Direct Service Grants
The Direct Service Grant Program (DSGP) provides funding to non-profit organizations who provide supports and services addressing the immediate basic needs of people in Maine who are experiencing the adverse effects of poverty. The DSGP awards both program/project funding and general operating support.
Below please find a database of our past grants.
Year | Organization | Award | Description | Location |
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2022 | Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine, Inc. | $10,000 | To support in-need kinship families through emergency financial assistance to include food, transportation, heating and utilities assistance, and the provision of beds or cribs. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association - Maine Chapter | $16,500 | To support a 24/7 Helpline, which provides information, referrals, and in-depth care consultations for families navigating dementia with a loved one. | Scarborough, ME |
2022 | Amistad | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care DBA Promise Early Education Center | $9,000 | To provide Promise Food Pantry families with needed non-food items that are not covered by state benefits, such as hygiene items, paper products, diapers, cooking utensils, etc. | Lewiston, ME |
2022 | Aroostook Area Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To support the use of the online Elder Law Risk Detector tool to screen for and prevent the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older Aroostook County individuals, including those with disabilities. | Presque Isle, ME |
2022 | Aroostook County Action Program | $15,000 | To support the Family Safety Program, which works to increase safety in the homes of low-income families with young children throughout Aroostook County. | Presque Isle, ME |
2022 | Ascentria Community Services | $15,000 | To provide individuals with a mental health diagnosis who are served by Ascentria Community Mental Health Services in Maine, with financial assistance to meet their immediate basic needs - to include rental assistance, transportation, and help with groceries or utilities. | Worcester, ME |
2022 | Augusta Food Bank | $18,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
2022 | Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Bath Housing Development Corporation | $20,000 | To support direct service programming for older residents and those with disabilities in three specific areas: transportation, food security and digital literacy. | Bath, ME |
2022 | Belfast Soup Kitchen | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Belfast, ME |
2022 | Boothbay Region Community Resource Council | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Boothbay Harbor, ME |
2022 | Boys And Girls Club Of Kennebec Valley | $10,000 | To support programming, meals, and services for older adults in southern Kennebec County who participate in the Oldies but Goodies program. | Gardiner, ME |
2022 | Bridging the Gap - Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal Church | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for the Bridging the Gap program. | Augusta, ME |
2022 | Caring Unlimited | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Sanford, ME |
2022 | Castine Community Partners Inc. | $15,000 | To support the Castine Area Relief Fund, which provides weekly grocery delivery to those in need to address food insecurity in the broader Castine area. | Castine, ME |
2022 | Catholic Charities Maine | $20,000 | To support the Maine SEARCH (Seek Elderly Alone, Renew Courage & Hope) Program, which pairs vulnerable older Mainers with a caring volunteer who provides individualized support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Center for a Green Future dba Growing to Give | $7,500 | To provide general operating support to Growing to Give. | Brunswick, ME |
2022 | Centre Street Congregational Church, UCC - FS to Machias Area Food Pantry | $20,000 | To provide general operating support to Machias Area Food Pantry. | Machias, ME |
2022 | CHiP, Inc. | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Newcastle, ME |
2022 | Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust / Twin Villages Foodbank Farm | $20,000 | To provide general operating support to Twin Villages Foodbank Farm. | Damariscotta, ME |
2022 | Common Unity Place | $8,500 | To provide general operating support. | Skowhegan, ME |
2022 | Community Care dba The Shaw House | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Community Compass - FS Downeast Community Partners | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for Community Compass. | Ellsworth, ME |
2022 | Community Health and Counseling Services | $25,000 | To purchase monitoring units and alarmed medication dispensers to allow older Mainers with chronic health needs to better monitor their conditions and remain independent in their homes. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Day One | $25,000 | To bring a youth-centered substance use and mental health program, currently offered at Preble Street Youth Center, to Lewiston - to be located at New Beginnings, a local shelter serving homeless youth. | South Portland, ME |
2022 | Eastern Area Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To support a nutritious meals program - including home delivery and congregate dining options - for low-income, older adults in Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Washington counties. | Brewer, ME |
2022 | Elder Abuse Institute Of Maine | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2022 | Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Ellsworth, ME |
2022 | Family Violence Project | $25,000 | To support the Emergency Stabilization Program, which provides secure emergency housing, food, and transportation to those going through domestic abuse, stalking, or human trafficking situations. | Augusta, ME |
2022 | Freeport Community Services | $15,000 | To support the Age Friendly Freeport & Pownal program's efforts to increase and expand older residents' access to local food programs and to offer local classes to increase mobility and improve health. | Freeport, ME |
2022 | Friends in Action | $12,000 | To provide general operating support. | Ellsworth, ME |
2022 | Gateway Community Services Maine | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Greater Portland Family Promise | $10,000 | To support homelessness prevention and housing stabilization programming, specifically the provision of case management and housing mentorship for the first year of participant families' tenancy. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine | $10,000 | To provide low-income older Mainers with critical home repairs and modifications to prevent displacement from their homes. | Topsham, ME |
2022 | Hand in Hand, Mano en Mano | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Milbridge, ME |
2022 | Harrison Food Bank | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Harrison, ME |
2022 | Healthy Acadia | $20,000 | To support the Downeast Gleaning Initiative, which harvests surplus food and redistributes it to food pantries and other food security organizations across Hancock and Washington counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2022 | Healthy Peninsula | $12,000 | To support the coordination of Simmering Pot Meal Delivery's free, weekly meals - to include meal recipient sign-up, volunteer kitchens, food donations, and volunteer drivers - to food insecure, isolated community members on the Blue Hill Peninsula. | Blue Hill, ME |
2022 | Hope Acts | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | In Her Presence | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
2022 | Island Commons Resource Center | $10,000 | To support an in-home care program for older Mainers with limited fixed incomes living on Chebeague Island, other Casco Bay islands, and adjacent mainland communities. | Chebeague Island, ME |
2022 | Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To support the purchase of diapers for the Klahr Jewish Family Services Diaper Pantry. | Portland, ME |
2022 | KidsPeace National Centers of New England, Inc. | $5,000 | To support “Mo’s Closet,” which offers essential items to families in need being served in community-based programs, to foster youth coming into care, and to families who need assistance preparing for the placement of foster youth. | South Portland, ME |
2022 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2022 | KVCC Foundation | $15,000 | To support the KVCC Food Pantry's shift from stocking mostly dry goods to offering perishable fresh produce, meat, and dairy items and to fund a part-time, one year food pantry coordinator to grow the capacity of the program. | Fairfield, ME |
2022 | Lake Region Senior Service | $12,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service in Western Maine that provides rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
2022 | Legal Services for the Elderly | $20,000 | To support the Legal Helpline, which provides aid to older Mainers facing legal problems in areas such as housing, consumer debt, public benefits, access to health care and safety. | Augusta, ME |
2022 | Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. . | Ellsworth, ME |
2022 | Locker Project | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center | $25,000 | To provide essential health care to low income Mainers to address immediate needs related to physical and mental health. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition | $25,000 | To provide culturally appropriate foods to asylum-seeker arrivals sheltered temporarily in seven Portland-area motels. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Maine Medical Center | $25,000 | To support a basic needs fund for in-need patients of the Women's Health Center at Maine Medical Center, | Portland, ME |
2022 | Maine Needs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $15,000 | To provide healthy food through a pantry and various other food-security programs, along with coordinated wrap-around services, to low-income youth, families and seniors in Washington County. | Northeast Harbor, ME |
2022 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $25,000 | To support the basic needs of Addiction Medicine Practice's patients by providing emergency food bags, transportation vouchers, hygiene products, and treatment resources. | Augusta, ME |
2022 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To provide telehealth equipment to homebound and ill older Mainers to improve their safety and independence at home and to connect them more effectively with the health system. | Saco, ME |
2022 | MCH, Inc. | $20,000 | To support the Meals on Wheels 'Home to ME' program, which provides nutritious meals, regular personal communication, and modest practical living supports to food-insecure seniors and adults with disabilities in Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2022 | Medical Care Development / Healthy Lincoln County | $25,000 | To support the work of the Food Security Community Connector, to increase the reach, coordination, food procurement and dissemination, and effectiveness of food security programs in Lincoln County. | Damariscotta, ME |
2022 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2022 | Milestone Recovery | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Neighbors Driving Neighbors | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Mt. Vernon, ME |
2022 | New Beginnings | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2022 | New England Arab American Organization | $20,000 | To provide New Mainer families with necessary emergency assistance - to include help with housing expenses, food, utility payments, and transportation - along with case management to strengthen their safety net and connection to resources. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Oasis Free Clinics | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2022 | Oxford Hills Community Gardens - Foothills Foodworks | $15,000 | To support Foothills Foodworks, which pays community members a fair wage to make meals which are then provided to food insecure Oxford and Cumberland County residents. | Norway, ME |
2022 | Penobscot Community Health Care | $25,000 | To support the Theresa Bray Knowles Gaps in Care Fund, which covers critical items and services that can not funded through other sources for patients of 17 health care organizations. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Piscataquis Regional Food Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Dover Foxcroft, ME |
2022 | Portland Area Villages (PAV) | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Rangeley Health and Wellness | $20,000 | To support the Helping Elders Live in Place (HELP) program, which offers older Mainers quality supports and services that address their immediate basic needs. | Rangeley, ME |
2022 | Rockland District Nursing Association | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2022 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $17,000 | To provide general operating support. | Leeds, ME |
2022 | Saint Andre Home | $15,000 | To support the “Empowerment Pantry”, which provides healthy food, supplies, and household items - along with related housing support services - to survivors of human trafficking, exploitation, and related domestic and sexual violence and their families. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | SeniorsPlus | $20,000 | To support the Meals on Wheels program in Western Maine, fighting hunger and social isolation and providing a match for federal funding for the program. | Lewiston, ME |
2022 | Shalom House | $15,000 | To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To support SMAA's Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides free, nutritious meals to older adults in Cumberland and York Counties through both home-delivered meals and in congregate dining settings. | Biddeford, ME |
2022 | St. Joseph Hospital | $25,000 | To improve food security in adults with chronic disease who are identified while patients at St. Joseph Hospital. | Bangor, ME |
2022 | Tedford Housing | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2022 | The Opportunity Alliance | $20,000 | To support the Senior Companion Program, which creates volunteer opportunities for older, low-income adults who make home visits and provide transportation to peers seeking assistance to remain living independently. | South Portland, ME |
2022 | The Root Cellar | $25,000 | To support Mainely Teeth's work providing dental care to uninsured and underinsured individuals. | Lewiston, ME |
2022 | Through These Doors (formerly Family Crisis Services) | $15,000 | To support a basic needs fund, which provides survivors of domestic violence and their children with items and resources such as food, clothing, shelter, medical expenses, transportation, diapers, formula, car seats, childcare expenses, etc. | Portland, ME |
