2012-2013
REPORT
TO THE
COMMUNITY
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“I mistakenly thought my generation had the luxury of ignoring the
actions of women before us. Those countless, often mischaracterized
women had worked hard to clear a very dense path. It just didn’t
occur to me there were things I couldn’t do, and that’s a testament
to the women who came before me.”
-Samantha Appleton
A MESSAGE FRoM OUR CEO & PRESIDENT
As the staff and volunteer leaders of the Maine Women’s Fund, we are proud to share highlights
of the 2012-2013 year, as well as the outlook for the coming months and years. The following
are the highlights of the Fund’s grantmaking, community engagement and other activities.
In 2012-2013, the Fund:
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Former White House Photographer, Sarah Orne Jewett Award Recipient
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Offered grantees the opportunity to expand their planned giving
capacity via a series of trainings for their staff and board members.
Made grants of $80,000 to 10 organizations addressing challenges to
economic security for women and girls.
Conducted needs assessment meetings in 14 of Maine’s 16 counties,
engaging communities across the state in building the Fund’s
understanding of the regional needs of women and girls.
Through the 2013 Leadership Luncheon, shared the moving stories
of awardees and grantees, raising both awareness of the Fund’s
critical work and a record $92,000 to support that work.
The Fund also introduced donor options including charitable gift annuities and donor advised
funds, along with a full array of planned giving opportunities.
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Gift annuities provide income for the donor, as well as a charitable
gift to the Fund.
Donor advised funds allow donors to become engaged at a high
level in making grants to address the needs of women and girls who
face challenges to economic security.
The Fund is building its financial resource base to provide many times the current support
to carry out its mission. Our goal is to maximize the Fund’s impact on economic security for
women and girls, both through grantmaking and by offering grantees the technical support
they need to provide effective programs.
You can read more in these pages about the wonderful individuals, foundations and
businesses that joined the Fund in making this work possible. Many are volunteers on our
board and committees, and many are donors. If you are one of them, we sincerely thank you
for your support. If you are not, we encourage you to become part of the Fund community,
which seeks to make Maine the best it can be for all who live and work here. When women and
girls thrive, communities prosper.
Thank you for all you do for Maine women and girls.
Sincerely,
Sarah Ruef-Lindquist
Melinda Shain
Chief Executive Officer Board President
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Photo: Jamie Bloomquist
R E P O R T TO T H E CO M M U N I T Y 3
“Two things I learned about other girls or women from taking part in
Adventure Girls are that women are strong and that women can do
anything that men can do.”
-Anna
Participant, Adventure Girls, Hardy Girls Healthy Women
ABOUT the fund
Since 1989, the Maine Women’s Fund has been creating social change by investing in
the power of women and the dreams of girls. The Fund is the only Maine foundation
focused exclusively on advancing women’s and girls’ economic security.
Mission
The mission of the Maine Women’s Fund is to transform the lives of Maine women
and girls through strategic grantmaking, community engagement and support to
nonprofit organizations dedicated to social change.
vision
The Fund’s vision is a just and caring society in which Maine women and girls thrive
so communities prosper.
need
Chronic social problems – such as poverty, violence and lack of access to healthcare –
disproportionately affect women and children. The “2011-2012 Status of Women and Girls
in Maine” report by the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women states:

10% of all households in Maine are run by single mothers (compared to less
than 5% run by single fathers) and 40% of these single mothers live in poverty.

Women in Maine earn, on average, 78.5 cents for every dollar that men earn.
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In a recent statewide study, 32.1% of women and 5.3% of men reported
experiencing rape or sexual assault at some point in their lives.
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Women made up only 28% of the Maine State Legislature in 2010.
IMPACT
1989-2013
347 GRANTS AWARDED
176 ORGANIZATIONS
$1,716,470 FUNDED
goal
Until gender is no longer a barrier to achieving economic security or an obstacle to
justice, the Maine Women’s Fund must be in a position to provide significant support to
programs focused on women and girls in Maine that work to eliminate such barriers. The
full participation of women and girls in society empowers communities to reach their full
potential.
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2012-2013 GRANTEES
“This was a great experience for me. It really helped me understand
how the government works by actually being a part of it and not just
reading about it in a book.”
-Miranda
Participant, Girls’ Day at the State House, Maine Women’s Policy Center
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Despite significant need, only 6% of philanthropic dollars specifically target women and
girls nationally (The Foundation Center, Key Facts on U.S. Foundations, 2013).
In 2012-2013 the Fund awarded $80,000 to 10 organizations
working to build the economic security of Maine women and
girls.
100
35
Participants will
work with
Women, Work,
and Community
Women Standing
Together members
will help advance
women
entrepreneurs
Graphic by Ibec Creative
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2012-2013 GRANTEES
2012-2013 GRANTEES
A Company of Girls
will use its theater
arts program for girls
ages 8-18 to develop
participants’ teamwork,
confidence and sense of personal
responsibility.
