Maine Initiatives launches platform to make giving easy [Video]

Grant-making organization Maine Initiatives launched the MaineShare Giving platform Sept. 12 at Brick South at Thompson’s Point during its first Changemakers celebration since the pandemic.

The launch party featured internationally inspired hors d’oeuvres, inspirational calls to action and a concert by performing artist Viva the Sensation. Viva was a 2021 artist in residence at Indigo Arts Alliance, a Maine Initiatives grantee through the Grants for Change program that has been funding BIPOC-led and -serving organizations for a decade.

“Tonight is a celebration,” said board vice president Andrea Francis. “It is a celebration of the potential we have and the power we can create when we come together around shared values of racial justice, Wabanaki sovereignty and self-determination, social justice, gender justice and environmental justice.”

The 300 guests at the free event included representatives of grantee organizations as well as donors, volunteer grant readers, members of grant-making advisory committees and other …