Altrusa International - Portland, Maine Club

Altrusa International - Portland, Maine Club We are a non-profit club devoted to delivering books and literacy, scholarships, and serving our communities. Love, Literacy and Legacy.

Portland Altrusa meets twice a month for ten months, September through June. The business meeting is held at 6pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Our program meeting is held at 6pm on the third Wednesday of each month. We currently meet at Stroudwater Lodge, 116 Landing Rd, Westbrook. Message us to confirm meeting information and location each month. Altrusans also participate in regular comm

unity service activities throughout the year. Our projects include:

* ABC Literacy - Reading to kindergarteners in many schools in the greater Portland area. Each child selects a forever book of their very own thanks to the generous customers of Books A Million.

* Altrusa Gives Books - Visit our website to request books for your school or non-profit organization. https://www.altrusaportland.org/request-books

* PROP’s Summer Lunch Program - Book distribution in 18 locations along with enrichment activities for the kids

* Books Behind Bars - Providing books at various reading levels for prisoners and their visiting family members

* Scholarships - $$$ - Providing college and back-to-work grants

* Empty Bowl Supper - To benefit Project FEED- Serving soup to feed the hungry.

* Ronald MacDonald House Guest Chefs - Once a month we cook a meal for all of the families staying at RMH.

* Bags of Hope - Supporting women leaving recovery with bags containing toiletries and personal care items.

* Barron Center Gardens - Spring and Fall Clean up of gardens

* A.S.T.R.A. - We proudly support this youth services group at Lake Region High School. They use their Abilities to Serve our community, participate in Training that improves leadership skills, take Responsibility for their work together, and are proud of member Achievements that make a real difference to our world.

Book donations needed!! Each fall we do a little project we call "Books Behind Bars". We collect and sort gently used ...
08/17/2025

Book donations needed!! Each fall we do a little project we call "Books Behind Bars". We collect and sort gently used books for facilities in Cumberland and Androscoggin Counties. Then deliver them before the end of September.

This year, we are all set for children's books, but we need lots of books for adult readers. Biographies, mysteries, poetry, general/popular fiction, thrillers, popular history, classics, etc.

If you have GENTLY used books you'd like to donate, please message us here or email to [email protected]

Thank You!!

Thanks to Portland Altrusans who dropped off toys for the Southern Maine Corvettes Toys for Tots drive at Payson Park in...
08/17/2025

Thanks to Portland Altrusans who dropped off toys for the Southern Maine Corvettes Toys for Tots drive at Payson Park in Portland today. A huge thanks to Cathy Paglio and her husband for organizing this drop location.

If you missed this event, don't despair!! The official/final "Drop Off" event is being held on September 1 at 275 Presumpscot St, Portland, 10AM to 1PM. Come see some beautiful cars and help make a child's Christmas special this year.

Come join us! Bring a new unwrapped toy wrapped toy! For any age little ones through teens. Take photos! Help us fill th...
08/17/2025

Come join us! Bring a new unwrapped toy wrapped toy! For any age little ones through teens. Take photos!
Help us fill the corvette for Toys for Tots drive! See you today unless it rains!
Raindate August 24th.
Karen Valley, President
Altrusa International Portland Maine
2024-2026

08/16/2025

This weekend is your last chance to donate to our Summer Book Drive for Altrusa International - Portland, Maine Club ! We’re so close to hitting our donation goal thanks to our amazing community of readers! 👏

Not sure what book to buy for donation? Becca’s got you covered with some of her favorites! 📚✨

Thinking of all the “Littles” gearing up for another school year. I saw this and wanted to share.Altrusa District OneDe...
08/13/2025

Thinking of all the “Littles” gearing up for another school year. I saw this and wanted to share.
Altrusa District One
Debbie LePage Lemieux
Altrusa International Foundation, Inc.
Lake Region ASTRA Club
Altrusa Service
Books-A-Million South Portland

Check us out. We might be what you have been looking for. District One Service Read more at www.altrusaportland.org
08/11/2025

Check us out. We might be what you have been looking for.


District One
Service
Read more at www.altrusaportland.org

Altrusa District One has an ASTRA club. Lake Region ASTRA Club is vibrant. Do you want to be a part of chartering a new ...
08/06/2025

Altrusa District One has an ASTRA club.
Lake Region ASTRA Club is vibrant. Do you want to be a part of chartering a new ASTRA club at Bonny Eagle High School or at Windham High School?
These students are self-directed and organize many community projects, they receive scholarships from Altrusa International - Portland, Maine Club and Altrusa International Foundation, Inc.

Message us here if you want to help.
Read about us at :
https://altrusaportland.org
Altrusa Service
Debbie LePage Lemieux

Just dropped off a load of books from this past week book drive. Thank You, Books-A-Million South PortlandI wouldn’t say...
08/04/2025

Just dropped off a load of books from this past week book drive.
Thank You, Books-A-Million South Portland
I wouldn’t say our warehouse shelves are exactly empty, but they are about to be filled and readied for our “ABC” project kick off Fall of 2025.
Altrusa District One
Altrusa Service
Debbie LePage Lemieux
Come on down, Everyone, to BAM. Altrusa International - Portland, Maine Club thanks you for your generosity. Every new book finds a new “FOREVER” home in the hands of an excited budding reader.

Give the Gift of Reading this Summer - Thanks to the wonderful employees at Books-A-Million South Portland, like Abby a...
08/04/2025

Give the Gift of Reading this Summer - Thanks to the wonderful employees at Books-A-Million South Portland, like Abby and Natalie, BAM's Book Drive to Benefit Altrusa is in full swing!

Shop any time from now until August 17 at the South Portland, ME store. When you check out, you will be asked if you would like to purchase and donate a book for a child. If you say yes, those books will come to us. Please help us resupply for the upcoming school year. Thank you!!

We work hard to get those books into the hands of children in need around the Greater Portland Area. Through our ABC Reading Program, we read in kindergarten classrooms and each child gets to choose a "forever" book - theirs to take home and keep. We provide books to Middle School libraries around the area. We also fulfill requests from local non-profits who request books through our website at https://www.altrusaportland.org/ Select the top menu option Request Books.


Altrusa District One

08/03/2025

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At Altrusa International convention, we had the great pleasure of meeting and hearing from Raychel of Ray of Sunshine, TCC.
She is a life coach and so much more. She left us feeling inspired and “ ENOUGH”.
Altrusa District One
Debbie LePage Lemieux
Thank you Ray of Sunshine, TCC

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PO Box 8834
Portland, ME
04104

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