Foundation-Initiated Grants

Foundation-Initiated Grants is sponsored by John T. Gorman Foundation. The John T.

Gorman Foundation invests in comprehensive strategies and initiatives that seek to improve the well-being and resiliency of Maine children by ensuring that they and their caregivers have the tools and supports needed to be successful.

2025 Adoptive And Foster Families Of Maine Inc$100,000 To provide general operating support. Bangor, ME 2025 Aroostook Regional Transportation System$10,000 To provide support for the Aroostook Regional Transportation System, Inc. (ARTS) cancer transportation program.

Presque Isle, ME 2025 Aspen Institute$100,000 To partner with The Aspen Institute's Ascend Network as they collaborate with, inform, and support the Foundation's two-generation approaches. Washington, DC 2025 Bangor Housing Development Corporation$260,000 To support the Moving Families Forward initiative. Bangor, ME 2025 Bangor Housing Development Corporation$124,000 To support the implementation of Moving Families Forward.

Bangor, ME 2025 Boys And Girls Club Of Bangor$241,000 To support the Moving Families Forward initiative. Bangor, ME 2025 Boys And Girls Club Of Bangor$75,000 To implement trauma-informed improvements, train staff, and create supportive spaces that promote emotional well-being and resilience for youth.

Bangor, ME 2025 City of Portland$60,000 To support the Portland Professional Connections program, an initiative designed to support job seekers in accessing career advancement opportunities and long-term economic mobility. Portland, ME 2025 Department of Health and Human Services$24,000 To support public engagement and proposal development for a federal grant opportunity.

Augusta, ME 2025 Educate Maine$25,000 To support Educate Maine's work co-leading the Right from the Start Coalition. Portland, ME 2025 Family Planning Association Of Maine Inc$50,000 To provide general operating support. Augusta, ME 2025 FamilyAid Boston$18,500 To deliver an in-person, facilitated dialogue that explores strategies to prevent and mitigate the effects of student homelessness.

Boston, MA 2025 Girl Scouts of Maine$100,000 To support the delivery of after-school programming in five rural communities, with a focus on improving girls’ mental health and wellbeing. South Portland, ME 2025 Good Sheperd Food Bank$250,000 To support the state's network of food pantries.

Auburn, ME 2025 Healthy Acadia$50,000 To support collaborative efforts in Washington County to bring about long-term, sustainable improvements to housing for families with young children.

Ellsworth, ME 2025 Healthy Acadia$200,000 To support implementation of 2-generation programming, including launching parenting supports and expanding the PROSPER Navigation program, with a focus on the Passamaquoddy communities of Motahkomikuk and Sipayik. Ellsworth, ME 2025 Healthy Neighborhoods$15,000 To provide general operating support.

Lewiston, ME 2025 Hearty Roots Inc$75,000 To deliver preventative afterschool programming focused on social emotional well-being to youth in Medomak Middle and Wiscasset Middle schools. Damariscotta, ME 2025 Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project$75,000 To provide legal support for immigrant youth and families in Maine.

Portland, ME 2025 Jewish Community Alliance Of Southern Maine$50,000 To provide support for the refugee resettlement and newcomer services program. Portland, ME 2025 Kennebec Valley Community Action Program$200,000 To support the Family, Friend & Neighbor (FFN) pilot program.

Waterville, ME 2025 Lewiston Public Schools$540,000 A two-year grant to Lewiston Public Schools to continue its partnership with Tree Street Youth in piloting whole-child programming designed to advance students' academic and social-emotional outcomes. Lewiston, ME 2025 Maine 4-H Foundation$100,000 To support a youth mentorship program serving middle school students in rural Maine school districts.

Orono, ME 2025 Maine Association For The Education Of Young Children$25,000 To support MaineAEYC's work co-leading the Right from the Start Coalition. Augusta, ME 2025 Maine Cancer Foundation$150,000 To support the John T. Gorman Cancer Fund, which funds organizations and programs that are working to support cancer patients.

Falmouth, ME 2025 Maine Childrens Alliance$50,000 To provide support for strategies of the Maine Child Welfare Action Network. Augusta, ME 2025 Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence$100,000 To provide general operating support. Augusta, ME 2025 Maine Equal Justice$50,000 To support Maine Equal Justice's efforts to reduce child poverty and increase economic security and mobility for families with children.

