Mano en Mano Joins MaineShare
Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand is pleased to announce our new membership with MaineShare! MaineShare offers easy, one-stop giving for Maine businesses and their employees to support over 40 statewide organizations, like Mano en Mano, that work for a clean, healthy, and prosperous Maine. Through payroll giving contributions and direct gifts, donors help Maine organizations with a steady flow of dollars to
Maine Community Foundation’s People of Color Fund Awards $7,500 Grant for ESL
Mano en Mano recently received a $7,500 grant from the People of Color Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to support an AmeriCorps member position in our ESL Program, beginning this Fall. An AmeriCorps member will be assigned to help provide educational assistance to ESL students in MSAD #37 who are primarily Latino. This newly funded position will allow more one-on-one attention and tutoring
Bowdoin Daily Sun: Taking a Day Away to Help a Latino Community in Maine
Originally Posted on March 7, 2012 by the Bowdoin Daily Sun Leaving early Saturday morning, nine Bowdoin students piled into a van, grabbed breakfast en route and drove four hours to the small Down East town of Milbridge, population roughly 1,200. They were volunteering their day to help the local nonprofit Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand host a potluck to raise money
5th Annual Spring Fling Raises $1,212 for Scholarships
At Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand, we’re still talking about what a success our 5th Annual Spring Fling was this year, which took place on March 3rd! That Saturday our staff, a volunteer group of students from Bowdoin College, and nearly 250 community members gathered to both support our Latino Scholarship Fund and dance into the night. Our goal was to raise
Bowdoin Students Raise $1,400 for Mano en Mano through Valentine’s Day Fundraiser
This past Saturday, February 11th, Bowdoin College’s Latin American Student Organization (LASO) raised $1,400 for Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand at the 5th annual LASO Valentine’s Day Auction Fundraiser. As is tradition, the proceeds from each year’s auction goes toward improving Latino livelihoods here and abroad. This year, after several interactions with Mano en Mano director Ian Yaffe ’09, LASO decided to
Mano en Mano Receives $5,000 Grant from Washington County Fund
MILBRIDGE, MAINE — Mano en Mano recently received a $5,000 grant from the Washington County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to support capacity building and the hiring of a new summer intern. Over the past several years, Mano en Mano has strengthened its core offering of educational, outreach, and community-building programs, added new full-time staff positions, and designed, built, and opened Maine’s first
Thank you Bangor Savings Bank! Welcome to our newly designed office and resource room.
Just a few weeks ago, Executive Director Ian Yaffe received a phone call from Senior Customer Service Representative Bonnie Mouland at the Ellsworth Branch of Bangor Savings Bank. They were getting ready to start some renovations and she thought we might be interested in receiving some of their pieces of furniture. Little did she know that Mano en Mano Staff had recently talked about
Mano en Mano Receives $2,000 Grant from Bangor Savings Bank
Mano en Mano is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded a $2,000 competitive grant from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation to help fund existing programming and expand the number of participants. The Foundation’s goal is to support projects that will make our communities more prosperous, more livable, and more vibrant. “This grant award from our Foundation to Mano en Mano signifies our
Whitney Wreath Kicks off Corporate Outreach Campaign
David Whitney, CEO of Whitney Wreath, became the first local business leader to participate in Mano en Mano’s 5th Anniversary Corporate Outreach Campaign. Whitney Wreath’s donation of $1,000 will support our programming for Latino residents of Washington County. Mr. Whitney is pictured with Board President Chloe Dowley.