Interested in joining our team? We’re hiring for three new positions to support our growing roster of programs: Communications Associate ILO Program Associate Program Engagement Associate Read on for brief overviews of each position. Full details can be found here. Communications Associate Working with all staff members, the Communications Associate will support and execute communications […]
G4C 2022 Reader Workshop Announcement! We are thrilled to announce that everyone who volunteers to be a Grants for Change Proposal Reader this year will also have the opportunity to participate in a free workshop designed and led by our partners at Groundwater Institute. We are offering this workshop opportunity based on feedback we have received from community […]
Grants for Change 2022 Applicant Info Session Looking for more information about applying for Grants for Change in 2022? We held an info session on September 15! Here’s the slideshow and recording of that session. Please reach out to the Grants for Change Directors if you have any questions after viewing these.
Dear friends, I’m happy to announce $365,000 in new grants to 36 Immigrant-led and serving organizations supporting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers across Maine. Thanks to the Immigrant & Refugee Funders Collaborative and our broader community, the ILO Pooled Fund has provided $565,000 in grants over the last year, targeting resources to acutely impacted communities. […]
“Is there another side of all of this, Phil?” A friend recently asked me this question. By “all of this,” she was referring to the suffering, sorrow, inhumanity, cruelty, violence, loss, death. All of this. And there has been a lot of it lately. Now I know my friend to be a person full of […]
Maine Initiatives is raising $500,000 to provide general operating support grants next month to approximately forty (40) immigrant-led and immigrant-serving organizations. Donate here to the Immigrant-Led Organizations Fund at Maine Initiatives. Here in Maine, we can sometimes feel removed from the many crises we see on our daily news feeds. War. Pandemic. Climate catastrophe. Gun […]