Augusta, ME 2025 Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services$100,000 To provide general operating support. Lewiston, ME 2025 Maine Seacoast Mission$100,000 To deliver preventative afterschool programming focused on social emotional well-being to youth in Washington County.

Northeast Harbor, ME 2025 Mainehealth$670,000 A three-year grant to implement Project SCIP: Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents, to establish a statewide system of care to address the needs of children of incarcerated parents and their caregivers. Portland, ME 2025 Mercy Hospital$100,000 To stabilize critical programs at Frances Warde House, McAuley Residence, and +MPower.

Portland, ME 2025 Nonprofit Organization for Philanthropic Initiatives$75,000 To deliver preventative programming focused on social emotional well-being to middle and high school youth in Oxford County. Walpole, MA 2025 Northern Lighthouse Inc$25,000 To provide general operating support. Presque Isle, ME 2025 Olympia Snowe Womens Leadership Institute$25,000 To provide general operating support.

Portland, ME 2025 Pine Tree Legal Assistance Inc$125,000 To support eviction prevention attorneys in directing staff time toward households with children. Portland, ME 2025 Portland Public Schools$20,000 To support Results Based Leadership training for elementary district and school leaders working to address grade level reading proficiency. Portland, ME 2025 Preble Street$100,000 To support the Preble Street Food Security Hub.

Portland, ME 2025 Social Finance, Inc.$20,000 Support to develop an implementation plan for a statewide benefits cliff pilot in Maine. Boston, MA 2025 Spurwink Services Incorporated$50,000 To support the Behavioral Health Crisis Receiving Center in Lewiston. Portland, ME 2025 St.

George Community Development Corporation$235,000 To support the MidCoast Community Collaborative in piloting Zero to School, a traveling early childhood intervention team delivering early intervention and prevention services to children and families in Knox and Lincoln counties. Tenants Harbor, ME 2025 State of Maine$10,000 To support an external grant writer for a federal funding opportunity.

Augusta, ME 2025 Sunrise County Economic Council$12,000 To support Family Futures Downeast's ability to attend and present at a national conference on two-gen work and outcomes.

Machias, ME 2025 Sunrise Opportunities$100,000 To provide general operating support for Community Caring Collaborative to advance two-generation approaches, trauma-informed practices and policies, and system level changes that promote family economic mobility in Washington County.

Machias, ME 2025 Sunrise Opportunities$200,000 To develop and implement programming that creates access to resources and improves social connectedness among Family Friend and Neighbor caregivers in Washington County. Machias, ME 2025 The Aspen Institute Inc$7,600 To support grantee travel to the Aspen Forum for Children and Families.

Washington, DC 2025 The Root Cellar$100,000 To deliver the Path Forward, a program that delivers housing stability support paired with comprehensive, culturally responsive, trauma-informed programming for children and their families in Lewiston Portland, ME 2025 The United Way of Southern Maine$75,000 To provide support for the United Way of Southern Maine's ALICE data report and Women United programming.

Portland, ME 2025 The University of Maine System$268,000 A two-year grant to provide support to the University of Maine System to integrate the Modular Approach to Therapy for Children (MATCH) intervention into their graduate-level curricula for clinicians. Orono, ME 2025 University System of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy$162,000 To support research and evaluation activities for the Foundation.

Durham, NH 2025 York County Community Action Corp$248,000 To prevent child homelessness through housing navigation, stability supports, and Whole Family Coaching. Sanford, ME 2025 York County Community Action Corp$45,000 To provide bridging support for the York County Family Shelter.

Sanford, ME 2024 Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine, Inc.$100,000 To build the capacity of the Kinship Navigator Program, bolstering the resources available to families who live in rural areas of the state. Bangor, ME 2024 Aroostook County Action Program$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches.

Presque Isle, ME 2024 Aspen Institute$100,000 To partner with The Aspen Institute's Ascend Network as they collaborate with, inform, and support the Foundation's two-generation approaches. Washington, DC 2024 Auburn School Department$125,000 To pilot trauma-informed programming to bolster academic and social outcomes for students at the Franklin School.

