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Opportunity
- The Environment
- Safety and Health
- Social Justice & Peace
- Education, Cultural
Diversity, & the Arts
Maine causes you care about
SLIDE 2 MaineShare gives you an easy way to donate to over 40 statewide organizations working everyday to make Maine a better place to live. Through your payroll giving contribution, you support good health, environmental protection, safe communities, economic opportunity, human rights, animal welfare, peace, and much more for the State of Maine and its residents. Your year-round giving at work provides these groups with a steady flow of dollars to keep important programs going. Your yearly commitment to MainShare ensures long-term impact.
Workplace Giving
SLIDE 3 Long-Term Solutions
MaineShare donors fund Member Groups working to address root cause issues and sustainable solutions to those issues. Member Groups advocate for policies, and deliver programming which -
- Increases Economic Opportunity
- Defends Social Justice and Peace
- Ensures Safety and Health
- Sustains Environmental Health,
- Implements and Stewards Education,
Cultural Diversity and the Arts - For Maine, and all Maine residents.
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Economic Opportunity
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New Ventures Maine offers career, business, and financial education.
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Community Financial Literacy teaches New Mainers financial skills for a better future.
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Genesis Community Loan Fund provides funding and technical assistance to community initiatives
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The Environment
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Maine Farmland Trust supports farmers and protects farmland.
SLIDE 10 Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association of Maine.
Workshops, apprenticeship programs,
- rganic certification, agricultural advocacy.
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Chewonki uses the outdoors to educate students on Maine ecology and natural history.
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Safety and Health
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Consumers for Affordable Health Care advocates for affordable health care.
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Maine Labor Group on Health provides workplace training for health and safety
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Environmental Health Strategy Center works to keep our homes and environment safe from toxins.
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Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Arts
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Mano en Mano (Hand-in-Hand) Blueberry
Harvest School for Maine’s immigrant children.
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Hardy Girls Health Women programs and service to empower girls & women
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WERU is community driven radio & news
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Social Justice and Peace
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Maine Animal Coalition works to eliminate animal abuse and exploitation
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Disability Rights Maine provides legal support for individuals with disabilities
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ACLU Maine defends freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Bill of Rights
SLIDE 24 Values
As an organization, MaineShare values integrity/ethics/fairness/truth, compassion, justice, inclusiveness, commitment, community, stewardship, respect, diversity, and fostering
- tolerance. These values correspond to how we do
- ur work everyday, and how our members do their
work. 85% of all donations to MaineShare go to the member groups selected by the donor. MaineShare retains 15% to cover a portion of
- ur administrative costs, including processing and
fundraising fees. We aim to keep our overhead low. MaineShare respects the donor. All decisions about how to designate funds are made by the donor.
SLIDE 25 Donor Choice
You Choose one or more member groups,
- r choose to distribute your donation equally
among all groups. You choose how you want to give -
- As a payroll deduction
- As a one-time direct gift
- As a recurring credit card contribution
All of your dollars stay in Maine to support
- rganizations working for Maine people, Maine
Communities, and the Maine environment.
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Opportunity
- The Environment
- Safety and Health
- Social Justice & Peace
- Education, Cultural
Diversity, & the Arts
Maine causes you care about