2022 | Town of Danforth, Maine | $18,500 | To provide older adults in the greater Danforth area with free and nutritious meals, increased social opportunities, and no-cost transportation options. | Danforth, ME |
2022 | Town of Mount Vernon Aging in Place Committee | $6,800 | To support the Respite/Adult Day Program, serving older Mainers in the towns of Fayette, Mount Vernon and Vienna. | Mount Vernon, ME |
2022 | Town of Vinalhaven | $7,200 | To support energy audits and air sealing in the homes of low-income older island residents. | Vinalhaven, ME |
2022 | Trinity Jubilee Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2022 | Veggies to Table | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Newcastle, ME |
2022 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $25,000 | To support a Community Coordinator, who helps veterans access the benefits they deserve and services they need so they may maintain and achieve health, financial, and housing independence. | Brunswick, ME |
2022 | Waterville Area Soup Kitchen | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Waterville, ME |
2022 | Western Maine Community Action | $20,000 | To support direct client funding for home repairs that will allow older adults in Franklin County to age in place in homes that are warm, safe and fuel efficient. | East Wilton, ME |
2022 | York County Community Action Corporation | $20,000 | To support the Keeping Seniors Home program, which provides older homeowners in York County with small-to-mid-sized home modifications to allow them to safely remain living at home. | Sanford, ME |
2021 | Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine | $9,000 | To support economically disadvantaged kinship families through emergency financial assistance to include food, transportation, heating and utilities assistance, and the provision of beds or cribs. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Amistad | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2021 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $15,000 | To support the Energy Assistance Program, which provides electricity disconnection assistance to Knox County residents who are food or energy insecure. | Rockland, ME |
2021 | Aroostook County Action Program | $15,000 | To support the Family Safety Program, which works to increase safety in the homes of low-income families with young children throughout Aroostook County. | Presque Isle, ME |
2021 | Augusta Food Bank | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
2021 | Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Belfast Public Health Nursing Association | $15,000 | To assist low income people in Waldo County with their food, shelter, health, and safety needs where no other supports exist, or in urgent situations while other supports and resources are being secured. | Rockland, ME |
2021 | Belfast Soup Kitchen | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Belfast, ME |
2021 | Boothbay Region Community Resource Council | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Boothbay Harbor, ME |
2021 | Caring Unlimited | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Sanford, ME |
2021 | Castine Community Partners | $10,000 | To support the Castine Area Relief Fund, which provides weekly food distribution, rental assistance, and utility payment support to low-income people on the Blue Hill peninsula. | Castine, ME |
2021 | Center for a Green Future, Growing to Give | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2021 | Center For an Ecology-Based Economy, Community Food Matters | $10,000 | To support the Foothills Foodworks project, which pays community members a fair wage to make meals which are then provided to food insecure Oxford County residents. | Norway, ME |
2021 | Christine B. Foundation | $15,000 | To provide equitable nutrition assistance to food insecure patients with cancer, recent survivors, and their families, in eastern Maine. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust, Twin Villages Foodbank Farm | $20,000 | To provide general operating support for Twin Villages Foodbank Farm. | Damariscotta, ME |
2021 | Downeast Community Partners, Community Compass | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for Community Compass. | Ellsworth, ME |
2021 | Easter Seals Maine | $15,000 | To provide critical housing supports and services to veterans and service members who are unstably housed, homeless, or at risk of homelessness in the rural Bangor area. | South Portland, ME |
2021 | Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Ellsworth, ME |
2021 | Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal Church, Bridging the Gap | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
2021 | Friendship House | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | South Portland, ME |
2021 | H.O.M.E. Inc. | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Orland, ME |
2021 | Healthy Acadia | $15,000 | To support the Downeast Gleaning Initiative, which works with farms, farmers' markets, and gardeners to harvest surplus food and redistribute it to food security organizations across Hancock and Washington counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2021 | Homeless Services of Aroostook | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Presque Isle, ME |
2021 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2021 | In Her Presence | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
2021 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2021 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service in Western Maine that provides rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
2021 | Lubec Community Outreach Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lubec, ME |
2021 | Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center | $15,000 | To provide essential physical and mental health care services to low-income people in Northern and Eastern Maine. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Maine Coast Fishermen's Association | $24,600 | To support the Fishermen Feeding Mainers program, which stabilizes Maine's seafood businesses through supplying fish to programs serving food insecure people in Maine. | Brunswick, ME |
2021 | Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2021 | Maine Inside Out | $15,000 | To support system-involved youth and their families through the provision of emergency funds, peer supports, and connections to community resources. | Portland, ME |
2021 | MaineHealth, Healthy Community Coalition | $20,000 | To provide emergency food bags to low-income, food-insecure residents in Franklin County through visits to medical practices, a mobile health unit, and two community programming sites. | Farmington, ME |
2021 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2021 | Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Waterville, ME |
2021 | Midcoast Community Alliance | $20,000 | To support outreach to at-risk, homeless and/or unaccompanied youth, who are demonstrating an increase in needs, and complexity of needs, as a result of COVID-19. | Bath, ME |
2021 | Milestone Recovery | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2021 | MSAD 54, Somerset Career and Technical Center | $15,000 | To support the food pantry, food box, and back pack programs of the MSAD 54 school district. | Skowhegan, ME |
2021 | Neighbors Driving Neighbors | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | Mt. Vernon, ME |
2021 | New Beginnings | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2021 | OHI | $15,000 | To support the efforts of the Brewer Area Food Pantry to serve local food-insecure residents and families. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | One Less Worry | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2021 | Piscataquis Regional Food Center | $7,000 | To provide general operating support. | Dover Foxcroft, ME |
2021 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rumford, ME |
2021 | Rockland District Nursing Association | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2021 | RSU 56 | $2,400 | To provide transportation support to families of remote or in-person learners who are truant, disengaged from learning, or otherwise in need. | Dixfield, ME |
2021 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Leeds, ME |
2021 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
2021 | Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce Charitable Trust | $5,000 | To provide general operating support for the Feed The Need initiative, which provides financial support to food pantries in eleven western Cumberland County towns. | Windham, ME |
2021 | Seeds Of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Biddeford, ME |
2021 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $25,000 | To support staffing to respond to the high rates of child sexual abuse in York County and the demand for forensic interview services at the county's Children's Advocacy Center. | Portland, ME |
2021 | Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine | $25,000 | To increase outreach, education, and service delivery efforts, so as to better meet the needs of sexual violence and human trafficking survivors in the Midcoast area. | Brunswick, ME |
2021 | Shalom House | $10,000 | To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
2021 | Shaw House | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Skidompha Library Association | $2,500 | To increase access to youth and adolescent mental health, wellness, and community supports during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Damariscotta, ME |
2021 | Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2021 | Table of Plenty | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Berwick, ME |
2021 | Tedford Housing | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2021 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Oxford, ME |
2021 | The Root Cellar | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2021 | Through These Doors | $15,000 | To support a basic needs fund for victims/survivors of domestic violence, which will increase access to food, clothing, shelter, medical help and transportation. | Portland, ME |
2021 | Trinity Jubilee Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2021 | Union Street Brick Church | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $5,000 | To provide support for the purchase of essential household and hygiene items for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
2021 | Unity Barn Raisers, Waldo County Bounty | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for Waldo County Bounty. | Unity, ME |
2021 | Veggies To Table | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | Newcastle, ME |
2021 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $14,500 | To support the Cabin in the Woods' Community Coordinator, who serves chronically homeless veterans with mental health issues or economic situations affecting their ability to obtain or maintain permanent housing. | Brunswick, ME |
2021 | Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness | $25,000 | To support tribal members' substance use recovery efforts through the Wicuhkemtultine (Helping All) program. | Bangor, ME |
2021 | Western Maine Transportation Services | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
2021 | York County Community Action Corporation | $15,000 | To support same-day transportation services for York County residents, so they may meet essential, urgent needs. | Sanford, ME |
2021 | York County Shelter Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Alfred, ME |
2020 | Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine, Inc. | $8,000 | To support economically disadvantaged kinship families through emergency financial assistance specific to food, heating and utilities assistance, and the provision of beds or cribs. | Bangor, ME |
2020 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2020 | Augusta Food Bank | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
2020 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To support Cooking for Community, which pays local restaurants to cook easy-to-reheat meals using primarily locally sourced ingredients that are then distributed to food-insecure Mainers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Falmouth Food Pantry | $9,000 | To provide general operating support. | Falmouth, ME |
2020 | Food AND Medicine, Jobs with Justice Education Fund | $15,000 | To provide food and volunteer support to Bangor area food pantries, along with food delivery and support to low-income and house-bound community members during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Brewer, ME |
2020 | H.O.M.E. Inc. | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | ORLAND, ME |
2020 | Healthy Acadia | $25,000 | To support the Downeast Gleaning Initiative, which harvests surplus food that would otherwise go to waste and redistributes it to food pantries and other food security organizations across Hancock and Washington counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2020 | Hope Acts | $20,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2020 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
2020 | Locker Project | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $25,000 | To provide families impacted by COVID-19 in Washington and eastern Hancock counties with expanded food offerings and connections to community basic needs resources. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2020 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $25,000 | To provide vulnerable patients in central Maine with emergency food bags, meal vouchers, transportation vouchers, and materials that share available community resources. | Augusta, ME |
2020 | MaineHealth - Healthy Community Coalition | $25,000 | To provide emergency food bags to low-income, food-insecure residents in Franklin County through visits to medical practices, a mobile health unit, and two community programming sites. | Farmington, ME |
2020 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To provide general operating support, which will be used to expand access to essential health care by deploying a platform of telehealth tools that can support urgent patient needs in the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. | Saco, ME |
2020 | MCH, Inc. | $20,000 | To support the Meals on Wheels - Home to ME program, which provides nutritious meals, daily communication, and practical living supports to low-income seniors and adult with disabilities in Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2020 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To provide general operating support, which will will help sustain eight food programs and enable the rescue of an additional 100,000 pounds of food from new suppliers. | Brunswick, ME |
