Franklin
Franklin County at a Glance:
- The estimated poverty rate in Franklin County is 14.1%.*
- Nearly 21.4% of children under 18 live in poverty.**
- 28% of children in Franklin County receive SNAP benefits, 49.9% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**
- 24.2% of children are living with food insecurity.**
- The infant mortality rate in Franklin County is 6.9 per 1,000.**
- 6.6 per every 1,000 children in Franklin County are in DHHS custody.**
- 50.9% of children in Franklin County participate in MaineCare.**
- 43.5% of people in Franklin County are not currently in the workforce.*
- 18.3% of the population is under the age of 18.*
- 36.9% of the population achieved a high school degree; 7.5% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*
- The high school graduation rate for Franklin County is 90.9%.**
*Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2012-2016
**Source: Maine Kids Count
Grants Awarded in this Region
| Date | Organization | Award | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Ascentria Community Services | $15,000 | To provide individuals with a mental health diagnosis who are served by Ascentria Community Mental Health Services in Maine, with financial assistance to meet their immediate basic needs - to include rental assistance, transportation, and help with groceries or utilities. | Worcester, ME |
| 2022 | New Beginnings | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2022 | Rangeley Health and Wellness | $20,000 | To support the Helping Elders Live in Place (HELP) program, which offers older Mainers quality supports and services that address their immediate basic needs. | Rangeley, ME |
| 2022 | SeniorsPlus | $20,000 | To support the Meals on Wheels program in Western Maine, fighting hunger and social isolation and providing a match for federal funding for the program. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2022 | Western Maine Community Action | $20,000 | To support direct client funding for home repairs that will allow older adults in Franklin County to age in place in homes that are warm, safe and fuel efficient. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2021 | MaineHealth, Healthy Community Coalition | $20,000 | To provide emergency food bags to low-income, food-insecure residents in Franklin County through visits to medical practices, a mobile health unit, and two community programming sites. | Farmington, ME |
| 2021 | New Beginnings | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Rangeley Health and Wellness | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Rangeley, ME |
| 2021 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Leeds, ME |
| 2021 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
| 2021 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Oxford, ME |
| 2021 | Western Maine Transportation Services | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
| 2020 | MaineHealth - Healthy Community Coalition | $25,000 | To provide emergency food bags to low-income, food-insecure residents in Franklin County through visits to medical practices, a mobile health unit, and two community programming sites. | Farmington, ME |
| 2020 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Oxford, ME |
| 2019 | Healthy Community Coalition | $25,000 | To provide support for free mobile healthcare services offered to low-income, under-served residents living in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
| 2019 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Norway, ME |
| 2018 | Healthy Community Coalition | $15,000 | To provide support for free mobile healthcare services offered to low-income, under-served residents living in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Community Action Association | $160,000 | Two year grant to support Maine seniors' ability to age-in-place through home repairs, weatherization services, and home modifications based on mobility issues. | East Wilton, 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 |
| 2017 | Healthy Community Coalition | $25,000 | To provide funding for their Mobile Health Unit to care for low-income, under-served residents living in Franklin County. | Farmington, 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 | Maine Community Action Association | $160,000 | A two year grant for repairs to homes of senior Maine residents. | E. Wilton, ME |
| 2016 | Mount Blue Regional School District | $10,000 | To provide school-based summer learning programming to address summer learning loss in Farmington. | Farmington, ME |
| 2016 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To support direct services such as emergency housing to men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Auburn, ME |
| 2016 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $25,000 | To provide mental health services to children who have been sexually abused in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties. | Auburn, ME |
| 2015 | Healthy Community Coalition | $20,000 | To support programs that address food insecurity. | Farmington, ME |
| 2015 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $25,000 | To provide support for developing one point-of-entry for patients seeking a potential oncology referral. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide funding for Meals on Wheels for older adults in Androscoggin County. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Androscoggin Home Health Services | $20,000 | To provide low-income residents who do not have insurance for prescription drugs with needed medication. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Community Concepts | $20,000 | To provide funding so seniors and veterans with a cancer diagnosis in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties can access life-enhancing treatment via Community Concepts' transportation program. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | East Parish Housing Ministry | $5,000 | To provide support for general improvements to homes with substandard conditions. | Starks, ME |
| 2014 | Healthy Community Coalition | $15,000 | To provide funding for staff and programs that provide food, safety and other basic needs for Seniors and cancer patients in collaboration with area agencies. | Farmington, ME |
| 2014 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to provide direct services such as emergency housing to men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Auburn, ME |
| 2014 | SeniorsPlus | $20,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to older adults. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $15,000 | To provide operating support for victims of sexual violence across three counties in Maine. | Auburn, ME |
| 2014 | Western Maine Community Action | $95,000 | Two year grant to support a federal match for the Keeping Seniors Home program and to develop a long-term sustainability plan. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2013 | Boy Scouts of America | $15,534 | To support the creation of four new scouting units in underserved subsidized Housing Authority neighborhoods. | Raymond, ME |
| 2013 | Community Concepts | $15,000 | To provide seniors transportation to and from medical appointments. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Healthy Community Coalition | $20,000 | To develop a navigator pilot program to improve the lives of those living with cancer. | Farmington, ME |
| 2013 | Mount Blue Regional School District | $50,000 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in RSU 09. | Farmington, ME |
| 2013 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to older adults currently on the wait list. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Western Maine Community Action | $67,000 | To support the the Keeping Seniors Home Program, which helps Maine seniors age in place. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2012 | Healthy Community Coalition | $15,000 | To support the Mobile Health Unit Program, a nurse's station on wheels providing access to health care services and screenings in communities in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
| 2012 | Maine After School Network | $100,000 | To support Expanded Learning Opportunities through the Maine Afterschool Network and provide a match for a Mott Foundation grant. | Augusta, 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 | Western Maine Community Action | $56,000 | To support the weatherization of homes occupied by low income individuals and families through the Energy Leak Reduction Program. | East Wilton, ME |