FOUNDATION-INITIATED GRANTS
We believe that successfully improving results associated with our strategic priorities requires a diverse range of investments. Given this, the bulk of our giving is invitation only, aligned with our core funding strategies: place-based initiatives, two-generation solutions, systems reform support and innovation and replication.
Below please find a database of our past grants.
| Date | Organization | Priority Area | Award | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alfond Youth and Community Center | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Waterville, ME |
| 2021 | Avesta Housing | Seniors | $250,000 | Two-year grant to support the Silver Hearth Fund, targeted to create and improve housing and services for low-income seniors in Maine. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Avesta Housing | Families | $20,000 | To support the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition’s planning process to assess the organization’s current structure, staffing, and finances with the goal of ensuring its continued growth and success in addressing Maine’s affordable housing challenges. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $20,000 | To support continued funding to cover facility expenses at the Brewer Community Center, proposed home to the Enhanced Family Self-Sufficiency Learning Institute. | Bangor, ME |
| 2021 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $158,000 | To support Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building, child development, and educational and social-emotional learning to significantly improve outcomes for parents and children simultaneously. | Bangor, ME |
| 2021 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $45,000 | To partner with the Urban Institute to launch and implement an Enhanced Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Institute, providing learning and training opportunities for FSS program coordinators across the state of Maine. | Bangor, ME |
| 2021 | Bangor YMCA | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Bangor, ME |
| 2021 | By Kids Inc. | Older Youth | $49,500 | To support a six-day Film Institute workshop in Lewiston with local immigrant and refugee youth who reside in the Tree Street neighborhood. | New York, ME |
| 2021 | Children's Museum of Maine | Young Children | $20,000 | To support an Early Childhood Listening Tour, to build the long-term strength and efficacy of their early childhood focus through an assessment of community needs in collaboration with community partners. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | City of Lewiston | Families | $80,000 | To support a Neighborhood Development Coordinator position, who will help the Economic Development Manager implement the Growing our Tree Streets Transformation Plan. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | Young Children, Families | $150,000 | To amplify the impact of the Lewison-based Child Care Business Lab, adding more quality child care slots within the Tree Streets neighborhood. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2021 | Community Concepts | Families | $71,000 | In continued support of the resident engagement and support activities identified within the CHOICE Neighborhood Initiative. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $30,000 | To support CSA's work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. | Topsham, ME |
| 2021 | Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | Families | $75,000 | To support the Remote Work for ME initiative, a state-wide training program to prepare rural Mainers for remote working roles needed by Maine employers. | South Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Great Schools Partnership | Older Youth | $15,000 | To support the Common Data Project's 2022 annual report, which will provide transparent, comparable data about high school and college outcomes across New England. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative - Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning | Families | $50,000 | To provide general operating support. | Baltimore, ME |
| 2021 | iACT / Kennedy Park Football Club | Older Youth | $7,500 | To support Kennedy Park Football Club's winter season. | Redondo Beach, ME |
| 2021 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Rockland, ME |
| 2021 | Legal Services for the Elderly | Seniors | $30,000 | To continue to support the Elder Justice Coordinating Partnership's efforts to develop an Elder Justice Roadmap that will identify challenges to the prevention of, detection of, and response to elder abuse and develop strategic priorities across the public and private sectors to address those challenges. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber Of Commerce Foundation | Families | $75,000 | To continue to support the general operations of Healthy Neighborhoods. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber Of Commerce Foundation | Families | $175,000 | To support the Strengthen LA initiative, a comprehensive strategy to create a seamless continuum of education, training, and employment in Lewiston and Auburn. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation | Families | $25,000 | To support the city's capacity to access state and federal grant consultation and expertise as part of the CHOICE Implementation grant process. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation | Families | $50,000 | To support families in Lewiston who have been displaced due to a residential fire. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Association For The Education Of Young Children | Young Children | $50,000 | To support Maine AEYC's general operations and their work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME | |
| 2021 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $20,000 | To continue to support the Get on Board Initiative, which will develop new models, expand available programming, and strengthen the leadership pipeline for Maine's nonprofit community. | Portland, ME | |
| 2021 | Maine Children's Alliance | Young Children | $10,000 | To support the development of MCA's next strategic plan. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Children's Trust | Young Children, Families | $3,000 | To support the participation of fathers who have children in Maine's child welfare system in listening sessions organized by the Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel and the Office of Child and Family Services. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Community Integration | Older Youth, Families | $50,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Equal Justice | Families | $70,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Equal Justice | Young Children, Families | $50,000 | To support Invest in Tomorrow, a long-term, multi-sector initiative to halve child poverty in Maine by 2029 by strengthening the safety net for children and families and increasing educational opportunities. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Farmland Trust | $50,000 | To provide matching funds for Farm Fresh Rewards, a statewide nutrition incentive program that doubles Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars for low-income residents. | Belfast, ME | |
| 2021 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Older Youth, Young Children | $15,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Initiatives | Families | $100,000 | To support a pooled fund that awards grants to Maine's immigrant-led and -serving nonprofit organizations who are on the frontlines of the community response to COVID-19. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Maine Philanthropy Center | $13,830 | To support general operations and to sponsor the 2021 Philanthropy Partners Conference. | Portland, ME | |
| 2021 | Maine Youth Alliance | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Belfast, ME |
| 2021 | Mercy Hospital | Families | $400,000 | Two- year grant to support a workforce development strategy to advance racial equity and address barriers for low-income hospital workers. | Bangor, ME |
| 2021 | Migration Policy Institute | Young Children, Families | $54,000 | To provide technical assistance to Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services' Whole Family Services program. | Washington, ME |
| 2021 | MSAD44 | Older Youth, Young Children | $14,500 | To support the district's development of Resilience Intervention Teams, to provide intervention for students struggling at school with components of social and emotional engagement. | Bethel, ME |
| 2021 | OUT Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Rockland, ME |
| 2021 | Patient Airlift Services | $25,000 | To provide support for PALS’ medical flight activities in Maine. | Farmingdale, ME | |
| 2021 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Families | $250,000 | To advance the Medical-Legal Lead Hazard Partnership, which works to proactively reduce lead hazards and address issues arising from lead poisoning in Lewiston's Tree Street neighborhood. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Families | $87,000 | To support the collection of data on eviction filings in Maine District Courts and document the prevalence and causes of eviction and the impact of legal representation on the outcome of eviction proceedings. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Young Children, Families | $250,000 | To support PTLA's Medical-Legal Lead Hazard Partnership, which proactively reduces lead hazards, addresses issues arising from lead poisoning, and addresses barriers to safe and stable housing in Lewiston’s Tree Street Neighborhood. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Portland Adult Education | Young Children, Families | $150,000 | To support the ILEB program, an effort by Portland Adult Education and East End Community School to increase literacy for families of elementary school students who are low-level English Language learners using a two generation approach. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Portland Housing Authority | Older Youth, Families | $164,000 | To support two-generation programming for households headed by youth exiting foster care in Greater Portland; both to extend their successful FYI programing to additional households and to provide parenting support those who are newly parenting. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Preble Street | $100,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME | |
| 2021 | Preble Street | $1,000,000 | Two-year grant to support the capital costs and general operations of the Preble Street Food Security Hub, with the vision of developing a sustainable, comprehensive, and collaborative approach to ending hunger in Maine. | Portland, ME | |
| 2021 | Rangeley Health and Wellness | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Rangeley, ME |
| 2021 | Regional School Unit 40 | Older Youth | $20,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Union, ME |
| 2021 | Rural Community Action Ministry | Older Youth, Young Children | $15,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Leeds, ME |
| 2021 | Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | Older Youth | $350,000 | Two-year grant to support the Promise Scholar program - which combines college scholarships with personal support, leadership opportunities, and career development - for new cohorts in 2021 and 2022. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | Somerset Career and Technical Center | Older Youth | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2021 | Somerset Career and Technical Center | Older Youth | $30,000 | To support the Somerset County Youth Task Force, which will bring together young people to engage with issues relevant to their lives and identify priorities, recommendations, and action steps for change. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2021 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Young Children, Families | $210,000 | To provide support for Family Futures Downeast, a two-generation effort to remove economic barriers for participating families. | Machias, ME |
| 2021 | Sunrise Opportunities | Young Children, Families | $50,000 | To support the general operations of the Community Caring Collaborative. | Machias, ME |
| 2021 | Sustainable Livelihoods Relief Organization | Young Children, Families | $25,000 | To support the Start Up Scale Up Program, which will create a parents’ choice childcare co-op to provide culturally and linguistically tailored childcare centers in Lewiston, Maine. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | The Opportunity Alliance | Young Children, Families | $100,000 | To support increased access to quality childcare in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood, especially for immigrant families and those seeking asylum, with the additional impact of increasing the number of local childcare professionals. | South Portland, ME |
| 2021 | The Root Cellar | Families | $30,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2021 | The Urban Institute | Families | $45,000 | To partner with the Bangor Housing Authority to launch and implement an Enhanced Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) Institute, providing learning and training opportunities for FSS program coordinators across the state of Maine. | Washington, ME |
| 2021 | United Way of Southern Maine | Young Children | $200,000 | To support priority strategies for each goal area of the Thrive2027 initiative, as well as to provide backbone support for the overall Thrive2027 infrastructure. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | United Way of Southern Maine | Young Children | $15,000 | To support United Way of Southern Maine's 2021 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | United Way of Southern Maine | Young Children, Families | $25,000 | To support Women United's efforts to bolster the social-emotional wellbeing and academic achievement of the youth and teens of Project WIN in the Bayside neighborhood of Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | United Way of Southern Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $175,000 | To support Portland ConnectED, a set of city-wide cradle-to-career strategies designed to impact kindergarten readiness, grade level reading, and postsecondary completion. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | University of Maine School of Law Foundation | Older Youth | $125,000 | To support Juvenile Justice Reform Project, which develops and advocates for: a continuum of care as an alternative to incarceration, increased fairness in the juvenile justice system, and the removal of barriers to success for former system-involved youth. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | University of Maine System / New Ventures Maine | Families | $125,000 | To support NVME as they innovate and coordinate financial education and asset building programs that meet the economic security needs of individuals and families during the pandemic and transition the CA$H Maine coalition to virtual services. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | University of New England | Seniors | $25,000 | To support a needs assessment centered on discerning older resident needs as part of UNE’s service-learning and research partnership with the Westbrook Housing Authority. | Portland, ME |
