Grants of $5,000 or less
FY ‘09
BC/BS of Massachusetts Foundation
$1000 - Health Coverage Fellowship for a Maine journalist.
$2,750 For strategic planning
$5,000 to fund an endovaginal transducer to train students in the Kennebec Sonography program
$5,000 to establish a strong Maine Senior Action Network
$5,000 to support four business roundtables on the economic impact of early childhood investment
$3,500 to train prisoners to become hospice volunteers
$1,000 to cosponsor a leadership forum to develop and approve a plan to help reverse Maine’s slide toward higher childhood obesity rates
$2,400 to support community trauma response training
$1,000 2008 International Symposium on Pharmaceuticals in the Home and Environment: Catalysts for Change
Violence Intervention Partnership Faith Initiative
$1,040 for training materials
FY ‘08
$3,738 For support of its annual Spring Conference focusing on child abuse, child abuse prevention and the impact of child abuse on the health and welfare of children.
$5,000 To create and implement a marketing plan to promote the option for deaf and hard of hearing children to learn to listen and talk.
Northeast Assets Leadership Project
$1,500 Scholarship support for leaders and volunteers from Maine healthy community coalitions, projects pursuing inclusion for people with developmental disabilities or mental illness, or current or recent Bingham grantees to attend advanced training in Asset Based Community Development.
$500 For its annual Governor’s Forum on Cardiovascular Health
$1,050 Indicators of Maine’s Progress in Ending Partner Violence: A Snapshot of Current Relevant Research and Initiatives
$5,000 To work with the Maine Attorney General’s Office to offer a statewide conference for high school and college age men to help equip them with the tools and skills to become involved in the efforts to end violence against women.
$1,000 To support the action-planning activities of its annual Peer Leadership Conference.
$1,000 To support the activities of the Boothbay Region Domestic Abuse Prevention Council yto provide the community with increased knowledge and understanding of the dynamics of emotional abuse and domestic violence and an improved ability to respond to victims and survivors.
$3,000 To support the Speakers & Scholarships Fund of the New England Summer Wraparound Institute
FY ‘07
$5,000 A joint effort of the Lung Association and the Bucksport Healthy Communities Coalition to develop a prototype implementation strategy integrating environmental and energy concerns into a Healthy Communities framework.
BCBS of Massachusetts Foundation
$1000 - Health Coverage Fellowship for a Maine journalist.
$3,800 To design a comprehensive wellness program for mature adults to be implemented through seven community and resource centers.
$5,000 To support A Call to Men, an event hosted by the Attorney General aimed at getting men involved in stopping domestic violence and sexual assault.
$2,500 Support for keynote speaker at Physicians in Rural Practice conference.
$5,000 To support one year of rounds at Maine Medical Center to promote compassionate health care.
$500 Support for bringing Dr. Felitti to Maine to speak at the Assessing and Increasing Patient Self Confidence: A Key to Managing Chronic Disease conference.
$5,000 To support a grassroots organizer to educate the media and the public about the proposed changes to Maine's assault law that would make battering a separate crime.
$5,000 The goal of the project is to understand the challenges responsible for the low utilization of hospice services.
$1,500 Support for speakers at its Caring for the Caregivers: Perspectives on Literature and Medicine conference.
$2,000 Support for families to attend the training seminar so that they can become more active in bringing reforms to hospital settings, particularly in understanding how to involve families in a partnership role to improve the experience of care and clinical outcomes of patients.
$5,000 Support for an oral health public opinion survey
$1,000 - For building a data base of Maine leaders, institutions and grassroots projects; strategic stakeholder development; and, capacity building
$5,000 To facilitate the development of a model framework and detailed plan for implementing an academic detailing training and service provision system in Maine and Northern New England.
$2,000 To support activities after the Improving Patient Safety Through Informed Medication Prescribing and Disposal Practices conference.
$5,000 To develop the organization’s capacity in two vital areas: financial sustainability and developing leadership and management skills among the organization’s staff and Board of Directors.
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