Grantees

Patricia D. Klingenstein Grants Program

Organizations that are awarded our small grants focus on a wide range of areas promoting children’s health.

2023 Grantees

Alan Day Community Garden

A direct source of fresh, nutritious food as well as educational opportunities for kids and families to learn how to feed themselves well.

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Bangor Region YMCA

Ongoing mental health support and enrichment for youth through the Y's Teen Center, and exploration of how to expand this model of mental health services to younger children in the Y’s youth development programs.

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Big Rock Mountain

Ski4Life, a program which provides Aroostook County children (K-12) with low barrier access to transportation, equipment, facilities, and instruction to learn how to ski and snowboard.

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Bridging the Gap

Early childhood supplies (diapers, pull-ups, and wipes) to mitigate the effects of financial hardship on young children.

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Experience Camps

A clinically-informed summer camp experience for children and teens who have lost a close family member to help grieving youth rediscover childhood, process their grief, and find resilience.

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Heart of Maine United Way

The Bundle project, which works to increase access to and utilization of social safety net programs in order to improve economic security and household wellbeing, and provision of “Bundle boxes” that include developmentally appropriate toys, books, and other family resources.

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Kismet Rock Foundation

The Kismet climbing program provides a free rock climbing experience to at-risk youth, engaging youth through a summer weeklong intensive, year-round program and mentorship throughout the four years of high school.

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Mano en Mano

An investment in staff capacity at the Rayitos de Sol bilingual childcare center, the only of its kind in the Downeast region, providing affordable, high-quality child and family support to local families, including children of seasonal farm workers and immigrants.

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Rangeley Regional Health and Wellness Partnership

Youth enrichment programs aimed at fostering overall wellbeing and positive youth development through evidence-based programs focused on social-emotional learning, intellectual growth, and physical health in a rural region with limited resources for youth.

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Sandcastle Preschool Program Foundation

Speech Language Pathology Assistant internship to expand services to approximately 100 underserved pre-school children.

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St. Mary's Nutrition Center

A partnership with five public schools to create opportunities for Lewiston students to grow, cook, and eat nourishing food.

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The Kita Center

Investment in a clinical program director to oversee the curriculum and programs that focus on "postvention" support for survivors of suicide loss.

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Tree Street Youth

Expansion of a successful PreK Bridge Program pilot to help more families access free partial-day public pre-K programs via a "walking school bus" to bring pre-K students to the Tree Street facility for an afternoon of developmentally, culturally and lingually nurturing enrichment activities.

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YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston

A partnership program between the Lewiston Housing Authority and the YMCA to offer free, drop-in afterschool programs to all elementary school aged residents of Hillview - the city's largest subsidized housing complex, bringing social-emotional support, academic enrichment, and supplemental meals and snacks to a majority “New Mainer” population.

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