by Hannah Barrett, on November 28, 2023
The Season of Giving Tradition
This year, we're excited to continue our tradition of the Season of Giving!
On Giving Tuesday, we give back to our employees' and customers' most cherished causes and organizations. Every Arkabot and Arkatechture client has the opportunity to select a charitable organization for the company to donate to on their behalf.
Below is a full list of the 40+ organizations we are donating to this year. Check it out to learn more about the great work these organizations are doing to support their local communities!
- 317 Main
317 Main brings the power of music to people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds from across southern and mid-coast Maine. They were founded in 2004 on the idea that music can engage, vitalize, and strengthen human connections in our communities. They provide music education and connection through music lessons, group classes, jam sessions, ensembles, workshops, summer camps, performances, and more.
Chosen by Katie Eagan, Chief Operations Officer, Arkatechture
- Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer's Association leads the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.
Chosen by Mike Martineau, Service Delivery Lead, Arkatechture
- American Cancer Society
Over the past few decades, The American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer (MSABC) campaign has united communities, companies, and individuals and has grown into the nation’s largest and most impactful breast cancer movement.
Chosen by Marissa Laro, Finance & Operations Specialist, and Gaurav Chadha, Senior Project Manager at Arkatechture
- Animal Outlook
Animal Outlook is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal advocacy organization based in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA. dedicated to strategically challenging animal agribusiness through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and disseminating information about the many harms of animal agriculture.
Chosen by Jamie Jackson, Founder & CEO, Arkatechture
- Animal Refuge League
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland provides temporary care and shelter for stray, abandoned, confiscated and relinquished animals, and places as many pets as possible into responsible and caring homes.
Chosen by Edward Radcliffe, Cloud Data Engineer, Arkatechture
- Blue Ocean Society
The Blue Ocean Society strives to Increase the scientific knowledge base of the health, habitat use, population and behavior of whales, which are indicator species in the Gulf of Maine. They document human and environmental impacts on marine life to develop programs to better protect them in the future, and collaborate with the broader scientific community to protect marine life in the Gulf of Maine.
Chosen by Ceara Sweetser, Product Analyst Lead, Arkatechture
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is the largest independent conservation organization dedicated solely to saving the bay. Serving as a watchdog, they fight for effective, science-based solutions to the pollution degrading the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams.
Chosen by Tyler Schneider, Head of Sales, Arkatechture
- Congo Children Trust (Kimbilio)
Operating in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kimbilio provides long- and short-term housing, meals, clothing, basic medical care, education and love to children who have lost their parents.
- DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is a nonprofit and social enterprise that combats hunger and poverty through job training and job creation. The organization provides hands-on culinary job training for individuals facing high barriers to employment while creating living wage jobs and bringing nutritious, dignified food where it is most needed.
Chosen by Judith Bernholc, Head of Customer Success, Arkatechture
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center
Celebrating 100 years of service in 2022. The MLK Community Center promotes health, fights hunger, supports families, educates kids, and engages seniors. The MLK Center builds community.
Chosen by People's Credit Union
- Environment Maine
Environment Maine works for clean air, clean water, clean energy, wildlife and open spaces, and a livable climate. Their members across the state put grassroots support behind their research and advocacy.
Chosen by Nick Marshall, Technical Lead, Arkatechture
- Equality Maine
Equality Maine envisions the day when all LGBTQ+ Mainers and their families are empowered and have full equality in the hearts and minds of Maine people. Their mission is to protect and advance full equality for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education, engagement and collaboration.
Chosen by Will Hopkins, Data Visualization Analyst, Arkatechture
- Fostering Hope of Muskogee
Fostering Hope is a nonprofit organization founded by Oklahoma citizens with a desire to aid children when they are placed in foster care.
Fostering Hope supplies each child with an emergency bag we call our #bagfullofhope. Each bag comes with a weeks worth of clothing, shoes and socks, essential toiletries, formula and baby bottle, wipes and diapers, books and bible, age-appropriate toy, new underwear and socks, and handwritten card.
Chosen by Armstrong Bank
- Girls Inc.
Girls Inc. supports young girls through the combination of long-lasting mentoring relationships, a pro-girl environment, and evidence-based programming to equip girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers, and grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Informed by girls and their families, they also advocate for legislation and policies to increase opportunities and rights for all girls.
Chosen by Brandon Sowell, Data Visualization Analyst, Arkatechture
- Greater Androscoggin Humane Society
the Greater Androscoggin Human Society is a safe space for animals in need and a resource for community members and their animal companions. They believe in kind, compassionate and humane treatment for all animals, striving to provide the best care and the needed services to help save and improve lives in their community and beyond.
