Rockland, Maine - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine recently received several grant awards for its youth mentoring program.
A $10,000 grant was received from the Penobscot Valley Health Association Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to continue the agency’s 1-to-1 School-Based and Community-Based Mentoring in Penobscot County. The grant was made at the recommendation of the Penobscot County fund advisors.
The agency also received a $10,000 grant from the John T. Gorman Foundation to support Big/Little matches during the May 15, 2012 to May 14, 2013 time period. Funds will be used to create and stock activity bins at participating schools; recruit, screen, interview, conduct background checks, and train volunteer School Coordinators and prospective adult Bigs for both School-Based and Community-Based Mentoring.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Midcoast Maine also received a $333 “Jumpstart our Youth” (JOY) grant from students at the Wiscasset Middle School. This grant was awarded by students of Jobs For Maine’s Graduates (JMG) program. This program, funded by the Unity Foundation teaches Maine’s young people – our future community leaders and philanthropists – valuable lessons about philanthropy and volunteerism. The Wiscasset Middle School JMG students received and reviewed grant proposals from Midcoast non-profits and selected three of them to split the $1,000 award.
“We are extremely grateful for each of these grant awards,” says BBBSMCM’s CEO Alex Gaeth. “In the past year, we have expanded our program from serving 360 youth to now serve 560 youth in Knox, Lincoln, Penobscot and Waldo County, and we know there is more work to be done. These grants will allow us to continue to provide our proven 1-to-1 youth mentoring program to the children who need it most.”
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