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September 19, 2024 2024 Giving Guide

VOA Northern New England

2025 Goals

BRING PEOPLE HOME

  • Creation of a VOA Housing Campus in Bangor, which will be built in three phases. Serving Behavioral Health residents, providing apartments for low-income older adults, and unhoused supportive housing.

  • Creation of Augusta’s first ever “Housing First” initiative focused specifically on Veterans who are unhoused. This approach prioritizes providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness, thus stabilizing their lives and serving as a platform from which they can pursue personal goals and improve the quality of their life.

  • Expand mobile care teams throughout the state for older adults and people with disabilities, allowing them to stay in their homes.

Fundraising events/Opportunities

Join us on Oct. 5th at the UNE campus in Biddeford to learn how to cope with the emotional challenges of health care work. The keynote speakers will offer information about moral suffering and definitions of moral injury, the relationship between moral injury and mental health diagnoses such as depression and PTSD, ways to identify and address moral suffering, and strategies for maintaining moral resilience.

In addition to providing information, the conference will engage attendees in discussions with the speakers and each other and offer small group time for attendees to learn resilience skills and to share and reflect on morally challenging experiences. Purchase tickets at https://bit.ly/moralsuffering.

Giving Opportunities

VOA sends out numerous appeals each year, approaching multiple donor segments. With 30 programs in Northern New England, we accept monetary and in-kind donations year-round for a myriad of causes, including Veterans, older adults, underserved youth, justice involved reentry, behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disabilities. The greatest types of support we can receive from the business community are sponsorships for our programs, helping to fund events; providing in-kind donations for building projects/renovations at our many properties; and direct program funding through unrestricted grants/donations.

Volunteer Opportunities

Business and individual volunteers are vital contributors to our programs. VOA’s affordable housing properties provide opportunities for volunteers to improve the grounds around facilities (landscaping, painting, cleaning) during the fall and spring.

Leadership

 

Rich Hooks Wayman
President and CEO

Sarah Higgins
Board Chairperson
Spectrum Reach

 

Board officers

Ludmila Tutunaru, Board Vice Chairperson Retired Finance Executive

Brad MacDonald, Board Treasurer IDEXX

Eric French, Board Secretary Central Maine Healthcare

Board Members

Jamie Broder, Bernstein Shur

Awa Conteh, City of Bangor

Forest Curtis, Retired

Monique Mutumwinka, Portland Public Schools

Courtney Pladsen, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Carol Rico, Regency Realty Group

Darrin Stairs, Woodward & Curran Inc.

Sarah Sturtevant, Maine Affordable Housing Coalition

At A Glance

 

Established: 1992

Employees: 179

Annual revenue: $18,102,325

Top funding sources

88.6% State government

7.3% Federal government

5.7% County

0.3% Corporate foundation

Contact

14 Maine St., Suite 100

Brunswick, ME 04011

(207) 373-1140

www.voanne.org

Facebook: /voa.NorthernNewEngland

X: @VOANNE

Instagram: @volunteersofamericanne

Awards/Accolades

VOA Northern New England received the platinum seal of transparency from GuideStar by Candid as well as being certified as A Great Place to Work for the last three years.

Mission Statement

Volunteers of America is the charity that always steps forward to help the most vulnerable and take on the most difficult tasks to help the most underserved. Our goal is to reach out and uplift the human condition and provide opportunity for individual and community involvement.

Service locations

Maine and New Hampshire