About Maine West
Guiding beliefs
Maine West partners’ collaborative work is guided by the following core beliefs:
- Effective cross-sector collaboration will improve outcomes for people, communities and the environment;
- Strong relationships and collaboration among project area communities will generate new opportunities to address regional issues;
- Increased investment is needed to secure long-term community benefits;
- Local and sector-specific work is important for its implicit value and as a testing ground for regional learning and replication;
- Learning together, across sectors and across communities, will build local capacity;
- Engaging people of all backgrounds, incomes and education levels is necessary to ensure work that is grounded and relevant to community well-being;
- The health of people and of the land are interrelated and must be addressed together;
- Systemic change takes time and requires both patience and experimentation.