The Community
Schools at
Opportunity
Farm and
Camden
will expand the Passages Program, which
serves pregnant and parenting young
women through a home-based high
school diploma program.
REAL School will offer a
5-week intensive summer
STEM Academy for at-risk
girls ages 14-18 aimed
to provide teambuilding,
cultural awareness,
therapeutic adventure, postsecondary
education and career exploration,
therapeutic arts interventions and clinical
level social work services.
Cast of A Company of Girls production of Charlotte’s Web
Hardy Girls Healthy
Women will enhance
and expand its Adventure
Girls program, designed
to introduce Maine girls
to concepts of leadership, coalitionbuilding, financial independence and
non-traditional careers and avocations.
Maine
Women’s
Policy
Center
will create policies to increase access to
education and training, ensure women
are paid fairly for their work, and enable
workers to meet their job obligations
while providing care to children and
adult family members.
Margaret Chase
Smith Policy Center
grant will support the
Maine NEW Leadership
program, a free,
intensive, residential, 6-day, nonpartisan
public leadership training institute for
undergraduate women statewide.
Safe Voices will
assist women fleeing
domestic violence
through its residential
shelter, educational trainings, 24-hour
helpline, and community education and
prevention activities.
Students at the REAL School STEM Academy
Trekkers
will
provide scholarship funds for girls
enrolled in a non-profit, outdoor-based
mentoring program that connects young
people with caring adults through
expeditionary learning.
Adventure Girls session
Maine Women’s Policy Center hosts Girls’ Day at the State House
Women,
Work and
Community will
conduct outreach,
coordination and
promotion of the mini-grants program
that will target marketing and business
growth through its At Home on Main
Street initiative.
Trekkers students
Women
Standing
Together
will engage a community of women
dedicated to the advancement of women
leaders and entrepreneurs who are
interested in growing professionally and
finding a bolder voice.
Women Standing Together
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2013 LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON
Maine is full of women with vision, talent and experience. On May 23, 2013, more than 600
attendees gathered for the Maine Women’s Fund annual Leadership Luncheon. Each year, the
Fund honors bold women and girls creating social change. Guests heard success stories from
these awardees, as well as from participants in programs funded by grants to The Community
Schools at Opportunity Farm and Camden, Women Unlimited and Women, Work and Community.
“Thank you for all you do. I have passion for the work of Maine
Women’s Fund. You change people’s lives every day.”
-Lib Jamison
Executive Director, Women Unlimited, Grantee
Left to right: Maya Brown, Julia Bluhm and Izzy Labbe, Anne Taintor, Samantha Appleton
SAMANTHA SMITH AWARD • Julia Bluhm, Maya Brown, Izzy Labbe
Activists, SPARK Movement bloggers
Waterville natives Julia Bluhm, Maya Brown, and Izzy Labbe are members of the Girls Advisory
Board of Hardy Girls Healthy Women. They engage in activism both online and on the ground.
When Julia wrote a petition asking Seventeen magazine to include one non-Photoshopped
spread in each issue, Izzy followed up with a video of her school classmates critiquing the
magazine’s beauty ideals, and Izzy and Maya blogged about the petition to raise awareness
about the campaign. Seventeen responded in the August 2012 issue with a Body Peace Treaty,
in which the magazine committed to “celebrate every kind of beauty” and pledged to never
digitally alter girls’ faces and bodies.
TRIBUTE TO WOMEN IN INDUSTRY AWARD • Anne Taintor
Artist, Entrepreneur
Lewiston native Anne Taintor graduated from Harvard in 1977 with a degree in visual and
environmental studies. After college, she focused on collage, and her work always incorporated
a subtle humor and playfulness. For years, however, Anne’s art was more of a sideline than a
full-time occupation. But in 1985, she was a single mother searching for a way to spend more
time at home with her daughter than her job in cartography permitted, and she began to
develop a line of collaged pins and magnets. The new collages combined vintage images with
Anne’s own interpretation of what these men and women might really be thinking.
Samantha Appleton
Photographer, Author
Camden native Samantha Appleton is a photographer who documents history as it happens.
Most recently, she served as White House staff photographer for the Obama administration.
She has covered many of the most tumultuous man-made events of the past decade and
won numerous awards including Pictures of the Year, World Press Master Class, American
Photography and Camera Arts. Samantha is currently writing a non-fiction book about the
war in Iraq.
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“I persevered past all the comments about having a baby at 17 and
that my life was totally ruined. I’m more successful than most people
my age and I’m really thankful for that.”
