Provides health care services focusing on reproductive health and issues pertaining to teen reproductive health and GLBT youth issues through Outright L/A.

79 Main Street Auburn, ME 04210

Contact: 207-795-4007

Tutoring at the B Street Community Center. Group works with Somali youth and adults (tutoring for the citizenship exam).

Adult tutoring for citizenship test is on Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 5pm.

215 Bartlett Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: rilwan@sbyam.org

Program that offers multiple services to elders in the community. Projects could include exploring differences in the experiences of male and female caregivers and/or care receivers. For example, do wives and husbands care for each other differently or have different attitudes about care giving? How do workplaces deal with gender differences in care givers who must take time off from their jobs?

Flexible Schedule.

8 Falcon Road Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: info@seniorsplus.org, 1-800-427-1241

Residential program for teenage girls with behavorial and emotional needs. Help with after-school homework and tutoring.

220 Turner Street Auburn, ME 04210

Contact: 207-753-5437, dmartinez@stmarysmaine.com

A grassroots organization whose goal is to ensure that women and girls in Maine can lead healthy and productive lives free from violence and discrimination. Education, public policy development, and advocay around the core issues of economic security, health care and reproductive rights, civil rights, and freedom from violence.

Times vary.

124 Sewall Street Augusta, ME 04330

Contact: etownsend@mainewomen.org

A grassroots philanthropic organization whose goal is to create lasting change by investing in the power of women and the dreams of girls. Programs engage and enrich women at every stage of life and currently include projects around economic security, leadership, and development of girls. They would like Bates students to help develop effectively organized regional leadership advisory councils. This is a great chance to see how philanthropy supports activism.

Times vary.

565 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101

Contact: brianna@mainewomensfund.org

Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) is a voluntary program designed to assist Section 8 (subsidized) and public housing residents to achieve economic independence through education, job training, financial literacy training, and employment. With the support of local programs like the Lewiston Housing Authority , FSS combines case management, life skills training, and fiscal management. FSS works with families in setting realistic goals in order to reach the point of economic self-sufficiency. Collaborating community agencies include: the Career Center, Abused Women's Advocacy Project, Department of Human Services, among others.

Flexible Hours

77 Rideout Avenue Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: charris@lewistonhousing.org

Extended daycare for pre-schoolers; help in classroom and developmentally appropriate activities for children. Must have SBI check and meet with staff.

Monday-Friday, from 6am to 7:30pm

96 Campus Avenue Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: 207-753-4832

Soup kitchen and support for the homeless community

Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 11:15 to Noon; Sundays from 5 to 6pm; Saturdays from 6 to 7pm

247 Bates Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: trinitylewiston@gmail.com

The United Somali Women of Maine is a Somali-directed Women's Center that serves as a safe space that is respectful of gender and cultural practices of the Somali and East African community. The Center creates safe space through the provision of staff and services that takes into account refugee identity; prior work and educational experience; needs and skill levels, inclusing language proficiency; and the need for support services such as childcare and transportation. The USWM was formed in 2001, by director Fatuma Husseum, to respond to the arrival of a significant population of Somali refugees and secondary migrants.

Monday - Friday, 8am to 5pm

157 Maine St, 2nd Floor Lewiston, ME

Contact: fhussein@uswofmaine.org

Tree Street Youth is a young nonprofit organization located in the Downtown "Tree Street Neighborhoods" of Lewiston. Our mission is to support the youth of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine through Academics, Arts, and Athletics. We provide youth with a safe place that encourages healthy physical, social, emotional, and academic development while building unity across lines of difference. Each day during our current after school program we serve between 120-150 youth of diverse backgrounds. Our current enrichment classes include hip/hop dance, step, cooking, visual arts, basketball, yoga, girls and boys support groups, karate, book club, and photography. As an organization we encourage all youth to explore all higher eduction options and future opportunities as they become life-long learners, engaged citizens, and contributors to society.

Monday-Friday, 2:30 to 5:30

144 Howe Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: juliarsleeper@gmail.com

Integrated pre-school care and developmental programming for children, some of whom have been identified as having developmental delays.

Times vary.

Strawberry Ave. Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: 207-782-2150

Pine Tree Legal Assistance is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status established in 1966 by private attornys in maine to promote access to justice by providing high quality free legal assistance that is responsive to the immediate needs of individual low-income clients and to address the long-range barriers to justice affecting low-income people in Maine. Pine Tree provides free individual representation in core service areas such as: housing, health care, and income. In addition Pine Tree manages several important projects including: a Farmworker Unit, Native American Unit, KIDS LEGAL, Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, a Family Law project, and a Foreclosure Prevention project.

Monday-Friday, 8 to 5pm

61 Main Street #41 Bangor, ME 04401

Contact: enelson@ptla.org, 784-1558

This is a drop-in program for homeless youth. GED coursework and recreational activities, as well as informal counseling and social services are provided in a safe space.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, & Friday, 1:30 to 6pm

245 Lisbon Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: 207-795-4074

AMS has a very active Civil Rights Team. Often over 50 students attend meetings. The Civil Rights Team addresses isues of equality, justice, and diversity. Activities may include planning cultural events such as a film series to highlight diversity, a community meal, or a speaker series. 

