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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!
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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.