American Red Cross (Pine Tree Chapter)
Provides immediate relief when disasters strike mid-coast Maine; first aid, CPR and health and safety training that helps save lives; services to the armed forces; and emergency prevention planning.
http://www.pinetree.redcross.org

Area Interfaith Outreach
Provides food through a food pantry and gives vouchers for emergency needs including heating oil, electricity, transportation and limited health needs.

Belfast Area Child Care Services
Provides year round early care, education and support services to children of working parents, and for children in special circumstances and with special needs at Waldo and Belfast sites. Sponsors the USDA Food program. Administers the Waldo County Child Care Voucher program providing subsidized child care to families in the mid-coast area.
http://www.belfastchildcare.org

Belfast Public Health Nursing Association
Direct care services to residents of Waldo County including crisis management and referral, case management, blood pressure clinics, and vaccinations, regardless of patient’s ability to pay.

Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Mid-Coast Maine
Helps youth in Knox, Lincoln and Waldo counties reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact.
http://www.bbbsmcm.org

Broadreach Family and Community Services
Delivers quality educational and support services to children, youth and families. Broadreach provides rich and varied learning experiences that prepare children for a lifetime of learning. Broadreach assists families as they develop skills to lead healthy an productive lives. Youthlinks empowers youth to commit to themselves and their community, broaden their horizons and acquire healthy life skills through focused enrichment programs, and meaningful volunteer work.
Broadreach: http://www.brmaine.org
Youthlinks: http://www.Youthlinksonline.org

Camden Area Christian Food Pantry
Provides food for needy families in Camden, Rockport, Lincolnville, Appleton, Hope, Union, Washington, and Searsmont. Neighbors helping neighbors.

Camden Area District Nursing Association
A small community health agency that provides RN home visits and public health clinics to anyone in need in Camden, Rockport, Lincolnville, and Hope.

Camden First Aid Association
This non-profit ambulance service, known throughout the area for its skilled ­personnel, provides patient care in the pre-hospital setting.

Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League
Provides a safe, caring environment for homeless or abandoned companion animals until they can be placed with loving families. Promotes humane values through community outreach and in-school programs.

Camp Forest
Camp Forest provides day and expedition wilderness camping for children ages 7 through 17. It includes physical, social, psychiatric and community educational services. Camp Forest teaches children to respect, preserve and protect the environment. Contributions go for camper scholarships. Most campers need financial assistance.

Camp Susan Curtis
A residential camp for Maine children living in poverty. Focus is on building self esteem, character and self confidence through the provision of tuition-free high quality camping, educational and social experience.

Coastal Family Hospice Volunteers
Provides education events for the citizens of Knox County. Tries to meet demand through discussions of end-of-life issues. Provides volunteer, non-medical, confidential support to patients and families who are experiencing the final phase of life.

Coastal Trans, Inc.
Provides non-emergency transportation to meet the travel needs of the elderly and disabled, low-income people, and the general public in Knox, Lincoln and Sagadahoc Counties.

Coastal Opportunities
Provides day and residential services to assist adults with developmental disabilities to be self-sufficient and become participating members in their social and economic community.
http://www.coastalopportunities.org

Community School, Inc.
An alternative high school program for students who struggle in the traditional school system. Dedicated to helping teenagers achieve personal and academic goals.

Family Planning Association of Maine
Provides affordable, expert, and confidential reproductive healthcare services and comprehensive sexual health education to women, men, and teens in mid-coast Maine, with health centers in Rockland, Belfast, and Damariscotta. Our services are made available to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay.
www.mainefamilyplanning.org

Five Town Communities That Care
A community coalition using a data-driven approach to promote healthy youth development and to address issues facing youth in the five town community of Appleton, Camden, Hope, Lincolnville, and Rockport. Provides direct service programs, community education, and activities to increase collaboration among organizations and businesses in order to more efficiently promote healthy youth.
http://www.fivetownctc.org

Game Loft
To achieve its mission, “To promote positive youth development through games,” The Game Loft provides programs in Belfast Monday through Saturday when school is not in session. Benefits include leadership & decision-making skills, peer bonding, positive attitudes toward community and the future, decrease in substance abuse. Graduates become confident, caring and connected adults.

Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County
Provides care to poor and needy citizens through providing affordable housing and educating selected families in the skills and responsibilities of home ownership. Dedicated to building a large network of local volunteers and engaging local expertise.

Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County
Provides free confidential, non-medical support and assistance to the incurably ill, their families, and the bereaved, and provides hospice related education and support for hospice volunteers, the professional community and the community at large.

Kno-Wal-Lin Home Care and Hospice
A provider of home health care to anyone with acute or chronic illness or terminally ill clients in need of medical, spiritual and psychological assistance.
http://www.penbayhealthcare.org/knowallin/

Knox County Health Clinic
Provides high quality, low or no cost health services to low income uninsured persons. Medical and dental care services are offered as well as prescription assistance for low income patients.

Literacy Volunteers of Mid-Coast Maine
Works to improve the reading, writing and related literacy skills of adults in Knox County and surrounding areas.

LifeFlight
LifeFlight crew members train local emergency medical service providers in the midcoast area how to treat critically ill and injured patients, especially children. The outreach program focuses on current best practices and uses state-of-the-art computerized manikins to offer providers unique, customized, hands-on practice. To learn more, visit www.lifeflightmaine.org.

Literacy Volunteers of Waldo County
Promotes family literacy among residents of Waldo County. Enables adults to improve their skills in basic reading, writing, conversation and basic math.

