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| Project Information |
Committee Grant Amount |
| Acorn Productions, Westbrook, to support the creation of a Westbrook Shakespeare Festival in May 2010, featuring a 2-weekend performance of As You Like It by the Naked Shakespeare group |
$2,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Maine, Portland, for operating support for the Sagamore Village Clubhouse |
$2,500 |
| Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine, Portland, for "Puppets and Poets," a series of puppetry performances created to build an active engagement with literature and the performing arts in preschool age children |
$3,000 |
| Compass Project, Portland, for the Compass Project and Spurwink to jointly create an effective experiential/social skills model program for special needs youth |
$2,000 |
| Friends of Casco Bay, South Portland, for the Oil Spill Preparedness Project, to participate in a massive oil spill exercise with the goal of ensuring Portland Harbor is prepared to respond in case of a spill |
$2,500 |
| Good Theater, Inc., Portland, to assist with the lavish production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest |
$2,000 |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, for Vital Venture which enables 5th- to 8th-grade teachers to extend learning that was initiated either through the LabVenture experience at GMRI or the Vital Signs field science experience |
$2,500 |
| Maine Academy of Modern Music, Portland, to acquire a sound system in order to pilot a new DJ program |
$3,000 |
| Maine Center for Creativity, Portland, for Art All Around, the world's largest public art project created collaboratively with community to build Maine's reputation for innovation and creativity in order to compete in the 21st century economy |
$3,000 |
| Maine College of Art, Portland, for a community art-making project with MECA, the Portland community and Drive By Press, a mobile printmaking press |
$2,440 |
| Maine Humanities Council, Portland, for New Books, New Readers which offers Portland-area immigrants and refuges a resource in which they can develop English reading and speaking skills |
$2,500 |
| Mercy Hospital, Portland, to acquire a security system for McAuley Residence, a unique, transitional housing program for low-income, at-risk women |
$5,000 |
| Opportunity Farm for Boys and Girls, New Gloucester, to help provide safe, stable homes to at-risk Maine youth and give them the skills and tools to lead productive lives |
$3,500 |
| Portland North Land Trust Collaborative, Portland, for the Portland North Stewardship Volunteer Recruitment Program |
$2,000 |
| Portland Opera Repertory Theatre (PORTopera), Portland, for the 2010 production of Engelbert Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel including a ballet for 14 children from the Portland School of Ballet and choreography by Nell Shipman of Portland Ballet Company |
$2,000 |
| Portland Stage Company, Portland, to purchase updated electrical drop boxes that allow greater flexibility needed on stage by professional lighting designers |
$2,000 |
| Portland Trails, Portland, to help fund the staffing and supplies needed to launch a service learning program in area schools in 2010 |
$2,000 |
| Riding to the Top, Windham, to support the continuing education program for instructors and volunteers, to improve the safety, effectiveness, and engagement of all personnel during programming |
$2,600 |
| South Portland Land Trust, South Portland, for the South Portland Park and Trail Mapping Project which will produce a map of parks and trails, raise awareness and build its capacity to reach trail building objectives by broadening its membership base and gaining corporate support |
$2,500 |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging, Scarborough, to provide equipment for traveling Birthday Clinics for people turning 65 to inform them of decisions they need to make regarding social security, insurances, and benefits available for people with low incomes |
$2,080 |
| Spirits Alive, Portland, to hire the Walker Kluesing Design Firm to develop a master plan for the Eastern Cemetery to hasten historic preservation |
$2,000 |
| The Telling Room, Portland, for the field trip program, pairing exciting literary excursions that build literacy skills and confidence with professional development opportunities for Language Arts teachers |
$2,000 |
| Youth Alternatives Ingraham, South Portland, for the Mediation Services, a low barrier program where families and community members can seek resolution on a variety of issues |
$3,000 |
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