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HALLOWELL — The Maine Justice Foundation has awarded grants from its Racial Justice Fund to seven Maine groups for 2022, including Lewiston’s Maine Inside Out.
The goal of the fund is to support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color statewide to forge social, systemic, and economic solutions that will address racism and inequities in our culture, organizations, and systems.
The seven grants were for between $5,000 and $10,000, an increase in both organizations supported and funds distributed from the inaugural year.
Maine Inside Out will use its grant to support arts and advocacy-based leadership development programs for system-impacted youth of color who have lived experience of Maine’s juvenile and criminal justice systems.
The other grantees are Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, Indigo Arts Alliance and Ladder to the Moon Network, all of Portland, and In Her Presence, Westbrook.
Since the inaugural grant round last year, corporations, philanthropic leaders and individual donors across Maine have given an additional $290,000 raising the fund to $644,000 to combat racial injustice and inequity through the Foundation’s Racial Justice Fund. This growth has allowed the foundation to increase both the number of grants made and funds distributed in 2022. Founders of the fund are AARP Maine, Androscoggin Bank, AT&T, Baker Newman Noyes, Bangor Savings Bank, Bernstein Shur, Central Maine Power, Cross Insurance, BirchBrook, Drummond Woodsum, Eaton Peabody, F.L. Putnam Investment Management Company, Gorham Savings Bank, HM Payson, Hancock Lumber, Hannaford Supermarkets, Harvard Pilgrim, Northern Light Health, Pierce Atwood, Preti Flaherty, RM Davis, Verrill, and the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation.