Auburn, ME 2024 Bangor Housing Development Corporation$260,000 To support Moving Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building and educational and social-emotional learning to improve outcomes for parents and children simultaneously.

Bangor, ME 2024 Bangor Housing Development Corporation$36,000 To support Moving Families Forward participants in academic and career exploration, as well as drivers education.

Bangor, ME 2024 Boys and Girls Club of Bangor$241,000 To support Moving Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building and educational and social-emotional learning to significantly improve outcomes for parents and children simultaneously.

Bangor, ME 2024 Boys and Girls Club of Bangor$75,000 To increase behavioral health support for children attending the Boys & Girls Club of Bangor.

Bangor, ME 2024 Children's Center Early Intervention and Family Support$25,000 To support the development and implementation of a caregiver/family support program that delivers an Adverse Childhood Experiences curriculum with education and supports related to the effects of generational childhood trauma.

Augusta, ME 2024 Coastal Enterprises, Inc.$150,000 To expand the Child Care Business Lab in areas of Maine that demonstrate the greatest need for child care, and to deliver a Child Care Worker Training program to three organizations and/or providers.

Brunswick, ME 2024 Community Concepts$75,000 To support the Maine Resiliency Center and their efforts to address mental health and other concerns in the community in the wake of the mass violence events in Lewiston. Lewiston, ME 2024 Community Concepts$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches.

Lewiston, ME 2024 Cross Cultural Community Services$50,000 To support the development of a survey tool to be used to better understand outcomes and barriers for immigrant and refugee populations in the areas of health, housing, and education.

Portland, ME 2024 Downeast Community Partners$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches. Ellsworth, ME 2024 Eastern Maine Community College$38,000 To support delivery of an Industry Exploration Training for two cohorts of individuals participating in Moving Families Forward and residing in Bangor Housing.

Bangor, ME 2024 Educate Maine$300,000 A two-year grant to support an effort to strengthen the teacher pipeline by piloting credentialing navigation and professional development resources for aspiring and emergency certified teachers in high-need and rural school districts.

Portland, ME 2024 Educate Maine$21,000 To provide evaluation support for two pilots delivered by Lewiston Public Schools in partnership with Tree Street Youth that aim to address the academic and social emotional needs of youth. Portland, ME 2024 Educate Maine$25,000 To provide support for Educate Maine’s work co-leading the Right from the Start Coalition.

Portland, ME 2024 Franklin County Childrens Task Force$220,000 A two-year grant to expand and strengthen support for student parents and their families using a two-generation approach. Farmington, ME 2024 Healthy Acadia$150,000 To provide services and supports that improve the health outcomes of mothers with substance use disorder, primarily in Washington County and the Passamaquoddy Nations.

Ellsworth, ME 2024 Healthy Neighborhoods$75,000 To support Healthy Neighborhood's community engagement efforts in Lewiston’s Tree Streets neighborhood. Lewiston, ME 2024 In Her Presence$50,000 To provide general operating support. Westbrook, ME 2024 Jobs For The Future Inc$240,000 A two-year grant to expand and strengthen support for student parents and their families using a two-generation approach.

Boston, MA 2024 Kennebec Valley Community Action Program$30,000 To provide supports to people living in Somerset County with low incomes in areas related to transportation, child health and safety resources, and general basic needs.

Waterville, ME 2024 Kennebec Valley Community Action Program$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches.

Waterville, ME 2024 Lewiston Public Schools$345,000 To support Lewiston Public Schools in piloting programs in partnership with Tree Street Youth that deliver academic and social-emotional support to youth in Lewiston Middle and High Schools.

Lewiston, ME 2024 Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago$240,000 To provide support to Lurie Children's Hospital to support the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for Dads initiative in Maine. Chicago, IL 2024 Maine Association for the Deaf$5,000 To fund ASL interpreter stipends as part of recovery efforts for the Lewiston community.

Yarmouth, ME 2024 Maine Association For The Education Of Young Children (MaineAEYC)$25,000 To provide support for MAEYC's work co-leading the Right from the Start Coalition. Augusta, ME 2024 Maine Cancer Foundation$150,000 To support the John T. Gorman Cancer Fund, which funds organizations and programs that are working to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in Maine and/or to support cancer patients.

