Maine Women's Policy Center

Interaction with Maine Women's Lobby

The Maine Women's Policy Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 1990, works to ensure that the voices and experiences of Maine women and girls shape public policy through research, education, advocacy, and leadership development programs. The Maine Women's Policy Center performs in-depth research, policy development, and public education to advance cutting-edge policies primarily in the areas of work and family, economic opportunity, equal pay, and reproductive health. The Maine Women's Policy Center also provides direct civic leadership training for women and girls. Donations to the Maine Women's Policy Center are tax-deductible.

The Maine Women's Lobby, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, was founded in 1978 to make sure women's voices are part of the legislative process. The Maine Women's Lobby advocates for economic security, defends access to health care and reproductive privacy, champions civil rights, and works to end violence against women and girls. The first and now largest organization of its kind in the nation, the Maine Women's Lobby provides direct training to advocates, conducts extensive grassroots organizing, and supports a full-time effective lobbyist at the State House. Working with diverse groups across the state, the Maine Women's Lobby has fought and won dozens of victories for more than 30 years. Because the Maine Women's Lobby works to change laws to help women in Maine, contributions are not tax-deductible.

Though they employ different strategies, these sister organizations share the same mission of increasing social, political, and economic opportunities for Maine women and girls through public policy and leadership development.