Northeastern’s Roux Institute is designed to spur innovation, build talent, and drive economic growth in Portland, the state of Maine, and the Northeast. Partnerships – with industry, academia, and government – set our education and research model apart. We offer graduate education and research capabilities in areas that will revolutionize life and work: AI, computer and data sciences, digital engineering, and advanced life sciences and medicine.

Thornton Academy is a historic independent town academy educating 6-12th graders. The majority of our students are day students from the towns of Saco, Dayton, Arundel, and other towns in the Greater Portland area. They are joined by students from over 20 different countries who live in dormitories on campus or in the homes of local families.

The Economic Development Department assists interested parties in creating and improving economic opportunities in Rumford through a broad series of assistance services. We can support projects of any size from large industrial investments to small business startups through a variety of federal, state and local resources.

TW Partners helps businesses save on shipping with carrier-agnostic parcel consulting tailored to your needs. We help high-growth companies reduce costs on small parcel shipping. By analyzing contracts, benchmarking rates, and support negotiations, we aim to uncover and help realize 10-30% in savings – even for companies that have recently renegotiated or use a GPO.

The U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce is a federal government agency dedicated to helping small-to-medium sized companies with their exporting strategies. The Maine Export Assistance Center is part of an international network of domestic Export Assistance Centers and foreign offices in 154 cities in 80 countries worldwide.

The Small Business Administration provides technical and financial assistance to help people get into business, stay in business, and expand their businesses.

The state’s land-grant university and the flagship institution in the University of Maine System, UMaine is one of New England’s premier universities. We help students create success stories with a wide variety of programs and opportunities, world-class faculty members, nationally recognized research, and first-rate facilities in a friendly, safe atmosphere.

The University of New England (UNE), one of the top tier regional universities in the Northeast,  offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and programs, ranging from medical biology to history to marine sciences. It is one of a handful of private universities with a comprehensive health education mission, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dental medicine.

The University of Southern Maine is the largest of the seven campuses of the University of Maine System, as well as one of the oldest, From its campuses in Portland, Gorham, and Lewiston, USM offers baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral programs, providing rich learning opportunities in the arts, politics, health sciences, business, science, and engineering.

Since 1998, Versa Gripps has changed the way elite athletes and people lift with an all-in-one tool that eliminates the limiting factor of grip strength, reduces injury risk, and replaces the need for straps, gloves and hooks. Based in Hancock, Maine, the company still proudly produces hand built Versa Gripps used by weightlifters around the world.