JustME for JustUS unites rural youth (ages 15-30) across all political backgrounds to advocate for their futures. Our Rural Youth Organizers lead year-round climate justice and civic engagement projects, plus nonpartisan vote work in election years, hosting impactful community events and engagement opportunities that foster youth leadership and ensure the long-term sustainability of our communities. By ensuring that electoral organizing and issue organizing work in synergy, we translate vibrant organizing into civic engagement to strengthen our rural communities and to create pathways for those most impacted by climate change to lead solutions.

Our 2025 goals include:
1) Engage 1000 youth in JMJU workshops, conversations, and trainings;
2) Provide stipends to 150 youth for their time spent organizing;
3) 40 Rural Youth Organizer-led projects: workshops, events, trainings;
4) Host 10 conversations geared toward depolarizing climate issues and bringing young people together across political divides.

Our organizers use relational organizing in their communities to engage other youth (ages 15-30) in vote work, including text banking, voter education, nonpartisan youth-led candidate forums, voter registration at rural schools, a social pressure rural youth voter social media campaign, and relational organizing and voter turnout campaigns.

JustME for JustUS empowers rural Maine's frontline climate justice communities by shifting power and opportunities directly to under-resourced youth (ages 15-30) so they can advocate for their futures. Our Rural Youth Organizers lead year-round climate justice projects and nonpartisan vote work in even election years, hosting impactful and accessible community events and engagement opportunities that foster youth leadership and ensure the long-term sustainability of our communities.