Our mission is to help create economically and environmentally healthy communities in which all people, especially those with low incomes, can reach their full potential.



VISION - CEI in 2007

CEI in 2007 is a Maine-based organization with strategic expansions outside of Maine, serving more communities directly or through alliances and having an ever greater impact on poverty, which is documented with data.



The organization has a much higher financial sustainability, thanks to new and expanded sources of funds through private giving, CEI Development Services (to grow the CDC/CDFI industry on a global scale), public funds, funds from socially-minded individuals, and income from funds and venture capital.



CEI has a metric for looking at the balance of the 3Es through all initiatives and has a research development group in place measuring impact, scanning for opportunities and engaged in diverse key local, state and national policy development.



The board is broader, reflects CEI's initiatives and geography, and is being effectively used.



CEI is innovative and entrepreneurial, leveraging its competencies for maximum impact on the targeted population: people and communities in poverty, people and communities left out of the economic mainstream, the underserved, and at-risk populations