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2021 Annual Giving Campaign

7th
Consecutive Year of Charitable Giving
$134,285
Employee Donations with Martin’s Point Match
$774,566
Grand total funds raised over 2015-2021 annual giving campaigns

Employees Pledge to Help Neighbors in Need.

Through our Annual Giving Campaign, Martin’s Point employees come together and pledge important financial support for the United Way, Community Health Charities of Maine, and MaineShare—umbrella organizations representing hundreds of critical local and national nonprofits dedicated to community health and well-being. Despite ongoing hardship from the COVID-19 pandemic, employees’ generous pledges, along with organizational matching funds, helped make our 2021 campaign one of our most successful to date. Since 2015, the Martin’s Point Annual Giving Campaign has raised $774,566 for community organizations.

Community Events

Going Virtual to Stay Connected

Involvement with community events is one powerful way that Martin's Point has traditionally supported local nonprofits. As an event sponsor, we often provided in-person “boots on the ground” support along with financial backing for events with our strategic community partners.

With the constraints of social distancing, 2020 taught us new ways to stay engaged as we adjusted to the “virtual” event world—including partnering with others to host our own virtual events as well as participating in community virtual events.

Events Martin’s Point Supported in 2020 Include:

Town of Scarborough, Zumba in the park & Kids pound fitness in the park | American Heart Association Go Red Luncheon & Heart Walk | American Diabetes Tour de Cure | STRIVE Rocks | SeaChange Yogathon | Charting to the Future SMAA | Make-A-Wish Trailblaze Challenge | Milestone Recovery Motorcycle Ride | Dempsey Center Dempsey Challenge | Furniture Friends Virtual Slumber Party | Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End ALZ | And more!

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Employee Volunteerism

At Martin’s Point, employee engagement in community service is a hallmark of our culture of caring. Supported by our generous Volunteer Time Off (VTO) program, employees can spend up to 24 hours of paid time each year volunteering at local nonprofits of their choice. In 2020, as many of our local organizations halted volunteer opportunities completely due to social distancing requirements, employees eager to make a difference found creative ways to safely offer their time and talents where they could.

Martin’s Point Employees Volunteered their Time with Many Organizations, including:

Maine Adaptive Ski-a-Thon | American Heart Association Heart Walk and Go Red Luncheon | Pride Portland! | Maine Cancer Foundation Tri for a Cure | American Diabetes Association Tour de Cure | Strive Rocks | Girls on the Run 5k | Elder Abuse Institute Hope is Key Gala | Maine Senior Games Athletic Events | and more!

Volunteer Time Off Utilization

One Family Helping to Feed Many Families

Food pantries across the country experienced unprecedented demand in 2020 as pandemic-driven job losses pushed many more of our neighbors into housing and food insecurity. Finding volunteer support and sufficient funding became an increasing challenge for these organizations, including our longstanding community partner Preble Street. When Martin’s Point employee Denise Hammond learned that they needed help getting out their annual holiday-giving appeal letter, she spotted a COVID-safe way to support those in need in her community while engaging her whole family in the giving spirit of volunteerism. She gathered her family in a disinfected Martin’s Point boardroom and assembled over 500 appeal letters—an effort that made possible Preble Street’s most successful appeal campaign ever (including a $10,000 donation from Martin’s Point)!

Be a Santa to a Senior

Active employee engagement supporting our community has always been a hallmark of our Martin’s Point culture. Despite the pandemic’s damper on most in-person volunteer opportunities, our fifth year of participation in the Be a Santa to a Senior program highlights our continued dedication to finding ways to touch the lives of those in need in our community. This year, we increased to 50 the number of local disadvantaged seniors whose holiday wish lists were granted by generous Martin’s Point employees—stuffing festive gift bags with new slippers, favorite soaps, boxes of sweets, and much more. These gestures of caring warmed hearts and lifted spirits during a particularly lonely year for many of these elder community members hard hit by the isolation caused by the pandemic.

