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September 21, 2023 2023 Giving Guide

MaineShare, a program of Maine Initiatives

2024 Goals

The MaineShare Campaign is about community. We believe that we can make Maine a more healthy, vibrant, just and equitable place for all Mainers. But it takes all of us. This is where you come in! Join us in working towards these GOALS:

Engage

MaineShare engages Maine-based employers and workplaces across the state to support grassroots and nonprofit organizations working in their communities. This year our goal is to DOUBLE the number of workplace partners: Maine-based employers making the MaineShare Campaign a part of their workplace culture. Join now!

Connect

MaineShare connects individuals and businesses to a growing network of forward-thinking Maine-based nonprofits working on social, economic and environmental justice in Maine communities. Help us reach our goal of 1,500 individual donors in 2023!

Support

MaineShare provides general operating support to a growing coalition of grassroots, community-based nonprofits working to make Maine more just and equitable. Last year, we surpassed our pledge goal, raising $309,170 in pledges in the 2022 campaign. Help us reach our 2023 goal of $325,000!

Fundraising events/Opportunities

Join the MaineShare campaign!

Are you a Maine-based business/employer? Become a workplace partner!

Over the past 30 years, more than 150 Maine-based employers have made the MaineShare Campaign a part of their workplace culture: supporting Maine-based nonprofits working on issues of social justice, economic justice and environmental justice in Maine.

As a workplace partner, you will give your employees the opportunity to learn about, connect with, and support a network of grassroots, and community-based nonprofit organizations here in Maine working to make our communities and our state more just and equitable!

Contact Amanda Langley (amanda@maineinitiatives.org) to learn more and to sign up!

Giving Opportunities

The MaineShare Campaign is an opportunity for your business to engage and express your values and commitment to social, economic and environmental justice.

Every fall, the MaineShare Campaign works together with businesses like yours across the state to make it easy for its employees to learn about, connect with and support nonprofit and grassroots member organizations making sustainable change in Maine communities. Through the MaineShare Campaign, workplaces provide its employees the opportunity to make recurring payroll deductions (or one-time donations) to support MaineShare organizations. No business is too small or too large to participate, and through these giving campaigns MaineShare has raised over $6.8 million for our member organizations since our inception over 30 years ago.

Volunteer Opportunities

We know that there are many ways to give. For this reason, the MaineShare Campaign is also a great opportunity to develop relationships with Maine-based nonprofit organizations that can offer volunteer opportunities for your team members. Contact Amanda Langley (amanda@maineinitiatives.org) to learn more!

Leadership

Amanda Langley, MaineShare Program Director

 

Philip Walsh, Executive Director

 

Carla Hunt, Board President, Social Services Coordinator, Maine DHHS COVID-19 Community Care Team

 

Board officers

Lauress Lawrence, Vice President, Community & Equity Learning Partner, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation

Greg Sample, Secretary, Retired, former Partner Drummond Woodsum LLC

Ellen Seidman, Treasurer, Retired, Urban Institute

Board Members

MaineShare Advisory Council

Will Everitt, Executive Director, Friends of Casco Bay

Christina Foster, Data Systems Specialist, Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence

Jane Field, Executive Director, Maine Council of Churches

Kandyce Powell, Executive Director, Maine Hospice Council

Maine Initiatives Board

Jennifer Ceide, Assistant Director, Public Health Workforce Development, University of New England

Andrea Francis, Program Officer, Maine Health Access Foundation

Jake Grindle, Senior Program Officer, Maine Health Access Foundation

Kael Parker, Carpenter, Self Employed

David Patrick, Co-Founder, Racial Equity & Justice

Victoria Rodriguez, Legislative Aide, Maine House Majority Office

At a Glance

Established: 1989

Employees: 2.4

Annual revenue: $319,000

Top funding sources

94% Individual contributions, workplace and direct

6% Membership dues

Contact

56 North St., Suite 100, Portland, ME 04101

(207) 607-4070

www.maineshare.org

Facebook: Maine Share

Instagram: @mainesharegiving

Mission Statement

MaineShare is a workplace giving campaign bringing together people – individuals, employers and nonprofit organizations – who believe that a more equitable and just Maine is worth working for every day.

The MaineShare Campaign raises money through individual and workplace giving to fund Maine-based nonprofits and to increase awareness of their work.

Service locations

Statewide