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Aug 12, 2019
Healthy Families Receives Grant from Maine Community Foundation
Healthy Peninsula has received a $40,000 grant from the Early Childhood Community Planning Grants Fund of the Maine Community Foundation...
Jul 17, 2019
AARP Community Challenge Announces 159 Grantees, Including Six Maine Recipients Awards
Today, AARP announced the awardees for its 2019 AARP Community Challenge grant program, including six recipients in Maine. A total of...
Jul 16, 2019
Tradewinds Matches Donation to the Magic Food Bus
For the fourth year in a row, Tradewinds will partner with Healthy Peninsula and match donations to the Magic Food Bus Projects from...
Jun 21, 2019
May 15, 2019
News for Families with Young Children
Healthy Peninsula’s Early Learning will now be publishing monthly newsletters with upcoming events, activities and resources for families...
Apr 23, 2019
We Just Earned a 2019 Gold Seal of Transparency!
Healthy Peninsula just earned a 2019 Gold Seal by adding information to our Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar. Now our community members as...
Apr 16, 2019
National Healthcare Decisions Day 2019
NHDD 2019 Panel poster
Apr 11, 2019
Who Will Speak for You? Having “The Conversation” with Your Family
Are you a thirty or fortysomething caring for aging parents? A retiree wanting to “have a say” in what lies ahead? The idea of planning...
Apr 10, 2019
Palliative Care Panel Discussion
Healthy Peninsula’s Choices That Matter program will be hosting a Palliative Care Panel Discussion on Tuesday, April 16, from 7:00 to...
Mar 19, 2019
Healthy Peninsula Receives Maine Health Access Foundation Grant
Healthy Peninsula has received a $75,000 grant from the Maine Health Access Foundation as one of four Rural Health Transformation Grants....
Nov 21, 2018
Maine Council on Aging Releases Blueprint for Action on Healthy Aging
A call to action to build a robust, coordinated system of formal and informal supports and services was sounded by the Maine Council on...
Nov 2, 2018
Oct 2, 2018
Possibilities for Early Head Start Funding
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Melissa Mattes, director of Early Childhood Programs at Downeast Community Partners, will...
Aug 30, 2018
Area schools use local communities to educate
by Monique Labbe When students on the Blue Hill Peninsula start school this year, they will have unique opportunities to have educational...
Aug 21, 2018
Healthy Peninsula Receives Support from the Yoakum Fund
Healthy Peninsula is delighted to announce that we have received a grant from the Yoakum Fund of the Maine Community Foundation to...
Aug 9, 2018
Blue Hill Heritage Trust awarded AARP Community Challenge Grant
Blue Hill Heritage Trust (BHHT) has received a 2018 AARP Community Challenge grant as a community partner in the Age-Friendly Coastal...
Jul 7, 2018
Jun 14, 2018
Welcome Lilyanna!
Healthy Peninsula is delighted to be hosting, in partnership with Healthy Acadia, our first Goodwill VISTA volunteer. Lilyanna Sollberger...
Jun 12, 2018
MaineCF Awards Community Grants for Early Childhood Planning
The Maine Community Foundation has awarded a total of $148,277 to six nonprofit organizations chosen as first recipients of its Early...
May 22, 2018
Our Advocate-in-Chief Remembered
Longtime friends of Healthy Peninsula remember fondly our founder and advocate-in-chief Barbara Peppey. Barbara died in a tragic car...
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