| 2021 | University System of New Hampshire / Carsey School of Public Policy | $35,000 | To support an on-going data-research partnership and to craft a white paper examining geographic and racial-ethnic differences in the impact of COVID-19 within Maine. | Durham, ME | |
| 2021 | Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care | Young Children, Families | $23,000 | To support a pilot program that will train new and existing child care workers via on-line credentialing courses and connect them to internships and/or job placement. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Aroostook County Action Program | Young Children, Families | $15,000 | To support efforts to reduce family stress, isolation and child abuse through socially-distanced visits to at-risk families during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Presque Isle, ME |
| 2020 | Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | Families | $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. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Bangor Housing Development Corporation | Families | $100,000 | To support the continued expansion and maintenance of the successful enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program at Brewer and Old Town Housing Authorities. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Bangor Housing Development Corporation | Families | $20,000 | To plan an Enhanced Family Self Sufficiency Institute, providing learning and training opportunities for FSS program coordinators across the state of Maine. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Boys and Girls Club of Bangor | Older Youth, Young Children | $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. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $50,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Young Children | $30,000 | To support safe learning hubs for students engaged in remote learning. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Center for Children's Law and Policy | Older Youth | $18,000 | To support monthly meetings with the co-chairs of the Maine Juvenile Justice Task Force and the preparation of a case study sharing developments in juvenile justice reform over the past several years. | Washington, ME |
| 2020 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | Young Children, Families | $150,000 | To plan and implement the first year of a Child Care Business Lab in Lewiston's Tree Streets Neighborhood. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2020 | Community Concepts, Inc. | Families | $20,000 | To support a vlogging engagement project to ensure resident voices are informing the Transforming the Tree Streets initiative. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Community Concepts, Inc. | Young Children, Families | $40,000 | To support efforts to reduce family stress, isolation and child abuse through socially-distanced visits to at-risk families during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $40,000 | To support CSA's work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. | Topsham, ME |
| 2020 | Family Focus | Young Children | $2,500 | To support a strategic planning process, which will include recommendations on how to best provide childcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2020 | First Book | Young Children | $13,500 | To support the purchase of over 7,500 books to be distributed to children in Lewiston and Indian Township who may not be benefiting from a learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Washington, ME |
| 2020 | Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | Families | $10,000 | To support the planning phase of the Pathways for ME pilot program at Washington County Community College, which will help support and improve academic outcomes for rural adult students in recovery. | South Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Foundation for Portland Public Schools | Older Youth, Young Children | $25,000 | To support Portland Public Schools' Addressing the Opportunity Gap campaign, which aims to expand the district's equity work. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | $100,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Auburn, ME | |
| 2020 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $300,000 | Two year grant to support innovative data- and community-driven strategies to improve access to nutritious food for all food-insecure Mainers. | Auburn, ME |
| 2020 | Great Schools Partnership | Young Children | $15,000 | To support the 2021 Common Data Project annual report, which will provide transparent, comparable data about high school and college outcomes from across New England. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | Young Children, Families | $40,000 | To support efforts to reduce family stress, isolation and child abuse through socially-distanced visits to at-risk families during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Waterville, ME |
| 2020 | Legal Services For The Elderly | Seniors | $78,000 | To support the Elder Justice Coordinating Partnership and to develop an Elder Justice Roadmap that will identify challenges to the prevention of, detection of, and response to elder abuse and develop strategic priorities across the public and private sectors to address those challenges. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Families | $50,000 | To support the operations of Healthy Neighborhoods to help realize the goals of the Choice Neighborhoods Transformation Plan. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Families | $50,000 | To support the Strengthen L/A initiative, a comprehensive strategy to create a seamless continuum of education, training, and employment in Lewiston and Auburn. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation | Families | $50,000 | To support Healthy Neighborhoods' shared gifting program, which distributes funds to Tree Street area projects that will have a positive, tangible impact on the community. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $10,000 | To support efforts to connect with homeless, at-risk and English Language Learner students and families on a weekly basis throughout school closure/summer. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation | Families | $150,000 | To support the housing component of the CHOICE Grant Application, to include HUD required Capital Needs Assessments, relocation consulting for existing residents, and 3rd party design services/other predevelopment expenditures. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Association for The Education of Young Children | Young Children | $10,000 | To support the launch of the T.E.A.C.H. Scholarship Program in Maine. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Association for The Education of Young Children | Young Children | $15,000 | To support Maine AEYC's work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $20,000 | To support the Get on Board Initiative, which will develop new models, expand available programming, and strengthen the leadership pipeline for Maine's nonprofit community. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence | Families | $140,000 | To provide general operating support to MCEDV and eight member organizations to address domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Community Action Association | Young Children | $5,000 | To provide grant writing and facilitation support for the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grant. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Community Foundation | $50,000 | To contribute to a pool of funds supporting Ethnic Community Based Organizations in Maine in their ongoing efforts to provide equitable and culturally-informed COVID-19 response. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | Maine Community Foundation Inc | $100,000 | To contribute to a pool of funds to support Ethnic Community Based Organizations in Maine in their efforts to provide equitable and culturally-informed COVID-19 response. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | Maine Equal Justice | Young Children, Families | $50,000 | To support Invest in Tomorrow, an initiative whose goal is to cut child poverty in half by 2029 through increased access to higher education, workforce participation, and earning capacity for Maine families. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Equal Justice | Families | $50,000 | For general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Young Children | $20,000 | To support safe learning hubs for students engaged in remote learning. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME | |
| 2020 | Maine Initiatives | Young Children, Families | $15,000 | To fund Immigrant-Led Organizations who are serving those at-risk of domestic violence and abuse within their representative communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Maine Initiatives | $25,000 | To support a pooled fund that awards grants to Maine's immigrant-led and -serving nonprofit organizations who are on the frontlines of the community response to COVID-19. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | Maine Philanthropy Center | $13,830 | To support general operations and to sponsor the 2020 Philanthropy Partners Conference. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | Young Children, Families | $75,000 | To support in-home parent coaching using the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Model. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Mercy Hospital | Young Children, Families | $100,000 | To support a two-generation approach to engaging McAuley residents in post-secondary education. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Nami-Maine, Inc. | Older Youth | $10,000 | To support adolescent mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic via a texting support platform. | Hallowell, ME |
| 2020 | New Beginnings, Inc. | Older Youth | $50,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Penquis C.A.P., Inc. | Young Children, Families | $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. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $250,000 | To advance the Medical-Legal Lead Hazard Partnership, which works to proactively reduce lead hazards and address issues arising from lead poisoning in Lewiston and Greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Portland Housing Authority | Older Youth | $390,000 | To support a three year grant for the Youth Stability and Asset Building pilot program in Portland. This pilot will assist homeless and at-risk youth exiting foster care by coordinating a resolution to their housing crisis, ensuring on-going housing stability, and guiding recipients in achieving long-term success. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Portland Public Schools | Young Children, Families | $130,000 | To support Portland Adult Education and East End Community School's efforts to increase literacy for families of elementary school students who are low-level English Language learners using a two generation approach. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Preble Street | Families | $75,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Raise-Op Housing Cooperative | Families | $50,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Restorative Justice Institute of Maine | Older Youth | $50,000 | To pilot a diversion program for young adults ages 18-25 based on the restorative justice principles of community accountability and peer support. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | Shaw House | $50,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Bangor, ME | |
| 2020 | St. Mary's Nutrition Center | $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. | Lewiston, ME | |
| 2020 | State of Maine, Children's Cabinet - Governor's Office | Young Children | $75,000 | To support the State of Maine's efforts to increase access to evidence-based substance use disorder treatment for youth, as part of a larger effort to rebuild Maine's behavioral health system for youth and their families. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | State of Maine, Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $75,000 | To support the creation of a comprehensive roadmap for ending hunger in Maine, to include shared metrics, benchmarks, and timelines that work toward a hunger-free future. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | State of Maine, Department of Corrections | Older Youth | $50,000 | To support the Department of Corrections' Community Outreach Expansion Pilot Program in Lewiston, Maine. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | State of Maine, Department of Health and Human Services | Young Children, Families | $20,000 | To support a public campaign to educate people about safe sleep and the “period of purple” – to combat Maine’s elevated rate of infant mortality. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Young Children, Families | $210,000 | To provide support for Family Futures Downeast, a two-generation effort to remove economic barriers for participating families. | Machias, ME |
| 2020 | Sunrise Opportunities | Young Children, Families | $45,000 | To provide general operating support for the Community Caring Collaborative as they work to advance two-generation efforts in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2020 | Tedford Housing | Families | $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. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2020 | The Opportunity Alliance | Young Children, Families | $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. | South Portland, ME |
| 2020 | The Root Cellar | Young Children | $30,000 | To support safe learning hubs for students engaged in remote learning. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Tree Street Youth | Young Children | $25,000 | To support safe learning hubs for students engaged in remote learning. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | United Way of Greater Portland | $25,000 | To serve as a contribution to the Greater Portland COVID-19 Community Relief Fund. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $15,000 | To support United Way of Greater Portland's 2020 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children, Families | $250,000 | To support Thrive 2027 and Women United programming. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | United Way of Greater Portland | Older Youth, Young Children | $175,000 | To support Portland ConnectED, a set of city-wide cradle-to-career strategies designed to impact kindergarten readiness, grade level reading, and postsecondary completion. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | United Ways Of Maine Incorporated | $5,000 | To support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training for the boards and staff of United Ways of Maine and all of its member agencies. | Augusta, ME | |
