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Keep ME Warm Teams

What is a Keep ME Warm Team?

Escalating heating and transportation costs are placing an unbearable economic burden on many Mainers. Keep ME Warm Teams are part of a neighbor helping neighbor response to citizens struggling to stay warm this winter. These teams of community-minded individuals and agencies are now convening across Maine to organize, coordinate and facilitate response to individual energy emergencies within their communities.

What does a Keep ME Warm Team do?

Keep ME Warm Teams mobilize available local human, financial and material resources to assist community members in need of help to stay warm in their own home or within their community.

Some things the teams may do:
o   Assess resources and post on 2-1-1 Maine
o   Coordinate with local organizations to:
        -- Establish Neighbor Check-Ins
        -- Organize heat delivery teams to provide space heaters, wood, or other safe sources of home heat
        -- Establish a local "safety net" to support families without heating resources
        -- Identify warming centers

Each team needs a convener who will get the ball rolling in that community.

What does the Keep ME Warm Team Convener do?
The Convener identifies team members and invites them to meet at an established time and place to begin assessment of resources and planning local response.

Sign up to help! Complete the survey below. Fields with a Red Asterisk ( * ) are required.

1. * Your first name

2. * Your last name

3. * Your email address

4. Your local phone number (with area code)

5. * Town in which you will serve on a Keep ME Warm Team

6. * Is this town the same as the one you use for your address?

Yes No

7. * Your Street Address

8. * Zip Code

9. * Daytime Phone Number (Area Code- XXX - XXXX)

10. * On the KMW Team, will you represent an organization or yourself?

	Organization
	Citizen volunteer (self)

11. If applicable, the name of the organization you will represent.

12. If an agency rep, could the Keep ME Warm team meet at your location?

Yes No

Each KMW Team needs a convener who will arrange a meeting time and place for everyone who wants to work on this issue. The convener will invite community leaders as well as people who sign up on this survey.

13. * Are you willing to convene the Keep ME Warm coordinating team in your town?

Yes No

Thank You for volunteering!

If you have questions or need advice as you form your Keep ME Warm teams, please contact MaineHousing at 353 Water St., Augusta, ME 04330-4633 -- 207-626-4610 -- kpoulin@mainehousing.org

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