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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...

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 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....

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.

York County Food Rescue closed its doors in 2016. Until that time, they rescued salvaged edible and safe food that would typically be otherwise discarded due to cosmetic reasons and/or excess inventory. Volunteers would pick up food at nearby restaurants, grocery stores, wholesalers, farms and shipping companies and then deliver it to 47 local food pantries, soup kitchens and meal...

For nearly 25 years, the YMCA of Southern Maine’s Northern York County Branch (formerly the Northern York County Family YMCA) has been committed to teaching and demonstrating healthy living, youth development, and social responsibility. The 26,000 square-foot facility, located on a wooded 26 acre property on Alfred Street in Biddeford, is much more than “just another workout facility.” Programs at the YMCA are...

The Wallingford Emergency Shelter (WES) in Wallingford, CT provides overnight, temporary housing and warm meals during the winter months to people in need who are in a state of emergency as a result of a crisis situation or extreme difficulty. These include circumstances such as fire, severe weather conditions, loss of job, and a disability that causes them to be incapable of...

The Somali Bantu Community Mutual Assistance Association of Lewiston/Auburn works to cover the basic needs of their commnity. Their goal is to create a united community through delivering social service supports for adults and children. The Somali Bantu people have a powerful history and, in particular, their journey to the Lewiston/Auburn area has been a complicated one. The explanation of “Who are...

The mission of the Paws Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) is to spay/neuter as many cats as possible to reduce the large population of unwanted cats in the St. John Valley area through spay/neuter of owned cats (who often are allowed to roam) and homeless cats. This is truly a grassroots organization. It started early in 2008 when two women who worked at...

Minnesota Recovery Connection aims to help more Minnesotans recover from drug and alcohol addition. Their mission is to strengthen the recovery community through peer-to-peer support, public education, and advocacy. MRC helps to promote understanding and compassion about recovery, end stigma and advocate for policies and attitudes that will help make recovery a reality for more people in the community.