Learn how to prevent, interrupt, and effectively respond to escalation in both personal and professional settings. This session will explore the signs and stages of escalation, helping you recognize when tensions are rising and how to intervene before things spiral out of control. We’ll delve into proven de-escalation techniques, adrenaline management skills, and communication strategies that can help you stay calm and assertive during high-stress situations. Through practical exercises, you'll gain hands-on experience in applying these skills in a variety of workplace and public scenarios, empowering you to handle conflicts with greater confidence and composure.

Register here.

Join iBec for their 3rd Annual Collaborative Art Event to celebrate B Corp Month and highlight the Equality Community Center. Together we'll paint a collaborative art piece inspired by the Equality Community Center's social justice mission to serve Maine's LGBTQ+ community that will hang in iBec's office. Snacks, drinks, and all the supplies needed to embrace your inner artist will be provided. Don't worry if you don't have any artistic experience! This is all about self-expression.

The Equality Community Center is a local nonprofit dedicated to being a collaborative workplace for LGBTQ+ and allied social justice-seeking non-profit organizations, in addition to serving as a community center for Maine’s LGBTQ+ community. They support the right that every Mainer deserves to live their authentic life, free from discrimination, hate, violence or prejudice.

We hope you'll join us for an evening of creativity, community, and equality!

Register for the event here.

We are excited to partner with Bowdoin College on an event to introduce B Corps to the next generation of leaders.  We are looking for four to six Maine B Corps to participate in the event and engage with students. The event will be held on Thursday, February 6 from 4:30 - 6:00 pm, located in the LADD Living Room space on the Bowdoin campus as an opportunity for students to learn more about Maine B Corps and all that they do. If you are interested in receiving more information about the event, or participation, please reach out to Jeremy Litchfield at jeremy@big-acts.com. 

Join us for our first event of the year in celebration of Maine B Corp Energy Circle's first full year as a certified B Corp! Get to know the Maine #BCorp community better and set some B Good Resolutions for 2025. We'll see you there!

On September 20th join iBec Creative, a certified B Corp, for a beach trash clean-up at South Portland's Bug Light Park.

We are joining the statewide annual initiative 2024 Maine Coastal Cleanup. The state will send us data forms for recording the debris we collect, trash bags, and instructions.

We hope you can join us! Sign up here.

Date and Time: March 26th from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Luke's Lobster Portland Pier - 60 Portland Pier, Portland

Help us close out a wonderful B Corp Month with a B Corp themed Happy Hour at Luke's Lobster! Join us in the upstairs bar to meet Luke's founders and team members, and folks who are just interested in or excited about the B Corp movement. Enjoy free snacks from B Corps and $1 off beers and wines from Certified B Corps at the bar.

Learn more about B Corp Certification and the Lift All Boats project, Luke's Lobster's program to help students from marginalized backgrounds enter the lobster industry.

This is a free event with a suggested $5 donation to Lift All Boats: if we raise $500 that will buy all of one student's lobster traps for the year! Please be sure to register regardless so we can get an accurate headcount. Tickets will sell out so reserve yours now!

If you'd like to support the program with a more generous donation, you can do so through Island Institute: https://giving.islandinstitute.org/give/442513#!/donation/checkout

Date and Time: Wednesday March 13th, 4:30pm-6:30pm
Location: iBec Creative, 177 High Street, Portland, ME 04101

Join us in contributing your hand to create a collaborative art piece that will hang in our office. We will provide snacks, drinks, and all the supplies needed to embrace your inner artist. Don't worry if you don't have any artistic experience! This is all about self-expression.

In honor of B Corp Month, we'll be highlighting Maine Climate Action Now, a local nonprofit dedicated to transitioning our community to zero carbon emissions by 2030. They demand the equitable implementation of clean renewable energy, ecological land-use practices, and bold community-led action for a more resilient Maine.

We hope you'll join us for an evening of creativity, community, and climate action!

Date and Time: January 24th from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Patagonia, 100 Main Street, Freeport, ME 04032

The Maine B Corp Community, B Lab U.S. & Canada and 1% for the Planet invite you to #STANDWITHWABANAKI at the launch of the Wabanaki Alliance's Businesses for Wabanaki 

Join Wabanaki Alliance Board President and Penobscot Tribal Ambassador Maulian Bryant, Wabanaki Alliance Board Vice President and Mi'kmaq Nation Vice Chief Richard Silliboy, Wabanaki Alliance board member and Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative Aaron Dana, and Wabanaki Alliance board member Rena Newell, and leaders from Maine's business community to learn how your business can support Wabanaki Nations' efforts to achieve tribal sovereignty. 

