all service providers who work with youth in foster care. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $50,000 | To develop and implement an employer engagement strategy to address youth workforce development in Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $75,000 | To continue the implementation of the Aspen Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund work in Southern Maine as part of the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Oasis Free Clinics | $20,000 | To provide more free mental health services. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | Portland Education Foundation | $20,000 | To support a universal breakfast program at the Fred P. Hall School in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Preble Street | $20,000 | To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $20,000 | To provide funding to support sexual assault education and services specific to homeless and at-risk youth. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $10,000 | To provide support for the When In Need (WIN) Fund, a discretionary fund designed to support the basic human needs of older and disabled adults in southern Maine. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2016 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide mental health services for clients at the Cumberland Street Emergency Housing Shelter. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | The Gathering Place | $5,000 | To provide general operating support for the only daytime shelter for the poor and homeless in the Midcoast Region. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | The Opportunity Alliance | $15,000 | To provide support for Morrison Place, which provides transitional housing and treatment for homeless individuals diagnosed with co-occurring major mental illness and substance use disorders. | South Portland, ME |
| 2016 | The Opportunity Alliance | $100,000 | To provide support for business intelligence through the development of a data analytic infrastructure. | South Portland, ME |
| 2016 | The Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | $82,320 | To support enhanced and expanded services for low-to- moderate-income individuals in Portland by providing employment case management, workshops, networking events, job fairs and job classes. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To provide support for a community kitchen program serving children, youth and families in Norway. | Norway, ME |
| 2016 | United Way of Greater Portland | $175,000 | For Starting Strong, Portland’s Campaign for Grade-Level Reading initiative, which works to ensure Portland students are reading at grade level by the end of third grade. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | United Way of Greater Portland | $250,000 | Matching grant for the 2016 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | United Way of Greater Portland | $12,500 | To support the 2016 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Westbrook Community Services | $20,000 | To provide support for families who need help with basic needs and services to navigate through the initial months of relocation such as school transitions and medical care. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2015 | Amistad | $25,000 | To address the needs of individuals with mental illness and other life challenges; develop peer services; and advocate for changes to the mental health system. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Boy Scouts of America | $15,750 | To expand services to boys with low-incomes in Portland, Biddeford and Saco; and to allocate additional resources for Somali youth in Lewiston. | Raymond, ME |
| 2015 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $35,000 | To address summer learning loss by implementing the Brain Gain Reads program for students entering grades K through 3 in Portland, South Portland and Lewiston/Auburn. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | City of Portland | $14,750 | To incorporate literacy-related programming into Camp Play-All-Day, a summer program serving up to 150 children entering first and second grade. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | $55,250 | To support activities for the second year of the Portland Jobs Alliance. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2015 | Cultivating Community | $25,000 | To support programs that increase access to healthy food. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Educate Maine | $198,000 | Two year grant to serve as the fiscal sponsor for Count Me In, an initiative focused on partnering with school districts and communities to decrease chronic absenteeism by implementing evidence-based practices. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | $40,646 | To support an automotive technician training program. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To support transportation programs for low-income seniors, disabled citizens, and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2015 | LearningWorks | $51,000 | To support a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | $20,000 | Two year grant to provide cultural brokering and interpretation services for a juvenile justice collaborative in Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To support the Pediatric Social Work/Navigator Program, which helps children and families coping with the challenges of cancer; and the Pediatric Telehealth Oncology Program, which allows families to access care from their homes. | Saco, ME |
| 2015 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To support programs that provide food to low-income families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2015 | Milestone Foundation | $25,000 | To support the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Muskie School of Public Service | $119,500 | Two year grant to support the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network’s implementation plan to provide comprehensive, coordinated supports and opportunities to vulnerable older youth. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | My Place Teen Center | $12,000 | To develop an outcomes data and measurement system. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2015 | Peregrine Corp. | $20,000 | To support the renovation and repair needs for their South Portland building. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Adult Education | $172,985 | To make programmatic and instructional improvements, that reflect best practices, to the adult English for Speakers of Other Languages programs. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Adult Education | $94,000 | To enhance and expand services for low- to moderate-income individuals in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Public Library | $8,000 | To launch a series of book discussions on the national bestselling book Being Mortal, which deals with end-of-life issues. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Public Schools | $100,000 | To provide a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | To support the Growing Portland initiative and the continued planning and implementation of the economic development work plan for Portland and the region. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Preble Street | $50,000 | To support the Emergency Food Program. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | RSU 14 | $15,000 | To support the district's backpack program, which provides food to food-insecure children over weekends and holidays throughout the school year. | Windham, ME |