| 2020 | University of Maine School of Law Foundation | Older Youth | $105,500 | To support the Juvenile Justice Reform Project, which strengthens community partnerships and supports innovative reforms in Maine's juvenile justice system to enable youth to successfully transition into adulthood. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | University Of Maine System, Cutler Institute - Data Innovation Project | Older Youth | $10,000 | To build data capacity, literacy and shared performance measures for the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project grant. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | University Of Maine System, Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $50,000 | To serve as continued match funding for the Maine Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential initiative, which helps youth who are transitioning from foster care, involved with the Juvenile Justice system, or currently/recently homeless to complete high school and transition into post-secondary education or employment. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | University Of Maine System, Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $30,000 | To support the Young People’s Caucus, which brings together youth from across the state to inform key decision-makers on how practices & policies are impacting Maine's young people, their communities, and their futures. | Portland, ME |
| 2020 | University Of Maine System, New Ventures Maine | Families | $175,000 | To enable New Ventures Maine to serve as the backbone organization for CA$H Maine - a statewide collaboration of regional CA$H Coalitions that deliver financial education and coaching to low-income Maine families. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | University System Of New Hampshire, Carsey School of Public Policy | Young Children, Families, Seniors | $25,000 | To support a data-research partnership, to include on-request data support and regular memos summarizing new policy and academic research related to the Foundation’s populations of interest. | Durham, ME |
| 2020 | Urban Institute | Families | $30,400 | To partner with the Bangor Housing Authority to plan an Enhanced Family Self Sufficiency Institute, providing learning and training opportunities for FSS program coordinators across the state of Maine. | Washington, ME |
| 2020 | Wabanaki Public Health And Wellness | Families | $10,000 | To continue support for the Literacy and Love program, providing additional books and educational resources to Wabanaki elders and veterans. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Wabanaki Public Health And Wellness | Young Children, Families | $60,000 | To support efforts to reduce family stress, isolation and child abuse through socially-distanced visits to at-risk families in Maine's five tribes during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Bangor, ME |
| 2020 | Wabanaki Women's Coalition | Families | $95,000 | To provide general operating support to WWC and five tribal entities to address domestic violence and abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lincolnville, ME |
| 2020 | Wayside Food Programs | $50,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of vulnerable populations that are under additional strain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | Portland, ME | |
| 2020 | York County Community Action Corporation | Young Children, Families | $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 | Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. | Older Youth | $50,000 | To enhance an existing contract with the Maine Department of Corrections and to provide advocacy services to youth transitioning from Long Creek Youth Developmental Center into the community. | Harrisburg, ME |
| 2019 | American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation | Older Youth | $30,000 | To provide support for the provision of technical assistance to collaborating organizations seeking juvenile justice reform. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care / Promise Early Education Center | Families | $50,000 | To support the roll-out campaign for the Growing our Tree Streets Transformation Grant, to include grassroots organizing efforts and traditional print and media promotion. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Young Children, Families | $50,000 | To support the work of Family Futures Downeast, a two-generational educational program for parents and their children in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2019 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Families | $26,000 | To support the general operations of the Washington County Adult Education program. | Machias, ME |
| 2019 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $200,000 | To support the replication of BHA’s successful enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program at the Brewer and Old Town Housing Authorities and to align the programming available to participants at all three housing authorities. | Bangor, ME |
| 2019 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $127,000 | To support the work of Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building, child development, and educational and social-emotional learning to significantly improve outcomes for parents, children and families. | Bangor, ME |
| 2019 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $140,000 | To support the work of Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building, child development, and educational and social-emotional learning to significantly improve outcomes for parents, children and families. | Bangor, ME |
| 2019 | Bluehub Capital | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $300,000 | Three year grant to support the Working Communities Challenge, an effort to strengthen Maine communities' local leadership capacity by advancing cross-sector collaboration through multi-year grant awards. | Boston, MA |
| 2019 | Center For Childrens Law and Policy | Older Youth | $42,520 | To support work affiliated with an assessment of the Maine juvenile justice system, to include data collection and analysis, document review, report printing, and youth/community focus groups. | Washington, DC |
| 2019 | Central Maine Community Health Corporation | Families | $20,000 | To conduct an evaluation of downtown Lewiston resident awareness of lead poisoning and prevention strategies prior to and after a comprehensive community education campaign on lead. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Community Concepts | Families | $150,000 | To support the Lewiston Workforce Initiative, which connects individuals who have employment barriers to a career path through the provision of direct career counseling, job coaching, job development, and support services. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Community Concepts | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $150,000 | To support work aligned with the HUD CHOICE grant. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $50,000 | To support CSA's work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. | Topsham, ME |
| 2019 | Eastern Maine Development Corporation | $8,000 | To provide grantwriting support for the State of Maine’s application for National Health Emergency Grant funding. | Bangor, ME | |
| 2019 | Educate Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $50,000 | To support the development and distribution of the 2019 Education Indicators for Maine report and two related policy briefs. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Educate Maine | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $80,000 | To provide support for the general operations of Educate Maine as the backbone organization of the MaineSpark Coalition. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Frannie Peabody Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME | |
| 2019 | Genesis Community Loan Fund | Families | $25,000 | To provide support for capacity building activities to strengthen existing infrastructure and increase delivery of services. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2019 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | Families | $150,000 | To support innovative data- and community-driven strategies to improve access to nutritious food for all food-insecure Mainers. | Auburn, ME |
| 2019 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | Older Youth | $214,000 | Two year grant to support the YouthBuild Take 2 program, which provides career pathways and opportunities to build community connections for disconnected youth in Lewiston-Auburn. | Gorham, ME |
| 2019 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | Older Youth | $55,000 | To provide support to the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth, mostly public school students in Portland, with paid learning opportunities. | Gorham, ME |
| 2019 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative - Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning | Families | $50,000 | To provide general operating support. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2019 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative - Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning | Young Children, Families | $7,500 | To provide technical assistance to the City of Lewiston for a federal Lead Hazard Reduction grant application. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2019 | Healthy Homeworks | Families | $10,000 | To support the development of a Property Health Report, which will aggregate community data to form a complete story of the health of hundreds of Lewiston properties and rentals, presenting them in a user-friendly format available to the public. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $25,000 | To provide support for new staff to assist asyslees coming into Portland. | Portland, ME | |
| 2019 | KVCC Foundation | Families | $95,000 | To support a dedicated Two-Generation Student Navigator, who will connect economically disadvantaged KVCC student parents to wraparound supports to ensure degree completion. | Fairfield, ME |
| 2019 | Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber Of Commerce Foundation | Families | $50,000 | To support the operations of Healthy Neighborhoods. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Lewiston Public Schools | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $15,000 | To support LPS's plan to send a team of Lewiston-area community members and school personnel to a three-day training on generational poverty at the Harlem Children's Zone | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $51,500 | To attract and retain more diversity among LPS instructional staff, which will improve student academic performance. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Lewiston Public Schools | Older Youth | $100,000 | To fund a coordinator position at Lewiston High School who will implement a culturally-competent restorative practices system school-wide. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation | Families | $80,000 | To support an enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program in Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Association For The Education Of Young Children | Young Children | $20,000 | To support Maine AEYC's work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $10,000 | To provide operating support for the professional development, advocacy, and management resource needs of Maine's nonprofit organizations. | Portland, ME | |
| 2019 | Maine Cancer Foundation | $150,000 | To support the John T. Gorman Cancer Fund, which funds organizations and programs that are working to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in Maine and/or to support cancer patients. | Falmouth, ME | |
| 2019 | Maine Children's Alliance | Young Children | $2,500 | To support the development of the Elevate Maine proposal, which seeks to support high quality early care and education services for low-income children in Maine, and to provide education about the project to key policy and decision makers and members of the early childhood field. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $95,000 | To support the Invest in Tomorrow initiative, a diverse group of stakeholders working to develop and publish policy recommendations with the goal of increasing economic opportunities for Maine families in poverty. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $95,000 | To support the Invest in Tomorrow initiative, a diverse group of stakeholders working to develop and publish policy recommendations with the goal of increasing economic opportunities for Maine families in poverty. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | Maine Initiatives | $15,000 | To support the Solidarity Fund, which will distribute funds to key Maine -based immigrant-led nonprofits doing crucial work with recently arrived asylees. | Portland, ME | |
| 2019 | Maine Inside Out | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $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 | Maine Philanthropy Center | $13,500 | To support general operations and to sponsor the 2019 Spring Symposium. | Portland, ME | |
| 2019 | Maine State Housing Authority | Families | $10,000 | To provide capacity support for MaineHousing's efforts to apply for a federal Lead Hazard Reduction grant. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | Young Children, Families | $130,000 | To support the provision of home-based parent coaching services through the modified Attachment and Biobehavorial Catch-up model to at-risk mothers in the Kennebec Valley Region. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | MSAD 54 | Older Youth | $60,000 | To support the Somerset Youth Collaborative, which works to provide alternate paths to graduation for Skowhegan area youth and improves school culture to be trauma-informed, so students feel valued and prepared to succeed. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2019 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $50,000 | To support the Young People’s Caucus, which brings together youth from across the state to inform key decision-makers on how practices & policies are impacting Maine's young people, their communities, and their futures. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $50,000 | To provide match funding to utilize best practices and implementation design from a national model called Children Need Amazing Parents, which focuses on achieving permanency and lifelong connections for older youth in foster care. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $18,500 | To pilot a Young People’s Caucus, which brings together vulnerable youth aged 14 - 26 from across the state to share their lived experiences with policy makers who are determining public policies that directly impact their lives. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute | Older Youth | $15,000 | To support the delivery of the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute’s “My Values,” “My Voice,” and “My Vision” program at Lewiston High School. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Portland Housing Authority | Families | $75,000 | To support continued funding to enhance and expand PHA's Family Self Sufficiency Program. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Portland Public Schools | Older Youth, Young Children | $100,000 | To provide support for the Portland Public Schools' Equity Specialist position, who plays a key role in harnessing the resources, partners and internal stewards of the district's equity work. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Portland Public Schools - Riverton Elementary School | Young Children, Families | $25,000 | To support the planning process to become a Community School. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | Preble Street | Families | $10,000 | To support the purchase of food through Preble Street's emergency food programs' Asylee Assistance Project. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | State of Maine, Dept. of Health and Human Services - Office for Family Independence | Families | $65,000 | To support an evaluation of legislation passed to help low-income Mainers achieve self-sufficiency through the reduction of "cliff effects" that occur when increased earnings are not sufficient to cover the cost of lost public assistance benefits. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | State of Maine, Office of Policy Innovation and the Future | Older Youth, Young Children | $100,000 | To support staffing, outreach and related expenses incurred on behalf of the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Young Children, Families | $180,000 | To support Family Futures Downeast, a two-generation education and workforce opportunity for low-income parents and their children in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2019 | Sunrise Opportunities | Families | $75,000 | To support the general operations of the Community Caring Collaborative. | Machias, ME |
