Maine Commission for Community Service

The place to
-recruit volunteers;
-find a way to be a volunteer;
-network with Managers of Volunteers

Headquarter Happenings

The monthly update for Commission business meetings.

To foster community service and volunteerism to meet human and environmental needs in the State of Maine.

Vibrant, productive communities with involved, responsible citizens.

Focus on building capacity and sustainability in local volunteer programs.
Partner with organizations and networks to meet the needs of volunteer programs and their leaders.
Use federal dollars for national service to leverage community resources that can effectively engage residents to solve local problems.
Educate and advocate for a better understanding of Maine's volunteer sector: its needs, accomplishments, challenges, and opportunities.

The Maine Commission for Community Service values service:

as a community building strategy -- harnessing the energy of a few to the benefit of many;
as a problem-solving strategy -- complementing the effort and energy of full-time professionals with the vision and sense of mission of part- or full-time volunteers;
as a cornerstone of the educational process; and
as a state- and nation-building strategy -- cultivating a sense of civic identity and greater common purpose.

The Commission holds as strong convictions that...

Service is a fundamental building block of a civil society;
Service cultivates a sense of personal and civic responsibility;
Service is a strategy for solving a range of community problems;
Service is an exemplary vehicle for delivering educational content and assessing learning -- and an educational aim in itself;
Service varies in intensity from part-time volunteerism to full-time paid service;
Service, when it is well-conceived and implemented, can be a cost-effective complement to the work of professionals;
Service includes a range of activities performed by different people using different means;
Service is a lifelong habit that can be most easily acquired early in life;
Service works best when it is community-led and government-supported; and
Service is a fundamental American tradition.

The legislation that created the Commission.