Many thanks to our 2024-2025 donors!
July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025

The Telling Room advances its mission with the generous support of philanthropic individuals, family foundations, institutional funders, and corporate partners that make our work possible. We are grateful for their commitment to youth empowerment and their support of our vision.

Every gift is important to us and we strive to keep accurate records. We apologize if we inadvertently omitted or misspelled any name, and please let us know so we may correct our error. We deeply appreciate all gifts made in honor or in memory of someone special to the donor—thank you.

Corporate and Institutional Donors

Androscoggin Bank

BerryDunn

Coffee By Design

Costco Wholesale

cPort Credit Union

Dead River Company

Dean's Sweets

Down East Magazine

Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation

Evelyn S. and K.E. Barrett Foundation

Find Your Light Foundation

First Parish in Portland, Unitarian Universalist

Flatbread Company

Frances Hollis Brain Foundation Fund of the Maine Community Foundation

Guesthouse Fund

Hawkins Project

Headlight Audio Visual Video

Hoehl Family Foundation

International Women's Club of New England

Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust

Kennebec Savings Bank

Latkin Family Foundation

Law Offices of Joe Bornstein

Machias Savings Bank

Maine Arts Commission

Maine Beer Company

Maine Community Foundation

Maine Organization of Storytelling Enthusiasts

MaineStreet Foundation

Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust

Marshall Dodge Memorial Fund

Martha S. Henry Fund

Martin's Point Health Care Inc.

Mascoma Bank Foundation

Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust

Moser Family Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Nonesuch Books & More