| 2019 | Sunrise Opportunities | $25,000 | To support a pilot transportation program for people in recovery in Washington County. | Machias, ME | |
| 2019 | The Center for Wisdom's Women | Families | $15,000 | To support Sophia's House, which provides shelter and support services to women with histories of chronic trauma and generational poverty. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2019 | The Urban Institute | Families | $92,798 | To support the continued adoption of key components of the Urban Housing, Opportunity, and Service Together model to enhance and track outcomes for the Bangor Housing's Families Forward program. | Washington, DC |
| 2019 | Tufts Medical Center / The Bingham Program | Families | $10,000 | To support Census efforts in hard-to-reach communities. | Boston, MA |
| 2019 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children, Families | $125,000 | To support the work of the Thrive2027 Coalition's efforts to ensure that children in Greater Portland have access to quality early learning experiences and that individuals and families have opportunities and resources to achieve financial stability. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | United Way of Greater Portland | Families | $25,000 | To support Women United and their two-generation work in Portland's East Bayside neighborhood. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $15,000 | To support United Way of Greater Portland's 2019 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | United Way of Greater Portland | Older Youth, Young Children | $225,000 | To support Portland ConnectED, a set of city-wide cradle-to-career strategies designed to impact kindergarten readiness, grade level reading, and postsecondary completion. | Portland, ME |
| 2019 | University System Of New Hampshire, Keene State College - Behavioral Health Improvement Institute | Young Children | $90,000 | To support an evaluation of the Oxford County Resiliency Project. | Keene, NH |
| 2019 | Wabanaki Health and Wellness | Families | $25,000 | To support community and cultural resiliency for Passamaquoddy Tribal Members who are recovering from opiate addiction. | Bangor, ME |
| 2019 | Western Maine Community Action | Families | $37,275 | To support Healthy Neighborhood's Shared Gifting process, which provides funds for physical beautification projects in Downtown Lewiston's Tree Street Neighborhood. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2019 | Youth Advocate Programs | Older Youth | $50,000 | To enhance its contract with the Maine Department of Corrections, and to provide advocacy services to youth who are transitioning from Long Creek Youth Developmental Center into the community. | Harrisburg, PA |
| 2018 | Annie E. Casey Foundation | Older Youth | $75,000 | To provide support for technical assistance and evaluation of Maine's Learn, Earn, Achieve Potential (LEAP) site. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2018 | Aroostook County Action Program | Families | $18,266 | To provide matching funds for ACAP's Low Income Heating Assistance Program. | Presque Isle, ME |
| 2018 | Aroostook County Action Program | Families | $100,000 | To provide support for the Family Coach program, which pairs families who are vulnerable with coaches to assist them in meeting their housing and other basic needs. | Presque Isle, ME |
| 2018 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Young Children, Families | $86,000 | To provide education and training to particpants of Family Futures Downeast, a two-generational program that combines post-secondary and career programming for Washington County parents with early childhood education for their children. | Machias, ME |
| 2018 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Families | $525,000 | Three year grant to establish a statewide digital literacy training program to improve employment outcomes and serve as a national model. | Machias, ME |
| 2018 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $124,000 | To replicate Bangor Housing Authority's successful enhanced Family Self-Sufficiency Program program at the Brewer and Old Town Housing Authorities. | Bangor, ME |
| 2018 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | Seniors | $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 | Young Children | $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 Lewiston | Families | $125,000 | To develop and implement recommendations evolving from the Choice Neighborhood resident engagement sessions. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | City of Portland | Young Children | $21,974 | To provide funding for a Lead Poisoning Public Outreach Mixed Media Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Community Concepts | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $42,000 | To support organizational participation in Healthy Neighborhoods, the CHOICE Neighborhood Grant, and to implement their Strategic Growth Plan. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | Community Concepts | Families | $245,000 | To support resident engagement and develop the organizational and financial structures needed to achieve the real estate objectives of the CHOICE Neighborhood initiative. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | Conservation Law Foundation | Young Children | $20,000 | To provide support for lead poisoning prevention, research, advocacy and technical assistance in Lewiston-Auburn and Portland. | Boston, MA |
| 2018 | Cooperative Development Institute | Families | $200,000 | Two year grant to provide business owners in Washington County with succession planning assistance, to provide workers with new skills that will improve profitability, and to sustain economic activity and access to goods and services in rural communities. | Northampton, MA |
| 2018 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $50,000 | To support their work with the Right from the Start Coalition, which is working to ensure that Maine's children have equal access to high quality early care and education opportunities. | Topsham, ME |
| 2018 | Educate Maine | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $50,000 | To provide support for the general operations of Educate Maine as the backbone organization of the MaineSpark Coalition. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Educate Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $50,000 | To support the development and distribution of the 2018 Education Indicators for Maine report and two related policy briefs. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Educate Maine | Young Children, Families | $100,000 | To support the fourth year of Elevate Somerset's effort to replicate Educare Central Maine's birth-to-kindergarten multi-generational model. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy | Families | $100,000 | To align FocusMaine's sector-specific efforts with broader job training and workforce development efforts in the state, and to support organizational efforts to research and implement best practice models and policies. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy | Families | $100,000 | To support FocusMaine, a ten-year initiative to strengthen and accelerate job growth and skills development in three traded sector industries – traceable foods (agriculture and aquaculture) and biopharmaceutical manufacturing – and to support programming that will result in a skilled workforce ready to sustain these sectors. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Friends of Baxter State Park | Older Youth | $20,000 | To expand participation in the Baxter Youth Conservation Corps, giving young people in Maine’s Katahdin region work experience, job skills, and increased confidence and aspirations. | Belfast, ME |
| 2018 | Genesis Community Loan Fund | Families | $25,000 | To provide support for capacity building activities to strengthen existing infrastructure and increase delivery of services. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2018 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | Older Youth | $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 | Families | $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 | Young Children | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2018 | Island Institute | Families | $25,000 | To support outreach and education efforts to scale lessons learned from broadband work with 42 island and coastal communities. | Rockland, ME |
| 2018 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | Older Youth | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | Older Youth | $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 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | Families | $12,906 | To provide matching funds for KVCAP's Low Income Heating Assistance Program. | Waterville, ME |
| 2018 | Legal Services for the Elderly | Seniors | $100,000 | Two year grant to provide funds for the Elder Abuse Prevention and Response Program. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $45,500 | To provide support to attract and retain more diversity among instructional staff, which will improve student academic performance. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging | Seniors | $300,000 | Two year grant to support five Meals On Wheels programs and the EZ Fix home repair program. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $10,000 | To provide operating support for professional development, advocacy, and management resource needs of Maine's nonprofit organizations. | Portland, ME | |
| 2018 | Maine Cancer Foundation | $150,000 | To create the John T. Gorman Cancer Fund, which will support organizations and programs that are working to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in Maine and/or to support cancer patients. | Falmouth, ME | |
| 2018 | Maine Community Action Association | Seniors | $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 Community Action Association | Seniors | $240,000 | Two year grant to support six transportation programs serving Maine seniors in under-served areas. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Community Foundation | Young Children | $21,500 | To fund work with the Data Innovation Project, who will provide support, training, and technical assitance to MCF's cohort of Early Childhood Planning grantees. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $95,000 | To support the Invest in Tomorrow initiative, a diverse group of stakeholders working to develop and publish policy recommendations with the goal of increasing economic opportunities for Maine families in poverty. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Inside Out | Older Youth | $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 Public Broadcasting Corporation | Older Youth | $25,000 | To support the broadcasting of stories/reports that focus on the issues facing one of the Foundation's priority populations: older vulnerable youth. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Quality Counts | Families | $30,000 | To complete a one-year research study that examines the primary and secondary drivers of infant mortality in Maine and explores opportunities for improvement. | Manchester, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Seacoast Mission | Families | $20,950 | To support the Mission’s ongoing work with the Data Innovation Project to incorporate better data collection and analysis into its programs and activities for more informed decision making. | Bar Harbor, ME |
| 2018 | Maine Women's Policy Center | Young Children, Families | $60,000 | To provide support for outreach efforts, working toward the development of an active constituency to support early childhood programs in Maine. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | Mercy Hospital | Young Children, Families | $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 | MSAD 54 | Older Youth, Young Children | $14,850 | To support a community collaborative in developing a two-year action plan to improve youth outcomes in the Skowhegan region. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2018 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $115,000 | To support year three of the Maine Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential initiative, which helps young people transitioning from foster care, involved with the Juvenile Justice system, or currently/recently homeless to complete high school and transition into post-secondary education or employment. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $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 | Muskie School of Public Service | $50,000 | To increase the number of practioners in Maine who have been trained in Results Based Facilitation and to provide technical assistance, coaching, and programmatic support to the John T. Gorman Fellowship and participating Fellows. | Portland, ME | |
| 2018 | Muskie School of Public Service | $20,000 | To provide funds for the Data Innovation Project to work with The Opportunity Alliance to document their process and progress toward implementing an agency-wide RBA approach to their work. | Portland, ME | |
| 2018 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $75,000 | To support the Maine Youth Justice Continuum of Care Road Map -- a blueprint for the creation of a system of in-home, community-based, and evidence-based out-of-home services for youth in Maine as an alternative to incarceration. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | NAMI Maine | Families | $50,000 | To provide support for general operations. | Augusta, ME |
