2017 Grants

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine, to expand the "Big Readers" project working to ensure children are reading at grade level by the end of third grade: $5,000
• Cedars Nursing Care Center, to implement a comprehensive oral hygiene program for long-term care residents: $5,000
• Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, to offer a series of collaborative educational workshops for homeless children and their families: $2,965
• Community Dental, for the Access Program to provide reductions in oral health care fees for low-income patients: $5,000
• Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation, to help families enroll in health coverage and to provide training to enrollment professionals: $10,000
• Cultivating Community, to support a FoodCorps position to deliver elementary- and middle school-based garden/nutrition education and to enhance food security: $7,500
• Falmouth Food Pantry, to support an increasing number of food-insecure families: $4,000
• Family Crisis Services, to support important community programs: $5,000
• Greater Portland Health, to assist with cost of laboratory tests for under- and uninsured patients: $7,500
• Hope Acts, to support transitional housing for asylum seekers, immigrant skills training, and the expanded ESL Program: $7,500
• Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, to support increasing demand for immigration legal aid: $7,500
• LearningWorks, to support the Afterschool program, which provides STEM-themed extended learning opportunities: $7,500
• Locker Project, to purchase bulk food for distribution to 23 school pantries: $4,000
• Maine Children's Alliance, to support the early childhood public policy initiative: $10,000
• Maine Family Planning, to provide comprehensive reproductive health care to patients at the Lewiston Family Planning health center: $7,500
• Maine Medical Center, to support the Learning Collaborative, a partnership of clinical learners working to address health care for homeless people in Portland: $5,000
• Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program, to support the Food Bank’s increase in food distribution: $7,500
• New Mainers Tenants' Association, to support the Housing Ambassadors program to improve the capacity of communities to advocate for their housing rights: 5,000
• One Tree Center, to support the first year of public pre-K slots for South Portland four-year-olds: $10,000
• The Opportunity Alliance, to support continued child care for families in transition: $10,000
• The Root Cellar, to update sterilization equipment and hand pieces in the dental clinic: $5,000
• Seeds of Hope, to support the Biddeford community by meeting immediate needs for food, clothing, job support, and companionship: $7,500
• Shalom House, to support the Emergency Fund that provides financial assistance to clients who are in crisis: $4,000
• Somali Bantu Community of Lewiston Maine, to support the farming and food access program: $5,000
• Southern Maine Agency on Aging, to support home-delivered meals and assessment of homebound client needs through the Meals on Wheels program: $5,000
• Tedford Housing, to provide navigator services to individuals and families in supportive housing units and shelters in Bath/Brunswick and Lewiston/Auburn:  $5,500
• YMCA of Southern Maine, to support the Early Learning Readiness Program to help underserved families prepare their children for school: $6,000