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September 19, 2024 2024 Giving Guide

MaineShare, a program of Maine Initiatives 

 

Disability Raights Maine, MaineShare Member. Photo credit: Luke Kaneb.

 

2025 Goals

The MaineShare Campaign is about community. We believe that we can make Maine a more healthy, vibrant, just and equitable place for everyone. 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 to support community-based nonprofit organizations advancing justice in our state. Join us as a workplace partner and make the MaineShare Campaign a part of your workplace culture! Or you can visit our online giving platform to learn how individuals and foundations can support our partner organizations!

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. Visit our giving platform on our website to learn more about these organizations and how you can support their work!

Support: MaineShare provides general operating support to a growing coalition of grassroots, community-based nonprofits working to make Maine more just and equitable. We have raised nearly $6,950,000 for these organizations since our inception – help us surpass $7 million!

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! It costs nothing for you to participate and we help make it quick and simple every step of the way!

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

Maine Equal Justice, MaineShare Member. Photo credit: John Ochira.

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. And this year, we are making it easier with our giving platform!

MaineShare works with businesses like yours across the state to make it easy for employees to learn about, connect with and support non-profit and grassroots member organizations making sustainable change in Maine communities. No business is too small or too large to participate and there are several ways to get your team involved. Reach out to learn more today!

Volunteer Opportunities

We know that there are many ways to give. For this reason, the MaineShare giving platform is also a great opportunity to develop relationships with Maine-based nonprofit organizations that can offer volunteer opportunities for your team members. Visit the giving platform on our website to learn more!

Leadership

 

Philip Walsh
Executive Director

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

 

Board officers

Andrea Francis, Vice President, Niweskok

Carla Hunt, Secretary, Community Activist

Ellen Seidman, Treasurer Retired, Urban Institute

Board Members

MaineShare Advisory Council

Will Everitt, Executive Director, Friends of Casco Bay

Jane Field, Executive Director, Maine Council of Churches

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

Kandyce Powell, Executive Director, Maine Hospice Council

Maine Initiatives Board

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

Jake Grindle, Senior Program Officer, Maine Health Access Foundation

Leslie Hill, Professor Emerita, Bates College

Kael Parker Carpenter, Self Employed

David Patrick, Co-Founder, Racial Equity & Justice

Victoria Rodriguez, Legislative Aide, Maine House Majority Office

Amanda Scarpone, MaineShare Program Director

At A Glance

 

Established: 1989

Employees: 2.4

Annual revenue: $534,078

Top funding sources

98.3% Individual contributions, workplace and direct

1.7% Membership dues

Contact

57 Exchange St., Suite 100

Portland, ME 04101

207-622-0105

www.maineinitiatives.org/maineshare

Facebook: Maine Initiatives

Instagram: @mainesharegiving

Awards/Accolades

Active Ally Award to Maine Initiatives from The Third Place Maine Black Excellent Awards

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