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- EIN 91-1887265
- (207) 781-4200
- Po Box 6127 Falmouth ME 04105-6127 USA
- www.familyice.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Physical Fitness & Community Recreational Facilities, Sports
Mission: Family ice center is a non-profit organization established in december 1997 to build and operate a regional skating center in falmouth, maine that catered primarily to younger skaters and their families. The primary purpose of the organization is to encourage the development and expansion in the greater portland, maine area of organized learn-to-skate instruction, hockey and figure skating programs, and unorganized recreational skating time. These activities seek to eliminate barriers, whether financial or otherwise, to the participation of children in ice-based sporting and recreational activities.
Programs: The organization continues to develop and expand learn-to-skate, hockey, and figure skating programs, as well as providing ice time for unorganized public skating and pickup hockey for the greater portland community.
opportunity skate is a community outreach fund designed in accordance with the organization's mission. This program provides funding for various skating programs for disadvantaged youths and disabled individuals. Some of the organizations that this outreach has helped include the boys and girls clubs, youth alternatives, opportunity farm, maine adaptive sports, baxter school for the deaf, and center for grieving children.