Protecting Students from COVID

When the pandemic started, Susan Rivet, Health Plan Care Manager, knew she wanted to make a difference. When she started getting requests from parents for the custom-made, kid-size face masks she had sewn for her grandchildren, the lightbulb switched on. Soon she was using her Martin’s Point VTO to join three friends mass-producing pint-size masks for local students. To the delight of Lakes Region School District teachers and young students alike, Susan’s “Protecting Students from COVID” project delivered 340 little masks bedazzled with glitter, Disney characters, favorite animals, and bright colors. In Susan’s words, “This has been a tough year for everyone, including schools that have gone beyond their budgets to make classrooms COVID safe. Making masks was a heartwarming way to make a difference in my community.

One Family Helping to Feed Many Families

Food pantries across the country experienced unprecedented demand in 2020 as pandemic-driven job losses pushed many more of our neighbors into housing and food insecurity. Finding volunteer support and sufficient funding through this high-demand period became an increasing challenge for these organizations, including our longstanding community partner Preble Street. When Martin’s Point employee Denise Hammond read on Compass that they needed help getting out their annual holiday-giving appeal letter, she spotted a COVID-safe way to support those in need in her community while engaging her whole family in the giving spirit of volunteerism. She, her husband, and four children gathered in a disinfected Martin’s Point boardroom and assembled over 500 appeal letters—an effort that made possible Preble Street’s most successful appeal campaign ever (including a $10,000 donation from Martin’s Point)!

Be a Santa to a Senior

Active employee engagement supporting our community has always been a hallmark of our Martin’s Point culture. Despite the pandemic’s damper on most in-person volunteer opportunities, our fifth year of participation in the Be a Santa to a Senior program highlights our continued dedication to finding ways to touch the lives of those in need in our community. This year, we increased to 50 the number of local disadvantaged seniors whose holiday wish lists were granted by generous Martin’s Point employees—stuffing festive gift bags with new slippers, favorite soaps, boxes of sweets, and much more. These gestures of caring warmed hearts and lifted spirits during a particularly lonely year for many of these elder community members hard hit by the isolation caused by the pandemic.

Protecting Students from COVID

When the pandemic started, Susan Rivet, Health Plan Care Manager, knew she wanted to make a difference. When she started getting requests from parents for the custom-made, kid-size face masks she had sewn for her grandchildren, the lightbulb switched on. Soon she was using her Martin’s Point VTO to join three friends mass-producing pint-size masks for local students. To the delight of Lakes Region School District teachers and young students alike, Susan’s “Protecting Students from COVID” project delivered 340 little masks bedazzled with glitter, Disney characters, favorite animals, and bright colors. In Susan’s words, “This has been a tough year for everyone, including schools that have gone beyond their budgets to make classrooms COVID safe. Making masks was a heartwarming way to make a difference in my community.

Community Giving

In an extraordinary year

$400,000+
Total Monetary Donations for Direct Community Support
100+
Number of Community Partners Supported

Material Donations to Our Community

Covid-19 Tests
Blankets
PPE
Food
Sanitizer
Clothing
Diapers
iPads

Unprecedented circumstances in 2020 prompted us to find new ways to strengthen our existing partnerships and develop new ones as your community faced the unique challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with intensified demands for racial justice.

Below are highlights of our efforts to provide much-needed, pandemic-related supplies and services to local agencies serving at-risk populations and an overview of our social justice initiatives. You’ll also find examples of innovative ways we stood strong with our ongoing community partners, adapting our support to help address the new needs they faced in this extraordinary year.

Partnerships

At Martin’s Point, supporting local organizations whose missions align with ours is one important way we boost our impact on the well-being of our community. Through a combination of employee-inspired charitable giving and long-term strategic partnerships, we harness the exponential power of joining forces for the greater good.

We Engage in...

Charitable Contributions
We donate funds to health and wellness-focused nonprofits that our employees currently support through their own volunteerism and event participation. In addition, our annual Giving Campaign provides reliable annual support to our local United Way and other nonprofit organizations focused on community wellness.
Strategic Partnerships
We develop and maintain longterm partnerships—including sponsorships, program development, and operational collaborations— with nonprofits supporting our target populations.
270
Employee giving requests filled
$71,932
Total funds given in charitable contributions
$467,137
Total funds given in strategic partnerships

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