| Project Information |
Committee Grant Amount |
| Franklin County Children's Task Force, Farmington, for parenting "on location" to provide parenting programs to families in Northern Franklin county by bringing them to Task Force sites to reduce transportation barriers for families seeking services |
$6,000.00 |
| Franklin County Soil and Water Conservation District, Farmington, f or costs associated with presentations at the Agricultural/Environmental Education Day at the Farmington Fair, a one-day hands-on experience for children in grades K-4 |
$3,000.00 |
| Good Will Home Association dba Good Will-Hinckley, Hinckley, for the pilot Maine Diversity Program to create museum partnerships with six after-school programs (185 rural elementary age children and their families) for Maine Natural History Diversity education activities |
$2,832.00 |
| Healthy Community Coalition, Wilton, to expand the Community Connector website to include a community health forum and real-time discussion functionality |
$1,400.00 |
| Kingfield Elementary School, Kingfield ,for the PTA project to upgrade playground equipment |
$5,000.00 |
| Literacy Volunteers Serving Franklin and Somerset Counties, Farmington, for a one-year position that will handle data conversion, strategic planning and national accreditation |
$6,000.00 |
| Loving Learning, Madison, for a second year with Federal matching program "Reading is Fundamental" to expand the book distributions in MSAD 74 from two sites in 2006-7 to five sites in 2007-8 |
$1,275.00 |
| Main Street Skowhegan, Skowhegan, to cover registration fees to send seven Skowhegan representatives to "Bootcamp for Reinventing Businesses into Destinations" in July 2007 |
$7,500.00 |
| Maine Humanities Council, Portland, for "New Books, New Readers" to partner with MSAD 54 Adult and Community Education, Franklin County Adult Basic Ed, Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset and the Franklin Co. Jail |
$6,000.00 |
| Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute, Nobleboro, for continuing support of the Lake Science Education Program, a combination of "hands-on", field-based learning and interactive classroom experiences toward student understanding and stewardship of the lakes and ponds in their communities |
$2,000.00 |
| Maine Rural Partners, Orono, to support the work of the Harness the Wealth program in the community of Strong |
$3,884.00 |
| MSAD #12, Jackman, to build on the MSAD #12 Community Leadership Team with community projects and networking with other schools |
$3,000.00 |
| Northern Forest Canoe Trail, Waitsfield, to collaboratively design, build and install a Northern Forest Canoe Trail trailhead kiosk at the Eusits boat launch on Flagstaff Lake |
$3,250.00 |
| Opportunity Center of North Franklin County, Inc., Phillips, for a statewide public education and outreach program targeted at the 26 technical vocational high schools, introducing the opportunities in the skilled trade of masonry |
$5,100.00 |
| Peace in Our Families, Farmington, to present the play "Cracked Shells" (inspired by the experiences of 20 local women who are or were living in abusive relationships) for the Greater Franklin County community with a goal of increasing awareness of domestic violence |
$25.00 |
| Portland Symphony Orchestra, Portland ,for the KinderKonzerts for ages 3 to 7 |
$2,250.00 |
| Sisters of Charity Health System, Lewiston, for 2007 staffing costs for the Program for Grieving Children and Teens, which provides peer-to-peer grief support services for youth ages 3-18 and adult family members in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties |
$2,500.00 |
| Skowhegan First Church of the Nazarene, Skowhegan, to enable the Church to offer programs, supplies and services to needy residents of the community and help the Church build capacity |
$7,493.00 |
| Town of Farmington Department of Parks and Recreation, Farmington, to renovate a corner of a historic town park for a playground |
$5,00.00 |