Hospice Fund

2025 Grants

  • Androscoggin Home Health Services, to provide workshops to older adults, caregivers and the community to raise awareness about hospice services: $5,000
  • Camp Kita, to expand access to bereavement support through grief and comfort resources via mail, virtual workshops and an enhanced resource center for suicide-loss survivors: $4,750
  • Hospice Help Foundation, to provide urgent financial assistance to help hospice patients afford essential items and life's end: $7,110
  • Hospice of Southern Maine, for two community liasions who provide educaton about hospice, grief and other end-of-life topics: $6,000
  • The Center for Grieving Children, to increase capacity for peer-support bereavement and Tender Living Care programs: $7,000

2024 Grants

  • Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, to strengthen end-of-life programming and develop a workshop that provides opportunity to explore pathways through grief: $6,600
  • Hospice Help Foundation, to provide critical financial support to hospice patients who are unable to afford essential comforts: $10,463
  • Laudholm Trust, to build a supportive community that emphasizes healing through nature for caregivers and the bereaved in York County: $5,000
  • VNA Home & Hospice, to improve and expand educational provider events to increase awareness of hospice services: $10,000

2023 Grants

  • Harbour Signers, to increase chorus membership, and identify new opportunities and partnerships for bedside singing: $3,000
  • Hospice Help Foundation, to provide financial support to hospice patients: $15,000
  • Hospice of Southern Maine, for its bereavement program including grief counseling, support groups, and grief education in Cumberland and York counties: $5,000
  • The Center for Grieving Children, to maintain and broaden its virtual programs: $10,000