Many thanks to our 2025-2026 donors!
July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026

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

Agnes M. Lindsay Trust
Amalgamated Foundation / #HalfMyDAF
Androscoggin Savings Bank
Anonimo Foundation
AV Technik
The Boulos Company
Broadreach PR
Butcher Family Foundation
Coffee By Design
The County Federal Credit Union
cPort Credit Union
Dean's Sweets
Edward H. Daveis Benevolent Fund of the Maine Community Foundation
Find Your Light Foundation
Flatbread Co.
Gregg Lipton Furniture
Hawkins Project
Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust
Kennebec Savings Bank
Kennebunk Savings
Law Offices of Joe Bornstein
Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty
Longfellow Hotel
Machias Savings Bank
Maine Community Bank
Maine Community Foundation
Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust
Martin's Point Health Care Inc.
Mascoma Bank
Molly Haley Photography
Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
Moser Family Foundation
Northeast Bank
Onion Foundation 
OODA Parking Solutions
Pierce Atwood LLP
Pink Eraser Press
Rines Thompson Fund of the Maine Community Foundation
Roaring Brook Family Foundation 
Rona Jaffe Foundation 
Rosamond Thaxter Foundation
Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution
Sea Glass Events
Sevee & Maher Engineers
Smith Family Charitable Trust
Thompson's Point
Tuckertronik
Unum
Verrill
Warren Memorial Foundation 
WEX
Widgeon Point Foundation
Wind Point Foundation
Words From The Woods
The Writing Company
Xeric Foundation

Individual Donors

Anonymous
Marjorie & Charles Adams
Greg & Lauren Adey
Tallat Ahmad
Tarlan Ahmadov & Zemfira Ahmadova
Rachael & Justin Alfond
Leo Algeo
Roger Alix-Gaudreau
Frank E. & Judy All
Sylvia Alvarino
Amy & Seth Amoroso
Anderson Family Foundation
Joel Antolini & Meeghan McLain
George Aponte Clarke
Louise Arkel
Leslie Abrons & Rameen Armajani
Jane Armstrong & Craig Haims
Halla Attallah
Mary Lou Bagley
Thomas Ballantyne
Balsam-Dill Family
Sally & Ron Bancroft
Shannon Banks & L.K. Gagnon
Kyo Bannai & Craig Schneider
Barrett Family Fund
Lydia Bell
Jane Benesch & Ray Gamache
Jennifer Benham
Stephen Bentsen
Rabbi Marjorie Berman & Rabbi Daniel Swartz
Laura Bernier
The Bessire Family
Stephanie Birdsall
Peyton Black
Taylor Black
Iris Blasi
David Body & Elizabeth Miller
Mary Bonauto & Jennifer Wriggins
Taryn Bowe
Angelica Braestrup
Marilyn Bronzi
Bruce Brown
Jane Brox
Moey Burchenal
Catherine Bursk
Katie & Paul Buttenwieser
Mr. Bartley & Mrs. Katherine Calder
Susan Cameron
Julie Canniff & Karl Smith
Gena Canning
Jennifer Casas
Marpheen Chann
Gretchen Cherington & Michael O’Leary
Tae & Susan Burns Chong
Meredith McCarroll
Gail Cinelli
Diane & Tony Cipollone
Jay R. Clark
Jason & Heidi Clarke
Lane & Brockway Clarke
Judy & Binks Colby-George
Linda & John Coleman
Sam Colton
Diversified Communications, on behalf of Leah Warwick
Jerry Conley
Nancy Conway
Leah Coplon & Jacob McNally
Dave Corbett
Sara Corbett & Mike Paterniti
Keith Cormier
Liz Cotter Schlax
Ann Cramer
Sara Crisp & Gregg Lipton
