Our Programs

Neighborhood Cleanup / Umuganda

This program addresses the problem of waste management impacting immigrants in Greater Portland, Maine through the following objectives:

1. Partnering directly with community leaders, stakeholders, and the City of Portland to provide appropriate tags and bags for both trash and recycling.
2. Educating the community about effective waste management methods using a variety of culturally and linguistically appropriate tools including:
   • door-to-door training
   • conferences and seminars
   • printed promotional materials in diverse languages
3. Engage immigrants in litter clean up in their own neighborhoods

Recycling for Sustainable Households

Our Recycling for Sustainable Households program aims to reduce the household per capita carbon footprint by increasing recycling. 

Households will be aware of and able to sort their waste and use recyclable materials and able to track of their carbon footprint. We support immigrant households to make these changes using the following activities:

• Training immigrant households on recycling best practices.
• Running campaigns to promote reusable household items.
• Teaching households how to calculate their carbon footprint and track their carbon emissions.
• Redesigning household waste disposition methods/facility

All our programs capture the following data periodically to determine their key performance indicators (KPIs):

1. The number of immigrants in the City of Portland enrolled with CCI. 
2. The number of program partners from the City of Portland. 
3. Cleaning routines in the City of Portland. 
4. Program efficiency. 
5. Participant satisfaction rate.
6. Donor retention rate. 
7. Participants’ retention rate.