| Project Information |
Committee Grant Amount |
| Biddeford Free Clinic, for the Neighbor to Neighbor Community Wellness program to provide uninsured people free wellness support and education. |
$2,500.00 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine, Portland, to expand the core program of Big Brothers Big Sisters. |
$5,000.00 |
| Camp Laughing Loon, East Waterboro, for financial aid for camperships. |
$2,000.00 |
| Caring Unlimited, Sanford, to provide weekly activity groups to York County children who have witnessed family violence and parenting education to battered women. |
$2,500.00 |
| Child Abuse Prevention Council, Kennebunk, for Project Prevention to provide personal body safety information to children, parents and education professionals to reduce to prevalence of child sexual abuse and providing appropriate support. |
$3,000.00 |
| Ethel's Tree of Life, Eliot, to expand existing services into a larger geographic area and increase the number of students served. |
$4,000.00 |
| Frannie Peabody Center, Portland, for board training surrounding governance and resource development practices. |
$1,500.00 |
| Institute for Civic Leadership, Portland, to expand the Board matching program by increasing the pool of candidates beyond corporate-sponsored individuals. |
$2,000.00 |
| Laudholm Trust, Wells, for trainings to create and support a base of GIS expertise in area organizations. |
$4,300.00 |
| Maine Folk Art Trail 2008, Richmond, to support concurrent exhibitions in 11 art and history museums, provide brochures and maps, a website, publicity, educational programs and a catalogue. |
$1,000.00 |
| Project AWARE, Inc., Saco, for the Project AWARE Players to raise awareness about substance abuse and bullying to 12,000 people. |
$2,500.00 |
| Rippling Waters Farm, Steep Falls, to raise awareness of college students, faculty and community residents about the value of composting, to organize a leaf collection drive and to utilize the resulting compost to improve garden soil fertility and production. |
$3,735.00 |
| Stone Soup Food Pantry, Biddeford, to enhance cooperative hunger prevention efforts among the network of food pantries and meal programs through communication, coordination, and support. |
$4,739.00 |
| Young Maine Readers, Ogunquit, to increase the number of registered Head Start children whose fathers are participants of the Family MENtors Program. |
$3,000.00 |