The Steering Committee for the Maine Community Foundation’s (MaineCF) Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund for Victims & Families (“the fund”) will hold a town hall meeting to hear feedback on the committee’s draft protocol on the processes and timeline for determining eligibility for payments from the fund.
What: Public feedback provided to the fund’s Steering Committee on drafted, proposed protocol to determine eligibility for payments from the fund. The draft protocol document is available on MaineCF's website.
Comments will be respectfully requested to be three minutes in length and will inform the Steering Committee’s deliberation of the draft protocol at its next committee meeting.
Who: members of the public are free to attend and provide feedback in person or online. Registration is requested via Eventbrite or emailing lewiston@mainecf.org.
- Jeff Dion (consultant on the Victims & Families Fund with experience in 30 such tragedies)
- Tom Platz (chair of the Victims & Families Fund Steering Committee)
Other members of the Steering Committee:
- Deborah Anthoine, St. Mary’s Health System
- Kevin Bohlin, Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Marc Frenette, Trafton, Matzen, Belleau & Frenette, LLP
- Meg Greene, Partner, Brann & Isaacson and board member, John T. Gorman Foundation
- Laura Lee, Maine Community Foundation
- Neil Kiely, Androscoggin Bank
- Steven Littleson, Central Maine Healthcare
- John Ochira, Maine Community Foundation
- Catherine Ryder, Tri-County Mental Health Services
- Joe Samaha, father of victim in Virginia Tech shooting
- Sitara Sheikh, Maine Association for the Deaf
- Cara Cookson, Special Liaison to the Office of the Attorney General
When/Where: Dec. 6, 2023, 6 p.m., Lewiston Middle School (75 Central Ave., Lewiston, ME 04240)
The Town Hall event also will be live streamed on MaineCF's Facebook page.
Further information about MaineCF’s response to the Lewiston shootings is available at www.MaineCF.org/Lewiston.
Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine through strategic giving, community leadership, personalized service, local expertise and strong investments. Maine Community Foundation established the Lewiston-Auburn Area Response Fund with two components: one to support victims, families, and those present at the site of the shootings who experienced trauma, and the other to fund longer-term, organizational recovery efforts. To learn more about the foundation, visit www.mainecf.org.