The Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation awards grants to 15 organizations in Maine through the Children’s Health Small Grants Program.

Since its inception in 2007, the foundation has advanced its mission to support the health of Maine’s children by awarding more than $1.2 million to support 155 projects. These projects have improved the health of Maine’s children, focused on prevention, and increased access to needed services for the underserved, according to a news release from the foundation.

Here is the list of 2022 winners and their funded work:

● Area Interfaith Outreach (AIO) Food & Energy Assistance — $5,000: Fund supports a weekend meal program. This program provides weekend packets of healthy meals and snacks to school-age children living in food-insecure households.

● Augusta Food Bank — $10,000: Funds will help meet growing demand for the Weekend KidsPaks program, which delivers six healthy, easy-to-prepare meals and snacks to youth in the Augusta area.

● Camp CaPella, Inc. — $10,000: Provides campers for campers with various physical and developmental disabilities to participate in a week-long summer camp that enhances campers’ abilities and allows them to enjoy traditional summer camp programs. To do.

● Consumers for Affordable Health Care — $10,000: Funds support multifaceted outreach efforts to help 1,000 children get health insurance.

● Kids First Center — $5,000: Funds support the Intensive Co-Parenting Education program, a nine-week psychoeducational program.

● Locker Project — $10,000: Funds support a variety of programs and events that regularly provide fresh food, especially fresh fruit and vegetables, to low-income children and their families in Greater Portland.

● American Academy of Pediatrics, Maine Chapter — $10,000: Funding will enable expansion of the successful HPV vaccination learning community launched last year, expanding into additional practices, Center for Quality Improvement of the Maine Medical Association. partnership with, and implementation of toolkits from. AAP and American Cancer Society.

● Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition — $5,000: This funding will help MIRC expand its food program to provide more than 3,000 hot, culturally appropriate meals each week to immigrant and refugee individuals and families in Shelter Hotels in the Portland area. help to provide. These families do not have the means to prepare their own perishables (no kitchen facilities, limited food budget).

● Patient Airlift Services, Maine Chapter — $10,000: The fund provides free flights to low-income and rural Maine children and their families with long-distance medical needs. Maine is a primary geographic focus for PALS because of the state’s vast rural area and lack of local access to specialized medical care.

● Piscataquis Regional Food Center — $10,000: This funding will allow the center to employ refrigerated delivery trucks and existing delivery drivers to begin an ongoing emergency food delivery service for families and individuals unable to reach food pantries. .

● Lobby Foundation — $10,000: Funds will be donated to adaptive equipment/assistive technology/treatment programs. This program provides essential items and services for children in Maine with developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life.

● Rosati Leadership Academy — $5,000: Funds will be donated to Rosati’s five free after-school sessions per week. This session combines soccer with mindfulness activities to develop physical fitness, positive social behaviors, and improve academic performance.

● Safe Families for Children, Maine Chapter — $5,000: This fund will help financially underserved families during a crisis, prevent neglect and abuse of children, and address the needs of parents to keep children out of foster care. help.

● Sunrise County Economic Council — $10,000: Funds help families combat food insecurity and intergenerational poverty by teaching families about safe food preparation and storage, gardening, meal planning, coupons, bulk buying, and how to read labels. Donated to collaborative programs to help overcome.

● Youth-Led Justice — $10,000: This funding will enable Restorative Justice’s Youth-Led Justice program to add an in-house clinical treatment program to help young people and families who have experienced harm, conflict, or involvement in the corrections system. You will soon have access to mental health support.

For more information, visit sadieandharrydavis.org.

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