| 2018 | New Beginnings | Older Youth | $75,000 | To support a statewide Youth Action Board, with representation from youth with lived experience of homeless, juvenile justice, and child welfare systems, which will advocate for policy/system change across sectors to improve the lives of Maine's vulnerable youth. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute | Older Youth | $15,000 | To support three classes of Olympia's Leaders as they progress through the My Values, My Voice, and My Vision program at Lewiston High School during the 2018 / 2019 academic year. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Oxford County Mental Health Services | Young Children | $200,000 | Two year grant to engage Oxford County schools in becoming trauma-informed and integrate resiliency-building into school culture. | Rumford, ME |
| 2018 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Young Children | $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 Housing Authority | Families | $100,000 | To replicate Bangor Housing Authority's successful enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program at the Portland Housing Authority. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Preble Street | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $60,000 | To support non-partisan advocacy and education efforts and to organize people with the lived experiences of homelessness and hunger to inform voters, policy makers, and service providers. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast | Older Youth | $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 | Safe Families for Children Alliance | Young Children | $50,000 | To support the staffing costs for one to two positions charged with overseeing referrals, supervising family coaches, and connecting children and families to referral sources. | Chicago, IL |
| 2018 | Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | Older Youth | $450,000 | Three year grant to support the Promise Scholar program -- which combines college scholarships with personal support, leadership opportunities, and career development -- for new cohorts in 2018, 2019, and 2020. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Families | $71,000 | To support their role as an organizational partner for Family Futures Downeast, a two-generational program that combines post-secondary and career programming for Washington County parents with early childhood education for their children. | Machias, ME |
| 2018 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Young Children, Families | $50,000 | To support the continued evaluation of Family Futures Downeast, a two-generational program that combines post-secondary and career programming for Washington County parents with early childhood education for their children. | Machias, ME |
| 2018 | Sunrise Opportunities | Families | $100,000 | To support their role as an organizational partner for Family Futures Downeast, a two-generational program that combines post-secondary and career programming for Washington County parents with early childhood education for their children. | Machias, ME |
| 2018 | The University of Maine System | Seniors | $60,000 | Two year grant to identify and match seniors needing support with volunteers who will provide weekly visits, occasional necessary transportation, and information on resources and programs that support independent living. | Orono, ME |
| 2018 | Tree Street Youth | Older Youth | $20,000 | To support the Sequoia Juvenile Justice Initiative, a juvenile diversion prgram in Lewiston, Maine. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2018 | United Way of Greater Portland | Older Youth, Young Children | $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 | Families | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children, Families | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $15,000 | To support United Way of Greater Portland's 2018 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | University of Maine School of Law Foundation | Older Youth | $197,000 | Two year grant to support the Juvenile Justice Reform Project, which develops and advocates for key reforms needed to ensure that youth involved in Maine's juvenile justice system can become successful adults. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | University of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | Families | $250,000 | To enable New Ventures Maine to serve as the backbone organization for CA$H Maine, a statewide collaboration of ten regional CA$H Coalitions that delivers financial education, coaching, and matched savings programs to low-income Maine families. | Augusta, Maine |
| 2018 | University of Southern Maine Foundation | Older Youth, Young Children | $75,000 | To support the Promise Scholarship Program, which supports Maine's low-income, primarily first-generation, students by providing financial aid and guidance to succeed in college. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Western Maine Community Action | Older Youth, Young Children, Families, Seniors | $50,000 | To provide support to Healthy Neighborhoods for their work in Lewiston's Tree Street Neighborhood as related to the CHOICE federal Housing and Urban Development grant. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2017 | Annie E. Casey Foundation | Older Youth | $75,000 | To provide technical assistance for Learn, Earn, Achieve Potential (LEAP) sites nationally. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2017 | Aspen Institute | Older Youth | $50,000 | To support the engagement of southern rural Maine in the Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund grantee network. | Washington, DC |
| 2017 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Families | $120,000 | To provide support for Family Futures Downeast's Collaborative Project. | Machias, ME |
| 2017 | Bangor Housing Authority | Young Children, Families | $250,000 | To support Families Forward, a two generation approach to improving outcomes for children, parents and families. | Bangor, ME |
| 2017 | Bangor Housing Authority | Young Children | $50,000 | To support summer programming with the goal of preventing summer learning loss and maintaining literacy achievement for youth. | Bangor, ME |
| 2017 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Young Children | $50,000 | To support the Brain Gain Read! Summer Learning Loss Prevention Program. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Community Concepts | Families | $18,000 | To support pre-planning work for the HUD Choice Neighborhood application in Lewiston; including the development of a Physical Needs Assessment of the Maple Knolls Apartments and resident and community meetings. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Community Concepts | Families | $180,000 | To support an eighteen month expansion of workforce initiative efforts, including support for a project director and coach. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Community Concepts | Families | $175,000 | To support neighborhood capacity among organziations and residents in the Tree Street Neighborhood as the community works toward neighborhood revitalization. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $55,000 | To support the Right from the Start Coalition's early care and education policies to increase quality, access, and affordability. | Topsham, ME |
| 2017 | Educate Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $50,000 | To support the development and distributribution of the 2017 Education Indicators for Maine report and two related policy briefs. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Educate Maine | Young Children | $98,000 | To provide support for the expanded implementation of Count ME In. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | Older Youth | $100,000 | To support the Gateway to Opportunity program, which connects low-income youth to paid summer learning opportunities. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Families | $131,000 | To support the delivery of comprehensive housing assessment and intervention services to low-income families. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2017 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Families | $16,500 | To support GHHI's grant writing and technical assistance work in preparation of the City of Lewiston's application to the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development for Lead Hazard Reduction funding. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2017 | Intercultural Community Center | Young Children | $50,000 | To support a summer academic enrichment program targeted to served the needs of immigrant children in Portland and Westbrook. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2017 | Island Institute | Families | $100,000 | To support broadband expansion to island and coastal communities in Maine. | Rockland, ME |
| 2017 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $77,000 | To support enhancements to the Integrated Supports / Response to Intervention System at Montello Elementary. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Lewiston Public Schools | Older Youth, Young Children | $113,000 | To fund a Restorative Practices Coordinator at Lewiston High School as well as youth stipends, staff stipends, and training to support the coordinator in implementation of a culturally competent system of Restorative Practices. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME | |
| 2017 | Maine Children's Alliance | Young Children | $50,000 | To support the development of a comprehensive policy platform to improve the quality of early learning experiences for all Maine children. | Augusta, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $50,000 | For general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Families | $15,400 | To support organizational planning, human resource management, and governance / financial systems. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Families | $50,000 | For general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Families | $25,000 | To to support upgrades to their new community center. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Maine Philanthropy Center | $19,000 | For general operating support, sponsorship of the 2018 Philanthropy Partners Conference in May, and to support the work of the advocacy commitee. | Portland, ME | |
| 2017 | Muskie School of Public Service | Young Children | $80,000 | To support their technical assistance to Foundation grantees, including Portland ConnectED, Starting Strong, Summer learning sites, and Maine Sea Coast Mission. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $115,000 | To support Year 2 of Maine's Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) Social Innovation Fund Initiative. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | National Conference of State Legislatures Foundation | Families | $30,000 | To provide sponsorship for a two generation conference in Maine. | Denver, CO |
| 2017 | Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute | Older Youth | $50,000 | To provide support for the "My Vision" class of young women leaders. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Penquis | Families | $25,000 | To provide support for the Piscataquis Safe Havens Center. | Bangor, ME |
| 2017 | Portland Public Schools | Young Children | $26,136 | To support a partnership between King Middle School and four other Maine schools to adopt an interdisciplinary, experiential-based model for teaching and learning. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Preble Street | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $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 | Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | Older Youth | $260,000 | To provide ten Promise Scholars with scholarships each year for four years as well as wrap-around supports to expand academic and career opportunities. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Young Children | $100,000 | To support low-income families in Washington County through a two-generational approach to post-secondary education and early childhood education. | Machias, ME |
| 2017 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Families | $50,000 | To support an evaluation of the Family Futures Downeast initiative. | Machias, ME |
| 2017 | Sunrise Opportunities | Families | $100,000 | To provide general operating support for the Community Caring Collaborative. | Machias, ME |
| 2017 | Telling Room | Young Children | $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 | The Urban Institute | Families | $99,990 | To support the adaption of key components of the Urban Housing, Opportunity, and Service Together model to enhance and track outcomes for the Bangor Housing's Families Forward program. | Washington, DC |
| 2017 | Tree Street Youth | Older Youth | $25,000 | For general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | Tree Street Youth | Older Youth | $20,000 | To support the Sequoia Juvenile Justice Program. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | Families | $25,000 | To support the Women United two generation strategy. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | Families | $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 | Young Children | $175,000 | To support Starting Strong's strategies in 2017-2018. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $150,000 | To serve as a match for new and increased 2017 Annual Campaign pledges. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $15,000 | Support for United Way's 2017 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | University of Maine School of Law Foundation | Older Youth | $83,000 | To support juvenile justice reforms regarding sealed records, age appropriate mental intent standards, creation of a continuum of care, and the creation of the Maine Center for Juvenile Policy and Law. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | University Of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | Families | $250,000 | To provide support to continue and expand the work of the Maine CA$H coalitions in advancing financial capability of Maine families. | Augusta, ME |
| 2017 | University System of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy | Young Children | $24,097 | To support a data scan related to Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the state of Maine. | Durham, NH |
| 2017 | University System of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy | Families | $46,353 | To support the production of a Maine demographic analysis and a policy scan relevant to the Foundation's priority areas. | Durham, NH |
| 2017 | University System of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy | Older Youth | $42,976 | To support the production of three publications and an overview all focused on older youth transition to adulthood. | Durham, NH |
| 2016 | AARP Foundation | Seniors | $100,000 | A two year grant to support AARP Maine's engagement of local organizations and citizens over the age of 50, and to create additional infrastructure to support localities investing in preparing for aging residents. | Washington, DC |
| 2016 | Alfond Scholarship Foundation | Families | $50,000 | For a systematic and objective evaluation of its Children's Savings Account program, the Harold Alfond College Challenge. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Alfond Youth Center | Young Children | $49,970 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Bangor's Capehart neighborhood. | Bangor, ME |