Northeast Bank

Onion Foundation

Peter Alfond Foundation

Pierce Atwood LLP

Pink Eraser Press

Portland Museum of Art

Roaring Brook Family Foundation

Rona Jaffe Foundation

Sam L. Cohen Foundation

Sea Glass Events

Space

The Anonimo Foundation

The County Federal Credit Union

The Paul & Edith Babson Foundation

The Pettus Foundation

The Poets Corner

The Robinson Family Foundation

The William J. J. Gordon Family Foundation

The Writing Company

Townsend Real Estate

Transformit

Tuckertronik

United Way of Southern Maine

Unum

Verrill

VSB Fund

Warren Memorial Foundation

WEX

Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation

Wind Point Foundation

Individual Donors

Anonymous

Marwa Abdalla

Adna Abdi

Samaa Abdurraqib

Leslie Abrons

Nazik Adam

Meg and Rob Adams

Charlotte Agell and Peter Simmons

Tarlan Ahmadov and Zemfira Ahmadova

Angela Stone

Peter Alexopoulos

Sylvia Alvarino

Amy Amoroso

Eliot Angle

Nsimba Antoanieta

Mary Bagley

Denise Baker

Nancy Baker Miller

Emma Balazs

Whitney Ball

Thomas Ballantyne

Marcie Balsam

Sally and Ron Bancroft

Kyo Bannai and Craig Schneider

Thomas Barclay and Lucy Norvell

Mary Baumgartner Jones

Caitlin Beaulieu

Christina Bechstein

Edward and Barbara Becker

Leon Benn

Lauren Bennett

Rabbi Marjorie Berman and Rabbi Daniel Swartz

Aimee and Mark Bessire

Peyton Black

Taylor Black

Iris Blasi

Taryn Bowe

Angelica Braestrup

Megan Britton

Marilyn Bronzi

Holly Schneider Brown

Rebecca Brown

Bruce Brown

Elizabeth and Andrew Brownell

Jane Brox

Emily Drain Bruce

Daniel and Carla Bryant

The Scanlans

Christine Burns Rudalevige

Nancy Butman

Katie and Paul Buttenwieser

Tegan Byrne

Bartley and Katherine Calder

Susan Cameron

Julie Canniff and Karl Smith

Gena Canning

Chaning Capuchino

Margaret and Mario Cardoza

Bonnie Carlsen

Emily and Gregg Carville

Kim Case

Jane Ceraso

Mary Ellen Chadd

Charlie and Laura Svendsen Chandler

Tae Chong and Susan Burns Chong

Marianna Ciampi

Gail and Peter Cinelli

Anthony Cipollone

Jay R. Clark

Sarah Clarke and Xander Berkeley

Nicole Clement

Judy and Binks Colby-George

Dorian Cole and Nick Morrill

Linda and John Coleman

Melia Coletta and Ryan Bower

Emma M. Collins

Tay Colton

Susan Conley and Tony Kieffer

Nancy Conway

Dave Corbett

Sara Corbett and Mike Paterniti

Keith Cormier

Ann Corriveau

Erica Craig

Ann Cramer

Sara Crisp and Gregg Lipton

Glenn Cummings and Leslie Applebaum

Ellen Honan and Dick Curry

Benjamin Cushing

Emilia Dahlin

Sarah Daignault

Candice Dale

Christina Damon

Jane Danielson

Peter Darvin and Linda Stimpson

Kavita Das

The Stevens Family

Heather Davis and Matthew Bush

Alex de Wild

Chelsea and Noah DeLorme

Dhiroobhai Chotubhai Desai

Rajiv Desai

Tanuja Desai Hidier and Bernard Hidier

Carrie Dessertine-Twhigg

Christina and Simon DeYoung

Sara Dickey and Pamelia S. Edgerton

Julie DiNapoli

Suzanne and William Dodson

Bruce Donath

Sara Donnelly

Rudolph Dornemann

Richard Doucette

The Douglas-Faddis Family

Margaret Downey Hardy

Moira Driscoll and David Pence

Jeff Troiano and Abby Dubay-Troiano

Susanna and Rich Dubois

Karem Durdag

Rooke-Dutton Family

Darcy Dye

Pam Dyer

Bryan Eckstein

Khadija El Barkaoui

Shari Elder

Ian-Khara Ellasante

Jes Ellis

Anya and Brandon Endsley

Anne Ervin

James and Vicki Erwin

John D. Evans

Will and Rose Everitt

Deva Fagan

Kristen and Bob Farnham

Mary Faulkner

Paul Faulstich and Margot Downs

Susan and Jim Faunce

Marya Faust

Gibson and Renee Fay-LeBlanc

Jordanna and Yev Feely

Taffy Field

Jeffrey Fischer and Ellen Baum

Catherine Fisher

Anne Fowler and Sam Allen

Melissa Fox

Karin and Sanjeev Francis

Valerie Franks

Linden and Heather Frederick

Christie Frick

Nick Fuller

LK Gagnon

Jaclyn Gallo

Connor Garvey

Kate Gawler and Stuart McConnell

Natallie Gentles-Gibbs

Kris and Griff Gilbert

Sarah Gilbert

David Gilman

Hallie Gilman and Ned Flint

Karen Harris and Rob Gips

Emily Golden

Jennifer and Michael Goldfinger

Abigail Greene Goldman and Jeff Goldman

E. Kent Gordon

Shoshana Gordon

Meg Gorsline

Casey Gotcher

Shazelle Goulet and Zach Davis

Elizabeth Gouverneur and Richard Cohen

Tasha Graff

C. Jones Griffin

Griffin Lohmann Family

Elizabeth Griffiths

Olivia and Todd Griset

Matt, Jessica, and Charlotte Grondin

Chuck and Linda Grossman

Caitlin Gutheil and Douglas Welch

Lisa Ha-Ngoc

Molly Haley

Margery M. Hamlen

Eric and Elizabeth Handley

Julie Hankes

Corina Hankowski

Susie Hanley

Andrea Hanson

Anja Hanson and Derek Pierce

Jenny and Sloan Harris

Katie and Chip Harris

Matthew and Celina Harrison

Peter and Heather Hart

Heather Harvey

Roger and Mary Ann Haskell

Fiona Haslett

Sarah Hassan

Laurie Hasty

Stephen Hayes and Carol McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Healy

David Hecht

Stephanie Heinz

Rose Heithoff

Megan and Erik Hellstedt

David Hembre and Jill McGowan

Mary Herman and Angus King Jr.

