MEEA is a member of the Maine Early Childhood Outdoors network and collaborates closely with this network to build educator resources, advance policy, and mobilize support to ensure quality outdoor learning opportunities for every Maine child from birth to 8 years old. Maine Early Childhood Outdoors - MaineAEYC

The initiative is a consortium of individuals or organizations advising on the development of the Maine Climate Education Hub-- an online website full of educational resources to support Maine educators in incorporating climate literacy into their curriculum.

A collaborative project between MEEA and the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, Teach ME Outside’s goal is to support and work in partnership with Maine communities to ensure that all Maine youth have access to powerful, hands-on environmental learning opportunities. Building on the results of the 2019 Census of Community-Based Environmental Learning, this initiative will focus on reducing barriers and sharing creative community-designed solutions to increase schools’ and organizations’ ability to implement community-based environmental learning (CBEL).

The Relearning Place Program is a collaboration between MEEA and Momentum Conservation that is working to redefine conservation and the communities it includes through systems change in the sector and land trusts.

MEEA is a member of the Nature Based Education Consortium and collaborates closely with individuals and organizations in this network to advance common priorities around outdoor equity, building support for local outdoor learning advocacy, and advancing climate education policy in Maine.