PORTLAND
THE PORTLAND EAGLES Club hosted a Christmas celebration last month and provided gifts to about 150 people served by Port Resources. For the past few years, the Eagles Club has bought Christmas presents for individuals at Port Resources, an organization dedicated to empowering people with developmental disabilities to live rich and fulfilling lives in the greater Portland area.
THE PLANET DOG Company Store raised $800 for Planet Dog Foundation’s grant program. The funds were raised through an event last month where dog owners paid to have their pets’ picture taken with Santa.
THE PARKSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD Center, a program of People’s Regional Opportunity Program, was awarded $5,000 from the Rines/Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation and $3,500 from the Simmons Foundation for its after-school programming. The funds will support the expansion of its night light after-school program’s hours of operation. The program is now open every day for youth living in the Parkside neighborhood. It offers kids in grades one through eight, a safe place to do homework, participate in strengths-based activities, and have a healthy snack.
SOUTH PORTLAND
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was awarded a $10,000 grant to The Linkage Project, a program of Youth Alternatives Ingraham. The funds will be used to increase community awareness of the link between animal cruelty and human violence. The Linkage Project provides practical tools for the early identification and prevention of animal abuse, and works to change laws to improve the safety of people and pets.
KENNEBUNK
THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION of the Kennebunks and Arundel has awarded grants to six new and existing programs in the district.
The grants will help broadcast student-related programming on Kennebunk High School’s KHS radio station; create a three-season outdoor classroom for Mildred L. Day School students in Arundel; fund a pilot program to developed to teach metacognitive higher-order thinking skills to third-graders; fund a staff outing to the Learning and the Brain Conference in Boston; provide new library books and professional oversight to support and enhance the Regional School Unit 21 curriculum for elementary-age students, and finance a Young Diplomats Club for Middle School of the Kennebunks.
Total funding for the programs is more than $22,000. The foundation exists to enhance and fund creative and innovative programs for students and professional development for teachers and other staff.
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