2025 MPC Conference Materials

Find all of the available slides and additional materials from our morning workshops.

Morning Workshops Materials

Find all of the available slides and additional materials from our afternoon workshops.

Afternoon Workshop Materials

The Augusta Food Bank, a Partner Agency of United Way of Kennebec Valley, is managed by a Board of Directors made up entirely of volunteers and representatives from the community and participating congregations. The food bank was established in 1981 to provide a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need. We now serve an average of 350 households onsite. Clients are welcome to receive our services once a month and are provided about a weeks worth of food, based on family size. Through our Food Share program, we're able to reach an additional 1,000 people at various locations.

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Maine Mobile Health Program is a community health center and our state’s only agricultural worker health organization. Our collaborative model involves folks who carry the commitment to make a difference in the lives of those who work in agriculture in Maine. By linking agricultural workers to care and resources, we aim to reduce limited access for people working in this industry. Putting fruits and vegetables on ALL of our tables is not only vital work; it positively impacts our collective health.

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​Based in Augusta, CANMP (pronounced "camp") embraces immigrants as “New Mainers” who bring much-needed diversity, energy, and vitality to our area. Check out how they are supporting families or how to become a volunteer!

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Project Fresh Start helps furnish home by collecting, sorting, and storing gently used or new household items and redistributing them to individuals in need. At its soul our mission is about community. Building it, enriching it, and giving back to it. Community is what makes Project Fresh Start possible and allows us to empower so many new beginnings. We are entirely donation and volunteer based, so the constant infusion of community support is what keeps us running. If helping individuals transitioning from homelessness into permanent housing is a mission that resonates with you, please consider volunteering with us or donating your gently used household goods.

Learn more about Project Fresh Start

At Androscoggin Bank, we believe that banking can be a powerful force for positive change. Our Sustainable Impact Program empowers you to align your finances with your values, directing your deposits toward initiatives that build a more sustainable and equitable future for Maine and beyond.

Dive Into the Sustainable Impact Program

Welcome to the 2024 Philanthropic Landscape, the 13th edition produced by CCS Fundraising. This report provides a comprehensive look at the current state of US philanthropy, compiling and analyzing annual data from Giving USA and other prominent research to provide an in-depth examination of significant industry trends.

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Clearstead is a leading financial advisory firm that guides private clients and institutions in building thriving legacies for their families, their communities, and themselves. At Clearstead, we believe that successful financial advice goes beyond managing investments alone—our approach enables families and organizations to secure their future, create impact, and cultivate strong legacies.

Find out more about Clearstead and what they can offer you through their resources below: 

• Factsheet about Clearstead 
• Customized Solutions for Prominent Institutions

Compass Technology Managers, (CompassTM) has been an IT Partner to customers throughout New England for
the past 20 years. We have grown selectively, through direct referrals, making sure each potential customer is a good fit for us and us for them. You will know everyone on our team and anyone on our team can provide you with support.  

Find out more about what their team can offer you

Find out all about Luke Lobster's Lift All Boats program and how its training the next generation of lobstermen and women in Maine. 

Download the Lift All Boats flyer

F.L.Putnam has extensive experience managing investment portfolios for a broad range of institutional and non-profit clients including: Endowments, Foundations, Religious Organizations, Unions, Hospitals and Health Care Facilities. Additionally, we offer guidance around Investment Policy Statements, spending policies and capital market assumptions and projections.

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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. 

The Cultural Alliance of Maine (CAM) is the first coordinated, statewide industry alliance advancing the visibility and capacity of our diverse statewide cultural sector via collective learning, research, communications, and advocacy.

Check out their latest sector impact report

Disability Rights Maine (DRM) advocates for and with people with disabilities in our state.
DRM acts to change Maine’s schools, workplaces, businesses and public spaces to ensure that people with disabilities are empowered in their choices.

Incorporated in 1977, DRM is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance justice and equality by enforcing rights and expanding opportunities for people with disabilities in Maine. We are part of a national network of federally funded and mandated disability rights Protection & Advocacy agencies, which are the largest providers of advocacy and legal services for people with disabilities in the United States. As Maine’s designated P&A, DRM has unique authority. We can bring lawsuits on behalf of people with disabilities, conduct investigations into allegations of abuse and neglect of people with disabilities, and have the statutory authority to gain access to facilities and programs where people with disabilities receive services.

Maine Conservation Alliance convenes and facilitates Maine’s Environmental Priorities Coalition (EPC), an inclusive statewide alliance of 39 conservation, climate action, and public health organizations. Each year we collectively identify a slate of policy priorities to act on the climate crisis; further environmental justice; protect land, water, and wildlife; and cultivate healthy Maine communities. Learn more about the EPC here.

