Maine immigrant organizations receive $150K in pandemic-driven grants
Courtesy / Mano en Mano
Mano en Mano, a Milbridge nonprofit founded in 2005 to help immigrant workers and their families, was one of 28 immigrant-led organizations to receive operating grants this week.
More than two dozen groups dedicated to the lives of immigrants in Maine will receive a total of $150,000 in grants from the Immigrant-Led Organizations Fund.
The fund is a program of the Maine Immigrant & Refugee Funders Collaborative and is administered by Portland-based Maine Initiatives, according to a news release. The fund was established in 2017 to support immigrant-led and immigrant-serving organizations in Maine.
The grants will provide general operating support to 28 immigrant-led organizations in Maine that are led by and serve the state's immigrants, refugees, asylees, migrant farm workers and those who are undocumented.
“These organizations are going to extraordinary lengths to adapt and respond to the needs of their constituents, often without knowing where the funds to back such efforts will come from,” Shima Kabirigi, coordinator of the Immigrant & Refugee Funders Collaborative and program officer at Maine Initiatives, said in the release.
“We see it as philanthropy’s responsibility to step up, bring resources to the table supporting the organizations that are doing this critical work. Grants will fund much-needed direct services and advocacy, including food and resource distribution, the sharing of essential public health information, and coordination of the immigrant community’s response to this pandemic with local and state officials.”
Immigrant-Led Organizations Fund grant recipients
- Angolan Community Association
- Cambodian Community Association of Maine
- Capital Area New Mainers Project
- Choose Yourself
- Congolese Community of Maine
- Djiboutian American Empowerment Project
- Gateway Community Services
- Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center
- Immigrant Resource Center
- In Her Presence
- Intercultural Community Center
- Ladder to the Moon Network (Amjambo Africa)
- Maine Access Immigrant Network
- Maine Community Integration
- Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services
- Maine Immigrants Rights' Coalition
- Mano en Mano
- New England Arab American Organization
- New Mainers Public Health Initiative
- New Roots Cooperative Farm
- Presente! Maine
- Prosperity ME
- Rwandese Community Association
- Somali Bantu Community Association
- Somali Community Center of Maine
- South Sudanese Community Association of Maine
- Sustainable Livelihoods Relief Organization
- United Youth Empowerment Services
To learn more about each organization, click here.
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