JustME for JustUS
C3 Compliance Ongoing Consultation
Help us ensure that our small and growing organization can have maximum impact within c3 limits
Posted December 16, 2024
Background & Context
As a young and growing youth-led organization, we seek pro bono guidance on a few logistical and legal questions that inevitably arise as part of our work. We hire Rural Youth Organizers as contractors and support them in organizing other young people in their communities around pressing rural issues, and especially climate justice-related issues. They also lead civic engagement opportunities, including legislative session programs and vote work during even election years. In this work of shifting support to young people in under-resourced parts of the state to ensure they are represented in decisions that impact their futures, we seek legal counsel on questions that come up from time to time.
Work & Deliverables
We are seeking someone who we can reach out to via email from time to time when c3, tax, and other nonprofit-related questions arise in our work. These might range from: double-checking lobbying guidance, international contractor tax forms, and requirements for liability forms. These questions usually come up every few months and usually are quite brief.
Preparation Phase
- Phone call
Collaboration Phase
- Email correspondences with questions as they arise
Wrap Up
- If both parties agree, can continue this relationship over email until it no longer works
JustME for JustUS
JustME for JustUS (JMJU) is a youth-led and rural-led 501(c)3 nonprofit ensuring young people in rural Maine have their voices heard throughout our state, especially around issues of climate, environment, and economic opportunities. We intentionally collaborate with rural youth (ages 15-30) across all political backgrounds to advocate for the communities where we live and work. Maine’s rural youth are connected to place through school, fishing, hunting, working seasonal industries, and our culture of interdependence with the land and our community. JMJU’s approach is place-based not only to build trust and long term relationships within our target counties, but to ensure our strategies for change are truly coming from within the communities that have traditionally been excluded from the mainstream climate movement. Rural youth are hard workers and experts in knowing what their communities need. JMJU recognizes that advocating for a better future requires expertise, labor, and time. Rural Mainers have a robust work ethic from a very young age and often work multiple jobs to help make ends meet. As such, JMJU’s core value is paying all young people for their time, which we believe is a small step in making community advocacy more accessible to youth in rural Maine.
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JustME for JustUS
JustME for JustUS (JMJU) is a youth-led and rural-led 501(c)3 nonprofit ensuring young people in rural Maine have their voices heard throughout our state, especially around issues of climate, environment, and economic opportunities. We intentionally collaborate with rural youth (ages 15-30) across all political backgrounds to advocate for the communities where we live and work. Maine’s rural youth are connected to place through school, fishing, hunting, working seasonal industries, and our culture of interdependence with the land and our community. JMJU’s approach is place-based not only to build trust and long term relationships within our target counties, but to ensure our strategies for change are truly coming from within the communities that have traditionally been excluded from the mainstream climate movement. Rural youth are hard workers and experts in knowing what their communities need. JMJU recognizes that advocating for a better future requires expertise, labor, and time. Rural Mainers have a robust work ethic from a very young age and often work multiple jobs to help make ends meet. As such, JMJU’s core value is paying all young people for their time, which we believe is a small step in making community advocacy more accessible to youth in rural Maine.