What we work on
Four Pillars
Four problems, four programs. Every one of them is education, research, or charitable help.
Self-Government
Civic education on the Constitution, the institutions of representative democracy, and the rule of law. Programs that explain how your town, county, and state actually work, and how a citizen changes them.
What that looks like
Plain-language publications, classes, and events on how self-government works in practice, and on the record of the alternatives.
Free Enterprise
Economic education on how voluntary exchange, private property, and entrepreneurship create opportunity. The case for markets over central control, made with evidence and Maine examples.
What that looks like
Plain-language publications, classes, and events on how free enterprise, private property, and voluntary exchange create prosperity, and on the record of the alternatives.
Public Safety
Research and public education on crime, policing, courts, and the real cost of disorder, in partnership with the people who keep Maine communities safe.
What that looks like
Independent, data-driven research on crime, policing, and the courts in Maine communities, published for the public and for policymakers.
Homelessness, Honestly
Three different problems need three different answers: serious mental illness, addiction and criminal involvement, and plain job loss. We fund research, education, and direct charitable help matched to each group instead of one program for all.
What that looks like
The homeless are three different groups with three different needs: the seriously mentally ill, people caught in addiction and the criminal justice system, and people who simply lost a job and a lease. Programs that lump them together fail all three. Restore Maine funds research and pilot programs built on that distinction.
And grants, across all four
Grants to Maine charities doing this work on the ground.
A chapter's advisory board recommends which local charities its fund supports. How chapters work.
Nonpartisan by charter.