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Through participatory grantmaking and community calls to action, we bring people together around their shared commitment to advancing justice in Maine.

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We get money into the hands of leaders doing critical organizing, activism, and advocacy for justice. Our grantmaking programs provide multi-year, unrestricted funding and our rapid response efforts are co-created with activists on the ground.

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Our programming supports leaders and movement builders in racial justice, immigrant justice, environmental justice, and grassroots organizing in Maine. We raise awareness of their work, amplify their voices, and connect community members who want to get involved.

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The 2025 Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing Grantees

Please join us in celebrating the 2025 Giving Project Fund for Community Organizing Grantees: JustME for JustUS Niweskok: From the Stars to Seeds Out in the Open Portland Outright Presente! Maine Southern Maine Workers Center Each of these organizations is doing important and inspiring work that shows how community organizing is a powerful lever for making change from the bottom up. Their work is democracy in action led by and for their communities, and focuses on critical justice issues, including: Rural youth political engagement;  The rematriation of Wabanaki lifeways;  Rural LGBTQ+ community building;  Food and land access for displaced or dispossessed Afro/Indigenous Latines; and  The conditions and terms of employment for the poor and working class. We are pleased and proud to support each of these organizations with a one-year, unrestricted grant of $20,000 to support their work.  We encourage you to learn more about each of these organizations and consider supporting their work directly.  The grantmaking decisions were made entirely by our inaugural donor organizing cohort, a cross-class, muti-racial, multi-generational group of 18 dedicated individuals who also raised the funding to support these grants. We celebrate this collective effort to resource the critically needed social change organizing desperately needed at this moment.The Giving Project is a model of social justice philanthropy that engages people across race and class to support community organizing in their community. At its essence, a Giving Project is a mechanism for donor organizing, wealth redistribution & community accountability. Learn more about this Maine Initiatives’ program here. Photo credit: Niweskok
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