-Kaila Gagnon
2013 LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON GRANTEE STORIES
Participant, Passages Program,
The Community Schools at Opportunity Farm and Camden
Left to right: Taleisha, Janyce Boynton, Kaila Gagnon
TALEISHA AND JESSICA
Money Wise graduates, Women Unlimited
Through a grant from the Maine Women’s Fund, Women Unlimited of Augusta offered
financial literacy education, wage negotiation skills and employment training to women in
correctional facilities. Luncheon attendees heard from Jessica and Taleisha, graduates of the
Money Wise program and residents of the Southern Maine Re-Entry Center.
“As the single mother of a two-year-old little girl and someone who is releasing back into my
community, I have many worries—not only about how I will provide for her, but how to manage
my money to make sure the bills are always paid. The Money Wise class provided me with the
knowledge and the confidence to know I can achieve my goals.”
-Taleisha
JAnyCE BOYNTON
Mini-grant recipient, Women, Work and Community
The Maine Women’s Fund provided grant support that allowed the Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community to expand A Catalyst for Change, a statewide project supporting
low-income businesses that want to grow into new markets, improve collateral materials and
professionalize marketing strategies. The program provides mini-grants to entrepreneurs, including one to Janyce Boynton and Christina Lannan, co-founders of Old Town-based Madder
Root LLC, which creates organic, hand-printed tea towels, napkins and produce bags. The
mini-grant allowed Madder Root to expand to 24 wholesale accounts throughout Maine and
New England.
“It’s humbling to hear people describe our work as ‘art for the kitchen.’ ”
-Janyce Boynton
KAILA GAGNON
Graduate of Passages Program, Community Schools at Opportunity Farm and Camden
A Maine Women’s Fund grant supported the expansion of the Community Schools at
Opportunity Farm and Camden’s Passages Program, which serves pregnant and parenting
young women through a home-based high school diploma program. Kaila Gagnon, an
18-year-old student in the Passages Program and the mother of then-11-month-old daughter
Brailee, spoke about balancing school and her role as a young mother.
Since speaking at the luncheon, Kaila has graduated from Passages. She plans to enroll
in nursing school.
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STATEWIDE NEEDS ASSESSMENT
FINANCIALS
In the fall of 2012, the Fund launched a pilot program designed to involve statewide
stakeholders in identifying the needs of women and girls in Maine. This pilot program
functioned as a needs assessment, with stakeholders gathering in different regions to
discuss and reach agreement about the priorities for girls and women in their geographical
area. Tha map below indicates the priority needs identified in the 14 counties in which
the Fund convened meetings.
AROOSTOOK
Living wage opportunities
Generational poverty
Leadership development
Education
Transportation
Resources for aging women
Financial literacy
Housing
Isolation
Aspirations
Role models/peers
MAINE
Women’s
FUND
FALL/WINTER 2012-2013
REGIONAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT
PISCATAQUIS
Aspirations
Poverty
Access to services
KENNEBEC
Reproductive healthcare
Leadership development
Resources for aging women
Substance abuse
Personal safety
Education
OXFORD
Education
Healthcare
Resources for aging women
PENOBSCOT
Resources for aging women
Financial independence/literacy
Reproductive healthcare
Healthy relationships
Leadership development
Childcare and transportation
WASHINGTON
Poverty
Childcare
Transportation
Entrepreneurship development
Healthcare
Resources for aging women
Personal safety
HANCOCK
Domestic violence
Housing issues
Reproductive healthcare
Aspirations
Impact of trauma (bullying, child abuse, PTSD)
Parenting education
Transportation
Nutrition: food security, accessibility, obesity
Access to services
WALDO
Transportation
Generational poverty
Access to services
LINCOLN
Access to services
Education
Transportation
Resources for aging women
Personal safety
Child care
Isolation
$1,600,000
Statement of Financial Position as of June 30, 2013*
Assets
Current Assets
Property & Equipment
Long-Term Assets
$104,413
$3,960
$1,395,014
$1,503,388
Total Assets
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Long-Term Liabilities (Annuity Payable)
$14,156
$5,083
$19,238
Net Assets
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Restricted - Endowment
Net Income
Total Net Assets
$403,970
$174,104
$861,157
$44,918
$1,484,149
Maine Women’s
Fund
Portfolio
$1,503,388
Total Liabilities
andInvestment
Net Assets
*Unaudited as of publication. Audited financial statements available upon request.
Maine Women’s Fund Investment Portfolio
Maine Women’s Fund Investment Portfolio
3% 2%
Equities
20%
46%
Equities
Fixed
Income
Fixed Income
International Stock
International
Stock
Cash and Equivalents
Other Assets
Cash
and Equivalents
29%
Other Assets
$1,400,000
SAGADAHOC
High unemployment rate
Median income
Higher education graduates
Living wage opportunities
Affordable healthcare
Living wage opportunities
KNOX*
At-risk youth programming
Personal safety for elderly
Healthy starts
Financial literacy
Community mentors
Building on assets
$1,200,000
YORK*
Aspirations
Access to services
ANDROSCOGGIN*
Aspirations
Early intervention
Generational poverty
Vocational training/Multiple pathways to education
Leadership
Franklin and Somerset Counties not reporting.
*Priorities unranked.
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$1,000,000
CUMBERLAND*
Resources for aging women
Nutrition: food security, accessibility, obesity
Transportation
Programming for girls
Poverty
High daycare costs
Low % of business management/positions held by women
$800,000
$600,000
Maine Women’s Fund Invested Asset Levels
$1,600,000
$1,400,000
$1,200,000
$1,000,000
$800,000
$600,000
$400,000
$200,000
2003
2008
2012
2013
2003
2008
2012
2013
$0
$400,000
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DONORS
Key
Current Board Member
as of 9/19/2013
2
Former Board Member
3
Deceased
1
KS Kindred Spirit
Recurring Giving
as of 10/1/2013
LF Loyal Friend
5+ Years
Consecutive Giving
S Sustainer
10+ Years
Consecutive Giving
Ellen Wells Legacy
Society
Donors who have made
a planned gift and
have given the Fund
permission to list them
Anonymous (8)
Barbara Babkirk2
Monique Y. Crochet
Meredith H. Jones2 and Dana Murch
Cynthia McMullin
Barbara Potter3
Erica Quin-Easter and
Kathryn Quin-Easter
Ellen V.P. Wells
Visionary
$25,000+ of lifetime
cumulative giving
Anonymous (2)
Nancy Clay Anderson2
Anne Elise Aubry
Marilyn T. Bronzi1
Helen D. Fitz2 and
David G. Fitz · S
Gregor A. Gamble3
Mary A. Hillas3
Cynthia S. McMullin2
Sarah S. Meacham · S
Margot W. Milliken2 and Roger Milliken, Jr. · S
Louise H. Murphy2
Lin Peyton and
Morris Hancock
DONORS
Clara Porter1 · S
Barbara Potter3
Lisa M. Rideout2
and Michael J. Foley
Mary Minor C. Smith
Carol R. Ward and Charles deSieyes
Ellen V.P. Wells2
Corporate
Dead River Company
Garrand & Company
KeyBank
Morgan Stanley
Norway Savings Bank
TD Bank
WEX
Foundation
Apple Lane Foundation · LF
Heather Foundation
Helen and George Ladd Charitable Foundation
Maine Community Foundation
MaineShare
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation
Change Agent ­­
$10,000+
Anonymous (1)
Marilyn T. Bronzi1
Margot W. Milliken2 and Roger Milliken, Jr. · S
Foundation
Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
The Heather Foundation
Catalyst
$5,000-$9,999
Nancy Clay Anderson2
S. Donald Sussman and Rep. Chellie Pingree
Corporate
TD Bank
WEX
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Foundation
Cutler Charitable Fund upon the advice of
Eliot and Melanie Cutler
Helen and George Ladd Charitable Corporation · LF
Kane Barrengos Foundation · LF
MaineShare · S
Roy A. Hunt Foundation · LF
Advocate
$2,500-$4,999
Susan Mann Clark
in memory of Gladys F. Mann
Layne M. Gregory1 · LF
Robin Lin Hodgskin1 · S
Corporate
Flatbread Portland · LF
Morgan Stanley
Pierce Atwood LLP
Rambler’s Way
Spinnaker Trust
Foundation
The Evergreen Foundation
Winky Foundation · LF
Leader
$1,000-$2,499
Deb Abbondanza
Katherine Sawyers Branch
Gayle A. Brazeau
Michaela Cavallaro and Darren Cook1 · KS · LF
Lauren and Mark Dietlin · KS · LF
Marianne M. Dodge
Helen D. Fitz and
David G. Fitz2 · S
Joan M. Fortin2
Patricia H.D. Hagge
Allyson Hughes Handley2
Nancy E. Herter2
Laura Jackson · S
Elizabeth Jamison · KS
Sara E. Lewis and Jennifer R. Goldman2 · S
Georgia Nigro1
in honor of Celeste Branham · LF
Clara Porter1 · S
Kathryn A. Reid and Hugh Tozer
Martha S. Robes
Sarah Ruef-Lindquist and Peter Lindquist
Nan S. Sawyer3
Melinda P. Shain1 in honor of Margaret Annette Dowd · LF
Wendy and Eric Suehrstedt · LF
Christine Torraca
Anne K. Wade · LF
Sandra Whiston
Judith Fletcher Woodbury · LF
Pond Family Foundation
The Yemaya Maurer Gift Fund at the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Corporate
Baker Newman Noyes
Bangor Savings Bank
Bernstein Shur
Eaton Peabody
HM Payson
IDEXX Laboratories
InterMed
KeyBank
Macpage LLC
Starting Point Ops
Tambrands Inc., a Procter & Gamble Co.
Trillium Asset Management
Unum
Mentor
$500-$999
Katherine Cheney Chappell and Thomas Chappell in memory of Mary Pope Cheney · LF
Madeleine G. Corson · S
Susan French Dubuque2 · KS · S
Dyan Oakley Dyer
Janan T. Eppig · S
Meagan Gallagher
Meredith Jones2 and Dana Murch
Ann R. Kinney and Gilbert H. Kinney · LF
Candice Lee
Mary-Kate Murphy and Peter V. Lindsay · S
Kate O’Halloran1 in honor of Sarah Ruef-
Lindquist · KS
Janet N. O’Toole2
Hilary Rapkin
Marilyn Moss Rockefeller
Margo C. Simmons and Jack H. Simmons
Jane Sloven in honor of Layne Gregory
Candace Walworth
Andrea I. Williams and Charles F. Dewey · LF
Foundation
Anonymous (1)
Apple Lane Foundation · LF
F.B. Heron Foundation
James P. Garland and Carol J. Andreae Fund of The Columbus Foundation
Maine Initiatives
Morgan Stanley Foundation
Corporate
Bath Savings Institution
CBRE | The Boulos Company
Coffee By Design
Cornerstone Financial Planning
DiMillo’s On the Water
Diversified Communications · S
Good Shepherd Food Bank
Harraseeket Inn
Investment Management and Consulting Group
Law Offices of Joe Bornstein · LF
League of Women Voters/Maine
Maine Philanthropy Center
Martin’s Point Health Care
Norway Savings Bank
People’s United Bank
Plastic and Hand Surgical Associates · LF
The VIA Agency
UBS Financial Services/
Bayside Wealth Management
University of New England
University of Southern Maine
Unum Matching Gifts
Program
Verrill Dana · LF
Foundation
Broaddus/Jensen Charitable Fund upon the advice of Sandra Jensen and Samuel B. Broaddus · S
Clements Family Charitable Trust upon the advice of Tyler M. Clements and Lily King
Fore River Foundation · LF
General Electric Foundation
Maine Community Foundation · S
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
Supporter
$50-$499
Anonymous (14)
Eliza Jane Adams and Rockland Helpin in honor of Mariah
Nancy L. Agler
Susan A. Allein and Richard Flanagan
Diana and Tom Allen · S
Scott Allen and Elizabeth Dailey-Allen in honor of Katherine Allen
Nancy T. Allyn
Ann Marie Almeida in honor of women in Maine and the world
Sally Amory · S
Mary Beth Ansheles · S
Judas Appleton
Samantha Appleton
Thomas J. Archambault
Lisa A. Arellano and Carleen Mandolfo
Sarah C. Armentrout
Penelope Armstrong in honor of Catherine Cleale
Deb Arter and Tom Arter in honor of Alison Pyott
Barbara Sirois Babkirk2 and Douglas Babkirk · S
Catharine S. Baker and Nicholas Snow in honor of Elaine Cinciva
Dana Baldwin
Sara Bancroft
Bland C. Banwell
Hannah L. Bass
Peaches Bass
Bethany Beausang
Barbara Beckelman
Anne Brennan Belden
Shay Bellas
James Bennett in honor of Molly Mulhern
Claire V. Berkowitz
Laurel Bezanson · KS
Nicole Bezanson
Deborah E. Bicknell in honor of Nancy Taber
Betsy Biemann
Connie Bingham and Peter Bingham
Paola Biola
Nichole E. Blanchard · KS
Erika Blauch in honor of Annamaria Blauch
Robert Bluhm
Barbara J. Bock
Tracy V. Booth2 and Donald M. Booth
Elizabeth L. Bordowitz · LF
Margaret Boyajian
Cindy A. Boyt
Emily Rand Breitner · LF
Suzanne Bridges and Brent Bridges
Kaitlin A. Briggs2
Gillian Britt
Lee Broder and James Broder
Rommy Brown
Linda Brunner and Dirk Brunner
Deborah E. Burwell in memory of Harriet
Blades
Anne Buck in memory of Anne M. Emmons
Renée M. Bunker
Jennifer Bush in honor of her daughter
Sandra S. Butler · S
Josephine M. Cahrens
Patricia Campbell
Gena Canning
Maria Canning
Lois A. Carlson
Charlotte C. Carnes and Timothy Carnes
Carol Carriuolo
Fred Caswell
Mary R. Cathcart2
Eliza Chappell
Charleen M. Chase2
Christine Chassé
Nancy Chatfield
Gail K. Cinelli and Peter S. Cinelli in honor of Charlotte Cinelli Slayton · LF
Lynda Clancy
Catherine Cleale
Catherine H. Cloudman
Jennifer Coffin
Janice Cohen
Sarah Emily Colby
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DONORS
Dorian Cole
Mary I. Collins
Bodie Colwell
Susan C. Conley
Thorne C. Conley2
Eileen M. Conlon
Poppy Connor-Crouch and John E. Connor-
Crouch
Peter B. Cook · S
Staci Coomer
Jen Corbeil
Kate Cox
Sherree L. Craig
Kristen Crean
Sara M. Crisp and Gregg R. Lipton · LF
Catherine Crute · KS · S
Tracey M. Daigle
Jennifer Daly in honor of Quinn and Beatrix Daly · LF
Denise D’Amboise
Joanne D’Arcangelo
Kevan Lee Deckelmann · KS
Evelyn H. DeFrees and Brad La Roche
Lois Y. Dennett
Laura Desmarais2
Craig and Kris Deveau in honor of Alia Abdulahi
Anne L. Dinsmore
Kathryn Dion
Rebecca Doman
Patricia P. Donovan
Christian Downey
Eve M. Downs
Kristin Chase Duffy and Bill Duffy · LF
Heather T. Dunbar
Mary F. Dunn and Ronald Shapiro · LF
Jennifer Eastman2 · KS · LF
Elizabeth E. Ehrenfeld
Jessica Esch and Trevor
Esch · LF
Susan F. Feiner
Catherine S. Fellenz
Nancy Field and Ann Houser
DONORS
Catherine H. Fisher
Kathleen A. Flory and Robert H. Flory, Jr.
Lorna Flynn and John V. Flynn
Alexandra Wolf Fogel
Dorothy D. Foote
Laura A. Fortman
Aayin Foster
Karen Foster
Courtney Francis
Barbara M. Fraumeni
Barbara H. Furey
Odette Galli · KS
Felicia A. Garant
Vanessa Gates-Elston
Susan M. George and Miles O. Epstein · S
Karen A. Geraghty
Hallie Flint Gilman
Lynn K. Goldfarb and
Matthew Goldfarb
in memory of Jean Kraemer and Evelyn W.K.
Barbara M. Goodbody
Betts Gorsky and Mark K. Googins
Benjamin Grant
Cheryl Greaney and Maureen Keeley
Bill W. Gregory and Nancy Gregory
Margaret S. Groban
Amy P. Grohman and Martin Grohman · S
Jean K. Gulliver
Jennifer Gunderman-
King
Merna Guttentag and Joseph Guttentag · LF
Maria A. Gwinn
Krista A.H. Haapala and Brian R. Haapala
Sarah J. Halpin in honor of Gilda Nardone
Wendy J. Harlan · LF
Penny S. Harris
Cindy Hayer
Patricia Hendrickson
Janet Henry · S
Mary Herman2
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Roger S. Hillas and Lisa A. Olson in memory of Mary Hillas and Barbara Potter · LF
Barbara W. Hintze in honor of Bethel Women
Loraine L. Hite
Jean Hoffman
Robert W. Holmes in memory of Florence Vivian Holmes
Vivianne Holmes2 in
memory of Tippie Holmes · KS
Maggie Hoople
Nancy S. Horie
Annie Houle · KS · S
Kevin Hughes in honor of his daughter, Kaitlin
Melissa Huston
Marguerite Libby Hyatt ·S
Laurie Hyndman in honor of her mother and her daughter, Grace
Sarah Iselin
Andrea M. Itkin in honor of Gertrude Itkin
Leila Jahncke · KS
Donna Gaspar Jarvis · KS · S
Anne B. Jepson
Ginger L. Jones
Mari M. Jones
Emily G. Kahn
Amy M. Keating and Christopher M. Keating · LF
Nancy B. Kelleher
Margaret Kelsey · KS
Pamela Boudreau Kemp
Martha Kempe in
memory of Mary Morgan Kempe
Nancy Sue Kennedy
Ariel F. Kernis2
Penny Kerwin
Carol F. Kessler in memory of Emily P. Farley · KS
Patricia Favro Kimball2 · LF
Rep. Jane Knapp
Elizabeth L. Knowles
Erica L. Knudsen
Susan L. Koen
Jacquelyn M. Kurz
Bree LaCasse
Melissa LaCasse
Marilyn A. Lalumiere
Michelle Lambert
Julie E. Conteras Lannon and James J. Lannon III
Jana Lapoint
Robin Lapoint
Rebecca A. Launer
Jennifer C. Lawson
Diana Lee in honor of Anna Natalia Lee
Judith A. Leighton · LF
Stephanie R. Leighton · LF
JoAnn Leon
Miriam A. Leonard
Elizabeth P. Levenson and Alan Levenson
Marianna W. Putnam Liddell
Susanna E. Liller · LF
Heather Lindkvist
Linda B. Lisberger · S
Chris and Sue Livesay · LF
Rebecca A. Lomangino · KS · LF
Carole and Joe Long
Judith F. Loren
Samantha Lott Hale · KS · LF
Marjorie Love
Anne Lynch in honor of C. Lynch
Susan Mackay
Paula Mahony
Donna Maiorino2
Johnna Major in honor of Hannah Anderson
Pender Makin in honor of Anna Cutler
Karen Mangino
Katherine A. Mann · KS · LF
Debora J. Marathon
Nicole Marston
Catherine Martin
David Martines
Sibyl Masquelier2
Bethany Mateosian
Nancy W. McBrady
Robin McCarthy
Kim McCollister
Marty W. McIntyre
Cynthia S. McMullin2
Donna McNeil
Sarah S. Meacham · S
Antoinette L. Mercadente
Naomi Schussler Mermin
Mary Lou Michael
Linda Michaels
Katelyn Miller
Nancy Baker Miller
Rep. Elizabeth S. Miller and Roy Miller
Donna J. Millett
Karen Milliken
Dora Ann Mills
Sarah Cross Mills
Jennifer Mirabile
Peter Monro and Jill Bock
Elizabeth J. Moore
Karen Moran and Richard Hallstein
Patrice Moran
Molly A. Morell
Kathleen Morgan
Pamela B. Moriarty · LF
Molly Mulhern
Irene C. Mulkern
Mike Mulkern
Jenifer Mumford
Katie Murphy in honor of Estelle K. Murphy
Melissa Hanley Murphy
Gilda E. Nardone in honor of Women, Work,
and Community
Jana Natarajamurthi
Priya L. Natarajan in honor of Lauren Dietlin
Jennifer L. Nelson · KS
Mary P. Nelson · LF
Sally H. Nelson
Jessamyn Norton
Jayme Okma Lee · KS
Catherine Richards Olney1
Erica and James Olson
Catherine E. Padham
Stephanie Paine
Ellen Palminteri
Noreen Patient
Sally-Lou Patterson · S
Michelle E. Paules
Patricia A. Peard2 and Alice Brock
Sarah M. Peskin
Jennifer W. Peters
Stephanie Philbrick
Sandra L. Plette
Sarah Plimpton and Parke Burmeister in honor of Carol Wishcamper
Pamela P. Plumb · LF
Emma Pope-Welch
Cherie Porter in memory
of Mari Lou Mankey
Lisa J. Preney
Cyndi J. Prince
Melissa Pritchard in honor of Sophia Bernazzani
Maureen Puia in honor of Kathy MacDonald
Julie Richard
Lisa M. Rideout2 and Michael J. Foley
Martha Riehle and Janis Childs
Diana I. Rigg · S
Eileen M. Robert
Catherine E. Robinson in honor of Susan West
Sarah Robinson
Janice M. Rogers
Kathleen T. Rooks and William J. Rooks, III
Elizabeth H. Ruff in honor of Kathy Cheever
Constance M. Rush
Marianne Russo
Libby Rust
Colette Sabbagh and Iyad Sabbagh · LF
Elizabeth C. Saltonstall
Joan Benoit Samuelson
Carla Sanders
Blanca Santiago and Jon S. Bradley
Imelda A. Schaefer
Erica Schair-Cardona and Ivan Cardona
Mary Schendel and Philip Gleason · KS
Julie M. Schirmer and William F. Schirmer
Marian Schmidt
Tobi Leanna Schneider in honor of Peggy Schneider
Ann Koch Schonberger ·S
Susan Schraft and Richard S. Berne
Amanda L. Schumaker
Tuti B. Scott
Melody J. Shank
Heather Shields
Gretchen Sibley in honor of Kris Wyatt
Iris Silverstein
Kimberly Simmons and Craig Bramley
Katie Mae Simpson
in memory of Mary “Mammie” Look
Kristin Sims
Sandra L. Sincero
Misty Smalley
Margaret G. Smith and Bradley R. Smith
Rebekah J. Smith2 and Patrick J. Mellor · KS
Natalie Solotoff1
Jennifer M. Southard2 and Edward J. Suslovic in honor of Kate and Meghan
Courtney N. Spencer in honor of Adrien Spencer
Yemaya St. Clair
George Stadler
Hal Standiford and Stephanie Standiford
Susan Goodwillie
Stedman
Dorrine Steele
Nancy Strojny
Christina Strong
Andrea Summers and Robert Summers · LF
Robert and Karen Suva · LF
Bette B. Swanton
Kristin G. Sweeney · LF
Anne Taintor
Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan in honor of Maya T. Brown
Richard Tappan
Wendy Tardif
Amy N. Taylor in honor of Carol Taylor
Brooke P. Tenney · S
Denise Anne Tepler in memory of Barry and Priscilla Schwartz
Alalia K. Thaler · S
Ellen Thayer
Jessica Thomas and Bartley Parker in memory of Augusten Thomas-Parker · KS · LF
Elyse Chiland Tipton in honor of Evelyn Chiland
Sonya Tomlinson · KS
Elizabeth Townsend
Susan Amy Tran
Tara Treichel
