This year, the RMHC Grants Committee awarded grants to the following non-profit organizations to strengthen our mission, outreach, and impact in support of healthy children, healthy families:
2019 Grantees
2018 Grantees
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Hampden, ME: To eliminate hunger in Maine by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building strong community partnerships, and mobilizing the public in the fight to end hunger. To learn more, visit their website.
Growing to Give
Brunswick, ME: To grow organic vegetables using climate-friendly methods and donate 100% of the vegetables to local people struggling with food insecurity. To learn more, visit their website.
Houlton Elementary Food Bank
Houlton, ME: To learn more, visit their website.
Locker Project
Scarborough, ME: To connect food-insecure children in Maine with nourishing food to improve their health, learning capacity, and future. To learn more, visit their website.
New Hampshire Food Bank
Manchester, NH: To feed hungry people by soliciting and effectively distributing grocery products and perishable foods, and offering innovative programs through a statewide network of approved agencies. To learn more, visit their website.
2018 Grantees
2018 Grantees
Families First Community Center
Ellsworth, ME: To break the cycle of homelessness by equipping families with minor children with the skills they need to gain self-sufficiency. To learn more about Families First Community Center, visit their website.
Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness
Portland, ME: To promote safe, respectful, and inclusive schools and communities. Learn more about the Cromwell Center by visiting their website.
The Northern Lighthouse, Inc.
Waterville, ME: To support the bagged lunch program in Aroostook County. Learn more about The Northern Lighthouse by visiting their website.
Safe Voices
Auburn, ME: To support the Youth Prevention Education & Advocacy program. To learn more about Safe Voices, visit their website.
Maine Academy of Modern Music
Portland, ME: To support youth who are facing poverty, geographic isolation and shrinking school budgets to participate in modern music instruction. To learn more about the Maine Academy of Modern Music, visit their website.
2017 Grantees
2017 Grantees
Wayfinder Schools
New Gloucester, ME: To support the Passages Meals for Nutrition Program for 130 Teen Parents. Visit the Wayfinder Schools Website
Sunrise Opportunities
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
New Hampshire Food Bank
Manchester, NH: To support 200 children with nourishing food in in Coos County. Visit the NH Food Bank website.
Locker Project
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.
2016 Grantees
2016 Grantees
University of New England
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…
Penobscot Community Health Care
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.
Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition d/b/a Waterville Community Dental
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.
2015 Grantees
2015 Grantees
Knox County Health Clinic
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
Maine Dental Health Out-Reach, Inc.
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
Community Dental
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
Children’s Oral Health Program (City of Portland)
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
Aroostook Dental Clinic
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
2014 Grantees
2014 Grantees
Riding to the Top Equestrian Center
Windham, Maine Project CHILD supports children with one or more disabilities using Equine Assisted Activities and Therapies. Visit the Riding to the Top website.
Saint Andre Home
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.
Kids First Center
Falmouth, Maine Funding provided for separation and divorce support groups for children and adolescents. Visit the Kid First Center website.
Inland Hospital
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
Girls on the Run
Portland, Maine Funds provided for health and safety measures in Portland and other various Maine communities Visit Girls on the Run website
The Telling Room
Portland, Maine Anthology Project: Bodies of water Visit The Telling Room website
Coos County Family Health Services, Inc.
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
Wayfinder Schools
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
Sandcastle Clinical and Educational Services
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
Children’s Cancer Treatment Center
Bangor, Maine: Establish the McDonald’s Cancer Treatment Playroom located at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Visit the Children’s Cancer Treatment Center website
Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust
Portland, Maine: Offers children the opportunity for hands-on, experiential learning about horseshoe crabs Visit the Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust website
Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine
Portland, Maine: Free private playtime for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families Visit the Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine website
Coastal Kids Preschool
Daramiscotta, Maine: Incorporates adaptive gross motor skill equipment for all students, including those with physical and emotional disabilities Visit the Coastal Kids Preschool website
Rumford Group Homes
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
Learning Works
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.
