PORTLAND — The Maine Women’s Fund is providing more than $130,000 in grants to the Elder Abuse Institute of Maine, MaineTransNet, New England Arab American Organization and others.

The women’s fund said it’s giving out grants to a total of 16 organizations that invest in women and girls. The fund gives out the grants annually and has given out more than $2.6 million over more than three decades.

The fund said another of the grants will go to ArtVan, which provides art therapy to children in Bath, Brunswick and Auburn. Another will go to The Hope and Justice Project, which is planning to implement recovery action plan workshops in Aroostook County to benefit survivors of domestic abuse.


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