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You Gave the Gift of Giving 🤲

On Giving Tuesday, we asked our customers to nominate nonprofits, one of which we promised to donate $1000. You, our awesome customers, inspired us with all of your suggestions! You nominated over 45 hardworking nonprofits, from all over the world, over Facebook, Instagram, and email!!

Mexicali Blues teams up with Good Shepherd Food Bank for Birthday Celebration

In honor of our 33rd birthday, Mexicali Blues will be donating 33% of our topline sales revenue from March 25th, 2021 to Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine.

“While our 1% giving initiative allows us to help people around the world every day, for our birthday, we knew we wanted to focus on helping our neighbors, here at home in Maine,” said Mexicali Blues founder, Pete Erskine. “We know this has been a difficult year for a lot of people, and that food security is a big issue facing our community.”...

Five Thousand Smiles: Mexicali Blues Donates Over 5,000 Colorful Kids' Masks to Maine Schools

It’s the giving season, and those of us at Mexicali Blues are embracing the spirit of giving this year by donating over five thousand child-sized face masks to local schools as part of our ‘Global Giving Sharing Smiles’ charitable program. Each year, we give back 1% of our total sales to organizations that do a world of good, and despite the changes and challenges we’ve all faced, this year is no different. Our team worked with seven school districts to distribute the masks during the week of Thanksgiving. Schools in Bangor, the greater Portland area, Windham, Freeport, and the Midcoast region all received several hundred brightly colored face masks to give out to elementary and middle school students...

Mexicali Blues News: Sunshine Daydream and Box of Rain

If you’re lucky enough to live in Midcoast Maine– or if you've had the opportunity to visit– chances are you’ve seen our delivery vans around route one. But did you know there’s more to them than making special deliveries around our great state?

Their names are Box of Rain and Sunshine Daydream, named after a few of our (other) favorite Grateful Dead songs. For the past five years, they have spread joy wherever they go! The SPG (smiles per gallon) on these babies is off the charts!

“Driving down the road and making people smile embodies the Mexicali Blues Experience!” says Co-Owner Kim Erskine...