A Sweet Way to Support MPTC
Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt on Western Ave in South Portland is helping MPTC by donating 10% of their sales on Thursday November 6th from 4 – 9PM. Stop by and treat yourself to something sweet and do something nice for our kids, too!
Cindy Williams Visits MPTC
Cindy Williams stopped by to check out the magic behind our red doors. Look for our television debut on WCSH 6, November 3rd, 6 pm broadcast. Thanks WCSH 6, United Way, TD Bank, and Dead River for this life-changing honor!
We’re cookin’ now at MPTC!
Thanks to an $11,080 grant from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and the Maine Sunday Telegram, MPTC will be able to upgrade and improve our available cooking equipment. We’re one of only 12 recipients in their Maine Local Food Grants Program designed to support nonprofit local food distribution organizations in Maine. What a great opportunity for the teaching kitchen for our teens! Many THANKS, Harvard Pilgrim
First-Ever Annual Report!
Hot off the (virtual) presses—our first Annual Report! Inside you’ll find a summary of all we’ve able to accomplish in the past year thanks to the generous support of donors throughout our community, and meet a couple of the kids who call MPTC *their* place. We need to raise $65,000 by the end of our fiscal year, June 30. Can you help us? Please
Thank You!
Kudos and many thanks to TD Charitable Foundation for their recent gift! The $1,000 award will support Board development initiatives. Intermed supported our Fund a Kid campaign with a $250 gift! Thank you very much!
Harcros Chemicals, Inc., Westbrook, ME, Awarded $10,000 to MPTC’s Fund a Kid Campaign!
Disability RMS, Westbrook, ME, awarded $5,000 to MPTC’s Fund a Kid Campaign and $5,000 for MPTC’s renovation fund! Maine Community Foundation Awards: The Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation approved a grant for $7,500 for MPTC’s Youth Leadership Academy to promote leadership and life skills excellence. The Directors of the Maine Community Foundation approved an advised grant for $6,425 to
Teen Center Receives Van from Business
Originally posted on www.wcsh6.com WESTBROOK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — You know those car commercials where someone gets a car with a big red bow on it? That actually happened to a non-profit in Westbrook Monday. Idexx surprised the staff and teens at My Place Teen Center with a van. It will provide a vehicle to pick up more than fifteen hundred pounds of food
Westbrook Teen Center Receives Van Full of Gifts – and the Van
Originally posted on The Portland Press Herald By Leslie Bridgers lbridgers@pressherald.com The My Place Teen Center holiday party Monday had an unexpected guest. In a surprise announcement, Idexx Laboratories presented the Westbrook teen center with a van full of gifts — and the keys to it. The 2005 Chevrolet G350 is a hand-me-down from the Westbrook company, which was getting ready to retire the
Updates Set for Teen Center
Originally Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:22 pm www.keepmecurrent.com By Andrew Rice arice@keepmecurrent.com WESTBROOK – My Place Teen Center, a growing resource for Westbrook children to receive hot meals and after-school services, is in the process of raising more than $463,000 for renovations to its aging building, located at 755 Main St. The center, which celebrated its 15th anniversary in May, hopes to replace
Q&A with Tori Stenbak
Originally Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 on http://www.keepmecurrent.com By Andrew Rice arice@keepmecurrent.com Tori Stenbak, the new program coordinator at Westbrook’s My Place Teen Center, has recently transitioned her field of work from private law practice to public service, and she couldn’t seem happier. The 36-year-old native of Etna graduated from Keene State College in New Hampshire and the University of Maine School of Law