Our nonprofit
Maine College Circle was established in 1992 as a publicly-supported, 501(c)(3) nonprofit to help provide better, equal, and earlier access to information and inspiration about the opportunity of higher education. Today, Maine College Circle's Future of Maine Initiative helps support early aspirations, while we emphasize the value of effort. Our goal is to help build a brighter future for rural Maine students and for their communities.
We like to say we are a staff of one,
the program director; an active
Board of Directors made up of educators, business professionals, and college students from Maine; and a broad network of over 100 volunteers throughout the state. We want it that way. We don't want to be a separate program. We want to help communities support the aspirations of their youth and the future of their community.
We have a strong partnership with the Mitchell Institute and Mitchell Scholars who join us at most of our Aspirations Workshops. And, we have had a very active group of students at Bowdoin College (the Bowdoin College Maine College Circle Group through the McKeen Center).
