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Maine Youth Justice is a nonpartisan campaign to end youth incarceration in Maine and invest in a range of community-based alternatives that respond to young people’s needs, support families, and build community in support of community alternatives to youth incarceration. Our goal is to close Long Creek, Maine’s youth detention facility, and create safer and stronger communities by investing in a continuum of community-based alternatives to incarceration for youth where all of Maine’s young people can not only survive, but thrive. Our vision of youth justice is a collaborative and equitable response to harm that recognizes and builds on the strengths of individuals and community.

The mission of the Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project is to increase access to justice in Maine through volunteer engagement. To achieve this end, the VLP acts as a nexus, connecting pro bono attorneys and individuals with civil legal issues who cannot afford attorneys. Volunteers are involved in every stage - from intake to strategic planning.

MPAC is a statewide group formed in 2007 to improve conditions for inmates, former inmates, their families, victims of crime and others. Our coalition members include, most importantly, offenders and their families and friends. Our organizational colleagues include groups well known for their powerful commitment and continued struggle for human rights: NAACP, ACLU, NAMI, Maine Council of Churches, MERN; and individuals dedicated to social justice and humane treatment of all people.

The mission of Maine People’s Alliance is to create a world where everyone has what they need, contributes what they can, and no one is left behind. By forming community with people from all walks of life, we build power, inspire new leaders, heal divisions—particularly across lines of race—and win campaigns that change what is politically possible. With more than 32,000 members across Maine, MPA is the state's largest community action organization. Over the past three decades, MPA has worked to build a powerful statewide grassroots movement for progressive social change, serving as a leader in state campaigns for expanded health care access, toxics use reduction, affordable housing, universal home care, clean elections reform, racial justice, immigrant rights, a higher minimum wage and tax fairness, among others.

Maine Mobile Health Program is our state’s only farmworker health organization. Our collaborative model involves folks who carry the commitment to make a difference in the lives of Maine’s farmworkers. By linking agricultural workers to care and services, we aim to reduce health disparities and inequities of access for this workforce. Putting fruits and vegetables on ALL of our tables is not only vital work; it positively impacts our collective health. Annually we provide care to over 1,500 patients. We offer mobile medical and nursing care to patients at farmworker camps. The Maine Mobile Health Program collaborates year-round with farmworkers, growers, local organizations, and primary care providers to offer Maine’s migrant seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs) the best possible access to care.

The Maine Justice Foundation funds civil legal aid in Maine so that everyone has access to the justice system. We make grants to civil legal aid programs throughout Maine and the more than 19,000 clients they serve each year.

We identify, mobilize, and leverage the resources of our community. On one hand: This means money. Since 1993, we have pooled small and large donations from more than 2,000 Mainers and made over $3.5 million in grants to grassroots community organizations that have achieved lasting victories for justice and equity in our state. Last year, we made $245,734 in new grants to 67 community-based organizations. We engage and connect people around shared values. On the other hand: Our work is about more than money. It is about people. It is about individual and collective transformation. It is about you: your conviction about what’s possible for our community and your generosity in showing up, speaking up, and becoming an agent of change for a better Maine. That’s progressive social change philanthropy. And that’s how we’re transforming Maine. Together. We fund the organizations that are making Maine more just, equitable, and sustainable. We let our grantee partners lead the way with their experience and expertise by providing general operating support that seeds and sustains their essential work for justice. We also make grants to support capacity-building, strengthening the movement for justice and equity, and rapid-response grants to permit social change organizations to take advantage of unexpected opportunities to address justice and equity in our communities.

The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (MIRC) is the convener of a unique, statewide network of 69 organizations, a majority of which are led by people of color – representing diverse ethnic communities across our state. All coalition member organizations are working to create and support programs and policies that promote immigrant inclusion and integration. MIRC represents member organizations that include immigrant constituency groups, advocacy groups, direct service organizations and grassroots community organizations

Since our founding in 1971, Maine Family Planning has worked to ensure all Maine people have access to high-quality, affordable reproductive health care, comprehensive sexual health education, and the right to control their reproductive lives. Maine Family Planning staff provide compassionate, confidential health services, regardless of your gender identity or expression. Whatever decisions you make about your health, we listen and provide support without judgment. Transgender Health Services at Maine Family Planning include: Hormonal transition therapy & monitoring for trans people 18 years old & over Onsite self-injection lessons for hormone injections Referrals to specialty providers & community resources, including mental, behavioral, & medical providers Yearly wellness visits, preventive care, birth control & safer sex supplies, STD testing & treatment, and abortion for patients of any gender