Please note: so that the steering committees can know the amount of funds available to distribute to victims, survivors, families, and into the community, donations to the fund have closed as of February 20, 2024. We thank you for your generosity. Any additional gifts sent to the Lewiston-Auburn Response Fund will be allocated to the Androscoggin County Fund.
About the Broad Recovery Efforts & Organizations Fund
MaineCF established the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund to address current and emerging needs associated with the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston. Every dollar donated to the fund was allocated to people impacted by this tragedy and to organizations guiding Lewiston-Auburn through the healing process.
The Broad Recovery Effort & Organizations Fund was set up to support non-profit organizations located in the Lewiston-Auburn region that provided and are continuing to provide relevant services and support to people who were present at the shootings and others in the community who suffered psychological trauma as a result of the shootings. The organizations that received support are:
- AK Collaborative
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine
- Central Maine Medical Center
- Community Clinical Services
- Community Concepts
- Empowered Immigrant Women Unite
- Gateway Community Services Maine
- Generational Noor
- Ifka Community Services
- Lewiston-Auburn Area Housing Development Corporation
- Lewiston-Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Foundation
- Lewiston-Auburn Youth Network
- Maine Association of the Deaf
- Maine Inside Out
- Maine MILL
- Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition
- New Beginnings
- New Mainers Public Health Initiative
- Safe Voices
- St. Mary's Regional Medical Center - Nutrition Center
- Somali Bantu Community Association
- Sweetser
- The Root Cellar
- Tree Street Youth
- Tri-County Mental Health Services (Spurwink)
- Trinity Jubilee Center
- United Way of Androscoggin County
- United Youth Empowerment Services
- YWCA Central Maine
Application Information & Instructions
The deadline for applications was March 4, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. The Steering Committee reviewed applications per the final protocol document and made recommendations for disbursement.
Guidelines
To have been eligible for a grant from this fund, a nonprofit organization must be based in the Lewiston-Auburn region and must have provided or are continuing to provide relevant services or support to people who were present at the time of the shootings at Just-In-Time Recreation and Schemengee’s Bar and Grill in Lewiston and/or support to people in the Lewiston-Auburn region who suffered psychological trauma as a result of the shootings.
Examples of relevant services or support may include, but is not limited to, the following:
- Mental health services such as therapy, counseling, and other trauma response treatments
- Emergency food and supplies
- Transportation, ASL interpretation, cultural brokering, and other forms of assistance in navigating support services
- Trauma-informed health and social-emotional wellness education and people-focused support programming i.e., yoga, meditation, art, peer support, etc.
- Victims-focused legal and social services.
To view the final protocol for the Broad Recovery Efforts & Organizations Fund, please click here.
Broad Recovery Efforts & Organizations Fund Steering Committee
The all-volunteer steering committee for the Broad Recovery Efforts & Organizations Fund has created the distribution policy for funds collected and is comprised of community and civic leaders for whose leadership we are grateful.
- Rebecca Swanson Conrad, RSC Consulting, Chair
- Joleen Bedard, United Way of Androscoggin County
- Kevin Bohlin, Maine Association of the Deaf and Pine Tree Society
- Nathan Davis, Gateway Community Services Maine
- Virginia Dearani, Thomas College
- Julia Harper, Good Food Council of Lewiston-Auburn
- Jake Langlais, Lewiston Public Schools
- Muhidin Libah, Somali Bantu Community Association
- Leslie Ogilvie, Tri-County Mental Health Services
- Julia Sleeper, Tree Street Youth
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