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AUGUSTA – The Lewiston and Auburn and Sagadahoc county are among six Maine Working Communities Challenge teams that have been selected to receive three-year, $375,000 grants to begin implementing proposals that address local economic problems, including poverty and lack of work opportunity.
The Working Communities Challenge is an initiative supported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the state of Maine, national and local philanthropy, and private sector employers that aims to strengthen Maine’s rural towns. Maine joined the Working Communities Challenge in 2020.
In Lewiston and Auburn, the money will be used to build, support, enhance, and sustain a culture of opportunity, equity, and inclusion. The work will address wealth gaps, catalyze economic growth, and increase opportunity among the marginalized communities of Lewiston Auburn, especially Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) youth, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and U.S.-born African Americans.
In Sagadahoc County, including the communities of Arrowsic Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Georgetown, Phippsburg, Richmond, Topsham, West Bath and Woolwich, the money will be used to create a web of educational, mentoring, training, and employment programs that build social and professional connections in youth and combat drug addiction, depression, and suicide.
The other four communities to get grants are greater Bangor; the Katahdin Region; Piscataquis County; Washington County and the Passamaquoddy Tribe.
For more information, visit bostonfed.org/workingplaces/communities-challenge/maine.
