In spring 2024, GrowSmart Maine and Build Maine hosted three virtual brainstorming sessions with statewide partners to discuss and develop forward-thinking legislative proposals and prioritize policy actions for the 2025 legislative session. The results of this brainstorming effort can be found at our interactive Miro board, where participants posted ideas, and helped to sort and prioritize policy actions. From that work, the Policy Action "bus drivers", or working group leaders, distilled the Miro board down to 7 key policy actions that have energy behind them and that meet the goals of Policy Action.
The working groups are open to anyone interested in helping do the work and advance the legislation. Please sign up to join a working group by clicking the button below. It makes sense for you to join a working group if you are passionate about the topic and can make time to engage in the work, if you can help write technical policy language, help with logistics or promotion, or can bring other energy to the work. Time commitments will likely be weekly or bi-weekly zoom calls with your working group, with potential for production time in between meetings, depending on your role.