38 Falcon Drive, Auburn, ME 04210

LMS has a very active Civil Rights Team. Often over 50 students attend meetings. The Civil Rights Team addresses isues of equality, justice, and diversity. Activities may include planning cultural events such as a film series to highlight diversity, a community meal, or a speaker series. 

Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: bmcmanus@lewistonpublicschools.org

MPA's purpose is to bring individuals and organizations together to realize shared goals. They focus on leadership development to increase the number of citizen leaders prepared to work for positive social change. They are known for their ability to do grassroots organizing and education that reaches more than 100,000 Mainers each year with direct personal contact and quality leadership development work that has yielded dozens of leaders and staff for MPA and other organizations. MPA maintains offices in Bangor, Lewiston, and Portland. Current work includes: immigration issues, pressuring Maine delegation to fund social programs over the war, racial justice issues, and lobbying at the State House.

Monday - Friday, 8 to 5pm; some weekend hours

278 Lisbon Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: kate@mainepeoplesalliance.org

One student for each four hour shift. Students will be asked to rotate shifts so that everyone will get a chance to participate in different aspects of veterinary medicine. You must be available for all shifts including Saturdays, although you are not required to work more than one Saturday shift. Seven students may be placed here.

Monday - Saturday, 8am to Noon; Monday, Noon to 4pm

75 Stetson Road Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: charrison@lewvet.com, 207-782-8121

The Downtown Educatioin Collaborative, a partnership of four colleges and two community organizations in Lewiston and Auburn, began an academic success program in 2008. The program runs Monday-Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30pm at the Lewiston Public Library and offers academic assistance for middle and high school students in a positive and encouraging environment. It is primarily attended by ELL students. They are dedicated and ambitious students, but they struggle academically and are grateful for any time you can commit to helping them. If you are looking for an opportunity to help youth not only succeed in school but to build their confidence, here is your chance!

Monday to Thursday, 3:30-5:30pm

200 Lisbon Street Lewiston, ME 04240 (corner of Pine and Lisbon St.)

ILAP seeks to advocate for and to improve the status and well-being of Maine's low income noncitizens and their families by providing affordable legal services, and by educating and working with service providers, policy makers, and the public concerning legal issues unique to noncitizens.

Meets in Lewiston on the third Thursday of every month. 

309 Cumberland Avenue #201 Portland, ME 04101

Contact: info@ilapmaine.org

Bates and Lewiston Housing Authority have collaborated for many years on sustained programming to support children and families at the Hillview Family Development subsidized housing community. Currently, there are two after school programs. On Mondays and Wednesdays middle school aged children get homework help and participate in crafts and recreation activities. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, a group of middle school girls meet to work on various activities in an innovative aspirations program. 

Homework Help: Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 to 5pm

Boys Aspiration Program: Thursdays from 2:30 to 5pm

Girls Aspirations Program: Fridays 2:30 to 5pm

77 Rideout St. Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: charris@lewistonhousing.org

Students should plan to work at least one morning per week with additional time outside the humane society. Students must attend an orientation session before volunteering regularly.

Volunteer Opportunities: Everyday from 8am - 6pm

55 Strawberry Avenue Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: volunteer@gahumane.org

This is a well attended, well supported GSA group at a local high school. It is a safe space for conversation and socializing, equally attended by LGBTQ students and those who support them. There is also a drop in at the Unitarian Church in Auburn on Friday nights.

Meetings are every Monday from 2:30 - 4pm

77 Harris Avenue Auburn, ME 04210

Contact: penny.sargent@outrightla.org

Clover Health Care was founded in Auburn, ME in 1974. As progressive leaders in health care, Clover Health Care was the first to introduce the concept of continuum of care in the state of Maine. Their resident-centered approach accommodates varying levels of care and assistance according to an individual's changing needs and requirements, from assistant living to Alzheimer's care to hospice care. Activities include socialization groups, crafts, visiting, and participation in other resident-centered programming.

Best times to work with residents are 9:30am to 11am and 1:30 to 3pm Monday through Friday.

400 Minot Ave. Auburn, ME 04210

Contact: JParker@mainecare.com

Since 1955, the Auburn/Lewiston Clubhouse has offered afterschool programs for children ages 7-18. The Club provides a safe environment for young people to learn, build character, and be with friends after school and during the summer. With an annual membership to the Clubs, members can enjoy the learning center for homework assistance, the art room to create something exciting, get active in the Club's gymnasium, and enjoy a nutritious snack each day.

43 Second St. Auburn, ME 04210

Subsidized residential housing for the elderly and adults with disabilities. Work with Resident Services Coordinator and Bates student coordinator to develop and implement socialization activities to get the two populations to come together.

Hours are variable, though there is a regular brunch on Sundays. Students meet at 11am to walk to Blake St. Towers together to serve a noon brunch.

1 College St. Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: charris@lewistonhousing.org

Develop and implement afterschool activities for 8 to 14 year olds. Work with a multicultural group of children who reside at the Family Development Housing Unit.

Tuesday & Thursday, 4-6pm

109 Valery Circle Auburn, ME 04210

The Adult Learning Center is a part of Lewiston Adult Education. Since the in migration of a large population of Somalis during the past 6 years, the majority of students at the ALC are non-native English speakers.

Monday - Friday, 8am-12pm

145 Birch Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Contact: akemper@lewistonpublicschools.org