| 2015 | Shalom House | $25,000 | To support programs that find stable housing and support services for long-term homeless individuals. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $10,000 | To support the purchase and distribution of nutritious foods to those in need in South Portland. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Southern Maine Community College Foundation | $39,800 | To support MySuccess in the 2016-2017 school year. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Tedford Housing | $22,500 | To support mental health services for clients at the Cumberland Street Emergency Housing Shelter in Brunswick. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2015 | The Center for Grieving Children | $20,000 | To support the Tender Living Care Program, which provides education and emotional support to families when a parent or caregiver is diagnosed with a life impacting illness, including cancer. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | The Opportunity Alliance | $20,000 | To support the Children's Outpatient Therapy program, which provides mental health assessment and treatment services to children and their families. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | The Opportunity Alliance | $80,000 | For capacity building. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | The Root Cellar | $10,000 | To provide funding to purchase food for families in Portland and Lewiston. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | $75,000 | To support Starting Strong - a community based effort to improve academic achievemnet. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | $63,500 | For capacity building related to the Community Goal Setting Process and Implementation. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | $250,000 | Matching grant for the 2015 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | $25,000 | To support the Campaign for Grade Level Reading. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | $12,500 | To support the 2015 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | University of New England | $25,000 | To provide incentives that will increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables for participants in a SNAP benefit study. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2014 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide operating support for individuals with mental illness and other life challenges; to develop peer services; and to advocate for changes to the mental health system. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | To provide for conceptual site plans and a study for the redevelopment of land to allow for the expansion of services to people with low income. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $46,800 | To address summer learning loss through the implementation of Brain Gain Reads, a program focused on literacy enrichment for students K – 3. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Center for Applied Linguistics | $14,610 | To design and conduct an evaluation of Portland Public School System’s Adult Education English Language Learner Program. | Washington, DC |
| 2014 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | $75,106 | To support employer outreach, data maintenance and the coordination of partnerships within the Portland Jobs Alliance. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | Cultivating Community | $20,000 | For a community initiative that promotes access to locally grown and healthy foods in Portland Public Schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Day One | $20,000 | To provide funding to support staff and program costs for mental health and case management services to immigrant and refugee street and homeless youth. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Educate Maine | $99,000 | To act as fiscal sponsor for the implementation team of Count ME In, a data-driven community based model to address the problem of chronic absenteeism in Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Freeport Community Services | $15,000 | To provide funding to support staff and programs which provide direct services to the most vulnerable residents of Freeport and Pownal, including low-income seniors and children. | Freeport, ME` |
| 2014 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | To provide general operating support to supply and deliver free furniture to people in need in the Greater Portland area. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2014 | Hospice of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To provide operating support for medical, emotional, and spiritual services for cancer patients who are seriously ill with a terminal diagnosis. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2014 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors, disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2014 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To provide funding for pediatric social work services to support children and their families navigating the challenges of cancer. | Saco, ME |
| 2014 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To provide operating support for programs that provide food to low-income families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | Midcoast Maine Community Action | $15,000 | To provide funding to support families and individuals with emergency needs and complete accessibility repairs to enable the elderly to remain at home. | Bath, ME |