| 2016 | Augusta Food Bank | $50,000 | To support service expansion in the Augusta area. | Augusta, ME | |
| 2016 | Augusta Public Schools | Young Children | $9,586 | For community-based programming to address summer learning loss in Augusta. | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | Young Children, Families, Seniors | $32,000 | For the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition to support outreach and education work on lead poisoning prevention and affordable senior housing, as well as an update to senior housing research. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Families | $150,000 | To support programming for post-secondary readiness activities for prospective participants in Family Futures Downeast, a two-generation program in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2016 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | Seniors | $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 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | Seniors | $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 | Boy Scouts of America | $15,750 | To provide support for the Scout Program Aid Initiative in six scouting units in under-served Maine communities. | Raymond, ME | |
| 2016 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Young Children | $38,315 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Lewiston, Portland and South Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | City of Lewiston | Families | $150,000 | To provide training in entry level construction trades to individuals with low-incomes, including parents, New Mainers, and veterans. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2016 | City of Portland | Young Children | $16,963 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Community Concepts | Families | $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 | Educate Maine | Older Youth, Young Children | $50,000 | To develop and distribute the Education Indicators for Maine 2016 report and to support the production of three policy briefs. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy | Families | $40,000 | For FocusMaine, which works to advance and strengthen new economic sectors in Maine. | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | Older Youth | $88,000 | To support the Take2 program, which provides career pathways and opportunities to build community connections for disconnected youth in Lewiston-Auburn. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | Families | $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 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Young Children, Families | $15,000 | For grant writing and technical assistance to MaineHousing related to the submission of a 2016 Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control / Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Grant. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2016 | Intercultural Community Center | Young Children | $40,000 | For community-based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Westbrook. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2016 | Island Institute | Families | $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 | Lewiston Public Schools | Older Youth | $304,000 | A two year grant to support two English Language Learner coaches to implement recommendations from a program evaluation conducted by the Center for Applied Linguistics. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2016 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $80,118 | For the Lewiston Campaign for Grade-Level Reading initiative, which works to ensure Lewiston students are reading at grade level by the end of third grade. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2016 | Lydia Home Association | Young Children | $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 | Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging | Seniors | $300,000 | A two year grant to help Maine’s five area agencies on aging meet the growing demand by older adults for access to food and home repair services. | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services | Older Youth | $17,600 | To train juvenile defense attorneys. | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | Maine Community Action Association | Seniors | $240,000 | A two year grant to support six programs (Community Concepts, KVCAP, Penquis, Waldo CAP, Washington Hancock CAP and York County Cap) that provide transportation for seniors in underserved areas. | E. Wilton, ME |
| 2016 | Maine Community Action Association | Seniors | $160,000 | A two year grant for repairs to homes of senior Maine residents. | E. Wilton, ME |
| 2016 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $90,000 | To build a broad base of support for solutions to child poverty by identifying indicators and developing a scorecard to measure outcomes of assistance programs. | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | Maine Women's Policy Center | Young Children, Families | $80,000 | To research, write and publish a white paper documenting the current status of key programs that serve children and families, and to support other policy-related activities | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | Mount Blue Regional School District | Young Children | $10,000 | To provide school-based summer learning programming to address summer learning loss in Farmington. | Farmington, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $41,000 | For the Maine Juvenile Justice Collateral Consequences Report. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $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 | Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute | Older Youth | $50,000 | For the Androscoggin County beta class of 49 juniors as they begin year two of the leadership program, which is focused on helping participants learn effective communication skills. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Penquis | Young Children | $140,000 | To increase the quality of family, friend and neighbor care in Bangor’s Capehart community. | Bangor, ME |
| 2016 | Sanford Public Schools | Young Children | $10,000 | To support community- based summer programming to address summer learning loss in Sanford. | Sanford, ME |
| 2016 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Families | $200,000 | For Family Futures Downeast, a two – generation education and workforce training opportunity for low – income parents in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2016 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Families | $89,930 | To identify new opportunities for Maine Tribes to better represent and serve their most vulnerable families through Wabanaki Aspirations, a collaborative entity that supports and incubates responsive, culturally competent services. | Machias, ME |
| 2016 | The Opportunity Alliance | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $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 | Families | $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 University of Maine System | Seniors | $60,000 | A two-year grant to expand the capacity of staff to identify and accommodate the needs of the disabled aging population in the region. | Bangor, ME |
| 2016 | Tree Street Youth | Older Youth | $50,000 | For capital funding support to expand the existing facility. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2016 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $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 | Young Children, Families | $250,000 | Matching grant for the 2016 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $12,500 | To support the 2016 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | University of Maine School of Law Foundation | Older Youth | $31,000 | For the Juvenile Justice Reform Project (JJRP), through which law students and faculty will research, develop, and advocate for several key reforms needed to ensure that children involved in the Maine juvenile justice system have a successful transition away from that system and into adulthood. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | University Of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | Families | $10,000 | To provide coordinated financial education, career planning training and individual coaching to help meet individual and program goals for Family Self- Sufficiency Programs at the Bangor Housing Authority and Lewiston Housing Authority. | Augusta, ME |
| 2016 | University of New England | Young Children | $93,500 | To provide support to develop a comprehensive, state-wide plan to address the impacts of trauma in children and families. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2016 | Western Maine Community Action | Young Children, Families | $35,400 | For the Healthy Neighborhoods Planning Council, which organizes community members trying to improve housing in downtown Lewiston and Auburn. | E. Wilton, ME |
| 2016 | York County Community Action Corporation | Young Children, Seniors | $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 | AARP Foundation | Seniors | $154,000 | To support AARP Maine's work with communities and nonprofit organizations creating age friendly communities. | Washington, DC |
| 2015 | Alfond Youth Center | Older Youth, Young Children | $44,600 | To implement the Smarter Summer Program at the Bangor chapter of the Boys and Girls Clubs. | Bangor, ME |
| 2015 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | For general operating support for the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition. | Portland, ME | |
| 2015 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | Young Children | $25,000 | To support Maine Affordable Housing Coalition's advocacy efforts regarding the implementation of Maine's new lead poisoning prevention law. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | Seniors | $156,375 | To support the Community Aging in Place Program to increase housing stability for low-income, disabled and elderly homeowners. | Bath, ME |
| 2015 | Biddeford School Department | Young Children | $26,400 | To pilot a school-based mental health clinician model. | Biddeford, ME |
| 2015 | Boy Scouts of America | Older Youth, Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $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. | Families | $55,250 | To support activities for the second year of the Portland Jobs Alliance. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2015 | College for ME Androscoggin | Older Youth | $45,000 | To support its effots to increase post-secondary attendance and completion in Androscoggin County. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $30,000 | To develop a model for linking non-traditional advocates (admirals, generals, police, and business leaders) with early childhood issues. | Topsham, ME |
| 2015 | Council for a Strong America | Young Children | $55,000 | For early childhood education and child care advocacy. | Topsham, ME |
| 2015 | Educate Maine | Young Children | $147,000 | To act as the fiscal sponsor for the Maine Early Learning Investment Group early care and education pilot in Somerset County. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Educate Maine | Older Youth | $25,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Educate Maine | Young Children | $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 | Families | $100,000 | To support Family Futures Downeast. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | Families | $40,646 | To support an automotive technician training program. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Families | $18,000 | To support the staff time and research needed to bolster the case for receipt of a Lead Hazard Control Grant to the State of Maine. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2015 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | Older Youth | $25,000 | To support the new position of JMG Transition Specialist, which helps youth in the Foster Care system successfully complete high school and transition to, persist in, and complete post-secondary education. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | Older Youth | $250,000 | Two year grant to pilot a retention program at four public university and community college campuses, targeting youth in foster care, non-traditional students who have obtained a high school equivalency diploma through alternative education within the past five years, and students who have been enrolled in high school programs offered by JMG. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | Older Youth | $360,000 | Three year grant to expand the Opportunity Passport matched savings program in Maine. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | LearningWorks | Young Children | $51,000 | To support a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $140,800 | To support a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Lewiston Public Schools | Families | $123,090 | To make programmatic and instructional improvements, that reflect best practices, to the adult English for Speakers of Other Languages programs. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $99,000 | To pilot an approach at Montello School that will integrate school and community interventions to help children (and their families) succeed and increase third grade reading proficiency. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $25,000 | To support the Campaign for Grade Level Reading. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging | Seniors | $35,000 | Two year grant to support the creation of a Tri-State Learning Collaborative on Aging for Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries | Older Youth | $300,000 | Three year grant for the Eastern Maine Skipper’s Program, which provides multiple pathways to high school graduation for at-risk students interested in marine related careers. | Stonington, ME |
| 2015 | Maine Children's Alliance | Young Children | $42,000 | For capacity building. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $20,000 | For capacity building and technical assistance. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Older Youth | $20,000 | Two year grant to provide cultural brokering and interpretation services for a juvenile justice collaborative in Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $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 | Older Youth | $12,000 | To develop an outcomes data and measurement system. | Westbrook, ME |
| 2015 | Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute | Older Youth | $50,000 | To launch a year-long leadership program for 10th grade girls in Androscoggin County. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Oxford Hills School District | Young Children | $50,000 | To provide a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Oxford, ME |
| 2015 | Penquis | Families | $25,000 | For the Good Neighbor Fund, which is specifically targeted to Maine communities with unexpected heating needs due to recent mill closings. | Bangor, ME |
| 2015 | Penquis | Families | $200,000 | To provide funding for the Maine Family Development Account Program. | Bangor, ME |