Chosen by Daniel Drake, Software Engineer, Arkatechture
- Harborlight Homes
Harborlight Homes is a non-profit, Massachusetts-certified Community Development Corporation. By focusing on the housing needs of underserved populations and creating, preserving and operating, safe, affordable housing with supplemental supportive services, HH strives to make homes available to all, because everyone deserves a home.
Chosen by Tom O'Hare, Enterprise Account Executive, Arkatechture
- Love in Living Action
Love in Living Action's mission is to provide “hands to serve and a heart to love” to those who are in need of basic care, support and assistance such as caring for the sick and dying in nonmedical ways, and serving those who have no one to help them.
Chosen by Peter Doyle, Business Analyst, Arkatechture
- Maine Center for Wildlife
Maine Center for Wildlife's mission is to instill a sense of understanding, responsibility, and compassion for our natural world leading to a society connected to nature and empowered to take action, and we do this through conservation medicine, environmental education, community empowerment, and advocacy.
Chosen by Cameron Gibson, Platform Operations Engineer, Arkatechture
- Maine Needs
Maine Needs is a Portland-based donation center that collects and distributes items like clothes, toiletries, bedding, books, kitchen supplies, and more to anyone who is in need in the community.
Chosen by Hannah Barrett, Content Marketing Specialist, Andrew Gardiner, and Makaylah Cowan, Data Analysts, Arkatechture
- Maui Strong Fund (Hawaii Community Foundation)
The Maui Strong Fund is providing financial resources to support the immediate and long-term recovery needs for the people and places affected by the devastating Maui wildfires.
HCF is working in close collaboration with state and county leaders, nonprofit organizations, and community members to get an understanding of the quickly evolving priorities.
Chosen by Hawaii USA Federal Credit Union
- March of Dimes
March of Dimes is committed to ending preventable maternal health risks and death, ending preventable preterm birth and infant death and closing the health equity gap for all families.
Chosen by Casey Higgins, Project Manager, Arkatechture
- MAX4Kids Foundation
In 2001, a group of MAX associates created the MAX4Kids Foundation because they realized the power of working together to help local children and youth through direct donations to partner organizations.
Since then, the Foundation has given back more than $1.5 million to local children’s charities and to the MAX4Kids Scholarship Program through annual fundraisers and employee donations.
Chosen by MAX Credit Union
- Metro East Humane Society
The Metro East Humane Society has worked to enrich the lives of people, cats, and dogs in Madison, St. Clair, Jersey, Bond, and Macoupin counties.
To do this, they operate a no-kill shelter; provide humane medical treatment, vaccinations, and spay/neuter services; educate adults and youth on the humane treatment of animals; build partnerships with community-based organizations, schools, public institutions, private corporations, and elected officials; and respect the public trust through the proper management of our resources.
Chosen by Scott Credit Union
- National Women's Law Center
The National Women’s Law Center fights for gender justice—in the courts, in public policy, and in our society—working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls. They use the law in all its forms to change culture and drive solutions to the gender inequity that shapes society and to break down the barriers that harm all of us—especially women of color, LGBTQ people, and low-income women and families.
Chosen by Phoebe Robinson, Data Analyst, Arkatechture
- Natural Resources Council of Maine
The Natural Resources Council of Maine is a nonprofit membership organization protecting, restoring, and conserving Maine’s environment, now and for future generations. For more than 60 years, the Natural Resources Council of Maine has been protecting the places and way of life that make Maine so special.
Chosen by Matthew Craig, Software Engineer, Arkatechture
- Nick's Kids Foundation
As the official charity of the Saban Family, Nick and Terry invest their time in hosting luncheons, golf tournaments, scrimmages, and other events to benefit the cause. They are also active in the annual Giveaway Luncheon, which serves to distribute grants to support children, family, teacher, and student causes.
To work together in the spirit of faith and giving in our community. It's all about the kids!
Chosen by RxBenefits 
- No Kid Hungry
No Kid Hungry is a national campaign run by Share Our Strength, a nonprofit working to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. After 25 years of successfully investing in local nonprofits and helping find the best approaches to eradicating poverty and hunger, Share Our Strength launched No Kid Hungry in 2010.
Chosen by Devika Nair, Business Data Analyst, Arkatechture
- PIER Program
The Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) Program is working to identify, engage, and treat teens and young adults with psychotic-spectrum concerns before the window of opportunity closes. They strive to reduce their risk of suicide, substance abuse, homelessness, incarceration, or long-term physical and mental health issues.
Chosen by Pat Lapomarda, Product Owner, Arkatechture
- Preble Street
Preble Street is an organization in Portland, Maine, dedicated is to providing accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty, and to advocate for solutions to these problems.
