Healthy Neighborhoods has been excited to see our partners make progress with their mini-grant awards. Discover the great things happening in these first hand accounts of mini-grant award recipients.

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Presente! Maine's Food Brigade Feeds 600 Lewiston Residents During COVID-19 With Help from Mini-Grant

Crystal from Presente! Maine shares how their Food Brigade fed over 2,000 people, including 600 in Lewiston, through their Food Brigade, supported in part by a Healthy Neighborhoods Mini-Grant.

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Nutrition Center Helps Community Gardeners Garden Safely During COVID-19 With Mini-Grant Support

Bridgette Bartlett from St. Mary's Nutrition Center's Lots to Garden program shares how they developed gardener safety kits and hand-washing stations to keep their community gardens open during the pandemic with help from a Mini-Grant from Healthy Neighborhoods.

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Agora Grand Adapts to COVID-19 With Mini-Grant Funding

Billie from the Agora Grand shares how Mini-Grant funding helped them weather COVID, capture the elopement market, and keep this iconic Lewiston institution open.

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Safe Voices Navigates 20% Increase in Call Volume with Support from Mini-Grant

Victoria from Safe Voices shares how they navigated a significant increase in call volume to their 24-hour helpline during COVID-19 with the help of a Healthy Neighborhoods Mini-Grant.

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Mini-Grant Helps Tri-County Bring Counseling Telehealth Services to Lewiston Residents

Tri-County Mental Health Services received a Mini-Grant in 2020 to connect residents of Lewiston’s emergency homeless shelter to telehealth counseling services during COVID-19.

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Mask Kreations by Amy Distributes Hundreds of Free Masks with Help from Mini-Grant

Amy Sanchez lives in the heart of Lewiston’s Tree Streets neighborhood and received a Mini-Grant to sew and distribute 750 high quality masks to at-risk neighbors.

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Mini-Grant Helps Install Raised Bed Garden at Pine Street Branch of Community Credit Union

Community Credit Union created a neighborhood garden outside their 144 Pine Street, Lewiston branch, benefitting their staff and local organizations with healthy food options.

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Root Cellar "Brain Food" Supports Students During COVID-19 with Mini-Grant

The Root Cellar distributed school breakfasts, lunches, and homework packets with guided work to over 1,000 students every week in grade levels PreK - 12th.

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Trinity Jubilee Walkway Restoration Funded by Mini-Grant

Trinity Jubilee Center renovated their crumbling walkway, ensuring all people have equal access to the vital services they provide.

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Mini-Grant Brings Picnic Tables to the "Pop-Up Garden"

Two new accessible picnic tables were installed at the PUG and decorated by local artists.

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Maine Inside Out Kennedy Park Block Party Supported by Mini-Grant

Maine Inside Out hosted the Kennedy Park Block Party to bring community members and organizations together to celebrate downtown Lewiston and create a vision for the community's future.

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Mini-Grant Support "Trash Amnesty & Education" Event

Volunteers removed removed 63,268 pounds (31.5 tons) of trash from the Tree Streets, and distributed 120 free trash bins and 30 recycling bins across the neighborhood.

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Pop-Up Garden (PUG) Launched With Help from Mini-Grant

Healthy Homeworks transformed an empty lot in the heart of the Tree Streets neighborhood into a community garden and event space called the Pop-Up Garden (the “PUG”), and hosted a grand opening neighborhood event.