Sagadahoc
Sagadahoc County at a Glance:
- 17.2% of children under 18 live in poverty.**
- 20.5% of children in Sagadahoc County receive SNAP benefits, 39% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**
- 21.8% of children are living with food insecurity.**
- The infant mortality rate in Sagadahoc County is 6 per 1,000.**
- 4.5 per every 1,000 children in Sagadahoc County are in DHHS custody.**
- 41.4% of children in Sagadahoc County participate in MaineCare.**
- 37.8% of people in Sagadahoc County are not currently in the workforce.*
- 19.4% of the population is under the age of 18.*
- 30,8% of the population achieved a high school degree; 11.7% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*
- The high school graduation rate for Sagadahoc County is 84.5%.**
*Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2012-2016
**Source: Maine Kids Count
Grants Awarded in this Region
| Date | Organization | Award | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To support Cooking for Community, which pays local restaurants to cook easy-to-reheat meals using primarily locally sourced ingredients that are then distributed to food-insecure Mainers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To provide general operating support, which will will help sustain eight food programs and enable the rescue of an additional 100,000 pounds of food from new suppliers. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2020 | Midcoast Community Alliance | $10,000 | To support critical outreach services for at-risk, homeless and/or unaccompanied youth in Sagadahoc County, Brunswick and Harpswell. | Bath, ME |
| 2020 | The Gathering Place | $5,000 | To support an emergency overnight shelter in Brunswick that is open to homeless and housing insecure people when temperatures are dangerously low. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2019 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To support general operating costs associated with programs offered to low-income food-insecure Mainers in the midcoast area. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2019 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, 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 | 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 | 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 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for the provision of case management services to homeless children and their families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2017 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2017 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | $40,000 | A two year grant for the Community Aging in Place program to increase the housing stability of low-income, elderly homeowners in the greater Bath, Maine region by increasing safety, minimizing the maintenance burden, and lengthening tenure in their own homes. | Bath, ME |
| 2016 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To support programs that provide food to low- income families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2016 | Oasis Free Clinics | $20,000 | To provide more free mental health services. | Brunswick, 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 |
| 2015 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | $156,375 | To support the Community Aging in Place Program to increase housing stability for low-income, disabled and elderly homeowners. | Bath, 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 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $7,500 | To provide funding for mental health counseling at the school's health center. | Topsham, ME |
| 2015 | MCH, Inc. | $25,000 | To provide funding for the Meals on Wheels program in Knox County, and to provide food for low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities who live in the Methodist Conference Home. | Rockland, ME |
| 2015 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To support programs that provide food to low-income families. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2015 | Seeds of Independence | $75,000 | To support progress towards building a sustainable program model and towards enhancing collaboration with partners. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | Catholic Charities Maine | $15,000 | To provide funding to support program services and volunteers to isolated seniors so they can remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. | Portland, 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 2013 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To provide support services and volunteers to isolated seniors so they can remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. | 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 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $39,000 | To support mental health services available to high school students with limited or no health insurance. | Topsham, ME |
| 2013 | Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast | $105,000 | To support restorative community conferences and mentoring services for youth ages 10 to 25 in court proceedings; and to increase community awareness and engagement in restorative justice practices. | Belfast, ME |
| 2013 | RSU 1 | $27,250 | To provide technical assistance to local school districts regarding C.H.O.I.C.E.S., a collaborative, community partnership approach to advancing public pre-K. | Bath, 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 |
| 2012 | Bowdoinham Public Library | $3,000 | To provide a Bowdoinham Summer Reading Support and Family Literacy Program for low-income children and their families. | Bowdoinham, ME |
| 2012 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $20,000 | To provide student health services at Mt. Ararat High School for low-income students. | Topsham, ME |
| 2012 | Midcoast Maine Community Action | $10,000 | To provide support for a Sustainable Wellness Program offering families and children access to healthy food. | Bath, ME |
| 2012 | Tedford Housing | $37,500 | To provide operating support for Brunswick adult and family shelters serving the Mid-Coast Maine region. | Brunswick, ME |