Every employee at Maine Beer Company is welcome and encouraged to nominate a nonprofit that is meaningful to them.

Each month a rotating panel of employee volunteers reads, researches, discusses, and, votes on submissions from the previous month.

After voting is complete, we send a donation to the selected nonprofit.

Water Legacy

"​WaterLegacy is an award-winning grassroots non-profit formed in 2009 to counter the threat of sulfide mining proposed for Northern Minnesota. Our founders were concerned that sulfide mining would destroy wetlands, wildlife, habitats and wild rice, contaminate water with toxic metals, increase mercury levels in fish, and impair tribal rights.

Much of our work has focused on preventing pollution and destruction from the PolyMet mine, Minnesota’s first proposed copper-nickel sulfide mine."

(Photo credit: Lorie Shaull)

" This organization is headquartered in my hometown of Duluth, MN. I grew up with safe water and accessibility to clean outdoor water locations because of organizations like Water Legacy. My father also recently canoed the Boundary Waters with his brothers—this place direly needed to be protected, as do all public lands during this unprecedented time in conservation."