Harvard Pilgrim awarded $500K to MaineHealth for childhood obesity prevention
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation awarded MaineHealth $500,000 for its Let’s Go! childhood obesity prevention program last year.
The grant was one of nearly $2.9 million in grants the foundation distributed to 710 nonprofit organizations in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut in 2014. And it was one of more than $1.5 million in grants the foundation distributed to regional initiatives promoting nutrition, healthy eating and physical activity among children in the four New England states, according to a press release announcing the grants on Monday.
The Wellesley, Mass.-based foundation awarded $100,000 in Maine Local Food grants to the following recipients:
• $15,000 to Cultivating Community in Portland, garden construction and scholarship.
• $14,600 to Food AND Medicine in Brewer, farmers’ market expansion.
• $11,080 to My Place Teen Center in Westbrook, cooking equipment for teaching.
• $10,600 to FARMS (Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools) in Damariscotta, cooking equipment for teaching.
• $10,000 to Washington County Food and Fuel Alliance in Machias, food pantry equipment and education.
• $8,500 to Oxford Hills Alan Day Community Garden in Norway, development of a food forest.
• $8,420 to Pearson’s Town Farm at Saint Joseph’s College in Standish, garden expansion for college food service and food pantry.
• $8,345 to University of Maine Cooperative Extension in South Paris, development of a teaching garden.
• $5,650 to Kennebec Restorative Community Harvest Program in Augusta, garden equipment for a prison garden.
• $3,100 to Yarmouth Community Garden in Yarmouth, garden irrigation equipment.
• $2,500 to Old Orchard Beach Community Food Pantry in Old Orchard Beach, cooking program pilot.
• $2,000 to Somerset Grist Mill Food Hub in Skowhegan, food education program for children.
• $5,000 to Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership in Portland, honors dinner.
• $5,000 to The Foundation for Maine’s Community Colleges in South Portland, agricultural sciences program at Kennebec Valley Community College.
Camp Sunshine in Casco was one of several recipients getting a total of $41,000 through the company’s annual employee fundraising campaign. The Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership in Portland was among five agencies in the foundation’s Culture InSight program receiving a total of $747,000 to train health care and human service professionals and organizations across the region.
Clarification: The headline and first sentence of the story have been slightly reworded to clarify that the grants were awarded last year.
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