2020

• Avesta Housing was awarded $45,000 for Westbrook Partnership Learning Assistance Initiative. Students who are residents of the Frenchtown neighborhood in Westbrook will be invited to participate in a mentoring/tutoring program. This will mitigate difficulties that they/their families face from remote learning.  
• LearningWorks and Side x Side were awarded $43,000 for STEAM programming for Gifted Low Income, Minority, and English Language Learner Elementary Students.  
• Rufus Porter Museum was awarded $6,500 for camp scholarships to support twenty-five children grades K-6. Camp Invention provides five days of “inventing challenges,” fun, and a feeling of belonging and achievement.
• LearningWorks, Side x Side, and Telling Room were awarded $10,288 for the second phase of a pilot project previously funded by the Brick & Beam Society that delivered innovative STEAM programming to local elementary schools. The three organizations will deliver a project to 50 students who are falling behind academically at low-income schools in South Portland. The foundation of the program is an engineering curriculum focused on pollination in which students think like agricultural engineers.

2019

• Palaver Strings was awarded $19,500 for the Early Childhood Music & After-School Strings Programs.
• Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine was awarded $50,000 to enhance the STEM Futures Program by strengthening technology infrastructure and providing access to in-house expertise. 
• Mayo Street Arts was awarded $10,000 to expand Summer Programs for Youth by adding science and math to their RAD (Reading, Arts, Dance) program. The free lunch program provided by the Opportunity Alliance.
• South Portland Public Schools was awarded $5,000 for a book translation project. The project will engage Pre K families in building the literacy skills of their children while cultivating a positive home-school relationship. It will allow SPPS to engage families using their native language, and break the barriers that inhibit literacy learning in their homes.
• Literacy Kits Supplies: Members will construct literacy kits during 2019/2020 social events and donate them to local elementary schools. ($5,000)

2018

• LearningWorks and Side X Side were awarded $50,000 to pilot an after-school program in Portland, South Portland, and Westbrook that integrates creativity and the arts with science, technology, and math.
• Intercultural Community Center was awarded $25,000 to build a computer lab that will support online language tools and provide students access to computer science, robotics, and engineering programming.
• Westbrook School Department: Establish bookshelves in each of three elementary school libraries. The shelves will be mobile carts which will house collections of approximately 200 books a piece ($12,915).
• USM Portland Empowered Early Childhood Parent Engagement Initiative: Support to host shared space cafes with a focus on engaging parents around topics pertinent to early childhood ($5,000).
• Boys and Girls Club: Logo Robotics kits and expansion kits, which allows BGCSM to offer Robotics to 2nd & 3rd graders at Portland, Riverton, and Sagamore Clubhouses ($4,928).
• Portland Family Shelter: Supports a 4-week, 4 days/wk, 4hrs/day summer program for lower elementary homeless youth staying at Portland’s family shelter ($15,000).
• Press Coverage: The Forecaster, Maine Public
• Sea Change Yoga: Trauma-informed yoga for youth with special needs and their parents/caregivers ($10,000).

2017

• Mayo Street Arts was awarded $26,400 to expand Summer Programs for Youth, the RAD (Reading, Arts, Dance) program, and the free lunch program provided by the Opportunity Alliance.
• Youth and Family Outreach was awarded $25,000 for their Families Matter Program, which educates families on how to prepare meals, shop and cook on a budget–creating building blocks that families can use to create habits of eating healthy meals together. 
• Walker Memorial Library: Purchase of 120 books in French and Arabic, Westbrook’s two most spoken foreign languages. ($1,600).
• Portland Public Schools Summer Reading Program: Summer book packs and staffing for 40 students at Reiche School and 40 students at Presumpscott School in Portland ($4,770).
• Mayo Street Arts: Support for summer programming including free summer tutoring by East End School staff, free RAD literacy based arts education programming (Reading, Arts, Dance), and free lunch. ($11,000).

2016

• The Congolese Community of Maine (CoCo Maine) was awarded $50,000 for their Dual Generation Program for Early Childhood Education, which offers English language classes, family literacy initiatives, parenting activities, and outreach to parents and children ages 2-5 ($50,000).
• Portland Public Schools’ Summer Reading Program: Books and reading comprehension activities for 40 students in grades 3-5 ($3,800).
• Portland Public Schools’ Summer Math Component for Elementary Summer Program: Online math learning software at one school ($2,000).
• A Company of Girls’ “Art in the Parks” Program: Books for children at weekly art activities program in Portland ($2,200).
• Feeding Bodies and Minds’ Summer Picnic for Children: Starting Strong tote bags with materials, lunch, and books ($2,000).