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09/15/2025
MaineShare Quarterly’s Summer 2025 issue is out now, highlighting community-based nonprofits that advance environmental justice through systems change and grassroots organizing. Explore the link below to hear more from:
JustME for JustUS
Maine Farmland Trust
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Niweskok: From the Stars to Seeds
Sierra Club Maine
Viles Arboretum
maineinitiatives.org/content/uploads/MaineShare-Quarterly-Summer-2025-.pdf
You can also support this work through the MaineShare giving platform - t.ly/FaOnt - which allows you to donate to Maine Initiatives' grantee partners directly. Select the Environmental Justice focus area, and support 23 community-based nonprofits with a single donation.
08/04/2025
Maine Initiatives is honored to announce the Immigrant-Led Organizations Fund’s 2025 Grantees:
Early Math and Language Initiative EMLI
Empowered Immigrant Women Unite
Food For All Services
Gateway Community Services Maine GCSM
Mano en Mano | Hand in Hand
Intercultural Community Center
Ladder to the Moon Network
Maine Afro Yoga
New Roots Cooperative Farm
United Youth Empowerment Services
These organizations’ missions exemplify the diverse, robust, and highly-skilled immigrant-led ecosystem operating statewide, leading vital efforts across a range of fields including education, gender justice, food access and sovereignty, community building, cultural preservation, health services, healing and movement practices, media production, and youth empowerment.
Join us in celebrating and supporting these organizations’ essential and transformational work, building self-determination, cultural preservation, capacity-building, and organizing power for immigrant, refugee, and asylum seeker communities in Maine.
Read our full announcement here: maineinitiatives.org/blog/announcing-the-immigrant-led-organizations-funds-2025-grantee-cohort
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Early Math and Language Initiative
Empowered Immigrant Women Unite
Food For All Services
Gateway Community Services Maine
Maine Afro Yoga Project
Mano en Mano
Intercultural Community Center
Ladder to the Moon Network
New Roots Cooperative Farm
United Youth Empowerment Services
In September of 2024, 18 individuals joined the inaugural Giving Project donor organizing cohort at Maine Initiatives. This cross-class, multiracial, multigenerational group committed 6 months to a program of shared political education, fundraising, and grantee selection with the goal of resourcing community organizing efforts in Maine.
We sat down with members of the cohort in March 2025, to hear more about how the Giving Project impacted them, taught them about community organizing, and transformed their relationship to fundraising.
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Are you interested in expanding your role in social justice movements in the state of Maine, unceded Wabanaki Territory? The 2026 Giving Project for Community Organizing at Maine Initiatives is recruiting its second donor organizing cohort.
To learn more:
Fill out the Giving Project Interest Form
https://t.ly/h_JjX
Or register for the July 16th Giving Project Information session.
https://t.ly/8I6pG
05/09/2025
MaineShare Quarterly’s Spring 2025 issue is out now, focusing on the MaineShare partner organizations advancing gender justice across our state.
maineinitiatives.org/content/uploads/MaineShare-Quarterly-Spring-2025-FINAL.pdf
Explore the issue to hear more from Maine-based organizations whose advocacy and leadership are beacons of human rights and collective liberation amidst a sea of transphobic and misogynist political propaganda sweeping our nation, including:
EqualityMaine,
Maine Council of Churches,
Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and
Scarborough High School Civil Rights Club.
With the MaineShare online giving platform, you can donate to all 13 different organizations in our “gender justice” focus area at once– these are the community leaders advancing vital advocacy, education, and movement building for gender justice across Maine.
Visit maineinitiatives2.my.site.com/ and give today.
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