Recent achievements: In the last year, we have launched new adult education programming to help people of all levels get more comfortable on their bikes. It has been very fulfilling to provide this concrete programming that can make a tangible difference for someone in one day.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: Maine has such a wonderful community of non-profits, and any opportunity to be part of a program that supports multiple organizations is one we want to take!

Recent achievement: Helping thousands of Mainers learn about and enroll in health coverage during a period when things were shifting in Maine; i.e., during the launch of the state-based exchange for ACA plans.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: It is a good way to connect with other like-minded progressive organizations working on similar policy goals.

Recent achievement: Working with the Maine legislature to pass a first-in-the nation law to eliminate toxic PFAS from products we use every day (LD 1505).

How does MaineShare benefit you?: It offers more routes to varied sources of fundraising.

Recent priorities: Formation of a sub-team on Health Equity; this team is actively working to gather and analyze existing and new data in order to issue a public report that will bring to light what we believe to be a significant lack of equity in access to health care for people with disabilities in our state.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: This unrestricted funding allows us to fill in these gaps and provide good, consistent service to the community or cover the administrative necessities that otherwise might not be an allowable expense.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: It allows us to offer more programs like our SAGE Maine programs for older adults at little or no cost.

Recent Achievement: Improving Maine’s Clean Water Act protections to reduce stormwater pollution in Maine’s largest urban areas.

Current priorities: Promote legislative policy solutions that increase resources to create more affordable housing and community development projects, especially in rural, historically disadvantaged and low-income communities.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: Being a part of MaineShare means being a part of a coalition of groups working to make Maine more equitable and resilient and creating a way for everyday people to support that work.

Recent Achievements: Youth-led Bee You Boldly! Conferences were completely planned and run by our high school Feminist Action Board, and the program served nearly 200 youth.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: It provides invaluable general operating support that allows us to adapt to youth programming needs.

Recent achievements: We have created a robust anti-bias toolkit, available on our website as a resource. 

Current priorities: They stem from four main pillar programs: direct service; health education and outreach; public health research; and advocacy.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: We have little room in our operations for fundraising, which makes this collective approach -- 'all boats rise' - so valuable to our sustainability.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: We are an all volunteer organization and MaineShare donations have given us financial stability.

Current priorities: We have been working to protect endangered and threatened migratory bird populations along Maine's coast, in Maine's North Woods, and on lakes and ponds.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: At a time when we are counting and relying on every dollar in the budget to attract and retain talented staff, sustain ever-increasing public engagement, and conserve globally-important wildlife habitat in Maine, distributions from MaineShare make up a very significant percentage of our giving.

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.

Recent Achievement: Thanks to our advocacy activities, by 2024 Maine will have online voter registration, semi-open primaries, expanded absentee voting, post-election audits, and a ban on corporate contributions to legislators.
How does MaineShare benefit you: The simplicity of the central administration of workplace giving enables us to broaden our reach.

Recent priorities: For the past few years we have been focused on a few areas of programming – cultivating sustainable workplaces, increasing the accessibility of services, and expanding alternative paths toward justice and healing.

Current priorities: We continue to strive toward shifting the way Maine’s systems, and the people working within them, respond to domestic violence and abuse.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: We learn from the other members through the newsletters and member meetings and feel connected to that larger community.

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.

Recent achievement: Winning a full dental care benefit for customers of MaineCare.

Recent achievement: Helping to secure the passing of LD1995/LD 2013, which provides $60 million in support of farmers impacted by PFAS contaminations.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: MaineShare helps with statewide name recognition and presence through the workplaces that participate in workplace giving campaigns.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: Maine Hospice Council has long been a champion of social and environmental justice, health equity and social change, all consistent with MaineShare's mission. We also have always believed in collaborative efforts to achieve these goals.

Recent achievement: OSHA Susan Harwood training grant to train workers in a wide variety of courses, from general rights under OSHA, to blood borne pathogens, to job hazard analysis and many more.
How does MaineShare benefit you?: Being able to connect with this amazing set of non-profits and hearing how the tiny ones with big ideas and the larger ones all have and do work together is why we joined and why we remain a member.

Current priorities: In addition to our ongoing programs… we’ve been addressing two critical issues for farmers. We’ve been providing support to organic dairy farmers who lost their Horizon (Dairy) contracts as well as to farmers impacted by PFAS contamination.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: Our group would not exist today if it were not for MaineShare. During those sparce years, MaineShare helped keep us determined to work for peace.

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.

Current priorities: We are looking forward to expanding the services we offer our members.

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.

Current priorities: Helping Mainers understand and activate in support of Paid Family & Medical Leave; it's one of the most important systems we can change to improve gender equity from both the health and economic perspectives.

Recent achievement: Mano en Mano supported community members' access to emergency funds through the Estamos Aquí Mutual aid fund. As of May 2022, this fund has redistributed $613,358, supporting a total of 2,991 individuals across the state of Maine.

How does MaineShare benefit you?: It is a meaningful partnership that helps our organization work towards our mission of supporting immigrants and migrant workers to thrive in Maine.

Recent achievement: In a victory more than a decade in the making, NRCM led efforts resulting in lawmakers closing a loophole in the law that allowed other states to dump hundreds of thousands of tons of construction and demolition debris (CDD) in Maine’s Juniper Ridge Landfill; this created a massive environmental injustice for residents and tribal citizens in the area.

Current priorities: Helping Maine families achieve economic security as we move through the pandemic.

Current Priorities: At this time of significant lack of housing, including short term and long term housing, helping our clients to secure and pay for safe and affordable housing.

Recent Achievement: The creation of SNAHP!-- Solidarity Network Against Hunger and Poverty. This group is built on lived experience and gathers every other week to build organizational and activist skills with each other, all while planning community care, mutual aid, popular education, and legislative and policy changes.

Current Priorities: Continuing our 30x30 campaign to conserve 30% of Maine’s land and water by 2030 and to create more equitable access to the outdoors by reducing barriers such as fees and transportation access to public places.

Current priorities: Worker justice, racial justice, and leadership development.

Current priorities: Land management; grant writing; earned income; increasing membership