CES$250 is one kid, one season.
Every dollar goes into the same place: a real young person, doing real work, learning what they're good at. We're a 501(c)(3) — your gift is tax-deductible, and you'll see exactly where it lands.
501(c)(3)every gift is deductible
Every gift maps to something real.
You're not funding an idea — you're funding a specific young person and the work they do. Sponsor one for a season and we'll tell you who, and what they made.
Fabric, filament, kraft tags, findings — the raw stock a young person turns into inventory that sells.
Ignite imaginations through a workshop that introduces young entrepreneurs to anything from production of essential oils to CAD design.
Everything: materials, mentorship, safety, and a full season in the program. We'll tell you who and what they made.
Underwrite a team build — a market pop-up, a garden bed, a product line — start to finish, for a group of young people.
Become a CES Changemaker Champion.
50 Champions. $15,000 a year. Enough to keep mentoring, entrepreneurship education and real workforce experience flowing for young people across rural Maine. Any amount works. $25 a month is the invite.
Thirty companies built a house with us.
Corporate partners sponsor a workforce team, supply equipment, host a work placement, or put their name on the campus. The Tiny Home proved what happens when Maine businesses get behind young people — thirty of them, one house.
Not just cash.
People give because this represents hope.
Youth are creating, working and thriving here. You're the reason it keeps happening.