LEWISTON — Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation recently announced the recipients of its quarterly impact grants for the first quarter of 2017. Recognizing a need for at-risk kids in Maine to be safe, healthy, active, happy, educated and nourished, Main- Street Foundation awards grants four times each year to organizations actively working to help kids thrive.

The grants vary based on the need and are awarded in amounts up to $5,000.

A total of $10,000 was awarded to the following four nonprofit organizations:

• Maine Inside Out (Portland) — $2,500 was awarded to this nonprofit to fund programming that improves employment, community engagement and recidivism outcomes for alumni of the arts programs at Long Creek Youth Development Center as youth return to the community after completing their sentences.

• My Place Teen Center (Westbrook) — $2,500 was awarded to this organization to help fund year-round, nightly, healthy, robust meals for youth who are food insecure.

• Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine (Lewiston) — $1,500 was awarded to this nonprofit that assists members of the refugee community at-large on housing, employment, literacy and education, health and safety matters in an effort to achieve personal independence and maintenance of community ties through community integration.

• The Progress Center (Norway) — $3,500 was awarded to this nonprofit to help make its charitable feeding programs, such as its food pantry, more accessible to disadvantaged teenagers by delivering healthy food to their schools twice per week during the calendar school year.

“It is our privilege to provide support for nonprofit organizations that deliver measurable outcomes with long-term benefits for at-risk youth in Maine,” said Steve Closson, chairman of Androscoggin Bank’s Main- Street Foundation.