2013 Grantees
2013 Grantees
Casco Bay High School
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
Broadreach Family & Community Services
Rockland, Belfast, Maine: Youthlinks/After School Program. Visit the Broadreach Family & Community Services website
Friends of Great Salt Bay School
Damariscotta, Maine: Community Playground Project
Children’s Cancer Treatment Center
Bangor, Maine: Establish the McDonald’s Cancer Treatment Playroom located at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Visit the Children’s Cancer Treatment Center website
Hardy Girls Healthy Women
Waterville, Maine: To sustain and expand statewide programming though Girls’ Coalition Groups to create a more girl-friendly world, and to expand Adventure Girls.
Easter Seals Maine
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
Girls On The Run
Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Portland, South Portland, Yarmouth, Maine: Two, 10-week sessions, practice twice weekly. Visit the Girls On The Run website
Aid for Kids
Houlton, Maine: To provide essential every day items to children for their health and well-being. Visit the Aid For Kids website
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southern Maine
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.
Good Shepherd Food Bank
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
Carlisle Charitable Foundation
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.
2012 Grantees
2012 Grantees
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine
Bangor, Maine: Provides children facing adversity in Penobscot, Waldo, Knox and Lincoln Counties with a strong and enduring professionally supported 1 to 1 relationships.
Children’s Cancer Treatment Center
Bangor, Maine: Establish the McDonald’s Cancer Treatment Playroom located at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. Visit the Children’s Cancer Treatment Center website
Downeast Health
Elsworth, Maine: Continue to provide affordable care and improve client comfort and safety without increasing fees for the uninsured.
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Auburn, Biddeford, Brewer, Maine: Backpack program is designed to provide elementary children with packs of food each week to get them through weekends and school vacations. Visit the Good Shepherd website
Equest Therapeutic Riding Center
Lyman, Maine: The Hippotherapy program at Carlisle Academy 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.
Easter Seals Maine
Portland, Maine: All Aboard Preschool – purchase of specialized therapeutic equipment to assist children with special needs to participate in activities at preschool. Visit the Easter Seals Maine website
Hardy Girls Healthy Women
Waterville, Maine: Provides a group situation that is safe, supportive, improve conflict negotiation relational skills and to improve self-esteem as young women faced with media stereotypes.
Center For Grieving Children
Portland, Maine: Updates and resupplies outdated / depleted informational materials used to educate and inform families and professionals across Maine. Visit the Center for Grieving Children’s website
Rumford Group Homes
Leeds, Maine: Assessment, treatment, stabilization, and preparation for youth to return to a home or community environment. Visit the Rumford Group Homes website
Family Crisis Services
Portland, Maine: Creates a child-friendly space for children residing at the shelter. This space will be available for children to have unrestricted play in and for advocates and other service providers to use to facilitate playgroups with children and families.
Susan Curtis Learning & Leadership Center
Portland, Maine: Helps children develop a passion for the arts in its many forms and to acquire skills that will enable them to advance to greater levels of education.
Learning Works
Portland, Maine: Provides extended learning opportunities after school and in the summer to help low-performing students attain higher academic standards in reading, writing and math. Visit the Learning Works website.
Pine Tree Society
Bath, Maine: Building / modernizing new campsites with handicap foyers / entryways.
Learning Works
Portland, Maine: Provides extended learning opportunities after school and in the summer to help low-performing students attain higher academic standards in reading, writing and math. Visit the Learning Works website.
The Telling Room
Portland, Maine: Addresses the growing low English literacy rates in children from the Greater Portland area. Many of the students come from war-torn countries and are English Language Learners.
Riding To The Top
Windham, Maine: Provides scholarships to children with disabilities coming from families with limited financial resources. With current increase in lay-offs and job loss and increased cost of living expenses request for scholarship assistance has grown. Visit the Riding To The Top website.
Jobs For Maine Graduates
Augusta, Maine: Success with Financial Literacy Program to fund costs of materials.