Falmouth, ME 2024 Maine Cancer Foundation$100,000 To support transportation costs associated with the John T. Gorman Cancer Fund, which supports cancer patients in Maine. Falmouth, ME 2024 Maine Childrens Home For Little Wanderers$220,000 A two-year grant to expand and strengthen support for student parents and their families using a two-generation approach.

Waterville, ME 2024 Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence$100,000 To provide general operating support to the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Augusta, ME 2024 Maine Community Foundation$20,000 To support Maine Community Foundation's Leadership Learning Exchange for Equity program.

Portland, ME 2024 Maine Community Integration$250,000 A two-year grant to improve and expand access to early intervention services for children and their caregivers in the Lewiston-Auburn region. Lewiston, ME 2024 Maine Department of Health and Human Services$14,265 To support an external grant writer for a federal funding opportunity.

Augusta, ME 2024 Maine Equal Justice$50,000 To support Maine Equal Justice's efforts to reduce child poverty and increase economic security and mobility for families with children. Augusta, ME 2024 Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services$30,000 To support for the Circles of Care program in order to reach more youth (and their families) in need of assistance and wrap-around support services due to exclusionary discipline practices.

Lewiston, ME 2024 Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services$75,000 To provide general operating support, enabling capacity-building, staff retention, and whole family services for immigrant and refugee families in Lewiston. Lewiston, ME 2024 Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches.

Lewiston, ME 2024 Maine Medical Center$42,000 To support the construction of an outdoor playset for the children of incarcerated mothers to utilize during visits to the Southern Maine Re-Entry Center. Portland, ME 2024 Maine State Housing Authority$38,000 To provide support for evaluation of a lead paint interim control pilot program that helps families stay in their homes until permanent abatement measures are implemented.

Augusta, ME 2024 National Trust for Local News$25,000 To support the Maine Trust for Local News in digitally publishing and distributing six articles with the goals of raising awareness about underreported issues Maine children and families face, as well as possible strategies to address them. Englewood, CO 2024 Partners for Rural Impact$22,724 To provide support to grantee attendees of the Northern New England Rural Summit.

Berea, KY 2024 Penquis C. A. P.

, Inc.$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches. Bangor, ME 2024 Prosperity ME$100,000 To support predevelopment expenses for an affordable multifamily rental housing development and to support clients who need financial intervention to prevent homelessness.

Portland, ME 2024 Raise-Op Housing Cooperative$50,000 To provide general operating support. Lewiston, ME 2024 Safe Families for Children Alliance$35,000 To provide program support to the Maine chapter of Safe Families for Children.

Topsham, ME 2024 Sanford Public Schools$235,000 To support the Empowering Families, Elevating Early Learners initiative, an 18-month pilot aimed at strengthening family-school connections, supporting academic and social-emotional growth, and preventing housing instability or homelessness.

Sanford, ME 2024 Somerset Career & Technical Center$30,000 To support a pilot project among Somerset Career & Technical Center (SCTC), Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC) and GoMaine to increase the availability of reliable transportation through a rideshare platform.

Skowhegan, ME 2024 Sunrise County Economic Council$220,000 A two-year grant to expand and strengthen support for student parents and their families using a two-generation approach.

Machias, ME 2024 Sunrise Opportunities$100,000 To provide general operating support for Community Caring Collaborative to advance two-generation approaches, trauma-informed practices and policies, and system level changes that promote family economic mobility in Washington County and in Maine.

Machias, ME 2024 The Opportunity Alliance$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches. South Portland, ME 2024 The Root Cellar$250,000 To support the Root Cellar in expanding its physical space to meet the rising demand for community and youth programming and affordable housing in the Tree Streets neighborhood.

Lewiston, ME 2024 Trekkers, Inc.$450,000 A two-year grant to support the MidCoast Community Collaborative in piloting a traveling early childhood intervention team to deliver early intervention and prevention services to children and families in Knox and Lincoln counties.

Rockland, ME 2024 United Way of Southern Maine / formerly United Way of Greater Portland$140,000 To support the ALICE education and awareness campaign's goals to build community engagement and advance policy solutions for Maine families. Additionally, support for Women United's programmatic work in York County.

