Mainebiz Giving Guide

V O L . X X V I I N O. X X I 32 G I V I N G G U I D E 2 0 21– 2 0 2 2 N O N P RO F I T P RO F I L E BOARD OFFICERS Justin Alfond, Board Vice Chair: Co-Founder, Full Plates Full Potential Michaela Goodwin, Board Treasurer: Chief Financial Officer, VETRO FiberMap BOARD MEMBERS Kevin Concannon: Former Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, United States Department of Agriculture Julie Butcher Pezzino: Executive Director, Children's Museum & Theater of Maine Ericka Dodge: External Communications Manager, Hannaford Ben Ramsdell: Culinary Coordinator, MaineGeneral Health Full Plates Full Potential businesses to take action towards ending child hunger by leveraging their brand to raise funds and awareness for the cause. FEED KIDS partners are a part of a pow- erful movement that gets us ever closer to ensuring that all Maine kids have equal access to healthy meals. Events: Full Plates is known for curat- ing distinctive events in partnership with Maine's creative community including chefs, musicians, beverage crafters, and artists. ese world-class experiences raise awareness about the issue of child hunger in Maine and funds to help to solve it. Once current public health concerns have eased, we will again gather in common cause. Meanwhile, please contact us for ways you can organize a Full Plates benefit. GIVING OPPORTUNITIES Core Partners: Full Plates collaborates with Maine corporations and foundations whose social responsibility imperatives include hunger relief, education, and youth empowerment. One-time and multi-year investments through core- partnerships are customizable to meet mutual goals and objectives. Matching Funds: Full Plates conducts fundraising appeals several times annu- ally including back-to-school, end-of- year, and summertime to support youth meal programs year-round. We welcome matching gifts from Maine companies as a powerful incentive to accelerate individual donors' generosity during these campaigns while highlighting your company's com- mitment to Maine's next generation of leaders, businesspeople, and employees. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Full Plates Full Potential is not a direct services organization and therefore does not have traditional volunteer Established: 2014 / Employees: 6 / Annual revenue: $1,867,595 TOP FUNDING SOURCES 53% Individual Donors 24% Grants/ Foundations 12% Corporate Partners 9% FEED KIDS Cause Marketing 2% Events CONTACT 188 State St., Suite 407 Portland, ME 04101 (207) 582-7269 www.fullplates.org FullPlatesFullPotential @FullPlatesMaine @FullPlatesFullPotential AWARDS/ACCOLADES 2021 Maine became one of the two first states to enact school meals for all legislation, a policy that Full Plates Full Potential authored and championed. / 2020 National Child Nutrition Foundation Excellence Award in Maine's Afterschool Food Program for Collaboration MISSION STATEMENT We're on a mission to end childhood food insecurity in Maine by maximizing participa- tion in child nutrition programs. We provide technical and financial assistance to schools and community organizations to feed kids now, while advocating for systemic changes so all Maine's kids have consistent access to nutritious meals. SERVICE LOCATIONS State of Maine Justin Strasburger, Executive Director Laura Pineo, Board Chair: Retired School Nutrition Director, MSAD 54 AT A GLANCE opportunities but we need your voice. Help raise awareness for the issue of child hunger in Maine through your professional and personal network. Full Plates challenges businesses and the professionals within them to amplify the issue of childhood food insecurity and Full Plates' strategy to solve it. Share Full Plates' work on your social media channels. Encourage your employees/ employer and the businesses you do busi- ness with to join the cause. Invite your friends, followers, and clients to make a donation to make a difference for Maine kids who are counting on us to solve this urgent and solvable problem. P H O T O © W I N K Y L E W I S P H O T O © W I N K Y L E W I S 2022 GOALS Full Plates Full Potential continues to work with schools and nonprofit organi- zations to increase participation in child nutrition programs, removing everyday barriers that children face in accessing nutritious meals. The pandemic laid bare the issue of food insecurity among Maine youth but in truth, childhood hunger was a crisis before COVID and it will remain so after the pandemic subsides. Full Plates is committed to simultaneously supporting near-term, on-the-ground efforts to feed children today while advocating for long-term solutions so all Maine kids have reli- able access to healthy meals throughout their childhood. We will work alongside our partners to help implement the groundbreaking child hunger legislation passed by the Maine Legislature in 2021 including the School Meals for All rollout, expansion of the Local Food Fund, increased utilization of Breakfast After the Bell models, and bringing After- school Meals to more Maine communities. Additionally, we will launch the John T. Woods Memorial Innovation Grant to honor Full Plates Full Potential's co- founder's vision for Maine becoming the first state in which no child grows up hungry. FUNDRAISING EVENTS/ OPPORTUNITIES Cause Marketing: Our FEED KIDS initiative invites purpose-driven Maine

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