New Ventures Maine creates an empowering environment for Maine people to define and achieve their career, financial, and small business goals.
Through free classes and individual coaching, we help people find good jobs, start or return to college, launch small businesses, manage their money and build their assets.
2026 Impact
In FY26, we provided classes and/or individual coaching to 817 Maine adults, reaching people in all 16 counties.
Services Provided
Workshop and class participants
817
Persons participating in individual coaching
304
Students attending Trades for ME conferences
523
Building Careers
Served job seekers and career changers with classes and coaching:
201
Offered Career Success for Single Moms in Cumberland and York Counties to women survivors of domestic violence, women in recovery, justice-impacted women, and unhoused women, through a grant from United Way of Southern Maine
33
Starting Businesses
Served new and aspiring entrepreneurs with workshops, classes and coaching:
405
Provided Business Basics and Venturing Forth classes and guidance to entrepreneurs in person and online
84
Managing Money
Served individuals with workshops, classes and individual coaching:
324
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau financial wellbeing scores for My Money Works graduates increased by an average of 9% over the five-week class period for individuals:
119
CA$H Maine 2026
Through NVME leadership, CA$H Maine served 5,831 tax filers, the largest in CA$H Maine history, generating $9, 941,414 in refunds to Maine people.