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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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-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 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 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 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 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 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children, Families | $250,000 | To support Thrive 2027 and Women United programming. | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation | Families | $80,000 | To support an enhanced Family Self Sufficiency program in Lewiston. | Lewiston, 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 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 | 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 - 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | City of Lewiston | Families | $125,000 | To develop and implement recommendations evolving from the Choice Neighborhood resident engagement sessions. | Lewiston, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | Families | $12,906 | To provide matching funds for KVCAP's Low Income Heating Assistance Program. | Waterville, 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 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 | NAMI Maine | Families | $50,000 | To provide support for general operations. | Augusta, 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 | 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 | 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, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Island Institute | Families | $100,000 | To support broadband expansion to island and coastal communities in Maine. | Rockland, 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 | National Conference of State Legislatures Foundation | Families | $30,000 | To provide sponsorship for a two generation conference in Maine. | Denver, CO |
| 2017 | Penquis | Families | $25,000 | To provide support for the Piscataquis Safe Havens Center. | Bangor, 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | United Way of Greater Portland | Young Children, Families | $250,000 | Matching grant for the 2016 Annual Campaign. | 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 | 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 |
| 2015 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | Families | $55,250 | To support activities for the second year of the Portland Jobs Alliance. | Brunswick, 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 | 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 | Maine Equal Justice Partners | Families | $20,000 | For capacity building and technical assistance. | Augusta, 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 | 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 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 | 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 | Trinity Jubilee Center | Families | $15,525 | For philanthropy and fundraising technical assistance. | Lewiston, 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 | Wayside Food Programs | Families | $50,000 | To provide supplemental food for individuals being impacted by a change in food voucher benefits. | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Immigrant and Refugee Services | Families | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 | Pine Tree Legal Assistance | Families | $175,000 | To support several legal services programs for low-income Maine residents. | 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 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 | 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 | Older Youth, Young Children, Families | $75,000 | To fund the Portland Education Partnership's cradle to career initiative. | 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 |