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Organization Overview
Maine Initiatives is a community-based foundation located in Portland, ME that advances social, economic, and environmental justice through informed, intentional, and collective philanthropy.
Our work is rooted in our understanding that justice and equity don’t emerge from perfect grantmaking but must be constructed by people in relationships and in community. Through our grantmaking process we create authentic and substantive opportunities for community volunteers to come together across traditional lines of difference to participate in a process of collective learning, discussion, deliberation, and decision-making. In so doing, we affirm that all members of our community have a unique contribution to make to our pursuit of justice and equity, we build our individual and collective capacity to do so, and we help to make the philanthropic process more effective.
Our work is rooted in our understanding that justice and equity don’t emerge from perfect grantmaking but must be constructed by people in relationships and in community. Through our grantmaking process we create authentic and substantive opportunities for community volunteers to come together across traditional lines of difference to participate in a process of collective learning, discussion, deliberation, and decision-making. In so doing, we affirm that all members of our community have a unique contribution to make to our pursuit of justice and equity, we build our individual and collective capacity to do so, and we help to make the philanthropic process more effective.
