| Project Information |
Committee Grant Amount* |
Total Grant Amount* |
| Add Verb Productions Arts & Education, Portland, for "Say It Loud", and 8 - 10 week after-school youth artist training program for girls using public performance and digital recording, and for a similar program for boys in collaboration with Maine Boys to Men |
$4,200.00 |
$4,200.00 |
| Casco Bay High School for Expeditionary Learning, Portland, to develop a math and chemistry curriculum |
$500.00 |
$7,500.00 |
| Cultivating Community, Portland, to become an AmeriCorps site |
$4,000.00 |
$4,000.00 |
| Five Rivers Arts Alliance, Brunswick, to publish six issues of a guide to local arts, culture and heritage |
$1,000.00 |
$6,000.00 |
| Frannie Peabody Center, Portland, for professional guidance and facilitation in the develop of the 2008-12 strategic plan |
$3,000.00 |
$6,000.00 |
| Friends of Casco Bay, South Portland, for a Nutrient Pollution Initiative to reduce nitrogen pollution in Casco Bay and in coastal waters across the state |
$4,000.00 |
$5,110.00 |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, for free, universal access to a marine science education program for 5th or 6th grade students |
$5,000.00 |
$7,500.00 |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc. (Northeast Program), Saratoga Springs, NY, for the Maine Coast Protection Initiative including the newly launched Small Capacity Building Support Program |
$800.00 |
$800.00 |
| Maine Boys to Men, Portland, for a partnership with Rippleffect to create a four-phase, year-long leadership training program for 21 immigrant and refugee boys from Portland and Westbrook in 9 - 12 grades |
$4,175.00 |
$4,175.00 |
| Maine Time Banks, Portland, for staffing costs to provide enhanced services to the local immigrant community through a collaboration between MTB and Catholic Charities Maine Refugee & Immigration Services |
$4,000.00 |
$4,000.00 |
| Partners in Ending Hunger, Portland, to facilitate a Cumberland County coalition to provide increased public awareness of hunger and food insecurity |
$2,500.00 |
$2,500.00 |
| Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance, Portland, for the "First Friday Art Walk" monthly event |
$3,000.00 |
$3,000.00 |
| South Portland High School, South Portland, for an internship program for students who wish to have a formal experience in the community |
$500.00 |
$3,250.00 |
| The Telling Room, Portland ,to create a new English Language Learner (ELL) Workshop program at Portland High School to provide incoming students with specific literacy tools to discover and develop their voices and contribute to an anthology for publication |
$3,000.00 |
$7,500.00 |
| Youthink, Portland, for the "Young Minds, Fresh Ideas" Summit, a gathering where a representative cross-section of Portland youth create an agenda of youth priority issues for positive changes in Portland |
$3,000.00 |
$7,455.00 |
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*Some projects were funded through multiple sources.
The amount awarded by the Cumberland County Committee appears in the middle column.
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