Tamara Herrick

Malcolm S. Hill

Patty Dodd

Marcia Hofer

Jean Hoffman

Jessica Horner

Dale Horton

Elizabeth Horton

Erin, Josh, and Penny Houghton

Ally and Dave Howe

Embry Howell

Eddie and Patty Howells

Natasha Huber

Amy Landis Hudson

Timothy Hughes and Christine Adele Willison Hughes

Kirby Pilcher and Lissa Hunter

Julia Hyun-Lee

Lorraine Martin and Diane Bennekamper

Safanah Jalal

Virginia Jarvis

Curt Jensch

Kelsey Halliday Johnson

Lisa Jones

Mela Jones, Center for Arts and Ecology at the Desert of Maine

Spencer and Emily Jones

David Juhlin

Russell Kaback

Janet Kalkstein

Sophia Kapita

Karen Kauffmann

Grace Kendall

Louise Kieffer

Paul Kieper and Tara Morin

Tom and Leslee Kiley

James Kim

Lily King and Tyler Clements

Angus King III and Cricket King

Emma Klein

Peter Klein

Karla Knight

Melissa and Scott Knoll

Charlie and Leah Koch

Laura Kreutzer

Celine and Chris Kuhn

Paige Kuhn

Mindi Laine and Tom Haushalter

Sarah and Henry Laurence

Libby and Mike Lauze

Annie Leahy and Mike Carey

Jessica Leconte

Kara and David Leopold

Renee Lewis and Chris Penny

Winky Lewis and Alex Millspaugh

Ben Liff and Yihan Zhou

Mary Allen Lindemann and James Hoban

Sarah Lockridge

Margaret Lonsdale

Dave Love

Ben and Beth Lowenstein

Bronley Luhrman

Deborah Luhrs

Suzanna Lynch

Chris Lyon and Brendan O’Leary

Brad MacCachran and Barb Ginley

Arnie Macdonald and Liza Moore

Laura Macomber

Jennifer and Sean Mahoney

Kristin Majeska and Luis Millones

Maddie Mancuso

Alexis Mann

Sarah Marshall

Adele L. and Roland M. Martel

Beverly Riola and James Mason

Julie Mattei-Benn

Nat May

Davis McCallum

Meredith McCarroll and Jeff Christmas

Emily McConnell

Jeana and Jay McCormick

Eileen McCue

Barbara and Jock McDonald

Jolene McGowan, Matchstick Communications

Molly and Toby McGrath

Alan McIlhenny, Jr. and Dr. Elizabeth M. Ackerson

Diane and Paul Yasek

Anne and David McLain

Meeghan McLain and Joel Antolini

Pierre and Liz Meahl

Mr. and Mrs. Mechtenberg

Spencer and Shea Melnick

Julie Meltzer

Gloria Melwani

Cindy Mervis

Sean Mewshaw and Desi Van Til

Seb and Peggy Milardo

Libby Millar

Charlie Miller

Roger and Margot Milliken

Mohamedamin M. Mohamed

Youmna Mohamed

Erin Molitor

Alice Moore

Bob Moore

Laura Moorehead

Adrian and Sarah Moran

Manny Morgan

The Morgan Family

Jill Moriarity

Alexandra Morris

Susan Morris

Wendy and Mark Morrissette

Helene Moses

Marilyn Moss Rockefeller

James Murphy

Claire Murray

Emily and Eric Muther

Kimberly Myers

Margaret Nagle

Jesse Nankin

Meghan Gildart Nappi

Ali and Munira Naqui

Priya L. Natarajan

Leah Neuchiller

Laura Newman and Jeff Norris

Diane S. Nichols

The Nolt Family

C. Thomas and Lyndyn Norgang

Nic North

Hilary North-Ellasante

Jennifer O'Connell

O'Connor Family

Matty Oates

Jennifer Moore and Craig Oldershaw

Susan and Fritz Onion

Laura Packard

Maria Padian

Jane and Glenn Page

Lisa Page and Matthew Bampton

Lincoln and Allison Paine

Pranita Panda

Emanuel Pariser and Lea Girardin

Sylvia Park

