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100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin, 1250 Turner St, Auburn, ME (2026)

09/25/2026

On Aug3, 100+Women Who Care Androscoggin held their quarterly fundraising meeting at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. At that meeting, the membership voted to support Meals on Wheels with their donations. The doantion, totaling $8100, was delivered to Meals on Wheels on Sept. 9.
The SeniorsPlus’ Meals on Wheels (MOW) program serves homebound individuals over the age of 60 and those with disabilities that reside in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. MOW is designed to help older adults age in place in the comfort of their home. The program is needs based rather than means tested and uses a weighted scale to serve those most in need – the most vulnerable - first. Nutrition is a basic building block for health maintenance and illness recovery. Registered Dietician-approved meals provide 1/3 of the Recommended Dietary Allowance. Provision of meals enables older adults to remain in the comfort of their own home rather than be cared for in a long-term care facility, ultimately reducing tax-payer burden.

MOW is a three-pronged approach: a nutritious meal, safety check, and social interaction. Delivery drivers provide a brief social visit, are trained to identify safety risks and observe wellness changes. Most clients live alone, are socially isolated, and often have no one regularly checking on them - factors that increase the risk of disease, depression, and mortality. Our program helps reduce these risks.

Last year, SeniorsPlus provided 146,483 home delivered meals to 868 unduplicated clients. 596 of those individuals were residents of Androscoggin County who received a total of 87,515 meals.

100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin is a collaboration of local women who invest in the community by pooling their donations for the greatest impact. They meet four times a year. Members can nominate organizations or projects that are working to address community needs. At each meeting they hear from 3 of the nominated organizations and then vote for one group to receive their donation. The members then write a check to that organization. To date, 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin has raised and donated $76,610. With a matching grant, the community impact is $96,015.
100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin currently has more than 160 members, and welcomes others to join to enlarge their community impact. For more information or to join, email [email protected].
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Picture Caption. 100+ Women Who Care present a check to Meals on Wheels. Pictured, l to r, are Carol Goyette, Eric Robenstine and Janis Walker from Meals on Wheels, and Marty McIntyre, Founder of 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin.

07/24/2026

On May 4, 100+Women Who Care Androscoggin held their tenth fundraising meeting at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. At that meeting, the membership voted to support Phoenix No Limits Karate with their donations. The checks, totaling $8000, were delivered to PNLK on June 22.

Phoenix No Limits Karate (PNLK) is a 501 nonprofit organization based in Auburn
and dedicated to using karate as a powerful tool to strengthen and serve its
community. With a belief that there should be truly no limits to personal growth, PNLK
opens its doors to students ages two and up, including specialized classes for children
and adults with special needs.

PNLK’s impactful programming includes KICKS (Kids InControl Keep Safe), which delivers vital child safety and bullying prevention education to young people in the community. Their Black Belts Against Domestic Violence program provides free self-defense training to survivors of domestic violence, offers black belt representation and support when survivors face their abusers in court,and provides start-up funds to help survivors establish their own checking
accounts and begin rebuilding their independence.

Understanding that financial barriers should never stand in the way of empowerment,
PNLK also offers assistance to low-income families, ensuring that every child and adult
has access to the confidence-building and leadership skills that martial arts training
provides. At Phoenix No Limits Karate, karate is more than a sport — it’s a vehicle for safety,
healing, and limitless potential for everyone in the community.

100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin is a collaboration of local women who invest in the community by pooling their donations for the greatest impact. They meet four times a year. Members can nominate organizations or projects that are working to address community needs. At each meeting they hear from 3 of the nominated organizations and then vote for one group to receive their donation. The members then write a check to that organization. To date, 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin has raised and donated $68,510. With a matching grant, the community impact is $87,915.

100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin currently has 160 members, and welcomes others to join to enlarge their community impact. For more information or to join, email [email protected].

Picture Caption. 100+ Women Who Care present a check to Phoenix No Limits Karate. Pictured, l to r, are Marty McIntyre, Founder of 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin, Donna Harris, CEO of Phoenix No Limits Karate, and Cynthia Morgan, member of 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin.

07/24/2026

Good afternoon. The August meeting of 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin will be on Aug 3 at 6pm. We will meet in Kirk Hall Auditorium at Central Maine Community College.

The groups being presented for funding consideration are
Meals on Wheels
New Beginnings
The Public Theater.

I hope you will join us for this meeting. We learn so much about the groups who are meeting the needs in our community, and it's so nice to see everyone!

If you will be unable to attend the meeting, please make a plan now as to how you will pay your quarterly donation. You could send a check with a trusted friend who would then make out the check for you. You could wait to get my email that night to tell you which organization was selected for funding and then make your check out to that organizanization and mail it to Diane Phipps. Her address is in our emails.

Or, you could sign up through Grapevine and make your donation that way. Here is the link to sign up.

https://www.grapevine.org/giving-circle/DBGCz42/100-Women-Who-Care-Androscoggin?gvu=0ku5PAP&gvsrc=pool&utm_campaign=pool&utm_source=copy-url

You can make a one time donation or you can set it up to make your donation every quarter--perfect if you are not able to attend regularly.

However you manage your donation, please make the effort to do it promptly. Last quarter it took us OVER A MONTH to collect all the donations. That is not really fair to the organization waiting for the donations, and it creates a lot of extra work for me. So please make a plan now as to how you will make your donation if you cannot be at the meeting.

Thank you, and we can't wait to see you on Aug. 3!

03/19/2026

On February 2, 100+Women Who Care Androscoggin held their ninth fundraising meeting at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. At that meeting, the membership voted to support Community Cares Backpack Program with their donations. The checks, totaling $8050, were delivered to the Backpack Program on March 9. Because of this donation, the program is also eligible for up to a $1,000 matching grant from the Richard M Schulze Foundation.

