Mark Swann

The new Food Security Hub in South Portland will allow the nonprofit to increase the number of meals it prepares from 2,000 per day to 10,000.

The Alexa Re Rancourt Golf Learning Center, which is being built at the former Freeport Country Club, aims to make the game more accessible to Maine youth and families.

Hope House, operated by Penobscot Community Health Center, had been on the verge of closing. With help from recently approved state funding, Preble Street will begin running the shelter in February.

A conference hosted by Preble Street gathered speakers who outlined strategies that might be applied in Maine.  

The money will help the nonprofit support the state’s plan to end chronic homelessness through the creation of 400 new Housing First units across Maine.

If approved and funded, the Oxford Street development would also be one of the first Site-based Housing First developments in Maine. The proposal comes just four months after Gov. Janet Mills signed a budget package to address homelessness. 

Preble Street will use a $348,000 MaineHousing Grant to creat transition housing for up to a dozen homeless teens in Biddeford.

A year after Mainebiz honored five individuals as our 2022 Business Leaders of the Year, we checked in to find out what they’re up to now.

The funding will provide training to law enforcement agencies, service providers and communities to better understand human trafficking, U.S. protections, and the resources that are available for trafficked victims/survivors.  

Mainebiz pays homage to 2022's Business Leaders of the Year and Women to Watch honorees.