Glenn Cummings & Leslie Applebaum
Sarah Daignault
Candice Dale
Jane Danielson
Peter Darvin & Linda Stimpson
Ed Davis
Gregory Dearborn
Steven DeBonis & Laurie Kuntz
Chelsea & Noah DeLorme
Tanuja Desai Hidier & Bernard Hidier
Melanie Deshaies
Katherine Dettmann
Christina & Simon DeYoung
Sara Dickey & Pamelia Edgerton
Tony & Kelly DiMarco
Julie DiNapoli
Patty Dodd
David Donahue
Rudolph Dornemann
Emily Drappi
Susanna & Rich DuBois
The Rooke-Dutton Family
Darcy Dye
Bryan Eckstein
Heidi Edmonds
Khadija El Barkaoui
Anya & Brandon Endsley
Morgan Entrekin
Mike & Liana Erickson
Jim & Vicki Erwin
Betsy Evans Hunt
Will and Rose Everitt
Terry Farish
Margot Downs & Paul Faulstich 
Marya Faust
Gibson & Renee Fay-LeBlanc
Jordanna & Yev Feely
Taffy Field
Jeffrey Fischer & Ellen Baum
Catherine Fisher
Anne Fowler & Sam Allen
Karin & Sanjeev Francis
Wendy Franklin Family Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation
Linden & Heather Frederick
Carl W. French
Christie Frick
Kate Gawler & Stu McConnell
Catherine Gaynor
Shana Genre
Sara & Ben Gideon
David Gilman
Karen Harris & Rob Gips
Elizabeth Giuntini
Eleanor Goldberg
Heather Goldberg
Emily Golden
Michael & Jennifer Goldfinger
E. Kent Gordon
Mary-Louise Gould
Shazelle Goulet & Zach Davis
Elizabeth Gouverneur & Richard Cohen
Tasha Graff
Daphne Gregory-Thomas
Elizabeth Griffiths
Olivia & Todd Griset
Ellen Griswold
Matt & Jessica Grondin
Linda & Chuck Grossman
Caitlin Gutheil & Douglas Welch
Emily H.
Lisa Ha-Ngoc
Eric & Elizabeth Handley
Julie Hankes
Corina & Mark Hankowski
Andrea Hanson
Anja Britt Hanson & Derek Pierce
Gregg Harper
Amy & Jed Harris
Jenny & Sloan Harris
Celina & Matthew Harrison
Perry Hart
Miles Harvey & Rengin Altay
Laurie Hasty
Mariah Healy
Thomas P. Healy
Stephanie Higgins & Jim O'Neil
M. Hirayama
Marcia Hofer
Ms. Jean Hoffman
Lucky & Toby Hollander
Dick Curry & Ellen Honan
Nancy Horie
Ally & Dave Howe
Embry Howell
Beth Hufnagel
Lorraine Martin & Diane Bennekamper
Paige & Hani Jarawan
Rachel Jenkins & Ed Hirsch
The J. Mark Kjeldgaard Fund
Kelsey Halliday Johnson & Sam Sessums
Spencer & Emily Jones
Mary Baumgartner Jones
Bridget Joyce
David Juhlin
Paul Kieper & Tara Morin
Lily King & Tyler Clements
Peter Klein
Melissa & Scott Knoll
Charlie & Leah Koch
Celine & Chris Kuhn
Anya Lagasse
Angela Lathem-Ballard
Latkin Family Foundation
Sarah & Henry Laurence
Libby & Mike Lauze
Annie Leahy & Mike Carey
Martha Leggat & Stephen Barr
Scot Lehigh & Marcia Crumley
Nita Lelyveld & Benjamin Powers
Jennifer Lessard
Dara Lestrade
Jeffrey R. Levine
Emily & Peter Levine
Renee Lewis & Chris Penny
Tony Li
Emily Liebling
Ben Liff
Ariel Linet
Margaret Lonsdale
Marshall Dodge Memorial Fund of the Maine Community Foundation
Arnie Macdonald & Liza Moore
Andrea & Peter Mancuso
Adele L. & Roland M. Martel
Barbara & Bob Martin
Marguerite Massey
Marcia Mastin
Blayne Matty
Nat May
Josie Marzilli
Eileen McCue
Laura McDermit
Molly McGrath
Alan McIlhenny, Jr. and Dr. Elizabeth M. Ackerson
Britt McLaughlin
Raizel McNally
Melissa McStay & Carlos Gomez
Donald Medd & Rachel Simons
Gloria Melwani
Catherine Menyhart
