York
York County at a Glance:
- 11.4% of children under 18 live in poverty.**
- 18.8% of children in York County receive SNAP benefits, 37.5% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**
- 21% of children are living with food insecurity.**
- The infant mortality rate in York County is 4.2 per 1,000.**
- 6.4 per every 1,000 children in York County are in DHHS custody.**
- 38.1% of children in York County participate in MaineCare.**
- 37% of people in York County are not currently in the workforce.*
- Nearly 20% of the population is under the age of 18.*
- 32% of the population achieved a high school degree; nearly 60% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*
- The high school graduation rate for York County is 87.7%.**
*Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2012-2016
**Source: Maine Kids Count
Grants Awarded in this Region
| Date | Organization | Award | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Caring Unlimited | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Sanford, ME |
| 2022 | Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To support the purchase of diapers for the Klahr Jewish Family Services Diaper Pantry. | Portland, ME |
| 2022 | KidsPeace National Centers of New England, Inc. | $5,000 | To support “Mo’s Closet,” which offers essential items to families in need being served in community-based programs, to foster youth coming into care, and to families who need assistance preparing for the placement of foster youth. | South Portland, ME |
| 2022 | Lake Region Senior Service | $12,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service in Western Maine that provides rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2022 | Milestone Recovery | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2022 | New England Arab American Organization | $20,000 | To provide New Mainer families with necessary emergency assistance - to include help with housing expenses, food, utility payments, and transportation - along with case management to strengthen their safety net and connection to resources. | Portland, ME |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2022 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To support SMAA's Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides free, nutritious meals to older adults in Cumberland and York Counties through both home-delivered meals and in congregate dining settings. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2022 | The Opportunity Alliance | $20,000 | To support the Senior Companion Program, which creates volunteer opportunities for older, low-income adults who make home visits and provide transportation to peers seeking assistance to remain living independently. | South Portland, ME |
| 2022 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $25,000 | To support a Community Coordinator, who helps veterans access the benefits they deserve and services they need so they may maintain and achieve health, financial, and housing independence. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2022 | York County Community Action Corporation | $20,000 | To support the Keeping Seniors Home program, which provides older homeowners in York County with small-to-mid-sized home modifications to allow them to safely remain living at home. | Sanford, ME |
| 2021 | Caring Unlimited | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Sanford, ME |
| 2021 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service in Western Maine that provides rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2021 | Milestone Recovery | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Seeds Of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2021 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $25,000 | To support staffing to respond to the high rates of child sexual abuse in York County and the demand for forensic interview services at the county's Children's Advocacy Center. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Shalom House | $10,000 | 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 |
| 2021 | Table of Plenty | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Berwick, ME |
| 2021 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $5,000 | To provide support for the purchase of essential household and hygiene items for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
| 2021 | United Way of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To support United Way of Southern Maine's 2021 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | York County Community Action Corporation | $15,000 | To support same-day transportation services for York County residents, so they may meet essential, urgent needs. | Sanford, ME |
| 2021 | York County Shelter Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Alfred, ME |
| 2020 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2020 | Shalom House | $10,000 | 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 |
| 2020 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,000 | To provide support for the purchase of essential household and hygiene items for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
| 2020 | York County Community Action Corporation | $25,000 | To support efforts to reduce family stress, isolation and child abuse through socially-distanced visits to at-risk families during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Sanford, ME |
| 2020 | York County Shelter Programs | $25,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Alfred, ME |
| 2020 | York Hospital | $15,000 | To support the Bridges Program, which provides home delivery of meals, prescriptions, and/or groceries to seniors in York County, along with offering transportation and companionship services to increase access to care and decrease social isolation. | York, ME |
| 2019 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | To support formerly homeless people who are transitioning from homelessness to affordable housing through an expansion of services in southern Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Inside Out | $65,000 | To both support the work of their Leadership Council, which develops the leadership and social capital of formerly incarcerated young people, and to support organizational efforts for financial management assistance. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Inside Out | $4,000 | To bring a performance of Maine Inside Out's play "EXPOSED" to the Statewide Juvenile Justice Task Force's meeting in Augusta in fall of 2019. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | MapleStone | $13,000 | To support the provision of mental health counseling and supports for students who have experienced trauma / Adverse Childhood Experiences. | Acton, ME |
