The fourth annual Into the Light! Yellow Festival fundraiser for Finding Our Voices is underway this month, with restaurants around the Midcoast and Blue Hill peninsula offering special menu items.

Participating businesses during the month-long event will donate all or part of the profits from designated items to help keep local female domestic abuse survivors and their children safe with payments for shelter, transportation, and legal fees through the Finding Our Voices Get Out/Stay Out Fund. The fundraiser has attracted 126 businesses in all; retail stores are offering yellow-themed deals on jewelry, books, clothing and more.

Michael Rossney with a passion fruit and mango agua fresca “Into the Light!” offering at El El Frijoles in Sargentville. (Photo by Patrisha McLean)

Dishes from participating restaurants include pineapple sponge cake with coconut meringue from The Pentagoet Inn in Castine; Maine wild blueberry cake with lemon curd and ice cream from Lincolnville’s Aster & Rose; roasted cauliflower with curry aioli from The Causeway at the Craignair Inn in Spruce Head; Hawaiian pizza with pineapple at Camden House of Pizza; and a sunflower pizza with yellow beets at Fin & Fern in Stonington.  

“Not only is this the biggest fundraiser of the year for our grassroots nonprofit, but the wholehearted support of so many businesses signals to every domestic abuse survivor resident or visitor that they are not alone and that our communities care about them,” said Patrisha McLean, CEO and founder of Finding Our Voices, in a press release.

Finding Our Voices is the grassroots, Camden-based nonprofit breaking the silence of domestic abuse across Maine and providing support and resources to women survivors and their children. For more information on participating businesses and their offerings, visit the Finding Our Voices website.