| 2014 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | To provide funding to support homeless individuals in Portland experiencing chronic health and substance use issues. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Adult Education | $104,100 | To support employment case management services, to provide soft skills and job readiness skills employment workshops, and to expand the hours for the John T. Gorman Computer Lab to serve waitlisted students and job seekers. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Public Schools | $15,000 | To provide supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program aimed at addressing summer learning loss. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | To provide organizational and staffing support for Growing Portland, a collaborative effort among universities, businesses, research institutions and others to create and implement an economic development work plan for Portland and the region. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | $82,320 | To provide organizational and staffing support for the Portland Workforce Initiative, which seeks to create a coordinated continuum of education, training and other services designed to connect marginalized, unemployed populations to employment opportunities in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Regional Transportation Program | $15,000 | To provide funding for transportation for the elderly, social service agency clients, the economically disadvantaged, and people with disabilities throughout Cumberland county. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Seeds of Independence | $150,000 | To support disadvantaged youth by enhancing Seeds’ volunteer-based programs, enhance measurement criteria and data collection to assess impact and strengthen programs, and expand efforts to develop collaborations. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $20,000 | To provide funding for staffing for sexual assault education and services specific to homeless and at-risk youth. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $10,000 | To provide food to low income seniors with physical limitations. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To provide support to reduce re-hospitalization rates of high-risk Medicare patients by providing home-delivered meals after discharge from the hospital. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2014 | Southern Maine Community College Foundation | $125,000 | Two year grant to provide for a bridge program called MySuccess for youth transitioning from Portland Public Schools to SMCC in the fall of 2014 and 2015. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Sweetser | $20,000 | To provide one-time support for increased staff time to serve adults experiencing serious mental illness who are in need of more intensive care. | Saco, ME |
| 2014 | Tedford Housing | $20,000 | To provide funding for residential support services to adults in the emergency housing shelter. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | The Opportunity Alliance | $15,000 | To provide funding to support mental health assessment and treatment services for children and their families. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | The Opportunity Alliance | $70,400 | To support the technical assistance needed to bring and fully integrate a Results Based Accountability framework throughout the organization. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | The Opportunity Alliance | $162,000 | To secure technical assistance to analyze current business practices and implement best practice recommendations agency-wide. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | The Opportunity Alliance | $16,000 | To help families enroll in the Harold Alfond College Challenge savings program, as well as to provide ongoing education and support to families. | South Portland, ME |
| 2014 | United Way of Greater Portland | $200,000 | Two year grant to support Portland ConnectEd, a cross-sector partnership committed to building a citywide cradle-to-career infrastructure and culture to support high quality education. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | United Way of Greater Portland | $50,000 | To support Starting Strong’s priority strategies that have a significant impact on third grade reading proficiency, school readiness, attendance, and summer learning. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | United Way of Greater Portland | $75,000 | To provide staffing and other support to Starting Strong, an initiative in Portland to increase third grade reading proficiency. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | United Way of Greater Portland | $12,500 | To support the 2014/2015 annual campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | United Way of Greater Portland | $41,000 | To implement the Feeding Bodies Feeding Minds program, to support summer learning awareness activities, and to conduct a summer learning community scan. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to support the provision of nutritious food in Cumberland County to those in need. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | American Cancer Society | $25,000 | To support two patient navigator programs at Maine Medical Center and Maine General. | Framingham, MA |
| 2013 | Amistad | $25,000 | To provide a free basic breakfast to individuals at the Peer Support and Recovery Center. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | $600,000 | A three year grant to develop the organizational infrastructure required to best deploy capital to vulnerable populations in Lewiston, Portland, Machias, and Skowhegan. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2013 | Day One | $25,000 | To provide mental health counseling to youth in Greater Portland. | South Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Easter Seals Maine | $25,000 | To provide Early Intervention services such as preventative physical, occupational, speech, and language therapies to disadvantaged children from birth to age 5 with disabilities, special needs, and various mental illnesses. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Frannie Peabody Center | $25,000 | To provide direct services for clients living with co-occurring mental illness and HIV/AIDS. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | King Middle School | $15,000 | To provide support for teachers to attend trainings and for continued implementation of Student Centered Assessments to help raise math and reading scores of underserved students. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors and disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2013 | Lydia Home Association | $180,000 | Three year grant to expand programming to serve the Lewiston, Auburn and Portland area and provide temporary supports for children when their families experience periods of substantial stress. | Whiting, ME |
