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September 24, 2025 2025 Giving Guide

Nonprofits adapting, innovating and reimaging for the common good

 

Jennifer Hutchins, Executive Director, Maine Association of Nonprofits

Each year, the Giving Guide shines a spotlight on the essential role nonprofits play in ensuring Maine’s prosperity, and the critical role businesses play in partnering with them to achieve it. 

This year, as government funding is pulled back precipitously from services to seniors, veterans, families, scientific research and more, it’s essential for nonprofits, businesses and local partners to find new and better ways to fortify the resiliency of Maine communities.

Every day, nonprofits adapt, innovate and reimagine how we work together for the common good. To succeed, especially in these volatile times, they need resources, genuine partnerships and the support of people and businesses to help build their capacity to act boldly and creatively.

Here are a few practical ways we can all make a difference:

  • Spread the word. Get to know the nonprofits in your community, understand where their needs are greatest, and promote and champion their work within your networks.
  • Share your talent. Professionals from all backgrounds are needed on nonprofit boards and committees — an opportunity to give back, expand your professional network, tap into your passions, and apply your skills in new ways. Nonprofits are always looking to enhance their boards with new perspectives and talents.
  • Keep being generous and collaborative. When nonprofits are recognized as essential partners, amazing things can happen. Creative collaborations with businesses, along with flexible financial support, play a vital role in helping address today’s challenges and opportunities.

This Giving Guide includes only a portion of Maine’s nonprofit sector, which employs one in six Maine workers and spreads to every corner of our state. Reach out to the organizations in your community, ask how they are doing during this tumultuous year, and work with them on creative ways to support them and, ultimately, your community.

Nonprofits are not just part of our communities — they are essential to them. They are people coming together to make Maine a better place to live, work, and play. Meaningful and lasting change comes from working in tandem, building new partnerships, and committing to the common good. We are making progress, but there is much more to do. MANP is honored to work and learn alongside you.

Thank you,

Jennifer Hutchins
Executive Director Maine Association of Nonprofits