2020 | Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Waterville, ME |
2020 | Midcoast Community Alliance | $10,000 | To support critical outreach services for at-risk, homeless and/or unaccompanied youth in Sagadahoc County, Brunswick and Harpswell. | Bath, ME |
2020 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2020 | My Place Teen Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
2020 | Northern Lighthouse Inc | $20,000 | To provide case management services to homeless youth in Aroostook County, including connecting youth with available housing, mental health services, employment supports, safe family reunification and applying for social service benefits. | Presque Isle, ME |
2020 | OHI | $15,000 | To support the efforts of the Brewer Area Food Pantry to serve local food-insecure residents and families. | Bangor, ME |
2020 | Penobscot Community Health Care | $15,000 | To support the basic communication needs of individuals experiencing chronic homelessness in Penobscot County via the provision of cell phone devices and unlimited voice, text and data plans. | Bangor, ME |
2020 | Piscataquis Regional Food Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | DOVER FOXCROFT, ME |
2020 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | South Portland, ME |
2020 | Portland Public Library | $25,000 | To support Portland Public Library's Social Worker in Residence, who works to connect the library's most vulnerable low-income patrons to social services and basic need supports. | Portland, ME |
2020 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rumford, ME |
2020 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Leeds, ME |
2020 | Saint Andre Home | $15,000 | To support the CourageLIVES Outreach Program, which provides outpatient treatment and support services to survivors who have experienced human trafficking and exploitation, domestic violence and/or sexual assault. | Biddeford, ME |
2020 | Salvation Army | $5,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Shalom House | $10,000 | To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
2020 | Spurwink Services | $25,000 | To provide support for The Bridge Fund, an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
2020 | St. Martin de Porres Residence | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2020 | The Gathering Place | $5,000 | To support an emergency overnight shelter in Brunswick that is open to homeless and housing insecure people when temperatures are dangerously low. | Brunswick, ME |
2020 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Oxford, ME |
2020 | The Root Cellar | $25,000 | To provide general operating support to address the food insecurity of families in the Tree Streets and Bayside neighborhoods in Lewiston and Portland during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lewiston, ME |
2020 | Trinity Jubilee Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2020 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,000 | To provide support for the purchase of essential household and hygiene items for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
2020 | York Hospital | $15,000 | To support the Bridges Program, which provides home delivery of meals, prescriptions, and/or groceries to seniors in York County, along with offering transportation and companionship services to increase access to care and decrease social isolation. | York, ME |
2019 | Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine, Inc. | $7,500 | To support economically disadvantaged kinship families through emergency financial assistance specific to food, heating and utilities assistance, and the provision of beds or cribs. | Orono, ME |
2019 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2019 | Augusta Food Bank | $20,000 | To support a backpack program, which provides nutritious food to food insecure children in the Augusta School System and at the Children's Center of Augusta. | Augusta, ME |
2019 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | To support formerly homeless people who are transitioning from homelessness to affordable housing through an expansion of services in southern Maine. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2019 | Beacon Project | $10,000 | To fund transportation costs for low-income island residents to medical and other critical appointments on the mainland. | Islesboro, ME |
2019 | City of Bangor Public Health & Community Services Department | $25,000 | To provide support for a Homeless Outreach Caseworker who will assist chronically homeless adults in securing and maintaining stable housing. | Bangor, ME |
2019 | Friends of Aroostook | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Houlton, ME |
2019 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
2019 | H.O.M.E. Inc. | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Orland, ME |
2019 | Hand in Hand, Mano en Mano | $15,000 | To provide immigrants and migrant workers with high-quality supports and referrals to meet their basic needs. | Milbridge, ME |
2019 | Healthy Acadia | $20,000 | To support the Downeast Gleaning Initiative, which harvests surplus food that would otherwise go to waste and redistributes it to food pantries and other food security organizations across Hancock and Washington counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2019 | Healthy Community Coalition | $25,000 | To provide support for free mobile healthcare services offered to low-income, under-served residents living in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
2019 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $16,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $25,000 | To support the Homes and Community-Based Treatment Program, which provides intensive, in-home, team-based therapy for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties beyond the scope of regular outpatient counseling. | Waterville, ME |
2019 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to serve homeless clients in Knox, Lincoln and parts of Waldo County. | Rockland, ME |
2019 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
2019 | Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center | $15,000 | To provide mental health counseling to low income Mainers residing in northern and eastern Maine. | BANGOR, ME |
2019 | MapleStone | $13,000 | To support the provision of mental health counseling and supports for students who have experienced trauma / Adverse Childhood Experiences. | Acton, ME |
2019 | MCH, Inc. | $15,000 | To provide nutritious meals and support services to low-income seniors and disabled adults in Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2019 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To support general operating costs associated with programs offered to low-income food-insecure Mainers in the midcoast area. | Brunswick, ME |
2019 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | To provide support for the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team, which provides mobile health care, outreach, crisis intervention, and referral services for homeless adults in Portland. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Next Step Domestic Violence Project | $20,000 | To remove barriers to housing stability experienced by victims of abuse and their children through rent subsidies, one-time investments in immediate needs, and specialized housing advocacy. | ELLSWORTH, ME |
2019 | Northern Light Inland Hospital | $25,000 | To support on-site food, food security resources, and transportation vouchers for primary care patients at Northern Light Inland Hospital who are screened and identified as in need of additional supports. | Bangor, ME |
2019 | Portland Public Library | $25,000 | To support Portland Public Library's Social Worker in Residence, who works to connect the library's most vulnerable low-income patrons to social services and basic need supports. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Prosperity ME | $15,000 | To support the provision of financial and housing education activities within Maine's immigrant, refugee and asylee communities. | Portland, ME |
2019 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide food to low-income food-insecure children, families and senior citizens in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
2019 | Rockland District Nursing Association | $15,000 | To support general operations for the provision of affordable, non-acute, in-home nursing services to low-income elderly residents of Rockland and seven surrounding communities. | Rockland, ME |
2019 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating to support at-risk individuals living in rural areas of Androscoggin, Kennebec and Oxford counties via services for basic needs, homelessness and hunger prevention. | LEEDS, ME |
2019 | Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | To support general operations. | Biddeford, ME |
2019 | Shalom House | $10,000 | To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
2019 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations. | SOUTH PORTLAND, ME |
2019 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2019 | The Center for Grieving Children | $10,000 | To provide food and transportation services to low-income New Mainer youth participants of the Intercultural Peer Support Program. | Portland, ME |
2019 | The Opportunity Alliance | $25,000 | To provide financial supports to individuals and families at risk of homelessness in order to maintain and/or secure their housing. | South Portland, ME |
2019 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Norway, ME |
2019 | The Root Cellar | $20,000 | To support the Friends and Neighbors Network food model, which places recipients in charge of their own food needs through their active participation in the program with other neighbors. | Lewiston, ME |
2019 | The Shaw House | $15,000 | To support the general operations of the only homeless youth shelter contracted with the State of Maine to provide emergency shelter and support services to homeless youth in central and northern Maine. | Bangor, ME |
2019 | Through These Doors (formerly Family Crisis Services) | $15,000 | To support the provision of food for domestic violence shelter residents and to provide one-time financial assistance for basic needs such as food, clothing, medication or transportation. | Portland, ME |
2019 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,500 | To provide support for the purchase of non-food essentials for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
2019 | United Way Of Aroostook | $5,000 | To support the purchase of clothing items that can not be sourced secondhand for distribution to low-income people accessing the Kids Community Closets in Aroostook County. | Presque Isle, ME |
2019 | York County Community Action Corporation | $15,000 | To support transportation services through the York County Transport program, targeting populations for whom no other specialized transportation funds are available. | Sanford, ME |
2018 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $15,000 | To provide food for the Weekend Backpack Program, feeding economically disadvantaged kids in schools across Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2018 | Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to address the needs of men and women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the Greater Bangor area. | Bangor, ME |
2018 | Belfast Public Health Nursing Association | $22,500 | To provide direct outreach, medical care and support to low-income and at-risk children and adults in Waldo County who require assistance in meeting their basic needs of shelter, food, medical care, and safety. | Belfast, ME |
2018 | Community Clinical Services | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to meet the increased caseload at the Lewiston School-Based Health Center. | Lewiston, ME |
2018 | Cultivating Community | $25,000 | To provide access to free, healthy food in Cumberland and Androscoggin Counties. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Day One | $15,000 | To provide stable housing supports to low-income and homeless youth in the Street Youth Outreach, Residential, and Corrections programs through assistance with with rent, security deposits, and basic apartment necessities. | South Portland, ME |
2018 | Falmouth Food Pantry | $10,000 | To provide food to food-insecure families from Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Westbrook, and Portland. | Falmouth, ME |
2018 | First Congregational Church of Blue Hill | $10,000 | To provide support for the Dolly Fisher Fund, an emergency food and fuel assistance program for families on the Blue Hill peninsula in Hancock County. | Blue Hill, ME |
2018 | Four Directions Development Corporation | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to provide access to safe, quality housing for members of the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes, mostly located in Aroostook, Penobscot, and Washington counties. | Orono, ME |
2018 | Frannie Peabody Center | $20,000 | To provide mental health and substance abuse counseling support for people affected by HIV/AIDS in Maine. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Friends of Aroostook | $10,000 | To provide support for general operations to provide fresh produce to low-income people living in Aroostook, Washington, Piscataquis and Penobscot counties. | Houlton, ME |
2018 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to combat hunger in Maine by increasing access to nutritious food for underprivileged individuals and families throughout the state. | Auburn, ME |
2018 | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | $20,000 | To provide support for the Job Connection Bangor program, providing wrap-around workforce development services to low-income adults with multiple barriers to successful employment such as food scarcity, unstable housing, and transportation issues. | Portland, ME |
2018 | H.O.M.E. Inc. | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to provide food, shelter and employment opportunities for men, women and children in Hancock County. | Orland, ME |
2018 | Healthy Acadia | $25,000 | To expand the amount of local, healthy food available to low-income households in Hancock and Washington counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2018 | Healthy Community Coalition | $15,000 | To provide support for free mobile healthcare services offered to low-income, under-served residents living in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
