Three Maine projects were approved for funding by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops-Catholic Campaign for Human Development Committee at its meeting in St. Louis last month.
Maine People’s Alliance has been granted $25,000 for its Low-Income Health Access Project, which organizes low-income people to increase health care coverage and services available to them.
The project focuses on organizing within low-income block groups and neighborhoods in Auburn, Bangor, Lewiston and Portland to identify new alliance members and leaders committed to winning a just health care system.
Rural Coalition has been granted $30,000 for its SuperMarket Cooperative.
A project of Rural Coalition, SuperMarket is a bi-national agrimarketing network dedicated to grassroots community owned cooperatives that are committed to economic sustainability through practices, principles and services which empower, enrich, and engage both producers and consumers in sustainable agri-business initiatives – initiatives that support small rural farmers and their communities. Workers Organized for More Employment, located in Orland, is the lead organization in the SuperMarket project. It serves as the warehouse and shipping center for SuperMarket products. H.O.M.E. is a cooperative dedicated to economic and social reconstruction.
Preble Street Resource Center has been granted $25,000 for its Consumer Advocacy Project, a member-run organization of homeless and formerly homeless people that works for change on national, state and local systems levels. The grant helps to provide consistent professional staffing to increase membership, education, leadership and social action in the homeless community. The project continues to bring issues of homelessness and poverty to the forefront in Maine while building a powerful constituency in fighting for social justice.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is the domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic Bishops.
Its mission is to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through education.
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