Chosen by Barry Kurland, Chief Commercial Officer, Arkatechture
- Presumpscot Regional Land Trust
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust is dedicated to creating a future where networks of conserved land, clean water, wildlife habitat, working farms, and public access to nature are recognized as vital assets to the economy and quality of place.
Chosen by Lisa Gleason, People Operations Manager, Arkatechture
- ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. They dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.
Chosen by Gabe Lane, Software Engineer, Arkatechture
- Rosati Leadership Academy
For many families in the Lewiston community, afterschool programs are out of reach. Rosati Leadership Academy (RLA) breaks down that barrier by providing a safe, free, after-school, youth-development program that is available to at-risk and youth of all backgrounds in our healing community.
Chosen by Ben Richey, Senior Consultant, Practice Lead, Arkatechture
- Ruth's Reusable Resources
Each day, throughout the school year, children in Maine attend school without needed pencils, paper, and other basic supplies. At the same time, businesses in Maine dispose of these same basic items. 3Rs bridges the gap between business and education by transferring those unwanted supplies to children and their teachers. It is working! Since 1994, 3Rs has given away more than $84 million worth of surplus furniture, paper, books, office supplies and computers to schools and non-profits.
Chosen by Devin Cook, Sales & Marketing Manager, Arkatechture
- Second Chance Ranch Rescue
Second Chance Ranch Rescue gives a second chance to lost, forgotten, or misunderstood dogs in order to help them find their furever home, and strive to reduce adoption return and failure rates by implementing a thorough adopter evaluation process, which includes ensuring a strong human/dog match, adopter education and adoption integration plans.
Chosen by Karen Clark, Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence Practice Lead, Arkatechture
- The Children's Heart Foundation
The Children's Heart Foundation is the country's leading organization solely dedicated to funding congenital heart defect (CHD) research. Their mission is to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of congenital heart defects by funding the most promising research.
Chosen by Amy Elliott, Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence, Arkatechture
- Seeds of Peace
Seeds of Peace works to equip exceptional youth and educators with the skills and relationships to work in solidarity across lines of difference to create more just and inclusive societies.
Chosen by Shuja Masood, Data Analyst, Arkatechture
- Teton County Search & Rescue
The Teton County Search & Rescue works to keep Teton County residents and visitors safe in the backcountry by providing vital emergency search and rescue services for24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Chosen by Ryley Higgins, Software Engineer, Arkatechture
- The Independence Fund
The Independence Fund is committed to serving the Warfighter Community by providing innovative programs and services to support the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual independence of servicemembers, combat Veterans, their Caregivers, and families through innovative mobility and adaptive technologies and therapies for combat Veterans; suicide prevention; caregiver and family support; and Veteran advocacy.
Chosen by Howard Lombard, ISO & Chief Architect, Arkatechture
- The Sato Project
The Sato Project is dedicated to rescuing abused and abandoned dogs from Puerto Rico. There are currently an estimated 500,000 stray dogs roaming the island’s streets and beaches. With no access to food, fresh water, or veterinary care, many of these dogs are living daily lives of severe suffering. The municipal shelter system is drastically overwhelmed, with only five shelters across all 78 of the island’s municipalities. These shelters have a combined euthanasia rate of over 94%. For thousands of stray and abandoned dogs in the area in which we operate, we are their only hope.
Chosen by Jessica Tomapat, Head of Business Advisory Services, Arkatechture
- United States Holocaust Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is working to keep Holocaust memory alive while inspiring citizens and leaders to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity in our constantly changing world.
Chosen by David Hudson, Director of PMO, Arkatechture
- Wescom Foundation
Wescom is more than banking — we are a network of members and employees dedicated to making Southern California a better place for all. The Wescom Foundation works to improve the lives of Southern Californians by supporting community-based organizations through strategic grantmaking and community engagement.
Chosen by Wescom Credit Union
- Woodfords Family Services
Woodfords Family Services was founded in 1967 by five families who wanted to provide specialized educational services to their children with disabilities. Over the course of 50 years, the agency has grown into one of the largest providers of disability-related services in the state of Maine.
Chosen by Devin Forsman, BI Data Analyst, Arkatechture
- Wounded Warrior Family Support
Wounded Warriors Family Support is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured, or killed during combat operations. Rated a four-star nonprofit by Charity Navigator, Wounded Warriors Family Support aids veterans and their families in healing the wounds that medicine cannot.
Chosen by Service Credit Union
- York Community Service Association
YCSA partners with York residents who are in need of support, services, and referrals during a difficult time in their lives with the help of staff, volunteers, and our community.
Chosen by Ryan Smith, Lead Analyst, Arkatechture
Happy Holidays from the Arkatechture Team!
