Recognition & Awards

Community Partner of the Year Award

Awarded by the Preble Street Resource Center, Portland, Maine at their annual meeting in 2002. This award usually goes to an agency such as the United Way or a major company that has been a financial contributor. We are proud to share this recognition with all of supporters, who have helped make it possible. Reasons stated for granting the award were donations of personal care products, partial security deposits, phone cards for refugees to contact family members (sometimes for the first time in years), transportation for a client to visit a dying parent, a wheelchair repair, and many kitchen items for Stone Soup, their job training program.

Bishop Amadee Proulx Award for Volunteerism

This prestigious honor was awarded by Catholic Charities of Maine on April 26, 2002, to Karen Packhem, director of Project G.R.A.C.E. Karen's "sustained years of service and reach," along with her unwavering dedication to improving others' lives, put her head and shoulders above the seventy other candidates. We are very proud to be led by such a great humanitarian.

Great Person of Scarborough Award

Karen Packhem, our director, was honored in January of 2003 with this distinction by a local newspaper, The Scarborough Leader. The popular vote of the readers determines the recipient of this award. Karen's long-standing commitment to helping others made her the hands-down winner.