| 2013 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $15,000 | To support a Patient-centered, evidence based model to improve the quality of home health care to vulnerable elders at risk of hospitalization or facility placement. | Saco, ME |
| 2013 | Muskie School of Public Service | $215,000 | To support Maine Roads to Quality. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Muskie School of Public Service | $75,000 | To support the Maine Youth Transition Collaborative and facilitation of a community mapping process to document and collect outcomes of the promising programs serving youth in Southern Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide mental health counseling services to low-income, New Mainer patient populations. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide primary care services to the most vulnerable residents of Greater Portland, while working on a business plan that will ensure sustainability. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Public Schools | $68,000 | To support the purchase of new technology in the Learning Lab, with the goal of serving ELL students currently on wait-lists. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Public Schools | $25,000 | To support the Make It Happen! Program which offers academic support, mentoring, and tutoring to 8th grade English Language Learners. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Public Schools | $98,710 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in Portland Public Schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | To support planning and early implementation of an economic development work plan for Portland and the region. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Preble Street | $813,000 | Three year grant to support the First Place program, which helps young people experiencing homelessness transition to permanent and stable housing. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide crisis intervention, assessment, and casework services to adults who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Shalom House | $15,000 | To provide emergency funds to individuals without the financial means to meet basic needs. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $160,000 | To support programming and training for the staff of two new Adult Day Centers in Falmouth and Biddeford. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2013 | Spurwink Services | $30,000 | To support the use of Every Day Counts a community based model to work with four school districts to improve student attendance. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Spurwink Services | $20,000 | To support Spurwink's Portland Help Center, which provides outpatient mental health services for adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | The Center for Grieving Children | $15,000 | To provide peer support, home/hospital visits, education, and resources to families with children ages 3-18 and young adults 19-30 where the parent or caregiver is facing serious illness. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | The Opportunity Alliance | $285,000 | To contract with Metis Associates for technical assistance to develop the technological and analytical capacity to make more effective data-driven service delivery decisions. | South Portland, ME |
| 2013 | The Opportunity Alliance | $70,000 | To contract with Results Based Leadership for training and technical assistance to adopt a Results Based Accountability (RBA) based approach to providing services to the community. | South Portland, ME |
| 2013 | United Way of Greater Portland | $78,750 | To support continued staffing and infrastructure support for Portland ConnectED, which focuses on improving grade level reading proficiency, high school graduation rates and post-secondary success. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | United Way of Mid Coast Maine | $200,000 | Three year grant to develop an integrated and collaborative system of home visiting programs in Brunswick, Harpswell and all towns in Sagadahoc and Lincoln Counties. | Bath, ME |
| 2013 | Youth and Family Outreach | $25,000 | To provide support for community based pre-K in partnership with Portland Public Schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | A Company of Girls | $5,000 | To provide a safe and supportive after school program for girls throughout the school year. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | American Cancer Society | $25,000 | To support the Patient Navigator and the Road to Recovery Programs for patients undergoing cancer treatments. | Framingham, MA |
| 2012 | Amistad | $28,720 | To provide breakfast and basic supplies for individuals experiencing or recovering from severe and persistent mental illness. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Ascentria Community Services | $5,000 | To provide support for Camp Sign-A-Watha in Monmouth for Maine's deaf adults with developmental disabilities. | Auburn, ME |
| 2012 | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick Maine | $10,000 | To provide support for programs and services including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine | $25,000 | To provide support for programs and services including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $30,000 | To support programs and services, including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Brunswick Area Respite Care | $12,000 | To provide support for home care services for the elderly. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake | $50,000 | To support Maine families and children with life-threatening illnesses. | Casco, ME |
| 2012 | Cancer Community Center | $20,000 | To support the well-being of individuals and their families living with cancer. | South Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To support the Seek Elderly Alone, Renew Courage and Hope Program (SEARCH), connecting elderly people to volunteer support to enhance independence, community integration and self-sufficiency. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | City of Portland | $25,000 | To provide the Portland Free Clinic with general operating support and to develop a long term sustainability plan. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Community Dental | $31,250 | To support the purchase of dental supplies to provide needed services at the Farmington Dental Center. | Falmouth, ME |