Portland, ME 2024 United Way of Tri-Valley Area$30,000 To provide support for the Don’t Despair Car Repair program, a creative approach to a transportation challenge experienced by workers and families in rural Maine. Farmington, ME 2024 Waldo Community Action Partners$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches.

Belfast, ME 2024 Westbrook Housing$50,000 To provide support for an educational public relations and marketing campaign that changes the narrative on housing and builds support for affordable housing for all Maine people. Westbrook, ME 2024 Western Maine Community Action$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches.

East Wilton, ME 2024 York County Community Action Corporation$10,000 To support participation in a project to gather qualitative information about how organizations in Maine are using two-gen and whole family approaches. Sanford, ME 2024 Youth and Family Outreach$40,000 To support childcare access for families residing at Frances Warde.

Portland, ME 2023 American National Red Cross$26,000 To provide support following a fire at a 50-unit low-income senior housing facility in Waterville, Maine that displaced all residents. Portland, ME 2023 Avesta Housing$51,000 To provide support for the West End Resident Services Coordinator.

Portland, ME 2023 Bangor Housing Development Corporation$260,000 To support Moving Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building, child development, and educational and social-emotional learning to significantly improve outcomes for parents and children simultaneously.

Bangor, ME 2023 Bethel Area District Exchange and Food Pantry$15,000 To provide general operating support as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England.

Bethel, ME 2023 Boys And Girls Club Of Bangor$241,000 To support Moving Families Forward, a two-generation approach which combines economic supports to parents, parent capacity building, child development, and educational and social-emotional learning to significantly improve outcomes for parents and children simultaneously.

Bangor, ME 2023 Catholic Charities Maine$35,000 To support Aroostook County food programs as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England.

Portland, ME 2023 Centre Street Congregational Church / Machias Area Food Pantry$25,000 To support the general operations of the Machias Area Food Pantry as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England.

Waterville, ME 2023 City of Lewiston$50,000 To support a grant program designed to facilitate the opening of new child care centers in existing buildings, providing them with needed financial resources to address building and safety upgrades to meet code standards. Lewiston, ME 2023 City of Lewiston$185,000 To provide support for CHOICE communications strategy and a neighborhood coordinator position.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Common Unity Place$10,000 To provide general operating support as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England. Skowhegan, ME 2023 Community Concepts$50,000 To support the efforts to address mental health and other concerns in the community in the wake of the mass violence events in Lewiston.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Council For A Strong America$25,000 To support Council for a Strong America's work co-leading the Right From The Start Coalition. Topsham, ME 2023 Eastern Maine Community College$54,000 To provide support for the Industry Exploration Training for 25 participants at Bangor Housing.

The 12-week project will help guide participants in the appropriate industry and identify a pathway to a career that could include education and/or additional training. Ellsworth, ME 2023 Entrepreneurship For All$50,000 To provide match funding as part of a Prime Ecosystem grant, awarded to expand inclusive entrepreneurship opportunities in three metro areas: Lewiston/Auburn, Bangor, and Portland.

Lowell, ME 2023 Fish River Rural Health$15,000 To support Aroostook County food programs as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England. Eagle Lake, ME 2023 Foundations Inc$25,000 To provide support for the Campaign for Grade Level Reading's Learning and Engagement Opportunity series. Mt.

Laurel, ME 2023 Franklin County Childrens Task Force$25,000 To provide barrier removal funds for parents who are pursuing necessary academic or technical coursework that advances their identified career goals and objectives.

Farmington, ME 2023 Full Plates Full Potential$105,000 To increase access to and awareness of summer meals for children and families, including a pilot with three rural meal sites to expand summer enrichment programming for youth, meal delivery, and grab-and-go opportunities as well as a statewide public service announcement promoting summer meal site location and availability.

Brunswick, ME 2023 Girl Scouts of Maine$77,000 To provide afterschool programming to girls and families in the West End.

South Portland, ME 2023 Good Sheperd Food Bank$150,000 To support the Youth and Family Initiatives program, which expands access to nutritious food for Maine children and families experiencing food insecurity, with a focus on meeting the nutritional needs of children during the times they are most likely to experience hunger: after school, weekends, school vacations, and during the summer.

