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Please click or tap on each state and region to expand. You may submit one (1) online ballot with up to five (5) different nonprofit organizations. Votes may be on the ballot or write-ins or a combination of both, but cannot total more than five (5).

- Empowered Immigrant Women Unite
  Empowered Immigrant Women Unite strives to provide the tools and resources necessary for immigrant women to move out of poverty and become more self-reliant. Through programs and services, they are dedicated to providing education, employment, and healthcare resources to immigrant women living in Lewiston-Auburn.
  
  Greater Androscoggin Humane Society
  The Greater Androscoggin Humane Society is a safe space for animals in need and a resource for community members and their animal companions. They believe in kind, compassionate and humane treatment for all animals.
  
  Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Services
  Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services' (SAPARS) mission is to prevent all forms of sexual violence and to empower all people affected by sexual violence to find a path to healing.
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- Burlington Food Pantry
  The Burlington Food Pantry has been in existence for more than twenty years and serves more than 170 families in the Burlington, Maine area every month.
  
  House in the Woods
  House in the Woods offers outdoor programs to bring together small groups of active military, veterans, and their family members to relax, share, bond, and deal with the stress, loss, grief, and other emotions which can haunt the grieving soul.
  
  PAWS of Milo Penquis Animal Welfare Sanctuary
  Penquis Animal Welfare Sanctuary (PAWS) in Milo, Maine is a community effort to maintain a no-kill shelter for the area's stray and abandoned animals.
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- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine
  Their mission at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
  
  Portland Trails
  Portland Trails transforms Greater Portland into a healthier community for people-powered transportation, conservation, and recreation, by creating a network of trails and green spaces that connect people with places.
  
  Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center
  Riding to the Top Therapeutic Riding Center is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of children and adults with disabilities through equine assisted services. They operate year-round at their 50-acre farm in Windham, Maine.
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- Bagaduce River Equine Rescue
  Bagaduce River Equine Rescue provides food, shelter, farrier, and veterinary care to horses and donkeys in need and find safe, knowledgeable homes after rehabilitation.
  
  H.O.M.E. Inc.
  H.O.M.E. Inc. enhances the quality of life of people who have fallen on challenging times by honoring their dignity, attending to such basic needs as food and shelter, supporting their long-term health and development, and fostering a vibrant and mutually supportive community.
  
  Machias Area Food Pantry
  The Machias Area Food Pantry serves families in the greater Machias community and surrounding towns in need of food serving over 13,000 family members.
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- Hardy Girls
  Hardy Girls is a Maine-based, research-driven nonprofit. Established in 2000, they partner with girls and nonbinary youth to ignite curiosity, promote thinking critically, build coalitions, and challenge the status quo. They believe in changing the culture, not fixing the young person.
  
  P.A.L.S. No-Kill Cat Shelter
  P.A.L.S. is a no-kill cat shelter that began in 1980. The shelter provides living space where cats roam freely and have access to enclosed outdoor pens. They provide adoption services and feline veterinary services as the only low-cost, non-profit feline veterinary clinic in Maine.
  
  Winslow Community Cupboard
  Winslow Community Cupboard is a food bank specifically designed to address hunger and food insecurity in the greater Winslow community.
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- Coastal Mountains Land Trust
  Coastal Mountains Land Trust was founded in 1986 to permanently conserve land to protect the natural and human communities of the western Penobscot Bay region.
  
  Maine Maritime Museum
  Founded in 1962, Maine Maritime Museum is located on a beautiful 20-acre campus on the banks of the Kennebec River in “The City of Ships” of Bath, Maine. The museum connects people to the past, present, and future of Maine’s waterways and their global reach.
  
  What's One Moore Animal Rescue
  What's One Moore Animal Rescue is a foster based, animal rescue that takes in stray, unwanted, and abandoned dogs, cats, and animals, and find them best fit homes.
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- Ronald McDonald House - Bangor
  The 30th Ronald McDonald House opened its doors in 1983, with a 14-bedroom facility in Bangor, Maine. Their mission is to nurture the health and well-being of children and families.
  
  Welcome to Housing
  Welcome to Housing is a household goods bank and serves people in need in the Bangor region. Their goal is to help individuals, including veterans, families, and people displaced by fire and domestic violence, succeed as they transition from area shelters to permanent housing by providing basic household items donated through the local community.
  
  Wellspring
  Wellspring offers a continuum of trauma-informed substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health services in a compassionate and welcoming environment to support people on their journey to recovery regardless of income. Through treatment and recovery, people, families, and communities thrive.
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- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Maine Chapter
  The AFSP Maine Chapter offers many community programs for suicide prevention to individuals, organizations, and employers across the state. They bring together people from all backgrounds who want to prevent suicide in our communities.
  
  Biddeford Food Pantry
  The Biddeford Food Pantry provides food at no cost to the citizens of Biddeford and surrounding towns who cannot afford to purchase food for themselves and their families.
  
  Saco River Wildlife Center
  Founded in 2015, they provide rehabilitative care to ill, injured, or orphaned Maine wildlife with the ultimate goal of returning them to their natural environment. Their mission is to provide best practice treatment to all patients in their care with the ultimate goal of release.
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- Concord Coalition to End Homelessness
  Founded in 2008, the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness (CCEH) is dedicated to eliminating homelessness in their community through services and programs; by collaborating with other agencies; and with education and advocacy. They believe that every person has value and deserves a home regardless of their circumstances; that ending homelessness is possible; and that maintaining a safety net benefits the entire community.
  
  Family Promise of Greater Concord
  Family Promise of Greater Concord prevents and ends homelessness for families with children and helps them achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response. Through an Emergency Shelter, prevention and graduate support services, they transform the lives of families experiencing homelessness.
  
  Operation Delta Dog
  Operation Delta Dog is dedicated to reducing veteran suicide rates by rescuing homeless dogs and training them to be service dogs for veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and military sexual trauma (MST). By bringing together veterans and rescue dogs, they aim to provide healing, support, and a new lease on life for both.
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- Adaptive Sports Partners
  Their mission is to empower individuals with disabilities by building community, confidence, and skills, through sport, recreation, and adventure. Adaptive Sports Partners is for athletes of all disabilities; physical, developmental, emotional, and behavioral disabilities. They have a variety of adaptive equipment in every season and activity from adaptive mountain biking, skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, bocce ball, and more.
  
  North Country ATV
  The North Country ATV trail system has over 120 miles of privately owned trails. With the generous support of over 100 private landowners the NCATV trail administrator, trail masters, trail patrol and countless volunteers have been able to put together the longest lineal trail system in the state of New Hampshire.
  
  Weathervane Theatre
  The Weathervane Theatre has called Whitefield, NH home since its founding in 1966. Weathervane is a piece of American Theatre history and continues to position itself at the forefront of the Regional Theatre landscape featuring the best of Broadway musicals, cutting edge and classic dramas and comedies, new works, and more.
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- Children's Museum of New Hampshire
  The mission of the Children's Museum of New Hampshire is to actively engage families in hands-on discovery and inspire all to become the next generation of innovators and creative thinkers.
  
  Portsmouth Historical Society
  The Portsmouth Historical Society’s museums and programs connect the community to the past, present, and future through collections, interpretation, education, and preservation. For more than a century, the organization has gathered a diverse collection that fulfills its mission to illustrate and understand the history and material life of Portsmouth and the immediate Seacoast area from the seventeenth century to the present.
  
  Vouchers for Veterans
  The mission of Vouchers for Veterans is to show recognition and gratitude to Veterans by providing them with vouchers to purchase locally grown and prepared food directly from farmers and growers at local farmers markets.
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