Below is a list of community-based organizations which have expressed interest in partnering with the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) on behalf of the Maine Climate Council (MCC) to conduct outreach and engagement with low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations as the state updates its climate action plan.
This list is for informational purposes only, and does not commit any organization to partnering with GOPIF, nor guarantee that organizations on this list will be chosen as partners by GOPIF.
If your organization serves people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and/or one or more priority populations and you’d like to be included on this list, please fill out this quick form.
A full list of priority populations can be found in the form.
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Climable, Inc
Erin Ash
Erin@Climable.org
617-934-8170
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, youth, communities of color, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, people with limited English proficiency, Minority/veteran/women owned businesses, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; Identifying where and when interpretation and translation services may be needed; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Island Institute
Brenna Cohen
bcohen@islandinstitute.org
207-460-5661
Priority populations: older adults, youth, tribal communities, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, people without access to reliable transportation, small businesses in natural resource industries, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Sunrise County Economic Council
Tanya Rucosky
trucosky@sunrisecounty.org
207-483-8152
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, youth, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, people with limited English proficiency, recipients of energy assistance benefits, migrant farm workers and other outdoor workers, Un/underemployed people who are also representatives of a priority population, or who are transitioning from prison or recovery, small businesses in natural resource industries, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; Identifying where and when interpretation and translation services may be needed; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Resilient Communities L3C
Gabe McPhail
gabe@rcmaine.org
(207) 952-1817
Priority populations: small businesses in natural resource industries, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine
Sharon Klein
sharon.klein@maine.edu
207-581-3174
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, youth, tribal communities, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Maine Sea Grant
Jessica Brunacini
jessica.brunacini@maine.edu
Priority populations: older adults; tribal communities; communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets; small businesses in the natural resource industries; rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity; climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; providing feedback on draft communication materials; Supporting community-based and participatory action research design, facilitation, analysis, and reporting (e.g., facilitating equitable participation, co-designing methodology, collecting / analyzing data, drafting results)
Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition
Tobin Williamson
tobinw@maineimmigrantrights.org
479-880-6274
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, youth, black or communities of color, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, people with limited English proficiency including New Mainers (refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants), people with mobility challenges, people without access to reliable transportation, Migrant farm workers and other outdoor workers, small businesses in the natural resource industries; Minority, women-owned or veteran owned business enterprises (MWBVEs); unhoused people, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; Identifying where and when interpretation and translation services may be needed
Illume Advising
Leah Michaels
BD@illumeadvising.com
973-222-1159
Priority populations: While we have worked with most of the priority populations identified above, we envision that ILLUME could provide value as an overall coordination/project management partner in this work.
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; Identifying where and when interpretation and translation services may be needed; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Maine Community Action Partnership
Megan Hannan
mhannan@mecap.org
207-831-9893
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, recipients of energy assistance benefits, Un/underemployed people who are also representatives of a priority population, or who are transitioning from prison or recovery, Minority, women-owned or veteran owned business enterprises (MWBVEs), unhoused people, people without access to reliable transportation, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; Identifying where and when interpretation and translation services may be needed; providing feedback on draft communication materials
JustME for JustUS
Laura Bither
laura.bither@gmail.com
207-751-8274
Priority populations: youth, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, People without access to reliable transportation, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; organizing meeting space; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities; providing feedback on agendas; providing feedback on draft communication materials
Beech Hill Research
Amanda Dwelley
amanda@beechhillresearch.com
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, recipients of energy assistance benefits, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Providing feedback on focus group and meeting design and agendas; other (Research, data collection, tracking including: (a) embedded research/data collection in sign-up forms, public meetings/events, etc. (b) mixed-methods research (incl workshops, focus groups, surveys), (c) data collection and tracking to understand who's participating and who isn't)
Southern Maine Development Corporation
Abbie Sherwin
asherwin@smpdc.org
207-571-7065
Priority populations: communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities, providing feedback on agendas, providing feedback on draft communication materials
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy
Scott Vlaun
scott@ecologybasedeconomy.org
Priority populations: low income households, older adults, youth, communities with a high percentage of low-income residents, communities defined as “disadvantaged” by various data sets, recipients of energy assistance benefits, people without access to reliable transportation, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: recruitment of priority populations for engagement, organizing meeting space, helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities, providing feedback on agendas, providing feedback on draft communication materials
Maine Environmental Education Association
Amara Ifeji
amara@meeassociation.org
240-643-9282
Priority populations: youth, black or communities of color, people without access to reliable transportation, rural communities and small towns with limited staff capacity, climate-frontline communities
Available to support: Recruiting people from low-income and disadvantaged communities and priority populations to focus groups, community meetings, and/or interviews; helping identify and deliver communication methods that are most likely to reach people from priority communities, , providing feedback on agendas, providing feedback on draft communication materials