RECENT GRANTEES

New Gloucester, ME: To support the Passages Meals for Nutrition Program for 130 Teen Parents. Visit the Wayfinder Schools Website

Machias, ME: To support the school-based services at the Beatrice Rafferty School and at the Head Start Program on the Passamaquoddy reservation with the new treatment to prevent tooth decay for 75 children. Visit the Sunrise Opportunities website

Manchester, NH: To support 200 children with nourishing food in in Coos County. Visit the NH Food Bank website.

Portland, ME: To support 1,750 children and youth by increasing access to nourishing food in York and Cumberland Counties. Visit the Locker Project website.

Portland,  Maine: They will fund education and preventive oral health services through school based programs in Washington County. This is the first year of a three-year initiative which will expand in the next two years to Hancock and Franklin Counties, ultimately bringing dental care to 750 children and oral health education to 300 parents/caretakers. Visit…

Bangor,  Maine: They will support the dental services at DownEast School in the Capehart Public Housing Neighborhood.  It is a public health dental clinic, located right at the school, which will provide children in this community access to comprehensive dental services, and will serve 350 children. Visit Penobscot Community Health Care’s  website.

Waterville,  Maine: They will purchase equipment and supplies to treat 350 children in the Head Start Program, and nearly 3000 children who come to the clinic for comprehensive oral care. Visit Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition d/b/a Waterville Community Dental’s  website.

Rockland,  Maine: The dental program will be expanded to cover local children and youth.  There are currently no dentists in Knox County accepting patients on MaineCare, the primary insurance for children in low income families. Visit the Knox Clinic’s  website

Winthrop,  Maine: The School Oral Health Program provides dental hygiene services and restorative care for children that receive no regular dental care.  The funds provided will provide dental supplies and educational materials for low-income children ages 4-18 in 35 Central and Western Maine Schools.  (600 children) Visit the Maine Dental Health Out-Reach, Inc.’s  website

Falmouth,  Maine: Grant will provide for the purchase of a pediatric dental chair and two hygienist chairs, for comfort of patients and staff in Portland location. (2100 children) Visit the Community Dental’s  website

Portland,  Maine: School based health center will utilize grant to install donated equipment, maintain portable equipment and purchase needed dental supplies. (1400 children) Visit the City of Portland’s website

Presque Isle,  Maine: Grant will allow clinic to provide and install a central nitrous oxide system to totally equip four operatories. (3000 children) Visit the St. Apollonia/Aroostook Dental Clinic website

Windham, Maine  Project CHILD supports children with one or more disabilities using Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies. Visit the Riding to the Top website.

Biddeford, Maine  The opening of Parenting and Family Services Center in a central downtown Biddeford location, to serve more at-risk children who have been exposed to adverse conditions and traumatic events. Visit the Saint Andre Home website.  

Falmouth, Maine  Funding provided for separation and divorce support groups for children and adolescents. Visit the Kid First Center website.

Waterville, Maine Replacement of individual bedside fetal heart monitoring units with a Central Fetal Monitoring System in the Birthing Center to allow Birthing Center staff to continuously review fetal heart rates and maternal contraction patterns regardless of the patients or the nurse’s location. Visit Inland Hospital’s website

Portland, Maine  Funds provided for health and safety measures in Portland and other various Maine communities Visit Girls on the Run website   

Portland, Maine  Anthology Project: Bodies of water Visit The Telling Room website  

Lewiston, Maine: To establish a community-based Developmental Evaluation Clinic that will increase access to best practice, comprehensive team-based evaluations for children birth through age five with multiple developmental concerns. Visit the Sandcastle Clinical and Educational Services website

Bangor, Maine: Establish the McDonald’s Cancer Treatment Playroom located at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Visit the Children’s Cancer Treatment Center website

Portland, Maine: Offers children the opportunity for hands-on, experiential learning about horseshoe crabs Visit the Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust website

Portland, Maine: Free private playtime for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families Visit the Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine website

Daramiscotta, Maine: Incorporates adaptive gross motor skill equipment for all students, including those with physical and emotional disabilities Visit the Coastal Kids Preschool website

Leeds, Maine: Turner Family Support Center – only crisis stabilization unti for children and youth in the tri county area of Oxford, Androscoggin and Franklin counties Visit the Rumford Group Homes website

Berlin, New Hampshire: RESPONSE is a comprehensive program of family support. Child advocate accompanies children and their families to the Child Advocacy center where a forensic interview takes place. Visit the Coos County Family Health Services website

New Gloucester and Camden, Maine: Improved communication for students (residential and remote) and administrative Staff through provision of laptop technology. Visit the Wayfinder Schools website

Portland, Maine: Summer school program to provide students with extended learning opportunities and tools to help close identified gaps in learning Visit the Learning Works website.

Portland, Maine: Therapeutic Recreation Program – to purchase art classes at Oak Street Studios and craft supplies for the classes. Visit the Easter Seals Maine website

Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Portland, South Portland, Yarmouth, Maine: Two, 10-week sessions, practice twice weekly. Visit the Girls On The Run website

Houlton, Maine: To provide essential every day items to children for their health and well-being. Visit the Aid For Kids website

Portland, Maine: A school-based mentoring program serving at risk elementary, middle school students matching them with H.S. students and adults who spend one-on-one quality time.

Auburn, Biddeford, Brewer, Maine: Sustain the backpack program to provide Downeast Elementary School students in Bangor with packs of food each week to get them through the weekends and school vacations. Visit the Good Shepherd website

Portland, Maine: Casco Bay Quests are designed to provide a learning experience to freshman regarding building a successful community. Seniors are given the opportunity through writing and the arts to reflect and prepare for life after high school. Visit the CBHS website

Rockland, Belfast, Maine: Youthlinks/After School Program. Visit the Broadreach Family & Community Services website

Damariscotta, Maine: Community Playground Project

Bangor, Maine: Establish the McDonald’s Cancer Treatment Playroom located at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Visit the Children’s Cancer Treatment Center website

Waterville, Maine: To sustain and expand statewide programming though Girls’ Coalition Groups to create a more girl-friendly world, and to expand Adventure Girls.

Kennebunk, Maine: The Hippotherapy program provides a safe and motivational environment that enhances the potential for a child through their developmental years and builds skills, self-confidence and self-esteem. Visit the Carlisle Charitable Foundation website.