LEWISTON — Androscoggin Bank recently announced the recipients of its bi-annual grant awards by Greater Giving, a community impact program launched last year. The bank created Greater Giving to provide support to nonprofits and organizations that benefit the community in three specific areas: economic development, education and the arts.

The Greater Giving awards committee approved grants to the following organizations:

• A Company of Girls (Portland) — $2,500 was awarded to this Portlandbased nonprofit to support its free, core after-school program that provides 200 hours of intensive, year-long engagement in the arts for girls that are recognized as low-income, high-risk or are experiencing emotional/social issues in the Portland area.

• Auburn Public Library — $1,830 was awarded to this Auburn-based nonprofit to fund the creation of a literacy program in the county jail to encourage incarcerated parents to bond with their children through reading and to improve the literacy skills of both parent and child.

• Center for Wisdom’s

Women (Lewiston) — $2,500 was awarded to this Lewiston based nonprofit to help the organization move its fledgling urban gardening social enterprise from phase one, a start-up experimental period, to phase two, a marketing stage with the goal of having products for sale by the Maine Department of Agriculture by the end of 2017.

• Lewiston Public School

— $670 was awarded to Mike McGraw, biology teacher at Lewiston High School, to fund a field trip to Morse Mountain Conservatory in Phippsburg for high school sophomore students.

• Wayfinder Schools (New Gloucester) — $2,500 was awarded to this New Gloucester-based alternative high school serving at-risk youth and teen parents throughout Maine.