The mission of the Community Cares Backpack Program is to provide children who are suffering the effects of chronic hunger with nutritious, easy-to-prepare food to eat when school meals are not available for students prek to fourth grade in RSU4 (Sabattus, Litchfield and Wales).The program is designed to ensure all students maintain a balanced diet and return to school every Monday morning ready to focus on learning.

Started by a concerned mom, the Backpack Program is run entirely by volunteers and provides food to 75 students each week during the school year. Local businesses have contributed to the effort to increase the amount and types of food that can be provided.

100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin is a collaboration of local women who invest in the community by pooling their donations for the greatest impact. They meet four times a year. Members can nominate organizations or projects that are working to address community needs. At each meeting they hear from 3 of the nominated organizations and then vote for one group to receive their donation. The members then write a check to that organization. To date, 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin has raised and donated $60,510. With the matching grant, the community impact is $79,915.

To join or to get more information about 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin, email [email protected].

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Picture Caption. 100+ Women Who Care present a check to Community Cares Backpack Program. Pictured, l to r, are Katherine Slattery-Seaman, Executive Director of the Community Cares Backpack Program and Corrie Brown from 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin.

01/15/2026

Hello all you Amazing Women! The next meeting of 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin will be held on Feb. 2, 6pm in Kirk Hall Auditorium at Central Maine Community College. At that meeting we will celebrate 2 years of making an impact in our communities!!! Yay Us!

I have also arranged to hold Feb. 9 as a snow date for our meeting. We have been having such frequent inclement weather that I thought it best to have a snow date for this meeting. If I decided to cancel the Feb. 2 meeting, I would notify you all by email no later than 3 pm on Feb. 2, so be sure to check your email if you have any doubt.

The organizations which will be considered for funding that night are
Community Cares Backpack program, Her Safety Net, and Healthy Neighborhoods. I am excited to learn more about these groups!

One sad piece of news--we have been notified by the Richard M Schulze Foundation that they will no longer be offering matching grants for the 100 Women Who Care initiative. We can apply for one last grant of up to $1,000 for our 1st quarter group, but after that the program is done. This is very sad because it really helped to magnify our contributions. So we will just have to work harder at gaining more members to increase our donation amount.

If you are going to miss this meeting, please be ready to mail your check as soon as you hear from me which group was chosen. I generally send that email the same night as our meeting. I would really appreciate you getting those checks in the mail right away, or join Grapevine to make your donation online. It sometimes takes 3 weeks or more to get all the checks in, and we don't present them to the group until we believe we have all the checks. (That is why it takes so long for your checks to cash through....) So here is a reminder to be ready to write your check as soon as you hear from me. Thank you!

See you on Feb. 2!!!!

01/07/2026

On Nov. 3, 100+Women Who Care Androscoggin held their eighth fundraising meeting at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. At that meeting, the membership voted to support the High Street Food Pantry with their donations. The checks, totaling $7650, were delivered to the food pantry on Dec. 4. Because of this donation, the program may qualify for a 50% matching grant from the Richard M Schulze Foundation, making the total donation potentially $11,475.
The High Street Food Pantry strives to serve the local community with weekly offerings of nourishing fresh produce, canned goods, bakery products, frozen meat and poultry, and personal hygiene products. In addition, they offer slightly used children’s books, knitted hats and mittens, flu vaccines, and holiday specials such as toys for children at Christmas. The Pantry is open every Thursday starting at 8:30, and provides food each week to 70 families.
The pantry is run by the High Street Congregational Church, and the United Methodist Church of Auburn. It has been in existence for over 20 years, and has 40-plus volunteers ranging in ages from 10 to 95. Each week, 5 truck drivers provide food deliveries from the Good Shepherd Food Distribution Center and then 25-plus volunteers pack and distribute the food.
100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin is a collaboration of local women who invest in the community by pooling their donations for the greatest impact. They meet four times a year. Members can nominate organizations or projects that are working to address community needs. At each meeting they hear from 3 of the nominated organizations and then vote for one group to receive their donation during that cycle. The members then write a check to that organization. Since it began in February 2024, 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin has raised and donated $52,610. With the addition of the matching grants, the total impact is $78,915.

For more information about the High Street Food Pantry, email [email protected]. To join or to get more information about 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin, email [email protected].
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Picture Caption. 100+ Women Who Care present a check to High Street Food Pantry. Pictured, l to r, are Marcel Turcotte, Community Meal Coordinator, Trish Foster, Registration, Marty McIntyre, Founder of 100+ Women Who Care Androscoggin, Debbie Duval, Pastor at High Street Church, Jan Boyce, Registration and Mary MacMahon, Book Registry.

11/21/2025

This is information for the people that have subcribed to Grapevine but only did a one payment option and they wanted it as a subscription for quarterly payments.
Here’s how you can easily convert your one-time payment into a subscription.
Log into your account on Grapevine
Select "Your Grapevines" from the left menu
Click on your giving circle
Click "Donate" from the right hand side of the page where it reflects the current donation goal
Ensure that the "Frequency" is set to "Quarterly"
You can choose to make your first donation either "Today" or at the start of the next cycle.
Add your card information to complete your donation

10/31/2025

On Aug. 4, 100+Women Who Care Androscoggin held their seventh fundraising meeting at Central Maine Community College in Auburn. At that meeting, the membership voted to support the Salt and Light Community Center with their donations. The checks, totaling $7250, were delivered to Salt and Light on Sept.5. Because of this donation, the program may qualify for a 50% matching grant from the Richard M Schulze Foundation, making the total donation potentially $10,875.

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