Equity Fund

Downeast Rainbow Alliance, for general support: 10,000
Equality Community Center, for general support: $10,000
Frannie Peabody Center, for integrated and specialized case management, housing and basic needs services for low-income and medically vulnerable individuals living with HIV/AIDS: $10,000
Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to strengthen LGBTQ+ initiatives across its middle and high school programs to better serve queer program participants: $8,000
Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, to provide culturally competent healthcare including gender-affirming hormone therapy for LGBTQ+ people and to connect patients to additional services: $10,000
Maine Family Planning, to provide assistance to trans and gender-nonconforming patients who are at risk of forgoing gender-affirming services due to financial hardship: $10,000
Maine Transgender Network, for general support: $10,000
New Beginnings, to increase safety for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness, trafficking and/or exploitation in Lewiston and rural Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties with outreach and case management: $10,000
OUT Maine, for general support: $10,000
Portland Ovations, to present a free Drag Story Time series for southern Maine families in partnership with several community organizations: $500
Queerly ME, for general support; $8,000
The Carpenter’s Boat Shop, to create and offer a weeklong woodworking class for LGBTQ+ participants in summer 2024: $10,000

Downeast Rainbow Alliance, for its Traveling Rainbow Project, which creates affirming spaces at schools, community centers, and local events that connect vulnerable youth with resources from community partners: $7,500
Equality Community Center, to develop and implement programming that engages people to build community and create opportunities for collaboration and action: $7,500
Equality Maine Foundation, for camp staff and counselor training: $7,500
Family Planning Association of Maine, for gender-affirming health care for transgender Mainers: $7,500
Frannie Peabody Center, to provide free behavioral health, medical case management, and critical care services to those living with or impacted by HIV and AIDS: $7,500
Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to offer queer-affirming and joy-filled spaces for girls and nonbinary youth: $7,500
Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center, to provide culturally competent health care, including gender-affirming hormone therapy for LGBTQ+ people, and to connect patients to additional services: $7,500
Maine Transgender Network, to make Maine a place where transgender people can thrive in their communities: $7,500

From donor-advised funds:

Healthy Lincoln County, to create after school programming and community-wide events: $7,500
Heart of Ellsworth, for Pridefest: $7,500
In Her Presence, to empower immigrant and asylum-seeking women: $7,500
OUT Maine, to expand health services for LGBTQ+ youth: $7,500
Schoodic Arts for All, to host its third-annual drag show: $7,500
Wellness Mobile, to meet the needs of people with disabilities, people with low incomes, and those experiencing homelessness: $7,500

Church of Safe Injection, to provide resources to LGBTQIA+ community members who lack financial security due to unemployment and/or who are uninsured: $7,500
Equality Maine Foundation, to continue statewide programming that supports LGBTQ+ youth and older adults, trainings for schools and employers, and public education to increase understanding and acceptance: $6,800
Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to better train high school advisory board members in LGBTQ+ issues and advocacy as they plan middle school conferences: $7,500
Health Equity Alliance /Down East Aids Network, to establish an HIV and hepatitis C testing program for individuals in Maine to eliminate future sexual disease and infection: $6,800
Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center, to provide health care, including gender-affirming hormone therapy, for LGBTQ+ people and connect patients to additional services: $6,800
Maine Transgender Network, to make Maine a place where transgender people can thrive by providing them the support they need: $7,500
Outright Lewiston Auburn, to continue ongoing support of LGBTQ+ youth, families, and schools in western Maine: $6,040

From donor-advised funds:

Downeast Rainbow Alliance, for the Traveling Rainbow Alliance Project: $7,500
Portland Public Library, to produce six workshops with Portland's poet laureate on the intersection of poetry, mental health, and identity for LGBTQ+ community members: $7,500
Sea Change Yoga, to share trauma-informed yoga and meditation with the queer youth community of southern Maine: $6,000