Maine People's Alliance

"Talk is cheap, voting is free; take it to the polls..." — Nanette L. Avery

In 2019, the Kelly Ann Brown Foundation continued to focus on supporting efforts to increase voter turnout. The board especially wanted to support communities whose right to vote has long been suppressed and whom the current administration is actively working to keep from the polls on November 3, 2020.

For over 30 years, Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) has built a statewide grassroots movement for progressive social change. With more than 32,000 members, MPA has become Maine’s largest community action organization.They have led state campaigns to expand health care access, affordable housing, racial justice, immigrant rights, and clean elections reform.  

Leading up to the 2020 election, MPA has been hard at work supporting election officials on how to keep voters safe during the pandemic. The Center for Tech and Civic Life’s COVID-19 Response Grants programs provides grants which are intended to supplement public funding to cover the cost of safely carrying out elections during the pandemic. MPA is making sure that election officials are aware that they are eligible to receive these grants, and following up to see that they have applied for them. MPA also hired more canvassers for voter contact work in early August. Over that month, their team ID’d 4,000 voters for the US Senate and Presidential races and spoke to over 1,300 voters about how they can vote absentee.

MPA is committed to providing the people of Maine with the “tools, knowledge, skills and opportunity to become involved in the decision-making processes that affect their lives.”

KABF is grateful for all the work Maine People’s Alliance is doing. To find out more, visit their website.

Maine Universal Family Care leaders.

Lower drug prices event.

Volunteers at a Statehouse rally addressing the overdose crisis.