Joseph McKeen
Center for the Common Good
Find a Partner
Whether you are a student looking for a volunteer opportunity, a faculty member interested in setting up a partnership for a course, or a staff member seeking ways to connect to local organizations, finding out about needs in the local community is a good place to start. Peruse the listings of organizations below to learn the mission, volunteer and research needs of the more than 100 organizations with whom we have partnered. Contact the agency directly, or work with McKeen Center staff to refine a project you would like to propose to an agency.
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Thanks to the Spring 2004 Sociology 101 class for their help in gathering, through their service learning project, the information here. Information was also collected by Community Service interns and our VISTA volunteers.
- A Paw in the Door
- Access Health
- Addiction Resource Center
- Adventist Community Services
- Amenity Manor
- American Association of University Women
- American Cancer Society
- American Red Cross, Mid Coast Chapter
- Androscoggin Lake Improvement Corporation
- Androscoggin Land Trust
- Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments
- Arts are Elementary
- ArtVan Program
- Bath Area Family YMCA
- Bath Area Food Pantry
- Bath Middle School
- Bath Planning Department
- Bath Police Department
- Bath United Church of Christ
- Bath Water District
- Bath Youth Meeting House and Skate Park
- Bayside Neighborhood Association
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick
- Bowdoin Buoy Facility
- Bowdoin Central School
- Bowdoinham Elementary School
- Brunswick Fire Department
- Brunswick High School
- Brunswick Housing Authority
- Brunswick Infant and Toddler Program
- Brunswick Junior High
- Brunswick Kiwanis Club
- Brunswick Parks and Recreation Department
- Brunswick Planning Department
- Brunswick Teen Center
- Brunswick Topsham Land Trust
- Brunswick Town Commons Committee
- Brunswick-Trinidad Sister City Association
- Building Materials Exchange
- Care-Net of Midcoast Maine
- Casco Bay High School
- Casco Bay Regional YMCA
- Cathance River Education Alliance (CREA): A BTLT Affiliate
- CHANS Home Health
- Chateau Cushnoc
- Children's Center
- Coastal Humane Society - Animal Shelter
- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
- Coffin Elementary
- College Guild
- Community Health Information Partnership
- Compass Project
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Cornerstones of Science
- Cultivating Community
- Cumberland County YMCA
- Curtis Memorial Library
- Dionne Commons
- Family Crisis Services
- Family Focus – Brunswick Early Learning Center
- Family's Can!
- Farm Fresh Connection
- Five Rivers Arts Alliance
- Freeport Community Services
- Freeport Historical Society
- Freeport Middle School
- Freeport Student Aspirations Partnership
- Friends of Casco Bay
- Friends of Cox Pinnacle
- Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
- Georgetown Conservation Commission
- GO MAINE Commuter Connections
- Habitat for Humanity/7 Rivers Maine
- Harpswell Community Nursery School
- Harpswell Community Television
- Harpswell Heritage Land Trust
- Harpswell Historical Society
- Harpswell Neck Fire and Rescue, Inc.
- Healthy Kids!
- Highlands of Topsham
- Home to Home
- Hospice Volunteers: Center for Grief and Loss in MidCoast Maine
- Independence Association
- Independence Association- Spindleworks
- Island Institute
- Jordan Acres School
- Kinship Systematic Lead Panel [K.S.L.P]
- Learning for Life
- Lincoln County Historical Association
- Lisbon
- Longfellow School
- Longfellow School Portland
- Main Street Bath, Inc.
- Maine Affordable Housing Network
- Maine AFL-CIO
- Maine Animal Coalition
- Maine Audubon Society
- Maine Center for Economic Policy
- Maine Civil Liberties Union
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust
- Maine Community Foundation
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection
- Maine Fiberarts
- Maine Maritime Museum-Bath
- Maine Rivers
- Maine Rural Workers Association
- Maine State Music Theatre
- Maine Vocational Region Ten
- Maine Volunteers for Justice
- Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
- Merrymeeting AIDS Support Services
- Merrymeeting Regional Adult Education
- Merrymeeting SERVE Food Co-Op
- Mid Coast Senior Health Center
- Midcoast Council for Business Development & Planning
- Midcoast Hospital
- Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program
- MidCoast Maine Community Action (MMCA)
- Midcoast Symphony Orchestra
- Mitchell Institute
- Morris Farm
- Morse High School
- Mt. Ararat High School
- Mt. Ararat Middle School
- Natural Resources Council of Maine
- Nature Conservancy
- New American Sustainable Agriculture Project (NASAP)
- New Meadows Watershed Association
- Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
- Oasis Healthcare, Inc.
- Outdoor Habitat Committee
- Parkview Adventist Medical Center
- Patten Free Library
- Pejepscot Historical Society
- Pejepscot Terrace
- People Plus Center
- Phippsburg Elementary School
- Pine Tree Council BSA
- Pine Tree Society for Handicapped Children and Adults, Inc.
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
- Portland Education Partnership
- Portland High School
- Portland Housing Authority
- Portland Players
- Preble Street
- PROP (People's Regional Opportunity Program)
- ReBound Program
- Reid State Park
- Respite Care
- Riverton Elementary School
- Riverview Foundation
- Ronald McDonald House of Portland, ME Inc.
- Salvation Army
- Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine
- Shanti Kunj
- Skolfield House
- Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber
- SPIRAL Arts, Inc.
- St. John's Catholic School
- State Planning Office, Waste Reduction and Recycling Office
- Stevens Home
- Success By 6 at United Way
- Summer Camp, Inc.
- Sunnybrook Village
- Susan Curtis Foundation/ Camp Susan Curtis
- Sweetser - Brunswick
- Tedford Housing
- The Lobster Conservancy
- The Telling Room
- Theater Project
- Thornton Hall
- Topsham Library
- Topsham Planning Department
- Town of Brunswick, Open Space Task Force
- Town Of Harpswell
- Town of Richmond
- Town of Topsham
- Toxic Action Center
- Tri-County Literacy Volunteers
- Union St. School
- University of Maine Cooperative Extension
- University of New England and Restore the Maine Coast
- Vinalhaven Island Community School
- Volunteer Lawyers Project
- Volunteers of America, Northern New England
- Williams-Cone School
- Winship Green Nursing Home/The Arbor
- WMPG-FM/Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Wolfe's Neck Farm
- Wolfe's Neck State Park
- Woodside Elementary School
- Woolwich Historical Society
- Youth Alternatives, Inc.