ROCKLAND — The week of September 16, 2025, OUT Maine received a $20,000 grant from United Midcoast Charities to support the organization’s work towards expanding support, advocacy, and affirming programs for LGBTQ+ youth in Knox and Waldo counties.

“We want to extend a great thank-you to United Midcoast Charities for their continued generosity and support of OUT Maine’s work with youth in Knox and Waldo counties,” says OUT Maine Executive Director Sue Campbell. “It’s funding like this that enables our programs to function, both online and in person. Today that support is needed more than ever. We are going to continue empowering communities across the state to be safe, affirming spaces for young people to thrive.”

United Midcoast Charities plays a pivotal role in providing financial support, strategic guidance, and tangible resources to midcoast nonprofits that provide services in the areas of food, housing, health and safety, and economic security. UMC strengthens these community-focused organizations to achieve their missions more effectively and have a greater impact.

OUT Maine has an ambitious goal: to create more welcoming and affirming communities for Maine’s diverse queer youth in all their intersectional identities by changing the very systems that serve them. For more information, please visit www.outmaine.org.

LGBTQIA2S+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning, intersex, and two-spirit. Allies are folks who do not identify as LGBTQIA2S+ but have camaraderie with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Cis or cisgender means a person’s gender identity and sex-assigned-at-birth match. If gender identity and sex-assigned-at-birth do not match, a person may identify as transgender. For more definitions of LGBTQ+ terminology, visit www.outmaine.org/resources/terminology.