2018 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations for legal services provided to Maine's low-income immigrant community. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations to serve homeless clients in Knox, Lincoln and parts of Waldo County. | Rockland, ME |
2018 | Lake Region Senior Service | $7,000 | To provide support for the general operations of a transportation program serving low-income seniors and disabled residents throughout four counties in Southwestern Maine. | Bridgton, ME |
2018 | LearningWorks | $25,000 | To provide support for an intensive, interactive English Language and Literacy Instruction Program to address barriers to employment typically encountered by New Mainers. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Maine Access Immigrant Network | $10,000 | To support direct services for low-income refugee and immigrant communities of Greater Portland -- such as help securing health, housing, energy, transportation and other related basic needs. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $4,300 | To provide funds to defray insurance co-payment expenses for low-income students accessing mental health counseling at the School-Based Health Center at Mt. Ararat High School. | Topsham, ME |
2018 | MCH, Inc. | $15,000 | To provide nutritious meals and support services to low-income seniors and disabled adults in Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2018 | Milestone Foundation | $25,000 | To provide support for the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter. | Portland, ME |
2018 | New Beginnings | $25,000 | To provide program support for the only 24-hour shelter for runaway and homeless teens in Maine. | Lewiston, ME |
2018 | Oxford County Mental Health Services | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations for the provision of comprehensive behavioral health support and education to schools, children and families in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
2018 | Penquis | $25,000 | To provide emergency home repair services to low-income families in Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Knox counties whose homes have been determined to pose an "imminent threat to health or safety" to prevent homelessness, illness, and injury. | Bangor, ME |
2018 | Piscataquis Regional Food Center | $3,200 | To provide support for a Farm Share program, providing fresh vegtables and fruit to homebound seniors living in or near Piscataquis County. | Dover Foxcroft, ME |
2018 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide support for mental health services at school-based health centers at Portland's three high schools. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs: the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen. | Portland, ME |
2018 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide food to low-income families in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
2018 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating to support at-risk individuals living in rural areas of Androscoggin, Kennebec and Oxford counties via services for basic needs, homelessness and hunger prevention. | Leeds, ME |
2018 | Shalom House | $15,000 | To provide support for an emergency fund that low-income clients may access to meet their basic housing, health, transportation and other critical needs when other payment sources have been exhausted. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for the provision of case management services to homeless children and their families. | Brunswick, ME |
2018 | The Center for Wisdom's Women | $10,000 | To provide general operating support to address the basic needs of women with low-incomes through a drop-in center located in downtown Lewiston. | Lewiston, ME |
2018 | The Opportunity Alliance | $20,000 | To provide support for the Homelessness Prevention Project, which provides financial resources to low-income, at-risk families and youth so they can maintain and/or secure housing. | South Portland, ME |
2018 | The Progress Center | $25,000 | To support a community kitchen program distributing healthy food to low-income people in Oxford County, including home-delivered meals to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Norway, ME |
2018 | The Root Cellar | $24,500 | To provide food through the Friends and Neighbors Network to food insecure families in Lewiston and Portland. | Portland, ME |
2018 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,500 | To provide support for the purchase of non-food essentials for people in need. | Sanford, ME |
2018 | Waldo Community Action Partners | $20,000 | To provide support for emergency home repairs for low-income families in Waldo County in order to prevent homelessness. | Belfast, ME |
2018 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to increase access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food in Cumberland, Oxford, and York counties. | Portland, ME |
2018 | We Care Community Baby Center | $5,000 | To provide general operating support to two centers providing low-income families throughout Washington County with free diapers, clothing, and other household essentials. | Machias, ME |
2017 | Amistad | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Rockland, ME |
2017 | Central Maine Medical Center | $15,000 | To support the Maine Fund for Cancer Patients at the Dempsey Center. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | Community Financial Literacy | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Cultivating Community | $15,000 | To provide local food for people with low to no income, including asylum-seekers. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Down East Hospice Volunteers | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Calais, ME |
2017 | Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic | $7,000 | For general operating support. | Ellsworth, ME |
2017 | Families and Children Together | $25,000 | To provide parents and their families access to Navigator Services at the Community Home Alternative Medication Program (CHAMP) Clinic at Penobscot Community Health Center. | Bangor, ME |
2017 | Friends of Aroostook | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Houlton, ME |
2017 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Westbrook, ME |
2017 | Gedakina | $20,000 | To support the LifeWays Program, which focuses on increased access to direct services for Native American families in Portland and Bangor. | Bangor, ME |
2017 | Grahamtastic Connection | $15,000 | To provide laptops, tablets and internet access to children in Maine who are battling cancer. | Springvale, ME |
2017 | H.O.M.E. | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Orland, ME |
2017 | Hand in Hand Mano en Mano | $20,000 | To provide immigrants and migrant workers with high-quality supports and referrals to meet their basic needs. | Milbridge, ME |
2017 | Healthy Community Coalition | $25,000 | To provide funding for their Mobile Health Unit to care for low-income, under-served residents living in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
2017 | Hospice Volunteers of Hancock County | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Ellsworth, ME |
2017 | Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area | $15,000 | To provide support for hospice patients and their families. | Waterville, ME |
2017 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $25,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To provide support for JCA's food and diaper pantry. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $25,000 | To provide support for the Homeless Youth Outreach Program, to ensure youth's basic needs are met, that they have access to mainstream resources, and that they achieve safe, stable housing. | Waterville, ME |
2017 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $25,000 | To provide support for mental health programs serving homeless clients in Knox, Lincoln and parts of Waldo County. | Rockland, ME |
2017 | Lake Region Senior Service | $9,000 | For general operating support. | Bridgton, ME |
2017 | Lebanon Elementary School | $24,500 | To provide support for the Kid Connection afterschool program. | North Berwick, ME |
2017 | Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin | $5,000 | For general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
2017 | Locker Project | $5,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Maine Medical Center | $24,000 | To provide support for patients and providers by helping patients screen for secondary cancers at two clinics, one in Portland and the other in Augusta. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $25,000 | To provide support for the Weald Bethel Food Pantry, which serves low-income residents within a 700-mile radius of Washington County. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2017 | Mercy Hospital | $15,000 | To provide support for their Patient Assistance Fund for adults in treatment for cancer or blood disorders who need financial help to defray the cost of non-medical expenses. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2017 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Portland, ME |
2017 | New Beginnings | $20,000 | To provide program support for a 24-hour shelter for runaway and homeless teens in Maine. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | OHI | $15,000 | To provide support for the Brewer Area Food Pantry. | Hermon, ME |
2017 | Penobscot Bay Medical Center | $25,000 | To provide support for the Oncology Patient Assistance Fund, which provides financially distressed cancer patients battling with support for urgent basic need expenses. | Rockland, ME |
2017 | Pine Tree Hospice | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2017 | Portland Adult Education | $25,000 | To provide education, employment and financial literacy services to New Americans in greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide funding for a social worker to focus on trauma screening with all new pediatric patients. | Portland, ME |
2017 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen. | Portland, ME |
2017 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $25,000 | To provide food to families in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
2017 | Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Biddeford, ME |
2017 | Somali Bantu Community Association | $5,000 | For general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | Southern Maine Health Care | $20,000 | To provide financial support to cancer pantients with healthcare and transportation related expenses. | Biddeford, ME |
2017 | St. Martin de Porres Residence | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | St. Mary's Nutrition Center | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | For general operating support. | Brunswick, ME |
2017 | Tri-County Mental Health Services | $25,000 | To provide intensive family and community-based treatment for chronic and violent juvenile offenders. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | Trinity Jubilee Center | $25,000 | To support the Feeding L-A Project, which provides healthy food to low-income residents of Lewiston-Auburn and the surrounding towns. | Lewiston, ME |
2017 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $8,500 | To provide support to purchase non-food household items for the Corner Cupboard essentials pantry to benefit low-income people. | Sanford, ME |
2017 | Unity Barn Raisers | $12,000 | To provide meals for low-income families in Waldo County. | Unity, ME |
2016 | American Cancer Society | $25,000 | To support the Patient Navigation Programs at Maine Medical Center and Maine General Medical Center and the for the Road to Recovery transportation program. | Framingham, MA |
2016 | Amistad | $15,000 | General operating support to address the needs of individuals with mental illness and other life challenges. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Androscoggin Home Health Services | $25,000 | To provide bereavement services for hospice patients and their families who are affected by cancer. | Lewiston, ME |
2016 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $20,000 | To provide food and emergency aid to economically distressed people of Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2016 | Aroostook County Action Program | $25,000 | To support the Energy Crisis Intervention Program, an effort that helps individuals and families manage crises such as homelessness or eviction in Aroostook County. | Presque Isle, ME |
2016 | Avesta Housing Development Corporation | $25,000 | To provide support for people transitioning from homelessness to affordable housing in Portland. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To provide support to homebound seniors in Androscoggin, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and Franklin counties. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Child and Family Opportunities | $15,000 | For the Early Education Access Fund helping parents who need childcare, and who are ineligible for other assistance or are unable to pay full fees due to changes in employment, changes in family health and well-being, or unexpected situations. | Ellsworth, ME |
2016 | Community Clinical Services | $10,000 | To provide general operating support for patients' out of pocket expenses not covered by any type of insurance; and community outreach, education and engagement activities. | Lewiston, ME |
2016 | Community Financial Literacy | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to provide financial education courses and individual financial and college access counseling sessions. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Cultivating Community | $15,000 | To provide support for programs that increase access to healthy food. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Day One | $25,000 | To help homeless youth and other vulnerable young people obtain stable housing. | South Portland, ME |
2016 | Dean Snell Cancer Foundation | $10,000 | To provide financial assistance to cancer patients being treated at New England Cancer Specialists in Brunswick. | Brunswick, ME |
2016 | Down East Hospice Volunteers | $15,000 | To provide cost-free compassionate care for terminally ill cancer patients, their families and their caregivers. | Calais, ME |
2016 | Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems | $20,000 | To provide support for the Patient Assistance Fund to help cancer patients in Aroostook County with travel and lodging, and financial help for medication co-pays. | Presque Isle, ME |
2016 | Freeport Community Services | $15,000 | To support staff and programs that serve the most vulnerable residents of Freeport and Pownal, including low-income seniors and children. | Freeport, ME` |
2016 | Friends of Aroostook | $10,000 | To provide funding to grow, maintain, harvest and deliver fresh produce to people in need living in Aroostook, Washington, Piscataquis and Penobscot counties. | Houlton, ME |