Date and Time: November 16th from 4pm-7pm
Location: Alnoba 24 Cottage Road Kensington, NH 03833

Award winning film, “Hopeful: The Story of MaineWorks”, tells the story of Margo Walsh who literally built a business from her kitchen table, as a single mother of two. Her company, MaineWorks, employs ex-cons and people in recovery, exclusively. We meet many of her employees and hear their stories of hope. We hear from Maine’s Governor, Janet Mills, and US Senator from Maine, Angus King, who both discuss how Margo’s model is ripe for both state and nationwide roll-outs; MaineWorks is already operational throughout Maine and expanding into five other states. Miraculously, Margo is part of the discussion for staffing for the future, as the Infrastructure bill works its way through Congress. “Hopeful – The Story of MaineWorks” is an uplifting portrait of a female American entrepreneur with a social conscience, who gives individuals a second chance to rebuild their lives, and a pathway back to the community and redemption through hard work.

In addition to viewing this incredible film, you will also have the amazing opportunity to meet the daring woman behind it all, Margo Walsh, for a Q&A session following the film!

RSVP Here

Date and Time: November 14th from 6pm-7:30pm
Location: Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Library, Brunswick, ME

Explore how choosing gifts can be a positive experience – in this holiday season and beyond! We’ll present a buying guide full of resources and tips on ways to be a more thoughtful consumer, and hear stories about approaches to gift giving that strengthen our connections and communities from local representatives of more sustainable businesses:
• Jenna Vani, Woods and Waters Gear Exchange;
• Benn Marine, Responsibly Different/B Corporations;
• Emmy Andersson, Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
• Ward Clark, Dean’s Beans Fan.

Come share your ideas, browse a resource table and enjoy fair trade refreshments.

Co-sponsored by Curtis Memorial Library and Hope and Action: An Economy for All. Free and open to the public - all welcome!

Date and Time: Thursday, September 28th from 5-7pm

Location: Smith Education Center at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment (WNC), Freeport, Maine

Join Maine B Corps at the stunning Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment in Freeport. Plenty of networking, beer from Maine Beer Company, a Patagonia Provisions Food Tasting, as well as other snacks provided by Dirigo Collective. Watch this video for more information on the partnership between WNC and Maine Beer Co.

There will be a short program to learn about how businesses are collaborating in innovative ways with non-profits to build an economy that is good for people and planet.

You will hear from:

• Dave Herring, Executive Director of Wolfe’s Neck Center, a national leader in the regenerative farming movement, one of the key solutions to the climate emergency

• Britt Lundgren, Senior Director of Sustainability and Government Affairs at NH-based B Corp, Stonyfield, on their multiyear partnership with WNC to support the organic dairy farming industry, and regenerative organic agriculture

• Steve Mills, CEO of Maine Beer Company, on their longstanding collaboration with WNC around renewable energy goals, a finalist for 1% for the Planet’s 2023 Partnership Award!

We welcome all visitors free of charge but we appreciate any donations of $10-25 to support the mission and impact of our non-profit host organization, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment. Click here to donate

RSVP HERE

Date and Time: Friday, September 8th from 1pm to 4pm
Location: Bug Light Park, South Portland

On September 8th join iBec Creative, a certified B Corp, for a beach trash clean-up at South Portland's Bug Light Park. We are joining the statewide annual initiative 2023 Maine Coastal Cleanup. The state will send us data forms for recording the debris we collect, trash bags, and instructions. Hope you can join us!

RSVP HERE

Happy Hour Book Launch:
Altruistic Business by Gavin Watson
(Chair, CT Conscious Capitalism)

Please RSVP to Bobbie (bobbielamont27@gmail.com) if you can join!

Join us for an evening of inspiration and networking! Student teams have been working with partner organizations to help them advance their sustainability initiatives and goals. B Impact Clinic students helped our partners assess their social and environmental impacts by completing the B Impact Assessment, the first step to becoming B Corp certified. Carbon Clinic students have been helping our partners calculate their carbon footprints. Students and their mentors will reflect on the experience, followed by time for networking with sustainability peers.

Please join Patagonia Freeport, Maine B Corps, and 1% for the Planet for a festive mixer to learn more about what it means to be a Benefit Corporation and a 1% for the Planet member or grantee. Learn why these certifications are good for businesses, the community, and the planet and how they will help build a more inclusive and sustainable Maine economy.

Snacks and drinks from B Corp and 1% for the Planet participating members will be provided.

MaineWorks and Maine Recovery Fund invite you to a screening of Hopeful: The Story of MaineWorks.

An uplifting portrait of an entrepreneur with a social conscience who gives individuals a second chance to rebuild their lives, a pathway back to the community, and redemption through hard work.