Every year, the Mission works to quantify the work that we do by counting our impact. The number of students receiving Mission Scholarships. How many neighbors visit the pantry. The count of vaccines given on or via the Sunbeam. Our 2024 Impact Statement provides these output figures and more than 60 other figures. These numbers illustrate just a few of the many ways the Mission works with Downeast and coastal communities.
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Here are a few of these numbers looked at a different way:
123 days. How much programming was offered to students from various Mission programming, if converted to days.
1 Blue Whale. The weight of food received by the pantry is as big as a blue whale.
4 hours 19 minutes. The time it would take to get from Calais (the farthest northeast the Mission offers services) to Monhegan (the farthest south) including a mailboat ride.
There are also the numbers we cannot easily gauge. The number of smiles and cheers during a game at EdGE afterschool. The amount of students who succeed in school because of the one-on-one mentoring by Davis Maine Scholarship and Journey staff. The number of seniors who can age-in-place because of the work of the Mission and the Island Eldercare network.
“At the end of the day, what matters is the difference the Mission and its supporters make in some of the most isolated communities in Maine,” says President John Zavodny. “These numbers—how many nautical miles, how many kids on the ropes course, how many meals served—represent the very real compassion and effort of people working in community. The numbers matter because the work matters. Because people matter.”
All these numbers show that the Mission’s programs are hard-working and participating community members are invested. The Mission is proud to have continually served Maine’s coastal and island communities for 120 years. Each year, the impact statement puts this work into context and highlights the unseen effect here in Maine.