2016 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | To provide donated furniture to people in the Greater Portland area who lack basic home necessities. | Westbrook, ME |
2016 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
2016 | Grahamtastic Connection | $15,000 | To provide laptops, tablets and internet access for children in Maine who are battling cancer. | Springvale, ME |
2016 | Hand in Hand Mano en Mano | $15,000 | To provide support for a drop-in resource center, home-based services, case management, referrals and transportation services for immigrants and farmworkers in Milbridge and surrounding towns | Milbridge, ME |
2016 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for legal services to Maine's low-income immigrants. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Intercultural Community Center | $5,000 | To help low-income immigrants access housing, education and employment. | Westbrook, ME |
2016 | Irene Chadbourne Ecumenical Food Pantry | $15,000 | To provide for children, young parents and the elderly living in Washington County, the Passamaquoddy Indian Township and Pleasant Point with basic services such as food, fuel and transportation. | Calais, ME |
2016 | Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To support the food and diaper pantry, which serves those in need in the Portland area. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $25,000 | To provide support to youth in Central Maine who are experiencing homelessness. | Waterville, ME |
2016 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $15,000 | To provide transportation services to individuals and families affected by cancer. | Waterville, ME |
2016 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $25,000 | To provide support for mental health programs serving homeless clients in Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2016 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To provide support for programs that provide transportation to low-income seniors, disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
2016 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $15,000 | To support the Weald Bethel Food Pantry, which serves low-income residents within a 700 mile radius of Washington County. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2016 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To support programs that provide food to low- income families. | Brunswick, ME |
2016 | Mid-Coast Health Net | $20,000 | To increase the number of patients receiving mental health counseling. | Rockland, ME |
2016 | Milestone Foundation | $25,000 | To support Milestone's Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter. | Portland, ME |
2016 | New Beginnings | $15,000 | To provide program support for a 24-hour shelter for runaway and homeless teens in Maine. | Lewiston, ME |
2016 | Oasis Free Clinics | $20,000 | To provide more free mental health services. | Brunswick, ME |
2016 | Oxford County Mental Health Services | $25,000 | To provide mental health services and intervention when law enforcement has become involved in a mental health crisis. | Rumford, ME |
2016 | Penobscot Community Health Care | $25,000 | To provide mental health services to clients in the Hope House Health and Living Center. | Bangor, ME |
2016 | Penquis | $15,000 | To provide transportation assistance for individuals who do not have or cannot afford transportation to cancer treatment or support. | Bangor, ME |
2016 | Pine Tree Hospice | $15,000 | To assist clients and families experiencing end-of-life challenges and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2016 | Portland Education Foundation | $20,000 | To support a universal breakfast program at the Fred P. Hall School in Portland. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Preble Street | $20,000 | To provide support for Preble Street's Emergency Food Programs at the Resource Center Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry, the Florence House Soup Kitchen, and the Teen Center Soup Kitchen. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Rockland District Nursing Association | $21,000 | To provide affordable in-home and community health nursing services to low- to moderate- income seniors | Rockland, ME |
2016 | Rosscare | $12,000 | To support the monthly subsidy given to low-income subscribers of EMHS LiveSAFE, a service which allows seniors to continue to live independently and safely in their own homes. | Bangor, ME |
2016 | Rumford Group Homes | $25,000 | To serve children who need crisis stabilization services. | Rumford, ME |
2016 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To support programs aimed at alleviating hunger and homelessness for the most vulnerable residents in 13 central Maine towns. | Leeds, ME |
2016 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To support direct services such as emergency housing to men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Auburn, ME |
2016 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $25,000 | To provide mental health services to children who have been sexually abused in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties. | Auburn, ME |
2016 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $20,000 | To provide funding to support sexual assault education and services specific to homeless and at-risk youth. | Portland, ME |
2016 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $10,000 | To provide support for the When In Need (WIN) Fund, a discretionary fund designed to support the basic human needs of older and disabled adults in southern Maine. | Scarborough, ME |
2016 | St. Mary's Nutrition Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support funds to the St. Mary's Nutrition Center, which improves food access to those in need in Lewiston-Auburn. | Lewiston, ME |
2016 | Tedford Housing | $15,000 | To provide mental health services for clients at the Cumberland Street Emergency Housing Shelter. | Brunswick, ME |
2016 | The Center for Wisdom's Women | $10,000 | General operating support for a drop-in center for low-income women providing food, clothing, and personal hygiene products. | Lewiston, ME |
2016 | The Gathering Place | $5,000 | To provide general operating support for the only daytime shelter for the poor and homeless in the Midcoast Region. | Brunswick, ME |
2016 | The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | $15,000 | To provide assistance with travel and other expenses for Maine patients undergoing cancer treatment. | Natick, MA |
2016 | The Opportunity Alliance | $15,000 | To provide support for Morrison Place, which provides transitional housing and treatment for homeless individuals diagnosed with co-occurring major mental illness and substance use disorders. | South Portland, ME |
2016 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To provide support for a community kitchen program serving children, youth and families in Norway. | Norway, ME |
2016 | The Shaw House | $20,000 | To provide mental health support services for homeless at-risk youth throughout five counties in Maine. | Bangor, ME |
2016 | Unitarian Universalist Association | $7,000 | To purchase non-food items for Sanford's Corner Cupboard, such as batteries for smoke detectors, trash bags and personal hygiene products. | Sanford, ME |
2016 | Upper Valley Economic Council | $5,000 | To provide support for the Upper Valley Economic Council's Food Pantry, serving food insecure families in Aroostook County. | Sherman, ME |
2016 | Westbrook Community Services | $20,000 | To provide support for families who need help with basic needs and services to navigate through the initial months of relocation such as school transitions and medical care. | Westbrook, ME |
2016 | York County Community Action Corporation | $20,000 | To provide mental health services such as assessments, behavior and treatment planning, and whole-family interventions for children in Head Start. | Sanford, ME |
2015 | American Cancer Society | $25,000 | To support the Patient Navigation Programs at Maine Medical Center and Maine General Medical Center. | Framingham, MA |
2015 | Amistad | $25,000 | To address the needs of individuals with mental illness and other life challenges; develop peer services; and advocate for changes to the mental health system. | Portland, ME |
2015 | Androscoggin Home Health Services | $25,000 | To provide volunteer and bereavement services for hospice patients and their families who are impacted by cancer. | Lewiston, ME |
2015 | Area Interfaith Outreach | $15,000 | To provide food and emergency aid to economically distressed people of Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2015 | Augusta Food Bank | $15,000 | To provide food to children and families and serve as a resource for families in crisis. | Augusta, ME |
2015 | Cancer Community Center | $15,000 | To support the Maine Buddy Program, a statewide phone-based cancer support and peer connection program serving rural areas of the state. | South Portland, ME |
2015 | Cancer Support Center of Maine | $5,000 | To support services to Maine people affected by cancer. | Bucksport, ME |
2015 | Community Housing of Maine | $5,000 | To support efforts to address the long-term mental health needs of chronically homeless clients. | Portland, ME |
2015 | Cultivating Community | $25,000 | To support programs that increase access to healthy food. | Portland, ME |
2015 | Down East Hospice Volunteers | $15,000 | To provide cost-free compassionate care for terminally ill cancer patients, their families and their caregivers. | Calais, ME |
2015 | Easter Seals Maine | $25,000 | To provide mental health support to veterans, service members, and their families. | Portland, ME |
2015 | Eastern Area Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To support the Pantry Partners program, which serves low-income clients through emergency and supplemental food boxes and transportation of food from food pantries to seniors' homes. | Bangor, ME |
2015 | Food AND Medicine, Jobs with Justice Education Fund | $15,000 | To provide funding to deliver healthy, locally grown food to SNAP users, including families in crisis, laid-off workers, seniors, and people with disabilities who need homecare. | Brewer, ME |
2015 | Frannie Peabody Center | $25,000 | To provide mental health services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Maine. | Portland, ME |
2015 | Friends of Aroostook | $15,000 | To provide funding to grow, maintain, harvest, and deliver fresh produce to Area Agencies on Aging sites in Aroostook, Washington, Piscataquis and Penobscot Counties. | Houlton, ME |
2015 | Grahamtastic Connection | $20,000 | To provide laptops, tablets and Internet access for children in Maine who are battling cancer. | Springvale, ME |
2015 | Healthy Community Coalition | $20,000 | To support programs that address food insecurity. | Farmington, ME |
2015 | Hospice Volunteers of Hancock County | $15,000 | To support patient care, caregiver support, and bereavement services for residents of Hancock County. | Ellsworth, ME |
2015 | Jackson Food Pantry | $5,000 | To provide food to low-income children, families and seniors in Waldo County. | Jackson, ME |
2015 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $20,000 | To provide transportation services to individuals and families affected by cancer. | Waterville, ME |
2015 | Knox County Homeless Coalition | $25,000 | To support mental health programs serving homeless clients in Knox County. | Rockland, ME |
2015 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To support transportation programs for low-income seniors, disabled citizens, and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
2015 | Maine Coast Memorial Hospital | $25,000 | To provide increased access to mental health services for uninsured and underinsured residents in western Washington and Hancock counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2015 | Maine Farmland Trust | $25,000 | To support programs that help address the needs of food insecure people in Maine. | Belfast, ME |
2015 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $7,500 | To provide funding for mental health counseling at the school's health center. | Topsham, ME |
2015 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $25,000 | To support the Weald Bethel Food Pantry, which serves low-income residents within a 700 mile radius of Washington County. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2015 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $25,000 | To provide support for developing one point-of-entry for patients seeking a potential oncology referral. | Augusta, ME |
2015 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To support the Pediatric Social Work/Navigator Program, which helps children and families coping with the challenges of cancer; and the Pediatric Telehealth Oncology Program, which allows families to access care from their homes. | Saco, ME |
2015 | MCH, Inc. | $25,000 | To provide funding for the Meals on Wheels program in Knox County, and to provide food for low-income seniors and individuals with disabilities who live in the Methodist Conference Home. | Rockland, ME |
2015 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To support programs that provide food to low-income families. | Brunswick, ME |
2015 | Milestone Foundation | $25,000 | To support the Milestone Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement (HOME) Team and Emergency Homeless Shelter. | Portland, ME |
2015 | OHI | $20,000 | To provide funding to increase recovery while decreasing isolation for people with mental illness through social integration, opportunities for recreation, and peer supports. | Hermon, ME |
2015 | Penobscot Community Health Care | $25,000 | To provide mental health services to clients in the Hope House Health and Living Center. | Bangor, ME |
2015 | Penquis | $25,000 | To provide funding for transportation assistance for cancer patients who do not have or cannot afford transportation. | Bangor, ME |
2015 | Pine Tree Hospice | $15,000 | To provide operating support to assist clients and families experiencing end-of-life challenges and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2015 | Piscataquis Regional YMCA | $20,000 | To support the Maine FarmShare program, which provides fresh produce to seniors. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2015 | RSU 14 | $15,000 | To support the district's backpack program, which provides food to food-insecure children over weekends and holidays throughout the school year. | Windham, ME |
2015 | Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center | $10,000 | To support programs that provide low-income families with food and connections to community services. | Biddeford, ME |
