Maine Veterans for Peace
Current priorities: Golden Rule Project (bringing awareness to nuclear war); working with Moms Demand Action; and getting Rob Shetterly’s film Truth Tellers into schools statewide.
Maine People’s Resource Center
Recent achievements: MPRC-trained volunteers have been part of successful legislative campaigns in the past year around drug policy reform and affordable housing.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: We are committed to the idea that social justice organizations should be funded to the greatest extent possible by everyday people for whom policy reforms matter most.
Maine Equal Justice
Recent achievement: Winning a full dental care benefit for customers of MaineCare.
Maine Center for Economic Policy
Recent Achievement: No policy has a bigger impact on alleviating poverty than the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a tax refund to help working households make ends meet. Since 2000, MECEP [has] worked to make the credit fully refundable and to increase the EITC to 5% of the federal credit— more than doubling the credit.
Maine Council of Churches
Current priorities: Anti-racism work from a faith-based perspective, and speaking with the voice of faith for reproductive justice.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: Receiving this significant amount of undesignated funding helps us ensure our programs and advocacy are sustainable in the long run.