After floating from couch to couch and job to job, Trent is now in stable housing doing work he feels good about. Watch this WMTW report to learn how the Lewiston Workforce Initiative helped get him there. The John T. Gorman Foundation is proud to participate in this joint initiative to position low-income Mainers to… Read more »
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Innovation and Replication: Pine Tree Legal’s Medical-Legal Partnership
Posted by Andy Colvin (Staff Admin) & filed under JTGF News & Updates.
As one of the Foundation’s core funding strategies, we look to replicate successful strategies with the potential to achieve greater scale and reach across the state. One example of this is the recent expansion of Pine Tree Legal’s medical-legal partnership into Portland. First started as a pilot program at Lewiston’s B-street clinic, the initiative aimed… Read more »
Lewiston is America’s First Small City to Receive HUD Choice Grant
Posted by Andy Colvin (Staff Admin) & filed under JTGF News & Updates.
If you grew up in Lewiston’s Tree Street neighborhood, you knew there was a problem with the housing stock. Lead rates three times higher than anywhere else in the state. A series of fires that terrorized the neighborhood and displaced hundreds of people. Mold coating the walls of kitchens. The poor housing stock was the… Read more »
Construction-Sector Workforce Initiative Trains Jobseekers in Lewiston
Posted by Andy Colvin (Staff Admin) & filed under JTGF News & Updates.
Contractors throughout Maine currently face a quandary—they have plenty of work on their job sites, but they can’t recruit enough skilled employees to fill their openings. At the same time, many unemployed Mainers want jobs and could benefit from the steady work that they’d receive in the construction trade, but don’t have the right… Read more »
Medical-Legal Partnership Fights for Lewiston-Auburn’s Kids
Posted by Andy Colvin (Staff Admin) & filed under JTGF News & Updates.
The news out of Flint, Mich. serves as a painful reminder of the threat that lead exposure poses to healthy child development. The John T. Gorman Foundation has been working to bring attention to the lead crisis in Maine for nearly two years through a variety of strategies. One tactic has been our funding to… Read more »