2025 Sustainability Campaign — $2MM

Campaign gifts will underwrite (1) building upkeep for 75 Bacon and 755 Main and (2) MPTC’s teen programming and general operations.

  • Building Maintenance Fund – $500K
  • Teen Programming/General Operations – $1.5MM
 
Establishing a long-term maintenance fund will protect and ensure the upkeep of Biddeford and Westbrook locations.
 
To ensure MPTC’s fiscally sound longevity and support under-resourced programming, we will apply general operations funds to daily operations, unforeseen/rising expenses, and the following teen curricula:
 
  1. Youth Leadership Academy is a specialized positive youth development program designed to increase developmental assets and reduce risky behaviors. Youth will attend year-long health and wellness units, Leadership and Social/Emotional competencies, STEAM, Workforce Readiness, and Character Education/Civic Engagement.
  2. Restaurant Job Training Program (RJTP) – The RJTP embeds life skills, workforce development modules, accountability protocols, STEM principles, and financial literacy practices. It allows teens to train as proprietors, cooks, servers, bussers, hosts, hostesses, and dishwashers in a restaurant-like environment while feeding all the MPTC kids.
  3. Get Urban Kids Outside! The outdoors provides a physical and mental refuge, allowing youth to cope with stressors. Our offerings encompass physical activity and civic engagement. Being outside is transformative for urban youth from underserved communities disproportionately affected by violence, unemployment, and school dropouts.
  4. Making Proud Choices! is an evidence-based, safer-sex approach to teen pregnancy and HIV/STD prevention. An 8-module curriculum provides adolescents with the knowledge, confidence, and skills necessary to reduce their risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STIs), HIV, and pregnancy by abstaining from sex or using condoms if they choose to have sex.
Last year, we served 908 kids, 65 community members, and 10,624 meals. This fiscal year, we are on track to serve 1000 kids, 85 community members, and 12,000 meals.