Check out the EPC's 2025 Priorities

Economic prosperity, health, and equity are deeply intertwined, meaning one is not possible without the other two. Poverty impacts access to health care and contributes to chronic diseases, which in turn impacts an individual’s ability to get and hold a job. Getting a job is often affected by systemic bias in hiring practices and job training programs. Improving economic prosperity, health, and equity for ALL requires joining all three domains together seamlessly. That’s the aim of Maine Alliance for Health and Prosperity. Find out why cross-sector collaboration matters in this SSIR article and how backbone leadership is different.

MaineAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for every young child in Maine, starting at birth, by advancing a diverse, dynamic, and well-compensated early childhood profession.

The Maine Association of Nonprofits (MANP) empowers people with purpose—people and organizations at the forefront of the issues and opportunities that will determine Maine’s future prosperity. As a leading advocate and resource, we ensure that Maine nonprofits are adapting, thriving, and contributing in a fast-changing world.

Check out the following resources they think conference attendees will find value in:

• Nonprofit & Funder Voter Engagement Toolkit
• Practical Guidance for Maine Lobbying
• MANP's Adding Up Impact Report

The Maine Center for Economic Policy advances equity and prosperity for all Maine people through issue-based analysis, education, and advocacy.

Since 1994, the Maine Center for Economic Policy has helped secure improved economic opportunity for working families by advocating for fairer tax policies, for access to education, health care, and livable wage jobs, and for critical investment in government programs and services on which Maine people rely.

Maine Council on Aging (MCOA), founded in 2011 and formally established in 2012, is an organization-based membership association formed to advance broad public policy issues that ensure we can all live healthy, engaged and secure lives as we age in our homes and communities.

Our members include the core of Maine’s aging network, and span all of the sectors that support healthy, interconnected aging. They also include a small number of Community Members, individual older Mainers who provide invaluable perspective and represent MCOA at policy and public forums.

Check out these two resources to learn more about their work: 

• Power in Aging Project
• Medicare Savings Program

At the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (MIRC), our mission is to improve legal, social, and economic conditions for immigrants in the state of Maine.

MIRC brings together more than 110 organizations to form a unique statewide network representing diverse ethnic communities. These organizations, a majority of which are led by people of color, work together to foster immigrant inclusion and integration through both support programs and policies.

MOFGA is Transforming Our Food System. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) is a broad-based community that supports farmers, empowers people to feed their communities, and advocates for an organic future. Our vision is a future where local organic farming nourishes all people, and sustains thriving ecosystems, healthy communities, and fair economies.

The Maine Women’s Lobby works to build gender justice in Maine through legislative advocacy and systems change.

We do this by providing direct legislative advocacy and policy analysis, and by building and supporting a gender-responsive Legislature.

Our vision is a gender-just world: one where all people have dignity, equity ,justice, and autonomy, and where they are free from sexism, misogyny, and all oppressions.

The National Digital Equity Center provides communities at all levels the expertise needed to mobilize broadband technologies through digital inclusion, literacy efforts, education, resource planning, funding research, infrastructure leveraging and stakeholder engagement.

The National Digital Equity Center team brings years of community, state, national and international stakeholder engagement to action-oriented broadband planning toward digital equity. Working closely with established entities that have laid the groundwork for broadband adoption, the National Digital Equity Center provides turnkey, hands on, action based assistance to communities and stakeholders.

Check out their resource on closing the digital divide!

Creating Disruptive Strategies to Close the Digital Divide in Maine & Beyond

Maine’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law (Title 26, chapter 7, subchapter 6-C) will provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave for family leave, medical leave, to deal with the transition of a family member’s pending military deployment or to stay safe after abuse or violence. The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) is responsible for the implementation of this new program. Visit maine.gov/paidleave/ for the most up-to-date information and to sign up for notifications.

Read more about ME Paid Family & Medical Leave

In June of 2020 the tribes in Maine (Mi’kmaq Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Passamaquoddy Tribe and Penobscot Nation) formed the Wabanaki Alliance. The Wabanaki Alliance was formed to educate people of Maine about the need for securing sovereignty of the tribes in Maine.

In 1980, the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act was passed by Congress and ratified by the tribes and the State of Maine. The Settlement Act was supposed to be a living document that would be improved upon. Under political duress the tribes agreed to the Settlement Act but with the hope to continue improving the relationship between the State of Maine and the tribes. For forty years this has not happened.

Because of the 1980 Settlement Act the Tribes in Maine have had their sovereignty stripped from them. The promise of improving the Settlement Act has never been fulfilled. Now the Tribes in Maine are treated less than every other federally recognized tribe in America. The Wabanaki Alliance is not asking for special privileges but fairness by having the same or similar sovereignty as the more than 500 other tribes across America.

We ask all those who support the sovereignty of the Tribes in Maine to educate themselves on the issues, why they are important and join us in securing sovereignty.