| 2015 | Peregrine Corp. | Families | $20,000 | To support the renovation and repair needs for their South Portland building. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Older Youth | $180,000 | Two year grant to support the KIDS LEGAL Fellowship, focused on issues related to the successful transition of vulnerable older youth to adulthood. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Adult Education | Families | $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 | Families | $94,000 | To enhance and expand services for low- to moderate-income individuals in Portland. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Public Library | Seniors | $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 | Young Children | $100,000 | To provide a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | Families | $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 | Families | $50,000 | To support the Emergency Food Program. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Seeds of Independence | Older Youth | $75,000 | To support progress towards building a sustainable program model and towards enhancing collaboration with partners. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2015 | Southern Maine Community College Foundation | Older Youth | $39,800 | To support MySuccess in the 2016-2017 school year. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Sunrise Opportunities | Families | $390,000 | Two year grant to help Community Caring Collaborative maintain the necessary infrastructure to continue to support children and families in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2015 | The Opportunity Alliance | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $80,000 | For capacity building. | South Portland, ME |
| 2015 | The Root Cellar | Older Youth | $36,000 | To support the Rooted Juvenile Diversion Program. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Tree Street Youth | Older Youth | $120,000 | To support the implementation of a Juvenile Justice Reporting Center. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | Trinity Jubilee Center | Families | $15,525 | For philanthropy and fundraising technical assistance. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $75,000 | To support Starting Strong - a community based effort to improve academic achievemnet. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $63,500 | For capacity building related to the Community Goal Setting Process and Implementation. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $250,000 | Matching grant for the 2015 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $25,000 | To support the Campaign for Grade Level Reading. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $12,500 | To support the 2015 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | University of Maine School of Law Foundation | Older Youth | $45,000 | To support the Clinic's work helping unaccompanied refugee and immigrant youth. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Washington Hancock Community Agency | Seniors | $61,000 | To support the At Home Downeast program. | Ellsworth, ME |
| 2015 | Wayside Food Programs | Families | $50,000 | To provide supplemental food for individuals being impacted by a change in food voucher benefits. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | AARP Foundation | Seniors | $75,000 | To provide technical assistance to Maine communities that are planning for the needs of Maine’s aging population. | Washington, DC |
| 2014 | Alfond Scholarship Foundation | Young Children | $12,000 | To provide matching funds for families with children participating in Head Start who open college savings accounts. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care | Young Children | $18,000 | To help families prepare to enroll in the Harold Alfond College Challenge savings program and to provide ongoing education and support to families. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Aspen Institute | Older Youth | $200,000 | Three year grant to support the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network's efforts to build and expand pathways to opportunity for Southern Maine’s disadvantaged youth and young adults. | Washington, DC |
| 2014 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | Seniors | $31,500 | To research the availability, quality and affordability of housing for Maine’s seniors and assess senior housing needs in the coming years. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | Families | $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 | Axiom Education and Training Center | Families | $410,000 | Two year grant to pilot a new strategy for coordinating small business development and Adult Education in the Greater Machias region. | Machias, ME |
| 2014 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $385,000 | Three year grant to enhance its Family Self-Sufficiency Program through case management services that connect residents with the workforce or education and training opportunities as well as other asset building services. | Bangor, ME |
| 2014 | Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy | Young Children | $100,000 | To connect teen mentors to young children learning to read through the establishment of 20 Teen Trendsetter programs in Maine. | Limington, ME |
| 2014 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | Young Children | $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 | Brandeis University | Families | $387,000 | Three year grant to provide technical assistance to and evaluation of expanded Family Self Sufficiency and Family, Friend and Neighbor Care programs. | Waltham, MA |
| 2014 | Center for Applied Linguistics | Families | $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. | Families | $75,106 | To support employer outreach, data maintenance and the coordination of partnerships within the Portland Jobs Alliance. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2014 | Cultivating Community | Young Children | $20,000 | For a community initiative that promotes access to locally grown and healthy foods in Portland Public Schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Educate Maine | Young Children | $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 | Educate Maine | Young Children | $40,000 | To provide support for the 2015 Education Indicators for Maine Report and organizational operating costs. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy | Families | $50,000 | To support the Maine Economic Focus Initiative, which will undertake the data-gathering and analysis needed to target a small number of industries that have the potential to revitalize Maine’s economy and provide opportunities for family sustaining wages. | Augusta, ME |
| 2014 | Good Willl Home Association | Older Youth | $65,000 | To provide funding for the College Step Up program, supporting youth aging out of foster care by providing year-round housing, academic coaching and life skills education while they attend Kennebec Valley Community College. | Hinckley, ME |
| 2014 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Families | $256,000 | Two year grant to provide technical assistance and staffing support to GHHI Lewiston/Auburn as they work to integrate resources and provide services that improve housing quality and resident outcomes. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2014 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | Young Children | $14,000 | To help families enroll in the Harold Alfond College Challenge savings program, as well as to provide ongoing education and support to families. | Waterville, ME |
| 2014 | LearningWorks | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $42,000 | To address summer learning loss for students entering grades K through 3 in the Biddeford Public Schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Legal Services for the Elderly | Seniors | $539,000 | Three year grant to support a statewide public awareness and education campaign focused on elder maltreatment, and to ensure that all victims who contact LSE for services receive the help that they need. | Augusta, ME |
| 2014 | Lewiston Public Schools | Families, Young Children | $47,860 | To contract with the Center for Applied Linguistics to do a complete review of their pre-kindergarten to adult English Language Learner Programs. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $23,850 | To secure technical assistance from the National Summer Learning Association in order to conduct a community-wide assessment of existing summer resources; implement a data-driven system that enables local organizations, funders and other stakeholders to work together more effectively; and shape programs and policies to better meet the community’s needs. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $100,000 | To address summer learning loss for students entering grades K through 3. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $24,000 | To provide supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program aimed at addressing summer learning loss. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Maine Association of Nonprofits | $10,000 | Two year grant to provide general operating support. | Portland, ME | |
| 2014 | Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault | Families | $48,552 | To conduct a statewide needs assessment and develop an associated action plan regarding human trafficking and exploitation. | Augusta, ME |
| 2014 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $75,000 | To support advocacy efforts focused on improving federal and state programs that connect Maine people with low income to educational and employment opportunities. | Augusta, ME |
| 2014 | Maine Hospice Council | Seniors | $20,250 | To provide funding to sustain the ongoing work of the program. | Augusta, ME |
| 2014 | Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services | Families | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $75,000 | To support the Southern Maine Youth Transition Network’s Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund implementation plan. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Muskie School of Public Service | Young Children | $331,000 | To improve the quality of child care programs in Maine by supporting providers pursuing national accreditation. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | New Beginnings | Older Youth | $175,000 | To provide a permanent home for New Beginnings’ Youth Drop-In Center, Outreach Program, and agency administrative offices, as well as the ability to provide increased educational programming for homeless youth. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Oxford Hills School District | Young Children | $24,000 | To provide supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program aimed at addressing summer learning loss. | Oxford, ME |
| 2014 | Oxford Hills School District | Young Children | $50,000 | To address summer learning loss for students entering grades K through 3. | Oxford, ME |
| 2014 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Young Children | $585,000 | Three year grant to support a medical-legal partnership intended to reduce lead paint exposure and poisoning among children in Lewiston. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Adult Education | Families | $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 | Young Children | $15,000 | To provide supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program aimed at addressing summer learning loss. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Public Schools | Young Children | $100,000 | To address summer learning loss for students entering grades K through 3. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce | Families | $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 | Families | $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 | Seeds of Independence | Older Youth | $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 | Southern Maine Community College Foundation | Older Youth | $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 | The Opportunity Alliance | Families | $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 | Families | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Older Youth | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $12,500 | To support the 2014/2015 annual campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2014 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $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 | University of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | Families | $860,000 | Three year grant to build the capacity of CA$H Coalitions statewide to help families become more financially stable, to enhance access to financial training services and products, and to support the creation of a policy and research agenda. | Augusta, ME |
| 2014 | University System of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy | Seniors | $50,300 | To produce a data report about the well-being of Maine’s seniors. | Durham, NH |
| 2014 | Western Maine Community Action | Seniors | $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 |
| 2014 | Women Unlimited | Families | $350,000 | Two year grant to provide skills training, job connections and work supports to low-income individuals in Bangor, Machias and Lewiston and align that training with the workforce needs of local industries. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association - Maine Chapter | Seniors | $25,000 | To provide outreach to physicians, health centers, and community centers statewide and connect with newly diagnosed patients and their families dealing with all stages of Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. | Scarborough, ME |
| 2013 | Bangor Housing Authority | Families | $20,000 | To develop an enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program based on data provided by Brandeis University researchers. | Bangor, ME |
| 2013 | Boy Scouts of America | Young Children | $15,534 | To support the creation of four new scouting units in underserved subsidized Housing Authority neighborhoods. | Raymond, ME |
| 2013 | Brandeis University | Families | $12,100 | To create a survey and interview guide to help the Bangor Housing Authority develop plans for an enhanced Family Self Sufficiency Program. | Waltham, MA |
| 2013 | Central Maine Area Agency on Aging | Seniors | $76,000 | To support the development of a community healthcare delivery model that provides integrated medical and social services support to high risk seniors in Lincoln County. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Child and Family Opportunities | Young Children | $87,650 | To support ongoing professional development for early childhood providers and elementary teachers through a coaching and mentoring model that is informed by a “best practice” assessment tool. | Ellsworth, ME |
