This page serves as a resource of organizations both in Maine + elsewhere that may be worth supporting. Look for donation links + more info below.
"We are a Black-owned worker cooperative connecting community members both inside and outside carceral facilities with radical books. Each month, we uplift two books written by Black, indigenous, and other people of color. We believe building community through political education is crucial for our liberation and should be accessible to everyone—which is why all our programming is free, including the books we send to our incarcerated book club members."
"The Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) helps low income immigrants improve their legal status and works for more just and humane laws and policies affecting immigrants. As Maine’s only state-wide immigration legal services organization, ILAP advances justice and equity for immigrants and their families through direct legal services, community education, and systemic advocacy."
"Maine Needs is the people’s non-profit. We share the needs of the community with you to inspire us all to give what we can. Whether it's time and energy through volunteering, material goods, money, skills, or support, we ask everyone to get involved in their own way so we can connect what is needed with what you have to give. We reach individuals and families statewide via partnership with the social services community in support of asylum seekers, students, the unhoused population, survivors of domestic violence, and those facing financial adversity. "
"The ACLU of Maine is the state's guardian of liberty. We are active in the courts, the legislature and the public sphere to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and to extend their promises to all Mainers. Our priority issues include criminal legal reform, reproductive freedom, racial justice, immigrants' rights, LGBTQ rights, women's rights, voting rights, freedom of expression, freedom of speech and religion, and privacy. We're also the Maine affiliate of the nationwide ACLU."
"The Locker Project partners with more than Greater Portland schools, preschools, and local agencies to share more than 50,000 pounds of healthy food each month. Students can take home purple bags of staples as well as green bags of donated and rescued fresh produce and bread, to share with their families. The Locker Project also hosts 400+ school- and community-based free fresh food events every week throughout the year. Our whole-family approach to child hunger improves the nutritional content of diets, stretches food budgets and encourages the enjoyment of fresh food at home."
"MaineTransNet is a community based organization led by transgender people for transgender people. We provide peer-to-peer support groups, social and community events, advocacy for the transgender community across Maine, and training for medical, mental health, and social service providers. We engage transgender people and our allies across Maine in the practice of community building and organizing for mutual liberation. Our work is rooted in a deep desire to care for one another which informs how we build systems of mutual support centering accessibility, inclusivity, and hospitality. We view structures of power and oppression as interlocking, and believe in finding our leadership among those with lived experience."
"Presente! Maine is a grassroots, mutual aid organization by and for displaced and dispossessed Afro/Indigenous-Latines in Maine. With our community, we codesign and implement survival programs that proactively address our most urgent public health, climate, and human rights struggles, while also working within systems of power to create a more equitable, joyful, and resilient future."
An incredible Jamaican restaurant in Portland, Maine. Based in the first floor of the Public Market in Monument Square. There is no life without Yardie Ting. There is no joy without Yardie Ting.