Make-A-Wish Foundation
Fulfills the wishes of any Maine child who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
http://www.mainewish.org

Meals on Wheels
Provides hot, nutritious, balanced meals to the homebound elderly of our communities thereby helping them to maintain their ability to live independently in their own homes.

Merryspring Nature Center
Practices, teaches, and advocates sound principles of ecology, conservation, and horticulture by way of year-round lectures, classes and workshops for children and adults of the surrounding communities.Merryspring's 66-acre park of nature trails, gardens and woodlands is open to the public every day free of charge.

Mid-Coast Habitat for Humanity
Builds and helps finance houses that are simple, decent and affordable for low income working families in Mid-Coast Maine that could not otherwise afford to own their own homes.

Mid-Coast Hospitality House
Provides free, temporary living quarters and services such as counseling, referral and transportation to aid the homeless in making a successful transition to permanent living quarters.

MONEY Athletic Foundation
The More Opportunities for Neighborhood Youth — MONEY Athletic Foundation is dedicated to supporting youth athletics in the Mid-Coast Maine area. Through programs that will ease the cost of overnight sports camps and help launch local travel teams, the foundation hope to make it easier for hard working children in our community to reach their goals.
http://www.moneyathleticfoundation.org

New Hope for Women
Provides services to all people affected by domestic and dating violence. Our commitment is equally divided between direct services and prevention services.
http://www.newhopeforwomen.org

Partners for Enrichment
Supports arts, science and technology enrichment programs for elementary school students in Hope, Appleton and Lincolnville. Accomplished with drama music residencies, local authors and illustrators, hands-on science projects.

Penobscot Bay YMCA/ Teen Center
The Y is committed to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Every day, the Y works side-by-side with its neighbors to make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to learn, thrive and grow. The Teen Center, an outreach program of the Penobscot Bay YMCA, provides a safe and comfortable afterschool environment for youth in grades five through twelve with constructive programs and activities in an atmosphere of mutual respect, responsibility and belonging.
http://www.penbayymca.org

PENQUIS
Assists individuals and families in preventing, reducing, or eliminating poverty in their lives, and through partnerships, engages the community in addressing economic needs.
http://www.penquis.org

Peopleplace
Provides a family oriented early childhood education that incorporates parental involvement in its programs for children from birth to 6 years. Tuition assistance is available through full and partial scholarships.

Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast
Provides mentoring and support to individuals reentering the community from county jail to reduce recidivism and to individuals placed on deferred disposition by the court to complete their conditions and avoid jail sentences.
http://www.ripmidcoast.com

Rockland District Nursing Association
Provides in-home nursing care to residents of Rockland and surrounding communities. Serving all age groups, focusing particularly on individuals in need and not served by home health care agencies.
http://www.rocklanddistrictnursing.org

Station Maine
Practices, shares, and encourages the rise of traditional skills of the sea, including sailing, rowing, and seamanship.
http://www.stationmaine.org

Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center
This wilderness camp provides learning and leadership opportunities to become knowledgeable and caring inhabitants of the earth. Scholarships are awarded to those who are able to afford tuition.
http://www2.umaine.edu/tanglewood/

Teen and Young Parent Program
Educates and advocates for teen parents and their children through parenting education, information on child development, mentoring matches, playgroups, social and educational programs.
http://extension.umaine.edu/parenting/parents-as-teachers/teen-parent-program

The Apprenticeshop
The Apprenticeshop is a school for traditional boatbuilding and seamanship. Our Mission is to inspire personal growth through craftsmanship, community involvement and traditions of the sea. Scholarships for needy, local families is the first priority for funds contributed through UMCC.

Toy Library Center
A service program for infants through preschool-age children and their families, which fosters creative play in a safe, nurturing environment.

Trekkers
Connects young people with caring adults through the use of authentic experience, travel, community service, and outdoor experiential education.
http://www.trekkersonline.com

UMaine Hutchinson Center
An educational institution that provides education services to residents of all ages in the Midcoast region, including professional development opportunities, high school aspiration programs, and much needed facilities for community agencies involved in training and education activities.
http://www.hutchinsoncenter.umaine.edu

University College at Rockland
Funds are used to support scholarships for first-time college students who may otherwise be unable to pursue higher education. Funds provide access to courses, full degree programs and support services from the University of Maine System.
http://www.learn.maine.edu/rockland

Vinalhaven Fuel Fund
Provides heating assistance (oil, kerosene and wood) for emergency situations such as accidents, fires and medical problems. Funds limited to elderly, the ill and the disabled.

Waldo Community Action Partners
Addresses dental health care needs of low-income families in Waldo County. Includes educational preventative and treatment services.

Waldo County Home Healthcare
Direct home healthcare to adults, the elderly and the terminally ill. Includes: nursing, aides, social work, physical, occupational, speech and dietary services, in addition to medical Hospice and pastoral care.

Waldo County YMCA
Provides Preschool, Before & After School Care as well as a place for teens after school. Offers recreation, fitness and wellness programs, and healthy opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. Financial aid is offered to everyone who qualifies, no person is ever turned away due to inability to pay.
http://www.wcgh.org

Waterfall Arts
Provides classes, residencies, exhibitions and events for all ages and abilities with a focus on art and nature at two sites in Belfast and Montville. Provides program scholarships for area youth with financial need.
http://www.waterfallarts.org

Youth Arts
Serves to inspire and enrich the K-12 school community and the entire local community through a series of dynamic and enriching arts experiences.