Every community has access to affordably insulated windows.

Warming Homes – increasing home comfort for all through affordable and accessible window weatherization.

Saving Energy – increasing energy efficiency while reducing heating costs and pollution associated with burning fossil fuels.

Building Community – a volunteer-driven approach to building resilience within communities where neighbors know and support their neighbors.

At WindowDressers, we believe every community should have access to affordably insulated windows. Our mission is to bring people together to make homes warmer, lower heating costs, and create a more sustainable future. Through volunteerism and community collaboration, we strengthen connections between neighbors while helping people reduce their energy expenses and environmental impact.

We are committed to the highest ethical standards, ensuring that our work reflects honesty, transparency, and responsibility. Respect for the people and communities we serve is at the heart of everything we do. Every individual—whether a volunteer, staff member, Board member or recipient of our services—is treated with fairness, dignity, and integrity.

At WindowDressers, you are welcome. We strive to create a safe, inclusive space where everyone, regardless of background or belief, can participate. By strengthening communities and building connections, we work toward a future where warm homes and neighborly support go hand in hand.

Thank you for being part of the WindowDressers family. Together, we are making homes warmer, communities stronger, and our planet healthier.

The WindowDressers Board and staff are committed to the highest ethical standards, ensuring that our conduct promotes the values and mission of the WindowDressers organization at all times. In an effort to promote the highest standards of ethical conduct, all people associated with the WindowDressers organization shall be apprised of this Code of Ethics.

In addition, each officer, board member, and employee is required to adhere to the following adopted Code of Ethics, and shall acknowledge this commitment by signing the Code of Ethics on or before the Annual Meeting each year. This acknowledgement will be kept on file. 

This Code of Ethics is in addition to our Board of Directors’ Conflict of Interest Policy.

We are committed to:

Respect for the people and communities we work with and serve.

Integrity in our actions.

Responsibility for our decisions and their consequences.

With these commitments in mind, we will ensure that our actions, within the organization and outside of the organization:

• Are honest, truthful, and show integrity in all our transactions and dealings.

• Do not include any conduct that would undermine the public’s trust in or tarnish the reputation of WindowDressers. 

• Treat every individual with dignity and respect including colleagues, clients, and community partners.

• Treat WindowDressers’ employees with respect, fairness and good faith and support conditions of employment that safeguard their rights and welfare.

• Protect any information of a proprietary nature relating to The WindowDressers’ plans, mission, or operational programs and databases by not releasing such information without appropriate approval from the Executive Director.

• Embody a good nonprofit citizen and comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law.

• Are responsible, transparent and accountable.

The organization PivotAll put out their first case study on WindowDressers and what the business world can look like as we build a wellbeing economy together. This case study reveals how WindowDressers is providing remarkably affordable, environmentally sustainable, high-performance window insulation while pioneering an innovative pricing and production model that builds community, helps people save money, and ultimately makes energy-efficiency more accessible to everyone. Click here to read the PivotAll’s case study on WindowDressers.

In October 2010, the Universalist Church of Rockland, ME conducted an extensive energy audit that identified leaky aluminum-clad windows in its sanctuary as a major cause of heat loss. In response, Richard Cadwgan, a friend of the Church, attended a workshop on the construction of insulating window inserts according to a design originated by Topher Belnap.  Cadwgan built and donated twenty-six new inserts to the church shortly before Christmas 2010. The effect was a warmer church, lower heating bills, and reduced CO2 emissions.

The new inserts attracted the attention of parishioners who inquired whether they might work in their houses.  In the following months, Cadwgan teamed up with former congregation president Frank Mundo to take orders for a total of 185 inserts, which they built in their basement workshops.

The following winter, the church offered the duo a short-term $2,000 inventory loan to be repaid from insert sales.  Cadwgan and Mundo produced 1,231 inserts that season, repaid the loan, and developed the model and goals that continue to guide WindowDressers.

Equally important, they developed the concept of Community Builds.  The idea originated on Islesboro, where Frank Mundo spearheaded the concept and oversaw the coordination required for measuring local homes and moving a truckload of frames and finishing supplies via ferry to the island. Enthusiastic island volunteers completed 275 inserts for 25 houses in a five-day workshop held at their Community Center – a rousing success that they duplicated in the following year and which the founders exported to other towns on the mainland.

Over the years, WindowDressers has continued its strong growth and development as a community-based nonprofit organization that supports dozens of Community Builds across Northern New England.

This strategic plan provides a structured roadmap for WindowDressers’ growth and impact over the next five years. Through careful planning, community collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability and inclusivity, we aim to broaden our reach and impact and enhance the quality of service to those in need.

This plan defines the strategic goals of the organization, the outcomes we hope to achieve by pursuing those strategic goals, key metrics to help us measure progress towards those desired outcomes. WindowDressers has designed this plan to a living and useful document that informs WindowDressers’ work in both the short and long term.

Click here to view WindowDressers’ updated Strategic Plan for 2025-2030.