| 2019 | Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | To support general operations. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2019 | Shalom House | $10,000 | 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 |
| 2019 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations. | SOUTH PORTLAND, ME |
| 2019 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,500 | To provide support for the purchase of non-food essentials for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
| 2019 | York County Community Action Corporation | $15,000 | To support transportation services through the York County Transport program, targeting populations for whom no other specialized transportation funds are available. | Sanford, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,500 | To provide support for the purchase of non-food essentials for people in need. | Sanford, 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 | Lake Region Senior Service | $9,000 | For general operating support. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2017 | Lebanon Elementary School | $24,500 | To provide support for the Kid Connection afterschool program. | North Berwick, ME |
| 2017 | Locker Project | $5,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, 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 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | For general operating support. | 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 | Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2017 | Southern Maine Health Care | $20,000 | To provide financial support to cancer pantients with healthcare and transportation related expenses. | Biddeford, 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 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,500 | To provide support to purchase non-food household items for the Corner Cupboard essentials pantry to benefit low-income people. | Sanford, 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 | 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 | Maine Community Action Association | $160,000 | A two year grant for repairs to homes of senior Maine residents. | E. Wilton, 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 | Sanford Public Schools | $10,000 | To support community- based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Sanford. | Sanford, 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 | The Opportunity Alliance | $100,000 | To provide support for business intelligence through the development of a data analytic infrastructure. | South Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $7,000 | To purchase non-food items for Sanford's Corner Cupboard, such as batteries for smoke detectors, trash bags and personal hygiene products. | Sanford, ME |
| 2016 | York County Community Action Corporation | $20,000 | To provide mental health services such as assessments, behavior and treatment planning, and whole-family interventions for children in Head Start. | Sanford, ME |
| 2016 | York County Community Action Corporation | $60,000 | For a feasibility study on establishing an intergenerational day care center that would combine childcare and adult day services at one location. | Sanford, ME |
| 2015 | Biddeford School Department | $26,400 | To pilot a school-based mental health clinician model. | Biddeford, 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 | 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 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To support transportation programs for low-income seniors, disabled citizens, and cancer patients. | Bridgton, 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 | 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 | Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | To support programs that provide low-income families with food and connections to community services. | Biddeford, 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 | York County Community Action Corporation | $25,000 | To support mental health services and whole-family interventions for children in Head Start. | Sanford, 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 | 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 | LearningWorks | $19,000 | In supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program in Biddeford aimed at addressing summer learning loss. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | LearningWorks | $42,000 | To address summer learning loss for students entering grades K through 3 in the Biddeford Public Schools. | Portland, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | United Way of York County | $15,000 | To provide funding to Partners For A Hunger Free York County for farm shares of local produce to low-income seniors in York County. | Kennebunk, ME |
| 2014 | York County Community Action Corporation | $23,000 | To provide support for public transportation for Sanford and Springvale residents - many on fixed incomes - to access local shopping, medical and job opportunities. | Sanford, 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 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors and disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2013 | LearningWorks | $31,526 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in Biddeford public schools. | 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 | 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 | 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 | United Way of York County | $15,000 | To improve regular access to healthy foods for low-income senior citizens in York County, building upon successful summer Farm Fresh Foods for Seniors and Winter Shares projects. | Kennebunk, ME |
| 2013 | York County Community Action Corporation | $24,000 | To provide transportation for York County residents who are receiving treatment for cancer. | Sanford, ME |
| 2012 | Biddeford Free Clinic | $15,000 | To support the Pharmacy program for non-narcotic prescription medications for those without health insurance living in poverty. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2012 | Counseling Services | $10,000 | To support mental health services to children diagnosed with mental illness that are underinsured or uninsured. | Saco, 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 | Northern York County Family YMCA | $10,000 | To provide affordable and subsidized full-day child care for children from ages six weeks to five years at their Community Childcare Center. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2012 | York County Community Action Corporation | $26,400 | To provide dental care for uninsured patients through an existing oral health care program. | Sanford, ME |
| 2012 | York County Shelter Programs | $50,000 | To provide food and mental health/psychiatric services at the Homeless Shelter in York. | Alfred, ME |