2015 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide funding for Meals on Wheels for older adults in Androscoggin County. | Lewiston, ME |
2015 | Shalom House | $25,000 | To support programs that find stable housing and support services for long-term homeless individuals. | Portland, ME |
2015 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $10,000 | To support the purchase and distribution of nutritious foods to those in need in South Portland. | South Portland, ME |
2015 | St. Mary's Nutrition Center | $25,000 | To support food access initiatives. | Lewiston, ME |
2015 | Tedford Housing | $22,500 | To support mental health services for clients at the Cumberland Street Emergency Housing Shelter in Brunswick. | Brunswick, ME |
2015 | The Center for Grieving Children | $20,000 | To support the Tender Living Care Program, which provides education and emotional support to families when a parent or caregiver is diagnosed with a life impacting illness, including cancer. | Portland, ME |
2015 | The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - Maine Chapter | $25,000 | To provide assistance with travel and other expenses for Maine patients undergoing cancer treatment. | Natick, MA |
2015 | The Opportunity Alliance | $20,000 | To support the Children's Outpatient Therapy program, which provides mental health assessment and treatment services to children and their families. | South Portland, ME |
2015 | The Progress Center | $25,000 | To support the Community Kitchen program, which serves nutritious meals to low-income children, adults, and the elderly in Norway, Maine. | Norway, ME |
2015 | The Root Cellar | $10,000 | To provide funding to purchase food for families in Portland and Lewiston. | Portland, ME |
2015 | Trinity Jubilee Center | $25,000 | To support the Feeding L-A Project, which provides healthy food to low-income residents of Lewiston-Auburn and the surrounding towns. | Lewiston, ME |
2015 | University of New England | $25,000 | To provide incentives that will increase the purchase of fruits and vegetables for participants in a SNAP benefit study. | Biddeford, ME |
2015 | Upper Valley Economic Council | $5,000 | To provide support for the Upper Valley Economic Council's Food Pantry, serving food insecure families in Aroostook County. | Sherman, ME |
2015 | York County Community Action Corporation | $25,000 | To support mental health services and whole-family interventions for children in Head Start. | Sanford, ME |
2014 | American Cancer Society | $20,000 | To provide ongoing funding to support the Patient Navigation Programs at Maine Medical Center and Maine General Medical Center. | Framingham, MA |
2014 | Amistad | $15,000 | To provide operating support for individuals with mental illness and other life challenges; to develop peer services; and to advocate for changes to the mental health system. | Portland, ME |
2014 | Androscoggin Home Health Services | $20,000 | To provide low-income residents who do not have insurance for prescription drugs with needed medication. | Lewiston, ME |
2014 | Aroostook Area Agency on Aging | $15,000 | To provide farm fresh produce as well as prepared meals for home delivery to home-bound and disabled seniors. | Presque Isle, ME |
2014 | Aroostook County Action Program | $20,000 | To provide funding to support staff and program costs to help low-income clients achieve self sufficiency through access to food, employment, housing and medical care | Presque Isle, ME |
2014 | Ascentria Community Services | $10,000 | To provide people suffering from mental illness with opportunities for community, social and peer engagement and recreation. | Auburn, ME |
2014 | Augusta Food Bank | $10,000 | To provide funding to purchase food items and lunch bags for low-income children in local schools during the weekend and over vacations. | Augusta, ME |
2014 | Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center | $15,000 | To provide operating support toward staffing so they may continue providing direct services to people affected by cancer in Hancock and Washington Counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2014 | Biddeford Free Clinic | $18,000 | To provide non-narcotic medications to people living in poverty without health insurance and assist low-income residents in paying for expensive life-saving medications. | Biddeford, ME |
2014 | Boothbay Region Community Resource Council | $15,000 | To provide funding to implement a wrap-around substance abuse and mental health treatment programthat will assist low-income clients with treatment payments, transportation to appointments, and necessary medications, when no other funding stream exists. | Boothbay Harbor, ME |
2014 | Cancer Community Center | $15,000 | To provide support for the Cancer Survivorship Program which provides free classes, support groups, and resources to help cancer survivors transition from active treatment to life after cancer. | South Portland, ME |
2014 | Catholic Charities Maine | $15,000 | To provide funding to support program services and volunteers to isolated seniors so they can remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. | Portland, ME |
2014 | Child and Family Opportunities | $15,000 | To provide operating support for high quality early care and education programs in nine centers in Washington and Hancock counties. | Ellsworth, ME |
2014 | Community Concepts | $20,000 | To provide funding so seniors and veterans with a cancer diagnosis in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties can access life-enhancing treatment via Community Concepts' transportation program. | Lewiston, ME |
2014 | Community Health and Counseling Services | $17,150 | To provide funding for support groups for resource families raising children whose parent(s) cannot. | Bangor, ME |
2014 | Day One | $20,000 | To provide funding to support staff and program costs for mental health and case management services to immigrant and refugee street and homeless youth. | South Portland, ME |
2014 | Deer Isle Sunset Congregational Church | $2,500 | To provide support for the Island Heating Assistance Program providing emergency fuel assistance for low-income Deer Isle residents. | Deer Isle, ME |
2014 | Down East Hospice Volunteers | $10,000 | To provide general operating support to continue providing cost-free compassionate support for terminally ill cancer patients, their families, and their caregivers. | Calais, ME |
2014 | East Parish Housing Ministry | $5,000 | To provide support for general improvements to homes with substandard conditions. | Starks, ME |
2014 | Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems | $20,000 | To provide support to establish a Patient Assistance Fund to help cancer patients in Aroostoock County with travel and lodging, and financial help for medication co-pays. | Presque Isle, ME |
2014 | Freeport Community Services | $15,000 | To provide funding to support staff and programs which provide direct services to the most vulnerable residents of Freeport and Pownal, including low-income seniors and children. | Freeport, ME` |
2014 | Friends in Action | $15,000 | To provide operating support for transportation and food security programs. | Ellsworth, ME |
2014 | Furniture Friends | $10,000 | To provide general operating support to supply and deliver free furniture to people in need in the Greater Portland area. | Westbrook, ME |
2014 | Grahamtastic Connection | $15,000 | To provide laptops, tablets and internet access for children in Maine who are battling cancer. | Springvale, ME |
2014 | Hand in Hand, Mano en Mano | $15,000 | To provide immigrants and migrant workers with high-quality supports and referrals to meet their basic needs. | Milbridge, ME |
2014 | Healthy Community Coalition | $15,000 | To provide funding for staff and programs that provide food, safety and other basic needs for Seniors and cancer patients in collaboration with area agencies. | Farmington, ME |
2014 | Hospice of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To provide operating support for medical, emotional, and spiritual services for cancer patients who are seriously ill with a terminal diagnosis. | Scarborough, ME |
2014 | Hospice Volunteers of Hancock County | $15,000 | To provide operating support for patient care, caregiver support and bereavement services for residents of Hancock County. | Ellsworth, ME |
2014 | Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area | $10,000 | To provide direct care and bereavement services for hospice patients with a cancer diagnosis. | Waterville, ME |
2014 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for legal services to Maine's low income immigrants. | Portland, ME |
2014 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors, disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
2014 | Maine Farmland Trust | $15,000 | To provide funds for the Local Food for Seniors program. | Belfast, ME |
2014 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $20,000 | To provide support for individuals and families who struggle to have adequate food, shelter and clothing. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2014 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To provide funding for pediatric social work services to support children and their families navigating the challenges of cancer. | Saco, ME |
2014 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $15,000 | To provide operating support for programs that provide food to low-income families. | Brunswick, ME |
2014 | Mid-Coast Health Net | $10,000 | To provide funding to increase the number of patients receiving mental health counseling. | Rockland, ME |
2014 | Midcoast Maine Community Action | $15,000 | To provide funding to support families and individuals with emergency needs and complete accessibility repairs to enable the elderly to remain at home. | Bath, ME |
2014 | Milestone Foundation | $15,000 | To provide funding to support homeless individuals in Portland experiencing chronic health and substance use issues. | Portland, ME |
2014 | New Beginnings | $20,000 | To provide program support for an emergency shelter for youth, the only 24-hour shelter for runaway and homeless teens in Maine. | Lewiston, ME |
2014 | Penquis | $15,000 | To provide funding for transportation assistance for individuals who do not have or cannot afford transportation to cancer treatment or support. | Bangor, ME |
2014 | Pine Tree Hospice | $15,000 | To provide operating support to assist clients and families experiencing the challenges and needs that accompany end of life and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2014 | Regional Transportation Program | $15,000 | To provide funding for transportation for the elderly, social service agency clients, the economically disadvantaged, and people with disabilities throughout Cumberland county. | Portland, ME |
2014 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide operating support for programs aimed at alleviating hunger and homelessness for the most vulnerable residents in thirteen central Maine towns. | Leeds, ME |
2014 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to provide direct services such as emergency housing to men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Auburn, ME |
2014 | SeniorsPlus | $20,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to older adults. | Lewiston, ME |
2014 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $15,000 | To provide operating support for victims of sexual violence across three counties in Maine. | Auburn, ME |
2014 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $20,000 | To provide funding for staffing for sexual assault education and services specific to homeless and at-risk youth. | Portland, ME |
2014 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $10,000 | To provide food to low income seniors with physical limitations. | South Portland, ME |
2014 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $20,000 | To provide support to reduce re-hospitalization rates of high-risk Medicare patients by providing home-delivered meals after discharge from the hospital. | Scarborough, ME |
2014 | Spruce Run Womancare Alliance | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for 24 hour emergency shelter for men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Bangor, ME |
2014 | Sunrise Opportunities | $10,000 | To provide short term or one time financial support to meet critical needs of low-income families. | Machias, ME |
2014 | Sweetser | $20,000 | To provide one-time support for increased staff time to serve adults experiencing serious mental illness who are in need of more intensive care. | Saco, ME |
2014 | Tedford Housing | $20,000 | To provide funding for residential support services to adults in the emergency housing shelter. | Brunswick, ME |
2014 | The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - Maine Chapter | $15,000 | To provide assistance with travel and other expenses to Maine patients undergoing cancer treatment. | Natick, MA |
2014 | The Opportunity Alliance | $15,000 | To provide funding to support mental health assessment and treatment services for children and their families. | South Portland, ME |
2014 | The Shaw House | $15,000 | To provide general operating support for services, shelter and support for homeless and at-risk youth throughout five counties in Maine. | Bangor, ME |
2014 | Trinity Jubilee Center | $20,000 | To provide support to the Refugee Assistance Program in Lewiston and Auburn to help immigrants and refugees with basic needs such as housing, medical care and employment. | Lewiston, ME |
2014 | United Way of York County | $15,000 | To provide funding to Partners For A Hunger Free York County for farm shares of local produce to low-income seniors in York County. | Kennebunk, ME |
2014 | Vinalhaven Eldercare Services | $15,000 | To provide general operating funds to help seniors living on the island of Vinalhaven age in place. | Vinalhaven, ME |
2014 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $20,000 | To provide funding support and staffing for mental health counseling to incarcerated men. | Brunswick, ME |
2014 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to support the provision of nutritious food in Cumberland County to those in need. | Portland, ME |
2014 | York County Community Action Corporation | $23,000 | To provide support for public transportation for Sanford and Springvale residents - many on fixed incomes - to access local shopping, medical and job opportunities. | Sanford, ME |
2013 | American Cancer Society | $25,000 | To support two patient navigator programs at Maine Medical Center and Maine General. | Framingham, MA |
2013 | Amistad | $25,000 | To provide a free basic breakfast to individuals at the Peer Support and Recovery Center. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Aroostook Area Agency on Aging | $25,000 | To provide meals to low-income seniors. | Presque Isle, ME |