| 2012 | Community Financial Literacy | $10,000 | To provide general operating support for financial literacy information specific to immigrants and refugees. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Cultivating Community | $20,000 | To improve access to fresh food for low-income people by supporting small scale, local farmers to provide a sustainable food supply in Greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Easter Seals Maine | $5,000 | To support early intervention services that provide physical, occupational, speech and language therapies to children with disabilities or special needs. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Educate Maine | $50,000 | To support the College and Career Pathways Program and for general operating expenses. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Frannie Peabody Center | $20,000 | To support services to people in Maine living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Hospice of Southern Maine | $10,000 | To provide for the essential needs for terminally ill patients and their support networks. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2012 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $50,000 | To support the Asylum Program, which provides legal representation and services such as: attorney consultations, legal rights orientations for immigration detainees, assistance with immigration applications for employment authorization, permanent residency, citizenship, Temporary Protected status and family-based visas. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | ITNPortland | $35,000 | To support a transportation fund for low-income seniors and visually impaired adults at places of worship in the Greater Portland. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2012 | LearningWorks | $40,000 | To provide transportation and food to students attending LearningWorks' Youth Building Alternatives program, a 48 week alternative education program for out of school youth ages 16 -24. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To purchase food for food pantry clients. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | Morrison Center | $15,000 | To provide support for a recreation program for children with disabilities. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2012 | My Place Teen Center | $25,000 | To support youth programming for youth aged 10 -18. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2012 | New Beginnings | $25,000 | To provide support for housing and other services for disadvantaged and disconnected youth in Androscoggin, Franklin, Cumberland, York, and Kennebec counties. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2012 | Northeast Hearing and Speech Center | $85,000 | To support innovative new technology for use with iPads for children with communication and developmental disabilities. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Oasis Free Clinics | $25,000 | To support preventative care and mental health services to very low-income clients. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | One Tree Wholistic Learning Center | $27,742 | To support high-quality child care services for low income families in the Redbank area of South Portland. | South Portland, ME |
| 2012 | People Plus | $5,000 | To support the Volunteer Transportation Network Program, providing rides for local seniors. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | $175,000 | To support several legal services programs for low-income Maine residents. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Portland Public Schools | $30,000 | To provide operating support for adult education in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Portland Public Schools | $15,000 | To support the Student Centered Assessments Program, aimed at raising math and reading scores of students who are underserved. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Portland Public Schools | $10,000 | To build a sustainable school garden for educational and healthy nutritional purposes at Riverton School while reinforcing academic skills during the summer months. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Preble Street | $75,000 | To provide support for food programs, including food purchases, transportation, storage and preparation. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Preble Street | $1,000,000 | To support the purchase and renovation of the Lighthouse Shelter for homeless teens. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Seeds of Independence | $5,000 | To provide support for at-risk youth and juvenile offenders, primarily in the Freeport, Brunswick and Topsham area. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | $5,000 | To support the Promise Fund, an emergency fund for Mitchell Scholars from low-income families. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To provide operating support to support victims of sexual violence in southern Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $30,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to homebound people in York and Cumberland counties who are under 60 and disabled. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2012 | The Iris Network | $50,000 | To support the needs of visually impaired Maine seniors living independently at home. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | The Opportunity Alliance | $50,000 | To support a more comprehensive and integrated approach to serving patients with a severe and persistent Mental Health Diagnosis. | South Portland, ME |
| 2012 | The Opportunity Alliance | $200,000 | To provide support for the mental health care needs of individuals in the Greater Portland area. | South Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $10,000 | To support the work of the Early Childhood Funders group. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $93,000 | To improve the quality of childcare programs and the planning work for Portland ConnectEd. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $30,000 | To support the Keep ME Warm Fund, to be distributed statewide for heating assistance for low income Mainers. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $71,274 | To support the United Way of Greater Portland's John T. Gorman Challenge Match program. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $75,000 | To fund the Portland Education Partnership's cradle to career initiative. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $10,000 | To support the 2012 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $35,000 | To support employment service programs for clients that are veterans, formerly incarcerated, mentally ill, and/or homeless. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To support the Food Rescue Program which sources food from over 20 vendors and redistributes it to more than 60 food pantries. | Portland, ME |