Our Mission

Common Good Ventures provides expert business advice, hands-on coaching and ongoing support to Maine nonprofits to help them improve their performance, reach their potential and successfully address pressing social problems that affect the state's economy.

Our Approach

We are business people who bring proven management practices and innovative thinking to nonprofits having excellent programs and the potential for major impact. We blend a passion for helping Maine people and communities in need with a passion for results and the knowledge of how to improve them.

Common Good Ventures attracts and involves entrepreneurial members of the business community who are looking for tangible ways to give back to their communities and share their professional expertise. Our staff and volunteers are dynamic, creative problem-solvers who enjoy using their business world skills and experience to build a stronger Maine.

We build long-term partnerships, custom-designed to nurture the ability of an organization or network to reach its potential for impact in a way that is sustainable over time. We connect business people with nonprofits and we connect nonprofit leaders with each other. We help build intentional networks of problem-solvers who address some of Maine's toughest economic and social challenges. We identify and support opportunities for collaboration, helping each player focus on delivering its part of the solution and reducing redundancy.

In addition to our long-term partnerships, we extend our reach to a wider group of Maine organizations through Common Good Ventures' Springboard. At these monthly events, we ask business people to "volunteer their minds" by brainstorming solutions for a specific nonprofit challenge.

Join us in our efforts to help nonprofits get more done and build a stronger Maine.