| Project Information |
Committee Grant Amount |
| Amistad, Inc., Portland, to provide healthier food and a series of workshops on healthy eating to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness at the peer center in Portland |
$5,000.00 |
| Center for Grieving Children, Portland, for the Multicultural Peer Support program |
$5,000.00 |
| Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, Portland, to create a community wide project to respond to the recurring bias incidents in the Deering neighborhood of Portland, ME |
$3,500.00 |
| Children's Museum of Maine, Portland, for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Community Counseling Center, Portland, for the Trauma Intervention Program to expand volunteer recruitment and training to include teenage volunteers |
$2,500.00 |
| Family Crisis Services, Portland, for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Fiddlehead Center for the Arts, Gray, to host 12 arts and cultural enrichment events over the next 24 months, focused on promoting appreciation of cultures from around the world |
$2,500.00 |
| Friends of Casco Bay, South Portland, for annual support |
$2,500.00 |
| Friends of the St. Lawrence Church, Portland, for annual support |
$2,000.00 |
| GrowSmart Maine, Yarmouth, to implement the recommendations of the Brookings Report focusing on building coalitions to promote Quality Places and to achieve change in tax reform and government streamlining |
$5,000.00 |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, to assist teachers in using invasive species investigations as part of the Vital Signs science education program |
$5,000.00 |
| Literacy Volunteers-Greater Portland, Portland, to expand tutor recruitment and training program to meet need |
$4,500.00 |
| Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community, Augusta, for the Cumberland County Family Development Account Program, to encourage family asset development and financial security goals |
$3,500.00 |
| Maine College of Art, Portland, to support "Adventures in Art," a contemporary art education program for elementary school children |
$3,000.00 |
| Maine Historical Society, Portland, for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Mercy Hospital, Portland, for the annual support of the McAuley Residence |
$2,500.00 |
| Morrison Developmental Center, Portland, for a capital campaign to build a single-level campus in Scarborough |
$5,000.00 |
| My Wonderful Dog, Portland, to underwrite the cost of specially trained dogs for five people with disabilities |
$5,000.00 |
| Opportunity Farm for Boys & Girls, New Gloucester, toward a minivan |
$2,500.00 |
| PCA Great Performances, Portland, for annual support |
$2,500.00 |
| Portland Harbor Museum, South Portland, for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Portland Opera Repertory Theatre (PORTopera), for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Portland Symphony Orchestra, to support KinderKonzerts, youth concerts, and the Side-by-Side program for high school musicians |
$5,000.00 |
| Portland West, Inc., Portland, to provide literacy, academic, and life skills to low-income and immigrant/refugee families in the greater Portland area through the Community Learning Center |
$2,500.00 |
| Preble Street Resource Center, Portland, for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Rebuilding Together*Greater Portland, Portland, to renovate one home for a low-income homeowner during the annual Rebuilding Day in April 2008 |
$3,000.00 |
| The Root Cellar, Portland, for annual support |
$2,500.00 |
| School Ground Greening Coalition, Portland, to design a greener, more natural and park-like gathering space for the East End School and neighboring community |
$5,000.00 |
| Shalom House, Portland, to start a small library and reading program for clients |
$2,000.00 |
| South Portland Historical Society, to hire a part-time professional fundraiser to seek funding to buy the Cushing's Point House for a museum |
$5,000.00 |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging, Scarborough, to take on and continue the Portland Meals on Wheels program from the Salvation Army |
$5,000.00 |
| SPACE Gallery, Portland, for annual support |
$3,000.00 |
| Susan L. Curtis Foundation, Portland, for annual support |
$2,400.00 |
| United Way of Greater Portland, Portland, for support for the UWGP community investment process |
$10,000.00 |
| University of Southern Maine, Portland, to provide ergonomically correct seating for pianos to reduce performance-related injuries and fatigue |
$3,300.00 |
| Youth Alternatives, South Portland, for a merger with Ingraham |
$5,000.00 |