2013 | Beth C. Wright Cancer Resource Center | $15,000 | To provide operating support to sustain the Program and Volunteer Coordinator position. | Ellsworth, ME |
2013 | Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake | $25,000 | To provide free camp retreats for Maine families who have a child with a cancer diagnosis. | Casco, ME |
2013 | Cancer Community Center | $25,000 | To provide free classes, support groups and resources to help cancer survivors transition from active treatment to life after cancer. | South Portland, ME |
2013 | Cancer Support Center of Maine | $5,000 | To provide gas cards for cancer patients traveling to and from medical appointments. | Bucksport, ME |
2013 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To provide support services and volunteers to isolated seniors so they can remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Central Maine Area Agency on Aging | $25,000 | To provide direct services to low income seniors and their family caregivers to help them remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. | Augusta, ME |
2013 | Community Concepts | $15,000 | To provide seniors transportation to and from medical appointments. | Lewiston, ME |
2013 | Community Health and Counseling Services | $24,250 | To provide remote patient monitoring for individuals age 60+ living with chronic diseases such as diabetes or congestive heart failure. | Bangor, ME |
2013 | Day One | $25,000 | To provide mental health counseling to youth in Greater Portland. | South Portland, ME |
2013 | Down East Hospice Volunteers | $10,000 | To provide hospice and bereavement services to cancer patients and those in need of end of life supportive, compassionate care. | Calais, ME |
2013 | Easter Seals Maine | $25,000 | To provide Early Intervention services such as preventative physical, occupational, speech, and language therapies to disadvantaged children from birth to age 5 with disabilities, special needs, and various mental illnesses. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Frannie Peabody Center | $25,000 | To provide direct services for clients living with co-occurring mental illness and HIV/AIDS. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Friends in Action | $10,000 | To provide free transportation and nutritious food to seniors through volunteer programs. | Ellsworth, ME |
2013 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | $100,000 | To purchase nutritional foods for distribution to pantries throughout the winter, and increased capacity for safer, more reliable winter food distributions. | Auburn, ME |
2013 | Grahamtastic Connection | $15,000 | To provide laptops, tablets and internet access for children in Maine who are battling cancer. | Springvale, ME |
2013 | Hammond Street Senior Center | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Bangor, ME |
2013 | Healthy Community Coalition | $20,000 | To develop a navigator pilot program to improve the lives of those living with cancer. | Farmington, ME |
2013 | Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County | $5,000 | To research and install an efficient, consistent, measurable training course for volunteers throughout the county. | Skowhegan, ME |
2013 | Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area | $15,000 | To improve quality of life for isolated senior citizens in rural communities who are in need of hospice and grief services. | Waterville, ME |
2013 | Island Connections | $10,000 | To provide free transportation and other services to elderly and disabled residents to help them live independently. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2013 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $20,000 | To support general operations of Kennebec Behavioral Health to serve low-income clients with mental illness. | Waterville, ME |
2013 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors and disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
2013 | Legal Services for the Elderly | $25,000 | To provide advocacy services for seniors at risk of losing their home/housing or home care services. | Augusta, ME |
2013 | Maine Center on Deafness | $25,000 | To provide telecoil-equipped hearing aids to low-income Maine seniors. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency | $12,500 | To pilot a multidisciplinary model that will improve the lives of older patients who suffer from Mild Cognitive Impairment and decrease patient isolation and caregiver burden. | Augusta, ME |
2013 | Maine Farmland Trust | $25,000 | To continue a highly successful Community Farm Share program targeting low income seniors. | Belfast, ME |
2013 | Maine Medical Center | $25,000 | To support oncology patients with comprehensive patient educational materials and other supports to ensure a safe transition from the hospital to the home setting; and support unmet patient needs for housing, transportation and food, in particular those traveling long distances. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $25,000 | To support elders who wish to age in place in their homes and communities to do so successfully. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2013 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $15,000 | To support a Patient-centered, evidence based model to improve the quality of home health care to vulnerable elders at risk of hospitalization or facility placement. | Saco, ME |
2013 | MCH, Inc. | $25,000 | To strengthen and extend “aging in place” support services for seniors and individuals with disabilities in two low-income MCH apartment buildings. | Rockland, ME |
2013 | Penobscot Bay YMCA | $15,000 | To expand existing programs for seniors to include fitness classes, transportation and social opportunities. | Rockport, ME |
2013 | Penobscot Community Health Care | $25,000 | To increase provision of home-based primary care to seniors with chronic conditions, allowing them to age in place and maintain their health. | Bangor, ME |
2013 | Penquis | $20,000 | To provide transportation assistance (rides or financial reimbursement) for individuals who do not have or cannot afford transportation to cancer treatment. | Bangor, ME |
2013 | Pine Tree Hospice | $14,250 | To provide general operating support to continue their mission of assisting clients and families experiencing the challenges accompanying end of life and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2013 | Portland Community Health Center | $25,000 | To provide mental health counseling services to low-income, New Mainer patient populations. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Preble Street | $25,000 | To provide crisis intervention, assessment, and casework services to adults who are homeless and struggling with mental illness. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Rockland District Nursing Association | $15,000 | To provide affordable, non-acute, professional in-home and community health nursing services to predominantly low to moderate income seniors. | Rockland, ME |
2013 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to older adults currently on the wait list. | Lewiston, ME |
2013 | Shalom House | $15,000 | To provide emergency funds to individuals without the financial means to meet basic needs. | Portland, ME |
2013 | Spurwink Services | $20,000 | To support Spurwink's Portland Help Center, which provides outpatient mental health services for adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. | Portland, ME |
2013 | The Center for Grieving Children | $15,000 | To provide peer support, home/hospital visits, education, and resources to families with children ages 3-18 and young adults 19-30 where the parent or caregiver is facing serious illness. | Portland, ME |
2013 | The Iris Network | $25,000 | To help seniors, who would otherwise be dependent on nursing and medical care, learn the skills to remain independent in their homes. | Portland, ME |
2013 | United Way of Greater Portland | $100,000 | To support the Keep Me Warm Fund, which will distribute funds statewide for heating assistance to low-income Mainers in the 2013/2014 winter months. | Portland, ME |
2013 | United Way of York County | $15,000 | To improve regular access to healthy foods for low-income senior citizens in York County, building upon successful summer Farm Fresh Foods for Seniors and Winter Shares projects. | Kennebunk, ME |
2013 | Veterans Inc. | $25,000 | To provide case management for veterans age 65+ to age in place and receive mental health and other services. | Worcester, MA |
2013 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $20,000 | To support the Options At Home Program to expand affordable personal care services for low to moderate income seniors in Southern, Mid-Coast, and Central Maine. | Brunswick, ME |
2013 | Washington Hancock Community Agency | $25,000 | To support seniors aging in place through Friendship Cottage Adult Day Service and the At Home Downeast Program. | Ellsworth, ME |
2013 | York County Community Action Corporation | $24,000 | To provide transportation for York County residents who are receiving treatment for cancer. | Sanford, ME |
2012 | A Company of Girls | $5,000 | To provide a safe and supportive after school program for girls throughout the school year. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Advocates for Children | $10,000 | To support the Nurturing Parenting Program for the parents of infant, toddler and preschool age children, as well as a specific program for Somali parents. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | American Cancer Society | $25,000 | To support the Patient Navigator and the Road to Recovery Programs for patients undergoing cancer treatments. | Framingham, MA |
2012 | Amistad | $28,720 | To provide breakfast and basic supplies for individuals experiencing or recovering from severe and persistent mental illness. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Aroostook County Action Program | $12,500 | To replenish the Emergency Relief Fund that provides resources to clients for basic needs when there is no other resource in the community. | Presque Isle, ME |
2012 | Aroostook Dental Clinic | $21,400 | To support dental services to 1,300 low-income children in Aroostook County. | Presque Isle, ME |
2012 | Ascentria Community Services | $5,000 | To provide support for Camp Sign-A-Watha in Monmouth for Maine's deaf adults with developmental disabilities. | Auburn, ME |
2012 | Bates College | $40,000 | To support increasing educational attainment and college aspirations for youth and adult residents of Lewiston's poorest neighborhoods. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | Beacon Project | $5,600 | To fund transportation costs for elderly residents to medical appointments on the mainland. | Islesboro, ME |
2012 | Biddeford Free Clinic | $15,000 | To support the Pharmacy program for non-narcotic prescription medications for those without health insurance living in poverty. | Biddeford, ME |
2012 | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick Maine | $10,000 | To provide support for programs and services including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine | $10,000 | To provide support for programs and services including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Rockland, ME |
2012 | Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine | $25,000 | To provide support for programs and services including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Bowdoinham Public Library | $3,000 | To provide a Bowdoinham Summer Reading Support and Family Literacy Program for low-income children and their families. | Bowdoinham, ME |
2012 | Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine | $30,000 | To support programs and services, including after-school academic assistance and mentoring for young people ages 5-18, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Brunswick Area Respite Care | $12,000 | To provide support for home care services for the elderly. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake | $50,000 | To support Maine families and children with life-threatening illnesses. | Casco, ME |
2012 | Cancer Community Center | $20,000 | To support the well-being of individuals and their families living with cancer. | South Portland, ME |
2012 | Catholic Charities Maine | $25,000 | To support the Seek Elderly Alone, Renew Courage and Hope Program (SEARCH), connecting elderly people to volunteer support to enhance independence, community integration and self-sufficiency. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Central Maine Area Agency on Aging | $23,600 | To provide meals through the Meals on Wheels program to homebound adults and seniors in Somerset County. | Augusta, ME |
2012 | Charlotte White Center | $25,000 | To provide meals and maintain decent, safe, affordable supported housing for low-income adults who have serious prolonged disabilities for one year. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2012 | Child and Family Opportunities | $48,516 | To increase access to early care and education services in Washington County. | Ellsworth, ME |
2012 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | $50,000 | To provide assistance to New Americans around business development with an existing program called StartSmart. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Community Concepts | $35,000 | To provide low-income seniors, veterans and cancer patients with rides to critical and preventative medical care, mental health services, social services and prescription pick-up. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | Community Dental | $31,250 | To support the purchase of dental supplies to provide needed services at the Farmington Dental Center. | Falmouth, ME |
2012 | Community Financial Literacy | $10,000 | To provide general operating support for financial literacy information specific to immigrants and refugees. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Consumers for Affordable Health Care | $40,000 | To support the Consumer Assistance Program to help low-income adults and families find affordable health insurance coverage or health care services. | Augusta, ME |
2012 | Counseling Services | $10,000 | To support mental health services to children diagnosed with mental illness that are underinsured or uninsured. | Saco, ME |
2012 | Cultivating Community | $20,000 | To improve access to fresh food for low-income people by supporting small scale, local farmers to provide a sustainable food supply in Greater Portland. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Down East Hospice Volunteers | $10,000 | To provide for the unmet needs of Washington County individuals who are terminally ill and want to spend their final days at home. | Calais, ME |
