As a Volunteer

NMRC and our partner adult education locations use volunteers to work with our participants in many ways, such as helping to improve their English, reinforce conversational skills, prepare for licensing exams and provide industry mentoring.

Volunteer applications for NMRC locations:

Find the Portland Adult Education (PAE) application form here.

Contact Gregory Leavitt, the Director of Bangor Adult Education, at gleavitt@bangorschools.net

Contact Jen Tiner, the Director of Lewiston Adult Education, at jtiner@lewistonpublicschools.org

For more information, kindly get in touch with us.

As an Employer

We work with employers to determine their needs for skilled and culturally diverse workers, and thus connect them with qualified and motivated candidates. Each adult ed location has many students who walk through their doors daily – Portland Adult Education alone served more than 1,500 students last year. NMRC can help employers reach a wide range of candidates.

Greater Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor-area businesses will receive:

  • Free and personalized access to a trained, vetted and qualified pool of candidates
  • Free advertising and promotion for job fairs, listings and recruitment
  • Employer-driven training
  • Retention support
  • Enriched cultural workplace environment

Employers Play an Important Role with NMRC

Employers play an important role in NMRC and adult education programming. Employer input about their workforce needs, potential job openings, what they’re looking for in job applicants is critical for how we prepare our participants and how our partner adult education sites prepare their students. Employers are also an integral part of our programing, doing mock and informational interviews, providing job shadowing and internship opportunities, mentoring, helping facilitate professional groups and workshops. This involvement helps us make sure our program participants are qualified candidates and prepared for the jobs for which they apply. Additionally, each adult education location, through its workforce training program, has the ability to work hand in hand with employers to design a training program that meets that employer’s specific workforce needs.

Please Contact Us

If you are looking to hire skilled, culturally diverse and motivated workers please fill out and submit our online Employer Form to share with us information about your company and your current hiring needs. We will be happy to be in touch as soon as possible in order to help you find the best candidate match for your company.

You can also contact our program at any time to discuss your company’s needs for training, hiring or if you want to get involved in our program.

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Financial Donations

The demand for the services provided by the New Mainers Resource Center far exceeds available resources to provide those services. Our programs are supported by a range of funding sources including: state and local funds, foundation grants, support from businesses, in-kind volunteer services, and gifts from individuals. While we are very appreciative for this generous support, for the most part it is short-term. This means that we are actively seeking funding to support our work.

To learn about how you can support us financially and/or make an online donation, please visit the PAE website and the Friends of Portland Adult Education (FPAE) website.

Donations for the New Mainers Resource Center can also be mailed to:

Portland Adult Education
14 Locust Street
Portland, ME 04101
ATTN: Barbara Stoddard, NMRC Statewide Program Coordinator

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