Customers at Good Tern Co-op of Rockland, Maine raised $891.23 in June through a Pride month drive for their neighbors at OUT Maine, the youth support nonprofit also based in Rockland.
“OUT Maine works toward a welcoming and affirming Maine for all rural young people of diverse sexual orientations, gender expressions and gender identities,” notes a release Good Tern press release. “In partnership with their allies and families, OUT Maine supports, educates and empowers these youth in their journey from adolescence to adulthood.”
Good Tern Natural Foods Co-op is a member-owned food and health store founded in 1980 to provide healthy food and wellness choices at reasonable prices for our local community. Its stated mission is “to provide a high-quality, fairly priced, cooperatively owned and democratically controlled source of food and health products; to educate and inform members and the community on whole food, health and nutrition, food sources, and food preparation; and to help further cooperative principles, democracy, and self-reliance.”
For more on the good folks at Good Tern, visit goodtern.com.
For more on the good works of OUT Maine, go to outmaine.org.
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