2012 | Downeast Health Services | $25,000 | To support dental services for uninsured individuals and maintain unlimited access for individuals insured by Medicaid through the Maine Coast Community Dental clinic. | Ellsworth, ME |
2012 | East Parish Housing Ministry | $5,000 | To support general improvements to homes with substandard conditions. | Starks, ME |
2012 | Easter Seals Maine | $5,000 | To support early intervention services that provide physical, occupational, speech and language therapies to children with disabilities or special needs. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Eastern Area Agency on Aging | $18,500 | To support programs that inform and educate older adults on their risk of falling and on the environmental and physical changes they can make to reduce those risks and increase independence within the home. | Bangor, ME |
2012 | Families and Children Together | $25,000 | To provide support for Maine Kids Kin, a program for grandparents or family members who are raising children due to family separation. | Bangor, ME |
2012 | Family Violence Project | $19,560 | To support the transportation needs of domestic violence clients seeking community services. | Augusta, ME |
2012 | Food AND Medicine, Jobs with Justice Education Fund | $10,000 | To provide a 50% discount for food stamp users who purchase food at two farmers markets in Bangor and through a farm share program. | Brewer, ME |
2012 | Food for Maine's Future | $12,000 | To support the Food For Maine's Future program that provides fresh food to migrant farmworkers. | Sedgwick, ME |
2012 | Four Directions Development Corporation | $10,000 | To provide support for financial counseling and training for Maine tribal members. | Orono, ME |
2012 | Frannie Peabody Center | $20,000 | To support services to people in Maine living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Good Shepherd Food Bank | $75,000 | To provide support for the Mainers Feeding Mainers program to utilize 'purchase partnerships' with Maine Farms, dairies, and fisheries to increase the flow of fresh and healthy foods to food pantries. | Auburn, ME |
2012 | H.O.M.E. Inc. | $10,000 | To support food, shelter, and employment opportunities for men, women, and children in Hancock County. | Orland, ME |
2012 | Hand in Hand, Mano en Mano | $25,000 | To provide assistance to migrant workers in accessing health care, job training, housing, and education services in Washington County. | Milbridge, ME |
2012 | Healthcare Charities | $25,000 | To support the Oncology Support Project in Bangor, providing low-income patients with support for basic needs while they undergo treatment at CancerCare of Maine at EMMC in Brewer. | Bangor, ME |
2012 | Healthy Acadia | $20,000 | To provide Community Supported Agriculture shares to low-income households in Hancock County during the 2013 growing season. | Ellsworth, ME |
2012 | Healthy Communities of the Capital Area | $10,262 | To support outreach workers who provide services to families with substance abuse issues whose children are enrolled in either Head-Start programs or Home Visiting programs. | Gardiner, ME |
2012 | Healthy Community Coalition | $15,000 | To support the Mobile Health Unit Program, a nurse's station on wheels providing access to health care services and screenings in communities in Franklin County. | Farmington, ME |
2012 | Hospice of Southern Maine | $10,000 | To provide for the essential needs for terminally ill patients and their support networks. | Scarborough, ME |
2012 | Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project | $50,000 | To support the Asylum Program, which provides legal representation and services such as: attorney consultations, legal rights orientations for immigration detainees, assistance with immigration applications for employment authorization, permanent residency, citizenship, Temporary Protected status and family-based visas. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Island Institute | $7,500 | To provide weatherization for low-income homeowners and reduce current heating costs on Monhegan, Matinicus and Isle au Haut. | Rockland, ME |
2012 | Island Nursing Home | $10,000 | To support the transportation needs of elderly residents. | Deer Isle, ME |
2012 | ITNPortland | $35,000 | To support a transportation fund for low-income seniors and visually impaired adults at places of worship in the Greater Portland. | Westbrook, ME |
2012 | Jobs for Maine's Graduates | $25,000 | To support a Pathway Specialist in the communities of Brewer, Windham, Portland and Bath to help high school students attain a high school diploma and identify plans for educational and employment opportunities after high school. | Augusta, ME |
2012 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $10,000 | To provide direct care to youths between the ages of 10 and 17 who are homeless, runaways or at risk of homelessness, to help them move toward stable living options and to reduce youth homelessness in central Maine. | Waterville, ME |
2012 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $5,000 | To provide support for the WorkReady program which is designed to assist unemployed individuals achieve employment. | Waterville, ME |
2012 | Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition | $12,000 | To provide dental supplies to 3,500 patients serviced at the Community Dental Center. | Waterville, ME |
2012 | LearningWorks | $40,000 | To provide transportation and food to students attending LearningWorks' Youth Building Alternatives program, a 48 week alternative education program for out of school youth ages 16 -24. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Legal Services for the Elderly | $29,650 | To support free legal help for low-income seniors most at risk of foreclosure. | Augusta, ME |
2012 | Lincoln County Healthcare | $30,000 | To provide support for free comprehensive dental exams and x-rays to individuals in Lincoln County. | Damariscotta, ME |
2012 | Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin | $5,782 | To provide support for literacy tutors and English conversation partners to work with immigrants and refugee students in Androscoggin County. | Auburn, ME |
2012 | Lubec Youth Collaborative | $15,000 | To support the Fall and Spring 2012-2013 sessions of the After School Program. | Lubec, ME |
2012 | Mahoosuc Kids Association | $15,000 | To provide after school programming specific to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for up to 450 youth. | Bethel, ME |
2012 | Maine Farmland Trust | $50,000 | To provide access to local farm products through free farm shares in Waldo and Kennebec counties to low-income people facing food insecurity . | Belfast, ME |
2012 | Maine School Administrative District 75 | $20,000 | To provide student health services at Mt. Ararat High School for low-income students. | Topsham, ME |
2012 | Maine Seacoast Mission | $50,000 | To support programs meeting the needs of at-risk populations in Hancock County. | Bar Harbor, ME |
2012 | Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program | $20,000 | To purchase food for food pantry clients. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Mid-Coast Health Net | $20,000 | To support health care services including preventative care and mental health for those without health insurance. | Rockland, ME |
2012 | Midcoast Maine Community Action | $10,000 | To provide support for a Sustainable Wellness Program offering families and children access to healthy food. | Bath, ME |
2012 | Morrison Center | $15,000 | To provide support for a recreation program for children with disabilities. | Scarborough, ME |
2012 | My Place Teen Center | $25,000 | To support youth programming for youth aged 10 -18. | Westbrook, ME |
2012 | New Beginnings | $25,000 | To provide support for housing and other services for disadvantaged and disconnected youth in Androscoggin, Franklin, Cumberland, York, and Kennebec counties. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | Northern York County Family YMCA | $10,000 | To provide affordable and subsidized full-day child care for children from ages six weeks to five years at their Community Childcare Center. | Biddeford, ME |
2012 | Oasis Free Clinics | $25,000 | To support preventative care and mental health services to very low-income clients. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | One Tree Wholistic Learning Center | $27,742 | To support high-quality child care services for low income families in the Redbank area of South Portland. | South Portland, ME |
2012 | Penobscot Bay YMCA | $15,000 | To support transportation and food for children and families in the Rockland area attending summer programs at the YMCA. | Rockport, ME |
2012 | Penobscot Community Health Care | $50,000 | To provide access to dental care for those with lowest incomes and greatest need. | Bangor, ME |
2012 | Penquis | $30,000 | To support the Intensive Case Management program. | Bangor, ME |
2012 | People Plus | $5,000 | To support the Volunteer Transportation Network Program, providing rides for local seniors. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Pine Tree Hospice | $10,000 | To provide operating support for end of life care for low-income individuals and families. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
2012 | Portland Public Schools | $30,000 | To provide operating support for adult education in Portland. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Portland Public Schools | $15,000 | To support the Student Centered Assessments Program, aimed at raising math and reading scores of students who are underserved. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Portland Public Schools | $10,000 | To build a sustainable school garden for educational and healthy nutritional purposes at Riverton School while reinforcing academic skills during the summer months. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Preble Street | $75,000 | To provide support for food programs, including food purchases, transportation, storage and preparation. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast | $25,000 | To support the Court Diversion program for juvenile/young adult offenders. | Belfast, ME |
2012 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To provide security rental deposits for safe housing for women fleeing domestic violence. | Auburn, ME |
2012 | Seeds of Independence | $5,000 | To provide support for at-risk youth and juvenile offenders, primarily in the Freeport, Brunswick and Topsham area. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute | $5,000 | To support the Promise Fund, an emergency fund for Mitchell Scholars from low-income families. | Portland, ME |
2012 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide meals to seniors currently on the waiting list of the Meals on Wheels program. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $24,500 | To support the Forensic Interviewer Program in an effort to strengthen the community response to child abuse cases. | Auburn, ME |
2012 | Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine | $15,000 | To provide operating support to support victims of sexual violence in southern Maine. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $30,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to homebound people in York and Cumberland counties who are under 60 and disabled. | Scarborough, ME |
2012 | St. Mary's Nutrition Center | $25,000 | To provide education and support for people facing food insecurity in accessing fresh foods through coordinated local food initiatives. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | Sunrise Opportunities | $30,000 | To provide short term or one time financial support to meet the critical needs of poor families. | Machias, ME |
2012 | Tedford Housing | $37,500 | To provide operating support for Brunswick adult and family shelters serving the Mid-Coast Maine region. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | The Center for Wisdom's Women | $10,000 | To provide general operating support for the Center for Wisdom's Women, a drop-in Center for low-income women. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | The Opportunity Alliance | $50,000 | To support a more comprehensive and integrated approach to serving patients with a severe and persistent Mental Health Diagnosis. | South Portland, ME |
2012 | The Progress Center | $10,000 | To provide operating support for a soup kitchen that serves up to 200 meals per day, three times per week. | Norway, ME |
2012 | Trekkers, Inc. | $5,000 | To support an experiential mentoring program for at-risk youth. | Thomaston, ME |
2012 | United Cerebral Palsy of Northeastern Maine | $25,000 | To provide oral health care services to children through two-week long clinics in collaboration with the New York University College of Dentistry. | Bangor, ME |
2012 | United Way of Greater Portland | $30,000 | To support the Keep ME Warm Fund, to be distributed statewide for heating assistance for low income Mainers. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Unity Barn Raisers | $11,000 | To provide high nutritional value meals to low-income families in Waldo County. | Unity, ME |
2012 | University of Maine System - New Ventures Maine | $50,000 | To support career planning and small business development for low-income women in order to realize economic self-sufficiency. | Augusta, ME |
2012 | Visible Community | $32,500 | To support the Lead Notification Project which will educate low-income residents about ambient lead dust. | Lewiston, ME |
2012 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $35,000 | To support employment service programs for clients that are veterans, formerly incarcerated, mentally ill, and/or homeless. | Brunswick, ME |
2012 | Waldo Community Action Partners | $12,500 | To support early education services for children and adults from low-income and underserved households. | Belfast, ME |
2012 | Washington Hancock Community Agency | $20,000 | To provide operating support for programs serving low-income clients. | Ellsworth, ME |
2012 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To support the Food Rescue Program which sources food from over 20 vendors and redistributes it to more than 60 food pantries. | Portland, ME |
2012 | Western Maine Community Action | $56,000 | To support the weatherization of homes occupied by low income individuals and families through the Energy Leak Reduction Program. | East Wilton, ME |
2012 | York County Community Action Corporation | $26,400 | To provide dental care for uninsured patients through an existing oral health care program. | Sanford, ME |
2012 | York County Shelter Programs | $50,000 | To provide food and mental health/psychiatric services at the Homeless Shelter in York. | Alfred, ME |