MaineCF’s People of Color Fund awards grants

July 31, 2018From the United South and Eastern Tribes …New Mainers Public Health Initiative, to conduct 24 workshops about health, wellness, and nutrition for men and women and engage participants in capacity building to improve understanding, learning, and...

Lead poisoning hits new Mainers hard

April 5, 2017From the Lewiston Sun-Journal LEWISTON, Maine–The New Mainers Public Health Initiative, a Lewiston nonprofit created in 2014 to help immigrants and refugees with health issues, has encountered child after child damaged by lead poisoning. No firm numbers...

The Growing Grassroots: A conversation with Cait Vaughan

March 9, 2017From The Baffler Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in...