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With the help of a Healthy Neighborhoods Mini-Grant, you can build what you’re dreaming of in our community.
Healthy Neighborhoods is here to make sure that Lewiston residents’ voices are always at the table when changes are being proposed in our community.
Lewiston is already great. Healthy Neighborhoods is here so that when opportunities arise to make it even better, residents’ voices are front and center. Here’s how:
When Lewiston had the opportunity to access millions in federal funding, we set out on an 18-month process to hear from over 400 people who live, work, play, and invest in downtown Lewiston about how they want to see this money used in Lewiston.
The result is Lewiston's own plan for development, reflecting the dreams people who actually live downtown have for our community.
Every year, we open up Mini-Grant applications to Lewiston residents and local organizations to create the change they want to see in our community. We’ve funded new parks, public art, community gardens, and much more.
What do you want to build in Lewiston? Check out our past grant recipients for inspiration, and learn how you can apply in 2022.
After years of hard work and the contributions of over 400 people who live, work, and play in the Tree Streets, Lewiston secured $30 million in funding from HUD to bring the Transformation Plan to life.
The Choice Transformation plan is Lewiston’s own plan for development.
It was created over the course of 18 months with input from over 400 people who live, work, play, and invest in downtown Lewiston.
This June, the Healthy Neighborhoods Network held our annual Shared Gifting session and moved forward with funding 19 exciting community projects around our theme of “Community Connections: Rebuilding Community as we Emerge from Covid-19. Click to see all of our funded projects for 2022!
Preview photo (c) 2022 Russ Dillingham, Sun Journal. All rights reserved.
Meet the 5 incoming members of our Board of Directors!
Community-Focused Architecture considers the labor and materials used in a project as a fundamental part of its design, and prioritizes hiring local workers and using locally-sourced materials so that the project as a whole has the greatest possible local impact. How could this approach help Lewiston get the most out of the $30 million Choice Neighborhoods grant?
After years of hard work and the contributions of over 400 people who live, work, and play in the Tree Streets, Lewiston secured $30 million in funding from HUD to bring the Transformation Plan to life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Healthy Neighborhoods Mini-Grant helped Tri-County Mental Health Services connect shelter residents with telehealth counseling services during COVID-19.