Charlie Miller
Erin Miller
Zoe Miller
Peter Milliken
Mimi Fund of the Maine Community Foundation
Alice Moore & Bryan Keller
Bob Moore
John Moran
Susan Morris
Wendy & Mark Morrissette
Jean Moses
p3 Creative
Stephan G. & Susan R. Myers
Jason & Rebecca Nagel
Margaret Nagle
Jesse Nankin
Ali & Munira Naqui
Nancy & Jay Nelson
Sally & Tom Newhall
Laura Newman & Jeff Norris
Tammy Nicholas
Diane S. Nichols
The Nolt Family
Nonesuch Books & More, LLC
C. Thomas and Lyndyn C. Norgang
Abigail Norton
Renuka O'Connell
Maeve O'Regan
Matty Oates
Susan & Fritz Onion
Philip & Lydia Osgood
Laura Packard
Allison & Lincoln Paine
Beth Paschal
Dick & Marianne Paterniti
Kelly Grossi & John Paterniti
Carolyn Paulin
Nancy Payson
Lincoln Peirce
Helen Pelletier & John Spritz
Moira Driscoll & David Pence
Theresa Kerchner & Jim Perkins
Deb Rothenberg & Rick Peterson
Leigh-Ashley Pettengill
Julie Butcher Pezzino
Jack & Jane Phillips
Susan Pierter
Sarah Plimpton & Parke Burmeister
The Poets Corner
Portland High School
Samar Post Jamali
Pasha Pourghasemi
Heidi Powell
Kristina Powell
Cheryl & Chris Powell
Benjamin & Mary Pratt
Michael Primo
Ann Quinlan
Jo Radner
Kari Rasheed
Jennifer Reck & Jeffrey Milburn
Callie Reed
Jackie Reese
Katie Reeves & David Briman
Anne Renna & Nicolas Owens
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Renna
Catherine Richards & Bob Olney
Jacob Riley
Beverly Riola & James Mason
Emily Robinson
Marilyn Moss Rockefeller
Rebecca Rundquist
Jenny Rutherford
Katherine Rutherford
Sophia Scanlan
Jenny Scheu & John Ryan
Mark Schneider & Dawn Girardin
Sarah Schneider & Jim Haines
Peter Schuller & Sharon Gracen
Ned & Beth Schuller
Tobin Scipione & Soren deNiord
Maxine Sclar & Robert Yamartino
Martha & Bill Sheils
Sara Sieverding
Scottie & Chris Wellins
Steve Silver
Jill Simmons - PoeticGold Farm
Donna Simonetti
Antonia Sohns & Andrew Tanabe
Jim Sparks & Kathleen Curry-Sparks
Joyce & James Spencer
Richard & Alice Spencer
Yemaya & Lucas R. St. Clair
Dimitri Stancioff
Susan Stavropoulos
Shay Stewart-Bouley
Anthony Strodel
Kathleen Sullivan
Robert & Jean Swan
Jennifer Swanson
Ann H. Symington Foundation
Jennifer W. & Sean Tabb
Susan L. Tananbaum
Edward & Sondra Taylor
Michael & Wendy Taylor
Karen & Nils Tcheyan
Brooke Teller & Paul French
The Murray Family
Jessica Trahan
Stanley & Susan Trotman
Sam Truesdell
Russell & Avery Twiss
Sophia Tyutyunnyk
Marcy Updike
Kristin & Warren Valdmanis
Teresa Valliere
Desi Van Til & Sean Mewshaw
Judith & Dana vanBever-Green
Ray Veroneau
Office of Cornelia C. Viek, CPA
Geoff & Alice Wagg
Caitlin Wahrer
Charles Warner
Krista Watson
Debbie Weil & Sam Harrington
Keziah Weir
Sarah Welch & Jason Hearst
David Ruff & Jane Wellehan
Esler Companies, on behalf of Dan Westhoven
Genie & Nat Wheelwright
Emily, Hank, & Charlie Whiston
Sandi & David Whiston
Noel White
David & Breda White
Régine & David Whittlesey
Sean Wilkinson
Kathryn Williams
Emma Wilson
Margaret Wilson & Lloyd Van Lunen
Sasha Wizansky
Amy Woodhouse & Tobey Scott
Diane & Paul Yasek
Omar Y.
Kathryn Yates
Bob Zager & Molly Juhlin
Marjorie & Ron Zager