Auburn, ME 2023 Healthy Acadia$56,000 To undertake planning efforts to better understand housing needs for families with young children in Washington County.

Ellsworth, ME 2023 Healthy Acadia$125,000 To support operation of the Safe Harbor Recovery Home for Women and Children as well as PROSPER, funding for which is specific to hire members of the Passamaquoddy Nations to serve as Community Health Navigators for women experiencing substance use disorder. Ellsworth, ME 2023 Healthy Homeworks$150,000 To support the first-time homeowner condo pilot for aspiring homeowners in Lewiston.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Healthy Neighborhoods$75,000 To support Healthy Neighborhood's community engagement efforts in Lewiston’s Tree Streets neighborhood. Lewiston, ME 2023 Heart of Maine Resource Center$10,000 To support food programming as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England.

Dexter, ME 2023 In Her Presence$135,000 To support Mother’s Circles programming with trained Maternal and Child Health Community Influencers, and to extend learnings, messaging, and programming into the wider immigrant community with the overall goal of improving maternal health outcomes for pregnant immigrant women.

Westbrook, ME 2023 Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber Of Commerce Foundation$100,000 To support a needs assessment and pilot of employer-driven transportation solutions that increase access to consistent, reliable, and stable transportation across the Lewiston-Auburn metropolitan region.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Lewiston Public Schools$100,000 To provide support for the emergent needs and well-being of students, staff, teachers, and the Lewiston community in the wake of the recent mass violence events. Lewiston, ME 2023 Maine Association For The Education Of Young Children$35,000 To support the expansion of the T. E.

A. C. H.

Scholarship program, which collaborates with early childhood educators, higher education institutes, childcare centers, and family child care programs to offer scholarships and supports that improve the knowledge and compensation of early childhood educators. Augusta, ME 2023 Maine Cancer Foundation$150,000 To support the John T.

Gorman Cancer Fund, which funds organizations and programs that are working to reduce cancer incidence and mortality in Maine and/or to support cancer patients.

Falmouth, ME 2023 Maine Childrens Alliance$345,000 Three-year grant to support MCA’s leadership and backbone support of the Maine Child Welfare Action Network, to include dedicated staff time to coordinate action on Network goals as well as organizational support for communications, management, and KIDS COUNT research and data.

Augusta, ME 2023 Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence$150,000 To support general operations and to help survivors throughout the state with critical basic needs expenses associated with establishing freedom and independence through the Liberation Fund. Augusta, ME 2023 Maine Community Foundation$250,000 To support the Lewiston-Auburn Area Relief Fund: Victims and Families.

Portland, ME 2023 Maine Equal Justice$50,000 To support Maine Equal Justice's efforts to reduce child poverty and increase economic security and mobility for families with children.

Augusta, ME 2023 Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services$25,000 To expand the role of the project manager who manages the Circles of Care program in order to reach more youth (and their families) in need of assistance and wrap-around support services due to exclusionary discipline practices. Lewiston, ME 2023 Maine Immigrant & Refugee Services$100,000 To provide support for increased capacity to deliver whole family coaching services.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition$5,000 To provide outreach support to BIPOC led and serving organizations applying to the Direct Services Grant Program Portland, ME 2023 Maine Seacoast Mission$25,000 To support Washington County food programs as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England.

Northeast Harbor, ME 2023 Mainehealth$600,000 A three-year grant to support the Supporting Families Growing Together initiative, which uses a trauma-informed, resilience-building approach to promote healthy development and school readiness and to increase protective factors for young children through placing Early Childhood Support Specialists in primary care office settings.

Portland, ME 2023 Mainehealth$25,000 To support the Food Pantry at Stephens Memorial Hospital as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England. Norway, ME 2023 Mainehealth$292,000 To work in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Maine to increase access to mental health supports to children.

South Portland, ME 2023 Mainehealth$180,000 To provide support for a Maternal Resource Navigator position supporting vulnerable pregnant and postpartum women and infants. Portland, ME 2023 Milestone Recovery$100,000 To support the expansion of medically monitored withdrawal beds.

