Maine Women’s Fund awards $155K in grants to 16 nonprofits
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Mano en Mano's Rayitos de Sol, which provides bilingual child care in Washington County, was awarded a $10,000 grant by the Maine Women's Fund.
The Maine Women’s Fund has awarded $155,000 in grants to 16 nonprofits statewide working to address needs of women and girls, the Falmouth-based foundation announced last week.
The organizations received awards of $7,500 and $10,000 and ranged from a just-launched center providing bilingual child care in Washington County to a program offering support for victims of elder abuse.
“We’re honored to make bold investments in innovative programs that will help address the disproportionate burden of care work, as well as unprecedented increases in violence, substance use, unemployment and financial insecurity,” Kimberly Crichton, executive director of the Maine Women’s Fund, said in a news release.
She also noted that more than a third of funding went to organizations led by Black, brown and Indigenous women — groups that experience the greatest disparities in such burdens but receive just 0.5% of all U.S. charitable giving.
Grant support from the Maine Women’s Fund comes at a critical time, with one in four women leaving the workforce during the pandemic and Latinas experiencing the greatest job losses of any population.
The Maine Women’s Fund provides general operating or project support to organizations that meet needs in areas including education, financial skills and literacy, health care, personal safety and policy.
Dani Scherer, who chairs the fund's grant's committee, said, "At this moment of recovery and reckoning, it matters who leads us forward, and how. The organizations and initiatives supported through our recent round of grant funding show us what an equitable, caring and inclusive future can look like."
Grant recipients and projects
- ArtVan’s Art Therapy in Knox, Sagadahoc Androscoggin, Cumberland and York counties
- Elder Abuse Institute of Maine’s Statewide Developing Support Services for Elder Victims of Abuse within the Criminal Justice System
- Four Directions Development Corporation’s Strengthening Wabanaki Community Assets in Aroostook, Penobscot, and Washington counties
- Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project’s Supporting Immigrant Survivors of Violence Statewide
- In Her Presence’s Capacity Building Initiative 2021, Cumberland County
- Mabel Wadsworth Center’s Connecting Women and LGBTQ+ People to Health Care in Penobscot, Aroostook and Washington counties
- Maine Commission on Domestic and Sexual Abuse’s Statewide Racial Equity Roadmap
- Maine Transgender Network’s Statewide Support For Trans Survivors of Violence
- Maine Women's Lobby Education Fund’s Statewide Education and Engagement for Gender Equity
- Mano en Mano’s Rayitos de Sol Bilingual Childcare in Washington County
- New Ventures Maine’s Statewide Expanding Wabanaki Savings through Collaborative Partnership Development, Marketing and Outreach
- Restorative Justice Institute of Maine’s Statewide Leadership Development and Healing with Women Impacted by Incarceration
- Somali Bantu Community Association’s Hiring More Women as Staff Members in Androscoggin County
- Survivor Speak USA’s Making the Last Girl FIRST in Androscoggin, Cumberland and York counties
- Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness’ Statewide Supporting Wabanaki Women in Recovery
- YWCA Central Maine’s Single Gender Women’s Swim in Androscoggin County
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