| 2013 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | Families | $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 | Community Clinical Services | Young Children | $55,000 | To provide clinical support to children and families at Longley Elementary School and provide technical assistance to school staff. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Cultivating Community | Families | $110,000 | A two year grant to support the development of transferable job skills and provide new marketing opportunities for New American farmers in the Lewiston-Auburn area through the Business Incubation, Skill Building and Market Development Project and the New American Sustainable Agriculture Project. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Eastern Area Agency on Aging | Seniors | $100,000 | To support the expansion of the EZ Fix program, a year round home repair and independent living program for low-income Maine senior citizens and adults with disabilities. | Bangor, ME |
| 2013 | Educare Central Maine | Young Children | $75,000 | A three year grant to support the “Shared Services Model,” a web-based platform for licensed child care providers to share costs and access national discounts and professional resources, including training and technical assistance. | Waterville, ME |
| 2013 | Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | Older Youth | $131,200 | To redesign and strengthen its student academic support services by creating a student success center that offers advising, tutoring, and testing services. | South Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Four Directions Development Corporation | Families | $40,000 | To support research and evaluation of public and private investments in various affordable housing lending products on Indian Island and their impact on residents. | Orono, ME |
| 2013 | Jim Casey Youth Opportunities | Older Youth | $50,000 | To support the Maine Youth Transition Collaborative, an effort focused on increasing educational and employment success for youth transitioning from foster care into adulthood. | St. Louis, MO |
| 2013 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | Young Children | $75,830 | To provide support and technical assistance for Waterville’s Project 2020, a community-driven plan aimed at increasing third grade reading proficiency informed by the National Grade Level Reading Campaign model. | Waterville, ME |
| 2013 | King Middle School | Young Children | $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 | LearningWorks | Young Children | $31,526 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in Biddeford public schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Legal Services for the Elderly | Seniors | $75,000 | To provide support for the creation of a handbook and media campaign to help low-income seniors become more aware of financial exploitation. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $100,000 | To provide support for participation in the National Grade Level Reading Campaign and develop a community-wide approach to improve 3rd grade reading proficiency. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Lewiston Public Schools | Young Children | $76,972 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in Lewiston public schools. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation | Families | $50,000 | To develop and fund a security deposit loan program for low-income and/or homeless families who need assistance with security deposits. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Lydia Home Association | Young Children | $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 | Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging | Seniors | $27,000 | To support Maine Council on Aging’s efforts to begin the coordination of round table discussions on Aging in Maine. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging | Seniors | $265,000 | To expand the Money Minders program and for training community health workers to help Maine seniors age in place. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Maine Children's Trust | Young Children | $78,000 | To support the promotion of family engagement in child care programs by using a Strengthening Families model and Maine Roads to Quality resources to improve the quality of early care and education for children in Maine. | Hallowell, ME |
| 2013 | Maine People's Resource Center | Families | $60,000 | To support education and outreach regarding federal funding for Medicaid expansion. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Maine People's Resource Center | Families | $20,000 | To support Lewiston Community Voices Project to engage low-income Lewiston residents in redevelopment efforts. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | Older Youth | $39,000 | To support mental health services available to high school students with limited or no health insurance. | Topsham, ME |
| 2013 | Many Flags | Older Youth | $150,000 | To support capacity building toward their long-term mission of increasing and improving the pathways of education and employment for children, youth and adults in Knox County; and to leverage federal funding through a Promise Neighborhood planning grant. | Rockland, ME |
| 2013 | Mount Blue Regional School District | Young Children | $50,000 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in RSU 09. | Farmington, ME |
| 2013 | Muskie School of Public Service | Young Children | $215,000 | To support Maine Roads to Quality. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $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 | Muskie School of Public Service | Older Youth | $73,324 | To support data and research activities related to helping more Maine youth successfully transition to adulthood. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | New Beginnings | Older Youth | $172,000 | To support a pilot program working to integrate mental health services for homeless youth in Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Oxford Hills School District | Young Children | $49,984 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in RSU 17. | Oxford, ME |
| 2013 | Pen Bay Healthcare Foundation | Seniors | $35,000 | To support the construction of a seven-bed Hospice House in Rockland on the Pen Bay Medical Center campus. | Rockland, ME |
| 2013 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Older Youth | $150,000 | To support a two-year fellowship for an attorney in the Kids Legal Unit to represent children and their families, particularly in educational matters. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Portland Community Health Center | Families | $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 | Families | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Families | $10,000 | To support planning and early implementation of an economic development work plan for Portland and the region. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Preble Street | Older Youth | $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 | Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast | Older Youth | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | Older Youth | $468,000 | A three year grant to provide post-secondary scholarships, mentoring, and academic supports to youth aging out of foster care and other disadvantaged young people. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | Seniors | $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 | Young Children | $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 | Older Youth | $300,000 | A two year grant to support expansion of the Building Assets Reducing Risks program. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | The Opportunity Alliance | Families | $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 | Families | $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 | The University of Maine System | Seniors | $39,000 | To provide services to homebound seniors living in isolated areas and increase travel reimbursement rates for all companion volunteers. | Orono, ME |
| 2013 | United Way of Greater Portland | Families | $197,000 | To support increased participation in the CA$H (Creating Assets, Savings & Hope) Campaign sites, enroll families in a 529 savings initiative, and assist families in applying for the Next Gen and Harold Alfond college savings plans. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | United Way of Greater Portland | Older Youth | $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 | Young Children | $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 | University of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | Families | $100,000 | A two year grant to implement a Rainy Day Savings Program which helps at-risk Maine people save for a financial emergency. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | University of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | Families | $310,000 | To support the CA$H coalition and Family Development Account Coalition. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Western Maine Community Action | Seniors | $67,000 | To support the the Keeping Seniors Home Program, which helps Maine seniors age in place. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2013 | Wholesome Wave Foundation Charitable Ventures | Families | $25,000 | To support increased electronic benefit transfer (EBT) access and incentive programs at farmers’ markets statewide; and to build the capacity of the Maine Federation of Farmers’ Markets to promote greater access to fresh fruits and vegetables for low-income families. | Bridgeport, CT |
| 2013 | Women Unlimited | Families | $160,000 | To support a data system that will track participant outcomes and current programming. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Youth and Family Outreach | Young Children | $25,000 | To provide support for community based pre-K in partnership with Portland Public Schools. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Central Maine Community Health Corporation | Young Children, Families | $248,000 | Two year grant to support Healthy Androscoggin's efforts to build the capacity needed to address high lead poisoning rates in children living in downtown Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2012 | City of Portland | Families | $25,000 | To provide the Portland Free Clinic with general operating support and to develop a long term sustainability plan. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Crisis and Counseling Center | $100,000 | To support a demonstration project intended to reduce recidivism rates among individuals in the Kennebec County Correctional Facility. | Augusta, ME | |
| 2012 | Educate Maine | Older Youth | $50,000 | To support the College and Career Pathways Program and for general operating expenses. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges | Older Youth | $280,000 | A two year grant to enhance academic support services at Eastern Maine Community College. | South Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Green and Healthy Homes Initiative | Families, Young Children | $49,000 | To provide technical assistance to Healthy Androscoggin and other stakeholders in Lewiston who are working to decrease elevated blood lead levels in that city. | Baltimore, MD |
| 2012 | Lydia Home Association | Young Children, Families | $35,000 | To provide support for the Safe Families program that recruits and trains volunteer families within seven Maine counties to help care for children when parents are unable to do so. | Whiting, ME |
| 2012 | Maine After School Network | Young Children | $100,000 | To support Expanded Learning Opportunities through the Maine Afterschool Network and provide a match for a Mott Foundation grant. | Augusta, ME |
| 2012 | Maine Association of Area Agencies on Aging | Seniors | $100,000 | To support planning and development work that promotes the safety, independence and well-being of older adults in Maine, especially those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged. | Augusta, ME |
| 2012 | Maine Development Foundation | Young Children | $10,000 | To fund an Early Childhood Economic Impact Research Study. | Augusta, ME |
| 2012 | Maine Development Foundation | Families | $100,000 | To conduct research to better understand the barriers that make it difficult for low-income working adults to successfully reconnect to college and complete degrees. | Augusta, ME |
| 2012 | Maine Development Foundation | Families | $100,000 | To support the Maine Employer's Initiative, which partners with employers and post-secondary institutions in Maine to reconnect incumbent workers who have some college experience but have not completed their degrees. | Augusta, ME |
| 2012 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $190,000 | To support advocacy organizations working on policy issues facing disadvantaged Maine residents. | Augusta, ME |
| 2012 | Northeast Hearing and Speech Center | Young Children | $85,000 | To support innovative new technology for use with iPads for children with communication and developmental disabilities. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Families | $175,000 | To support several legal services programs for low-income Maine residents. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Preble Street | Older Youth | $1,000,000 | To support the purchase and renovation of the Lighthouse Shelter for homeless teens. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Sunrise County Economic Council | Families | $300,000 | A two year grant to support of the Community Technology Plan, which provides digital literacy education to residents and businesses in Washington County. | Machias, ME |
| 2012 | Sunrise Opportunities | Families | $75,000 | To provide general operating support for the Community Caring Collaborative. | Machias, ME |
| 2012 | The Iris Network | Seniors | $50,000 | To support the needs of visually impaired Maine seniors living independently at home. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | The Opportunity Alliance | Families | $200,000 | To provide support for the mental health care needs of individuals in the Greater Portland area. | South Portland, ME |
| 2012 | Tree Street Youth | Older Youth | $50,000 | To support Tree Street Youth which provides free academic and social services for children K-12 and their families in Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2012 | Tri-County Mental Health Services | Families | $80,000 | To support a new treatment for clients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, mental illness and substance abuse. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $10,000 | To support the work of the Early Childhood Funders group. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $93,000 | To improve the quality of childcare programs and the planning work for Portland ConnectEd. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $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 | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $75,000 | To fund the Portland Education Partnership's cradle to career initiative. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children | $10,000 | To support the 2012 Annual Campaign. | Portland, ME |
| 2012 | University System of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy | Young Children, Older Youth, Seniors, Families | $80,045 | To support research on low-income children, disconnected youth, single parents, and seniors. | Durham, NH |
| 2012 | Wholesome Wave Foundation Charitable Ventures | Families | $200,000 | To support a sustainable model for helping Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients access healthy food through farmers markets. | Bridgeport, CT |