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United Way of Greater Portland’s Women United announced at their annual fall reception at Urban Farm Fermentory a $100,000 multi-year investment in “two-generation” strategies exclusively for single mothers and their children. Through an intensive community review process, Women United selected The Opportunity Alliance’s (TOA) Project WIN (Women in Neighborhoods). The program will work with a cohort of single mothers and their children living in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood.

Maine voters will be asked this November to decide whether the state should expand its Medicaid program (MaineCare) under the federal Affordable Care Act. This is important to United Way of Greater Portland because ensuring people have the opportunity to live as healthy a life as possible is central to United Way of Greater Portland’s mission and community focus. When people have access to medical care, they are more likely to succeed in school and work, and live longer, healthier lives. As such, United Way of Greater Portland supports the statewide referendum to expand MaineCare.