Connect
Networks + Coalitions
We are committed to helping nonprofit staff connect with and learn from one another. Nonprofits and their employees benefit greatly from considering collaborative approaches to solving problems and from sharing information and solutions for common challenges.
Find a Network or Peer Group
Below are resources to help your nonprofit staff find and connect with peers doing similar work. We also have a page dedicted to advocacy-related coalitions.
Regional + Sub-Sector Networks
- Arts & Culture L/A
- Bethel Area Nonprofit Collaborative
- Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine
- Benefits Bank Coalition (Contact Rick McCarthy)
- Bridge to Independence (Contact Jim Pierce)
- Cumberland County Food Security Coalition (Contact Jim Hanna)
- Casco Bay Estuary Partnership
- CA$H Maine
- College for ME, Androscoggin
- Community Caring Collaborative
- DownEast Nonprofit Network (Contact Deb Burwell)
- Eat Local Foods Coalition
- Farmworker Resource Network (Contact Jan Morrill)
- Food Security Coalition of Mid Coast Maine (Contact Mary Turner)
- Franklin County Community College Network
- Franklin County Tourism Network (Contact Bruce Hazard)
- Gateway to Maine: Outside
- Homeless Voices for Justice
- Land for Maine’s Future Coalition
- Maine Campus Compact
- Maine Environmental Priorities Coalition
- Maine Land Trust Network
- The Maine Network of Community Food Councils
- Maine Partners for Cool Communities
- Maine Together
- Maine Woods Consortium
- Maine Woods Discovery
- Northern Forest Center
- Portland North Land Trust Collaborative (Contact Jessica Burton)
- Transportation Network (Contact Jim Pierce)
- The Northern Lighthouse
- York County Collaborative & York County Youth Financial Literacy Network
- Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of Maine (YNPNmaine)
- Youth Development Greater Portland (Contact Barrett Takesian)
Volunteer Coordinator Groups
VolunteerMaine maintains a list of active groups that bring together volunteer program staff and managers in specific regions of the state. Find a group near you.
Add Your Network to This List
We know there are many other networks – formal and informal – across the state. Please contact our Membership Manager by email or at 871-1885 to share information about yours so MANP can continue to develop this resource page.
