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Spurwink

From the Spurwink website: Spurwink provides behavioral health and education services for children, adults and families. Children, adults and families affected by behavioral health challenges and developmental disabilities living healthy, engaged lives in their communities. In 1960, Spurwink began with one house in Portland, Maine, serving eight boys. Today, Spurwink has a wide array of community-based, residential and educational services...

Community Change, Inc.

From the Community Change, Inc. website: Community Change was born out of the Civil Rights Movement and in response to the Kerner Commission which named racism as “a white problem.” CCI has done what few organizations are willing to do: shine a spotlight on the roots of racism in white culture with the intention of dealing with racism at its...

Sacopee Midwives*

Sacopee Midwives use Time Dollars through Hour Exchange Portland for our work together. From the Sacopee Midwives website: Sacopee Midwives is a unique blend of midwives who believe that pregnancy and birth are normal, healthy and transformational events in families’ lives. Our goal is to support your healthy pregnancy with information, education, monitoring, attentive listening, and nutritional and herbal counseling....

Portland Recovery Community Center

From the Portland Recovery Community Center’s website: PRCC’s vision is that every person affected by addiction in Maine will have direct access to a local recovery community center that provides support groups, education, and individual resources to enhance their ability to heal, strengthen and grow in their recovery pathway, throughout all stages of their journey.

Recovery Is Happening

In 2010, Recovery Is Happening was established in Rochester, Minnesota to be a face and a voice of the promise of recovery in southeastern Minnesota. From its inception as a local 5K Run and Rally for recovery awareness, we have embraced and advocated for a recovery-oriented system of care that builds on the strength and resilience of individuals, families and...

Maine resources

If you are writing grants for an organization in Maine, you will want to make use of the Maine Philanthropy Center. This is a regional association of grantmakers working to promote philanthropy and to increase its impact in Maine. The members include private family and independent foundations, community and public foundations, and corporate foundations and giving programs. You will find membership benefits, programs...

consultants

Brightspot Consultants is a women-owned nonprofit consulting firm driven to inspire and equip nonprofits to thrive. Founded in 2018 and based in Portsmouth, NH, Brightspot works with dozens of nonprofit organizations each year providing services to support their development and strategy needs. Brightspot believes in a more socially just world, authentic client relationships, delivering relatable and practical counsel, all while...

October 9, 2018

state/federal grants

The Foundation Center’s Grant Space has a helpful page entitled, “Where can I find information about government grants?” USA.gov shares information and services for nonprofits, including grants, loans, assistance, taxes, management and more. SAM.gov’s “Assistance Listings” (was cfda.gov) is a national database of federal government projects and funding sources. Administered by the General Services Administration, this site contains a wealth of...

research tools

Finding funders is a time-consuming process and to help you, there are several online directories that allow you to comb through their databases, sometimes for free. We have listed some below. Foundation Center is one of the best sources of information on foundations and nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and globally. In addition to its web presence, it maintains collections and...

7. How are you involved with Hour Exchange Portland?

Hour Exchange Portland (“HEP”) empowers individuals, organizations and businesses to help each other meet their needs—cash free—in exchanges of services. Similar to bartering, the beauty of HEP is every hour of work done, whether it is house cleaning, accounting services, or boat repair, is worth one hour. If you do something for someone, you “bank” one hour. You can spend that...

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