My Nonprofit Reviews

For many years, United Midcoast Charities has served this community, providing extraordinary support to many diverse organizations on the midcoast, always focused on how to strengthen community and build a rich, equitable and just social structure. They faced their own challenges and used them as a springboard to build an even stronger organization that provides not only needed financial support to a whole network of non-profits, but also leverages their support by providing expertise, consulting, and networking to build the capacity of midcoast organizations to better fulfill their missions.
I'm a donor, but I also represent a grant recipient, a small, grass-roots founded and led organization whose budget is focused on delivering services -- not unlike many organizations in our area. We rely entirely on the generosity of our donors to carry out our mission of providing health care access to the many people in our community who still lack insurance to cover their needs. Like many other organizations, our size limits our resources. We don't have a Human Resources person to help plan and administer benefits, or an accounting staff to keep up on the latest practices, or a development staff with costly software and data access as these things would take away from our ability to deliver services. So UMC has recently initiated new programs that support us and many other organizations, allowing us to share resources and supporting our organizations administratively. By so doing, UMC is strengthening us all.
I have supported their work financially for many years and will continue to do so, as I know every dollar is used to strengthen our community. They are fully engaged in our community, understand its challenges, know how they can be most impactful, and their work makes a tremendous impact here in midcoast Maine.