Nyamoun “Moon” Nguany Machar describes her work as “sowing seeds.” Machar, 34, of Portland heads #WEOUTSIDE, a program that gives asylum-seeking kids an opportunity to explore the great outdoors.

His most recent personal project brought together nonprofits and Midcoast Federal Credit Union to create a financial literacy ...

Steve Knight of Waterville started the Central Maine Gleaning Group when he retired nine years ago. Knight donate produce and ...

For about a decade, around Thanksgiving, what is now the Maine Trust for Local News has published the Mainers To Be Thankful ...

When Verrill was a junior on the Falmouth girls’ cross-country team, she wrote a guest editorial in support of trans-athlete ...

After her mother was diagnosed with dementia, Lajoie quit her beloved job at Hannaford, where she’d been working for 30 years ...

When Clint Brooks was laid off from his job at the Otis Mill in 2009, he decided it was time for a leap of faith. Brooks took ...