The Bates Community Giving Campaign provides faculty and staff the opportunity to support local causes through payroll deduction. Please consider a gift to the nonprofit(s) of your choosing from the charities below from Monday, October 20 through Friday, November 14, 2025.

Together, we aim to raise $35,000 from 207 donors.

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Our Charities

United Way of Androscoggin County aims to increase the organized capacity of people in Androscoggin and Oxford Counties to care for one another by fighting for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in our community.

• The United Way Supports 43 programs in Androscoggin and Oxford Counties, including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine, Boys and Girls Clubs of Maine, Healthy Androscoggin, Pine Tree Society, YMCA of Auburn-Lewiston, and many more.
• In 2022, the United Way served 30,500 individuals in Androscoggin and Oxford Counties, including:
  • 13,333 callers connected with resources from the 211 call line
  • 1,902 children and families accessed high-quality childcare
  • 1,500 children received backpacks filled with school supplies
  • 6,448 families learned  healthy and positive parenting skills
  • 1,091 people received meals delivered to their homes 
  • 1,400 youths and adults received violence prevention education and support
  • 1,700 bed nights of emergency assistance and basic needs provided to homeless youth in our community

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MaineShare is a platform that lets you give to Maine Initiatives’ partner organizations directly. You can donate to all organizations at once, select individual organization(s) to support, or tailor your donation to support the organizations by grant program or focus area. Whatever you decide, your donation will be distributed equally among those you choose.

• MaineShare supports organizations like Grants for Change (G4C), Immigrant-Led Organizations Fund (ILO), Outdoor Equity Fund (OEF), The Giving Project (GP) and more.
• MaineShare focus areas include:
  • Community Organizing
  • Economic Justice
  • Education, Arts & Culture
  • Environmental Justice & Animal Welfare
  • Gender Justice
  • Health Equity & Safety
  • Immigrant Serving
  • Racial Justice
  • Social Justice
  • Wabanaki Sovereignty & Self Determination

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Creating Healthier Communities: We build partnerships to address health inequities by fostering trusted community engagement, fundraising, and offering programs and services to help support communities where everyone can thrive. By supporting CHC nonprofit partners, you are taking an active role in helping make our communities a healthier place to live.

Any donation makes a difference:

• $3 per pay period gives 20 people access to an anonymous online mental health screening
  that can better understand their mental health.
• $5 per pay period will provide groceries for a patient with cancer for 2 weeks.
• $10 per paycheck covers the cost of a one-day virtual family program, which is offered free
  of charge and provides resources and support for family members impacted by addiction.
• $15.00 per pay period will help pay for travel expenses for individuals receiving
  chemotherapy far from home.
• $25.00 per pay period will help fund programs that address the maternal Health crisis
  and reduce preterm births.

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Make a Gift in 3 Easy Steps

1. Log in to Garnet Gateway
   Click the Community Giving campaign on your homepage.
   
2. Select your cause(s)
   Your gift of any size can be made as a one-time donation or a recurring monthly gift through a payroll deduction
   
3. Feel good and be entered for a chance to win!
   Donors will be entered into raffles for the chance to win Bates swag

Or come see us at one of the tabling events below to donate on the spot and receive a small token of our appreciation!

Latest Updates

Schedule for Tabling Events

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2025 Committee Members

Co-Chairs

Kristen Cloutier, Harward Center for Community Partnerships
Lauren Danie-Briggs, Human Resources

Committee Members: