Show Your Support for The Telling Room by Becoming a Corporate Sponsor

We are excited to invite you to become a Corporate Sponsor of The Telling Room in the coming year, as we uplift youth voices through events, books, and programs. Our annual sponsorship structure gives local businesses and organizations multiple ways to connect with audiences through our special events, audience channels, and publications throughout the year. All contributions go towards supporting our suite of innovative writing and publishing programs for youth. Annual events include Big Night, book launches for the Young Emerging Authors and Young Writers & Leaders programs, as well as the launch of our first-ever anthology of climate writing, and a very special, high-visibility event this spring. 

On May 14th 2026 at Thompson Point’s Halo, we’ll be hosting an evening to support The Telling Room, featuring our authors and alumni, some of our most beloved writing activites, music, and of course—delicious food. Our previous live events have been enormously popular, and received prominent media attention from News Center Maine’s 207, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, WMTW, WMPG, and beyond. 

Current Telling Room sponsors include Androscoggin Bank, Coffee By Design, cPort Credit Union, Dead River Company, Down East Magazine, The Law Offices of Joe Bornstein, Machias Savings Bank, Martin’s Point, OODA Parking Solutions, Pierce Atwood, Verrill, and WEX, to name a few. See our full list of corporate partners here.

To see the cross-sector impact of our work, look no further than our alumni, who are working in healthcare, applying storytelling to computer science at the University of Southern Maine, or who are studying engineering. We hope you’ll join us as we continue our work of supporting Maine’s youth. If you are interested in sponsoring The Telling Room this year, please be in touch to discuss the details and confirm your level of sponsorship.