What is the Alliance?
The Maine Alliance of Health and Prosperity convenes and engages partners across sectors to increase impact through collective action and leverage resources to expand our reach and amplify results. We are not implementers of programs or services – that’s what our alliance members do best. Our strategies include engaging, educating, and advocating through actions like conferences, workshops and webinars, issue briefs, policy analyses, and op-eds.
Our strength lies in our deep experience, longstanding relationships, and commitment to positive, systemic change among leaders who comprise the alliance.
Our Vision: All Maine people and communities are thriving as the result of statewide, cross-sector collaboration that ensures an integrated approach to improving the public’s health and prosperity. Communities of particular concern are Black, Indigenous, or people of color, rural regions, and those impacted by multigenerational poverty and other health concerns.
Our Beliefs: Our individual and collective health is inextricably linked with our economic prosperity. The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age determine the presence or absence of both health and prosperity. Health is not only the product of affordable medical care but of safe housing, quality childcare, nutritious food, accessible transportation, and economic security.
Our Members:
- Eve Ali, Realtor (formerly with the Lewiston-Auburn Working Communities Challenge)
- Keith Bisson, CEO, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
- Liz Blackwell-Moore, Public Health Director, Cumberland County
- Rebecca Boulos, Executive Director, Maine Public Health Association
- Yellow Light Breen, President and CEO, Maine Development Foundation
- Andy Coburn, Professor Emeritus, University of Southern Maine, Muskie School
- Liz Cotter Schlax, President and CEO, United Way of Greater Portland
- Dan Coyne, President & CEO, United Way of Southern Maine
- Barbara Crowley, Executive Vice President, MaineGeneral Health
- Luisa Deprez, Professor Emeritus (USM)
- Lori Dwyer, President and CEO, Penobscot Community Health Care
- Jake Grindle, CEO, Maine Health Access Foundation
- Megan Hannan, Executive Director, Maine Community Action Partnership
- Morgan Hynd, Director, The Bingham Program
- Jennifer Hutchins, Executive Director, Maine Association of Nonprofits
- Heather Marden, Co-Executive Director, Maine Association for the Education of Young Children
- Charley Martin-Berry, Executive Director, Community Caring Collaborative
- Jessica Maurer, Executive Director, Maine Council on Aging
- Robyn Merrill, Executive Director, Maine Equal Justice
- Laura Mitchell, Executive Director, Maine Affordable Housing Coalition
- Claudette Ndayininahaze, Co-Executive Director, In Her Presence
- Hibo Omer, Executive Director, New Mainers Public Health Initiative
- Tony Plante, Chief Operating Officer, Greater Portland Council of Governments
- Jill Rosenthal, Director of Public Health Policy, Center for American Progress
- Selam Runyon-Baruch, Director of Development and Community Engagement, New Mainers Public Health Initiative
- Abdulkerim Said, Health Equity Partnerships Coordinator, Office of Population Health Equity, Maine CDC
- Amy Scott, Program Manager, Northern Forest Center
- Megan Shore, Conservation Resilience Specialist, Maine Coast Heritage Trust
- Lisa Sockabasin, Director of Programs and External Affairs, Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness
- Mike Wilson, Senior Program Director, Northern Forest Center
- Carolyn Wollen, Trustee, The Betterment Fund
- Shawn Yardley, Retired, former CEO, Community Concepts
Staff/Consultants:
- Deb Deatrick, Consultant
- Lisa Miller, Consultant
- Jan Kearce, , Senior Program Director, Maine Development Foundation
- Sophie Drew, Program Coordinator, Maine Development Foundation
Current Funders:
