We're launching our first-ever annual giving campaign!

We're asking for your support to keep doing the impactful work we do to build environmental awareness, accountability, and action by centering equity and advancing systemic change.

MEEA believes in a holistic model of change, meaning that we are often working across many different avenues to simultaneously foster youth leadership, support teachers, conduct research and evaluation, advance policy, all in the hopes of shifting cultures and building a sustainable and interconnected future. Learn more about our impact areas below!

Fostering Youth Leadership

MEEA works with youth and early career professionals to create leadership opportunities that empower their drive for social and climate justice. This support includes tools, resources, and stipends for their time and expertise. Community building is essential to fostering youth leadership. Therefore, we connect youth to network peers, community partners, mentors, and coaches. We recognize our youth’s work through award nominations.

Supporting Educators

Educators are critical change agents, and we aim to support their work through peer connections, convenings, professional development, and financial and non-financial resources. We elevate storytelling and celebrate educator successes to share these achievements with our state and national network.

Prioritizing Research and Evaluation

Research and evaluation are crucial in highlighting the needs of our community, so MEEA works to identify statewide trends, patterns, and needs. We utilize this information to support programmatic evaluation, assess progress toward systems change, and disseminate local case studies of innovation. We also seek to communicate best practices from the national level.

Shifting Culture

Multiscale change is essential to MEEA’s work. We build organizational infrastructures to cultivate values-aligned procedures, emergent strategies, transparency with failure and process, and authentic relationships. We share the lessons learned with our state and national networks through modeling, teaching, and ensuring accountability for others working towards these culture shifts.

Advancing Transformational Policy

MEEA strives to advance research-informed, transformational policy solutions that will have systemic impact across the sector, the state, and beyond. Our approach focuses on grassroots engagement, collaborating with coalition partners, and building relationships with state and federal decision-makers.

Annual Giving Campaign

By Maine Environmental Education Association

Annual Giving Campaign

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