August 15, 2024
Participants in the Center for Grieving Children's Intercultural Peer Support Program play a game together. The program collaborates with local schools to serve children who have resettled in Portland from countries experiencing war, conflict and natural disaster. Photo courtesy of The Center for Grieving Children.
The Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund awarded $194,216 to 34 Greater Portland nonprofit organizations.
The grant program supports organizations and projects that serve disadvantaged, underserved, and/or vulnerable communities in Auburn, Bath, Biddeford, Brunswick, Greater Portland, Lewiston, Saco and or Sanford.
Grantees include:
- Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, general support, to advance justice and equity for immigrants through legal services, community education and advocacy: $7,500
- Maine Association for the Education of Young Children, project support, to promote early-childhood workforce growth within diverse communities: $10,000
- The Center for Grieving Children, project support, for the after-school Intercultural Peer Support Program: $5,000
The Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund provides support to organizations that address early childhood education and after-school programs; health care, including community clinics and oral health initiatives; hunger prevention and food security; homelessness alleviation; and legal services connected with the above areas. For more information, visit www.mainecf.org/brain.
The next grant cycle opens in January 2025.