Dick and Marianne Paterniti

John Paterniti and Kelly Grossi

Michelle and Rich Paterniti

Stephen Paterniti and Anne Marie Dowd

Todd and Andrea Patstone

Laura-Hill Patton

Nancy Payson

David Pease

Helen Pelletier and John Spritz

Jim Perkins and Theresa Kerchner

Lauren Peters and David Joncas

Leigh-Ashley Pettengill

Julie Butcher Pezzino and Andrew Butcher

Jack and Jane Phillips

Sena Phin

Susan Pierter

Penelope Pollard

Wendy Polstein

Samar Post Jamali

Cheryl and Chris Powell

Kristina Powell

Benjamin and Mary Pratt

Chris Price

Frances E. Prinn

Ann Quinlan

A. Raina

Kari and Bilal Rasheed

Jennifer Reck and Jeffrey Milburn

Anne Renna and Nicolas Owens

Dr. and Mrs Theodore Renna

Catherine Richards and Bob Olney

Ben Richmond

Seth Rigoletti

Nicole and Stephen Ritchie

Melina Roberts

Elizabeth Roddy

Elizabeth Rose

Deb Rothenberg and Rick Peterson

Jennifer Rottmann

Ellie Roy

Anita Ruff

Richard and Barbara Russo

The Sabatini Mattei Family

Linda Sadoff

Katy Sargent

Sophia K. Scanlan

Jenny Scheu and John Ryan

Mark Schneider and Dawn Girardin

Sarah Schneider and Jim Haines

Tim Schneider and Morgan Lake Adams

Ned and Beth Schuller

Maxine Sclar and Robert Yamartino

Jayanthi and Jeff Selinger

Mohammed N Shati

Heather Shields and Lee Lindenau

Sarah Short

Jim and Kate Shotwell

Andrea Siewers

Judith Sikora

Steven Silver

Nicholas Simmons-Stern

Donna Simonetti

Honor and Matt Smith

Scott and Jennifer Smith

Onnolee and Larry Smith

Ari Snider

Kate and Colin Snyder

Aly Spaltro

Jim Sparks and Kathleen Curry-Sparks

Richard and Alice Spencer

Joyce and James Spencer

Kenneth Spirer and Joan Leitzer

Yemaya and Lucas R. St. Clair

Dimitri Stancioff

Jennifer Starr

Shay Stewart-Bouley

Leo and Cal Folgert

CC and Ayres Stockly

Kathleen Sullivan

Lynn Sullivan

Geoffrey Swift

Sean Findlen and Amy Tessendorf

Jennifer and Sean Tabb

Katherine Tagtmeier

Susan Tananbaum

Jack Tansey

Michael and Wendy Taylor

Karen and Nils Tcheyan

Antonio Tela

Lynn Teo and Nate Anderson

Ander Thebaud

Jessica Tomlinson

Philip Tran

Sue and Phuc Tran

Jordene Trueh

Sam Truesdell

David Turgelsky

Matthew and Patricia Turnquist

Wilhelmina Ulbrich

Kristin and Warren Valdmanis

Jessica Van Tuyl

Judith and Dana vanBever-Green

Kristin and Sean Venden

Ray Veroneau

Cornelia Viek

Alice and Geoff Wagg

Caitlin Wahrer

Charles Warner

Lee and Hans Warner

Sarah Cotsen and Drew Watt

Debbie Weil and Sam Harrington

Sarah Welch and Jason Hearst

Meg Weston and Roger Leddington

Genie and Nat Wheelwright

Sandi and David Whiston

David and Breda White

Noel White

Justin and Stephanie Whitlock

Rob and Robin Whitten

Régine and David Whittlesey

Robert Castiglione - WNY Asset Management

Emily L. Williams

Kathryn Williams and Greg Renna

Lisa Williams

Maya Williams

Wayne Williams

Shultzie Fay Willows

Brenna Wilson

Emma Wilson

Margaret Wilson and Lloyd Van Lunen

Megan Wilson

Carol and Joe Wishcamper

Kathryn Yates

Bob Zager and Molly Juhlin

Marge and Ron Zager

Wendy Zwecker