Community foundation awards almost $29K to nonprofits
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The Kennebec County Committee of the Maine Community Foundation has awarded $28,950 in grants to four nonprofit organizations through its Community Building Grant Program.
Grant recipients include:
Augusta Teen Center, for a continuum of positive youth development services to help teenagers suspended from school and first-time offenders learn from their mistakes: $10,000.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley, Gardiner, for enhanced summer programming for its 14 Pray Street Clubhouse and Chelsea Clubhouses for the summer: $8,477.
Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed, Winthrop, to support free watershed science education programs to counteract a reduction in science education during the 2019-2021 school years: $5,000.
Central Maine Non-Profits Awarded $28,000 in Grants
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Augusta Teen Center members help choose winning UMA design for potential new space
University of Maine at Augusta architecture students spent the last two weeks working on design concepts for a renovation project at 189 Water St. that is a potential new home for the Augusta Teen Center.
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Shae Ingalls, left, and Brooke Ryder, members of the Augusta Teen Center of the Boys and Girls Clubs, inspect one of the models for a potential new club space Thursday at 189 Water St. in downtown Augusta.
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AUGUSTA “It feels, looking at it, like a place where we can be us and can be comfortable at,” Brooke Ryder said.
United Way of Kennebec Valley holds virtual campaign celebration
Event covered 2020 fundraising campaign, awards presented, board members recognized, new board members named.
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United Way of Kennebec Valley recently announced that it helped 57,534 people and raised $1,665,005 in the 2020 campaign. This growth represents a 3% increase in donations from 2019 and the most funds ever raised in support of UWKV’s 50 partner programs. Campaign co-chairman and -woman Chris and Sarah Voynik shared this news at UWKV’s Campaign Celebration, which attracted 87 people virtually on Jan. 27, according to a news release from Augusta-based United Way.
Acknowledging the fact that this has been one of the hardest years the Kennebec Valley has ever faced, the Voyniks asked the community in September to simply give if they had the means to do so and announced a goal of helping 56,000 people. Together, supporters exceeded that goal through the combined efforts of the annual fundraising camp
UMA architecture students designing potential space for Augusta Teen Center
The University of Maine at Augusta architecture students will create design plans for renovation of an existing Water Street building to reflect the needs and wants of the Augusta Teen Center.
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University of Maine at Augusta architecture students tour the interior of 189 Water St. Monday in Augusta. That location is where the Augusta Teen Center plans to relocate, and students are creating designs for the organization to consider for the new space.
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AUGUSTA University of Maine at Augusta student Jessica Angelova lives on Water Street. Now, her architecture studies may bring her design work to her neighborhood.
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