Portland, ME 2023 MSAD 54 / Somerset Career & Technical Center$30,000 To support SCTC's food pantry expansion and operations as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England. Skowhegan, ME 2023 New Beginnings$100,000 Funds will support the current funding gap in Street Outreach Program.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Northern Light / Mercy Hospital$500,000 Two-year grant for programmatic and operational support for McAuley Residences, including expansion in four new locations serving women and children in Maine's rural counties.

Portland, ME 2023 Northern Light / Mercy Hospital$500,000 Two-year grant in partnership with In Her Presence to provide culturally informed care to pregnant women of color residing at the Frances Warde House to increase better birth outcomes.

Portland, ME 2023 Passamaquoddy Indian Township Tribal Government$125,000 To support the purchase of two medical mobile units and any other needs that arise following the flooding of the health center in Indian Township.

Princeton, ME 2023 People Who Care Food Cupboard$10,000 To support general operations as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England.

Madison, ME 2023 Piscataquis Regional Food Center$40,000 To provide general operating support as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England. Dover Foxcroft, ME 2023 Portland Adult Education$130,000 To provide support for the expansion of the Intensive Literacy for East Bayside / Family English Class Two-Generation Program.

Portland, ME 2023 Preble Street$30,000 To provide meals to children and families at Frances Warde. Portland, ME 2023 Prosperity Maine$225,000 To support Individual Development Accounts (IDA) for financial education, savings, and small business development and to support to the Chart Your Course (CYC) program for women entrepreneurs.

Portland, ME 2023 River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition$10,000 To support the general operations of the Old School Food Pantry as part of a Foundation initiative to increase food access in areas of the state where childhood hunger rates are the highest in New England. Rumford, ME 2023 Safe Families For Children Alliance$50,000 To provide program support for the Maine chapter of Safe Families for Children.

Brewer, ME 2023 South Portland Adult Education$100,000 To provide support to the West End ELL Program. South Portland, ME 2023 Sunrise Opportunities$75,000 To support the general operations of the Community Caring Collaborative. Machias, ME 2023 Sunrise Opportunities$40,000 To provide funds for parent advisors in the Community Caring Collaborative.

Machias, ME 2023 Sweetser$100,000 To provide funding for a planning grant to expand the pipeline of mental health providers who can support children and youth across Maine. Saco, ME 2023 Tedford Housing$50,000 Provide funding support for the construction of family units in Tedford's new emergency housing building.

Brunswick, ME 2023 The Aspen Institute$100,000 To partner with The Aspen Institute's Ascend Network as they collaborate with, inform, and support the Foundation's two-generation initiatives. Washington, ME 2023 Tree Street Youth$100,000 To provide general operating support.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Trekkers Inc$75,000 To support the MidCoast Community Collaborative to plan and develop innovative ideas to support early childhood needs in the Waldoboro area. Rockland, ME 2023 Tri-County Mental Health Services$50,000 To support the efforts to address mental health concerns in the community in the wake of the mass violence events in Lewiston.

Lewiston, ME 2023 Tri-County Mental Health Services$55,000 To pilot an Internship Incubator program, which will reduce the wait time for individuals seeking mental health services, alleviate the burden on existing clinical staff, and attract and support new clinicians entering the field.

Lewiston, ME 2023 United Way Of Androscoggin County Inc$25,000 To provide support to the Androscoggin County Community Fund which will provide mental health support to community members and organizations working in response to the Lewiston mass shooting. Lewiston, ME 2023 University Of Maine System - New Ventures Maine$120,000 To provide support to families by increasing their financial stability to build resilience and success.

Augusta, ME 2023 University System Of New Hampshire - Carsey School of Public Policy$788,000 Five-year grant to the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire to support research and evaluation activities for the Foundation. Durham, ME 2023 Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness$4,000 To assist with school backpack support for children at Sipayik and surrounding communities in Washington County.

Bangor, ME 2023 York County Community Action Corp$315,000 To provide support for programming to prevent child homelessness through Housing Navigation and Whole Family Coaching. Sanford, ME 2023 Young Womens Christian Association Of Central Maine$25,000 To provide general operating support to address community needs in the wake of the mass violence events.

Lewiston, ME 2022 Avesta Housing Development Corporation$25,000 To support the general operations of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition. Portland, ME 2022 Avesta Housing Development Corporation$50,000 To provide asylum-seeking resident families of Avesta's West