Charley E. Martin-Berry ’99

Charley Martin-Berry is director of the Community Caring Collaborative (CCC), a multi-level collaboration of local, state, and tribal partners working to improves outcomes for vulnerable community members in Washington County, Maine.

Charley and the CCC offer support to partners in building multi-agency responses to complex community issues. She has expertise in creating effective financial capacity building programming for families; creating strong and complementary program performance measures in multi-sector initiatives; and in sustaining two-generation approaches at program and policy levels. She has experience training wide audiences on principles of community and family engagement in program design and improvement.

Since 2012, alongside being a mom, a major focus for Charley has been the design, collaborative implementation, and funding efforts for Family Futures Downeast, a two-generation education and workforce opportunity for families in Washington County. Designated as a White House Rural IMPACT project in 2015, FFD has become a nationally recognized approach for helping children and parents succeed together.

Charley was a member of the John T. Gorman Foundation’s Leadership program in 2015. She is a graduate of Washington Academy and the University of Maine (’99). She has spent her life in Downeast, Maine, mostly working in non-profits she loves and taking time to be on the water with her family. She currently lives in East Machias with her husband, Jacob and little daughter, Raven.