Elaine V. Tselikis
Linda Varrell
Joy Vaughan
Maddy Vertenten
Kathryn L. Vezina
Lisa Jepson Wahlstrom
Sara Walbridge · S
Cheri L. Walker
Lee J. Walker
Susan Walker and Robert Lightfoot
Cornelia Walworth
Nancy Wanderer2 and Susan Sanders · LF
Elizabeth Watson
Patrice B. Weber in honor of Lois G. Reckitt’s wedding
Alice N. Wellman
Joan Wettington Welsh2 ·S
Rachel Wertheimer
R E P O R T TO T H E CO M M U N I T Y 1 9
DONORS
Barbara Wheaton2 and Timothy Wheaton
Tara Wheeler
Buffy S. Whitaker
Jacqueline Wiegleb · LF
Kira Wigoda and Daniel B. Sobel · S
Nancy G. Wilds · LF
Kate Wilkinson
Fredric Williams
Emma Wilson and Thomas Hattan
Eveline M. Wing
Carol Wishcamper and Joseph Wishcamper
Melinda Woerter
Jean M. B. Woodward
Sandra Allin Wyman
Carol Zechman
Corporate
Albin, Randall & Bennett
Allen Insurance and Financial
Beach Glass Transitions
Bigelow Investment Advisors, LLC
Blake Hurley McCallum & Conley, LLC
Brown Goldsmiths & Co.
Creative Content Partners
Delhaize America
Douglas, Denham, Buccina & Ernst
Evergreen Credit Union
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England
Grasshopper Shop of Rockland
Heart at Work
Jensen Baird Gardner & Henry
Maine Academy of Natural Sciences at Good-Will Hinckley
Maine Centers for Women, Work, and Community
Maine Humanities Council
VOLUNTEERS
Management Research Group, Inc.
Marathon Real Estate
Marika Alisha Skin Care
Morning Glory Natural Foods
Pixels and Pulp
Planned Parenthood of NNE
Portland Press Herald/
Maine Sunday
Telegram
R.M. Davis, Inc.
Robinson Smith Wealth Advisors
Rust Communications Group
Swiss Time
The Bingham Program
The Community Schools at Opportunity Farm and Camden
The Opportunity Alliance
The REAL School
The Telling Room
Whole Heart Yoga Center
Woodard & Curran
Foundation
The Cindy and Jim O’Rourke Charitable Fund
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund upon advice of Allison C. Morrill
Pamela W. Mitchell Trust
Schwab Charitable Fund on behalf of Denise K. Palmer and John E. Palmer, Jr. · S
In-Kind
Contributors
ABC Bakery
Bam Bam Bakery
Bangor Savings Bank
Better Bread Company
Breakwater Vineyard
The Brown Bag
Budget Fabulous Films
2 0 M A I N E W O M E N ’S F U N D
Center for Ethics in Action at University of New England
Falmouth Flowers and Gifts
Fresh Off The Farm
Heather Caron Floral Design
The Holy Donut
Jae-Eun Pilsbury
Jill McGowan, Inc.
Katie Made Bakery
Kimball & Keyser
Law Offices of Joe Bornstein
Love Cupcakes
Maine Initiatives
The Maine Magazine
Mainebiz
The Nature
Conservancy
Once A Tree
Paddling the Rapids LLC
Pierce Atwood LLP
Priority Learning
Schooner Surprise
Shipyard Brewing Company
University of Maine at Augusta
This list reflects
contributions made
from July 1, 2012 to
June 30, 2013. Every
effort has been made
to ensure that the list of
donors and volunteers
is correct. If your name
is misspelled or omitted,
please accept our sincere
apologies and inform us
at (207) 774-5513.
Thank you for investing in
the power of women and the
dreams of girls.
Current Board Member
Former Board Member
1
2
Development
Strategy
Committee
Sarah Plimpton, Chair
Barbara Babkirk2
Michaela Cavallaro1
Staci Coomer
Moya Elliot
Kristin Farnham
Karin Gregory
Layne Gregory1
Judy Groth2
Allyson Hughes Handley2
Nancy Herter2
Robin Lin Hodgskin1
Molly Liddell,
Planned Giving
Subcommittee Chair
Maura Melley
Felicity Myers
Kate O’Halloran1
Clara Porter1
Barbara Raimondi
Hilary Rapkin
Barbara Raths
Betsy Saltonstall
Melinda Shain1
Heather Shields
Yemaya St. Clair
Nancy Wanderer2
Judy Woodbury
Anne Zill2
Finance Committee
Melinda Shain1, Chair
Joan Fortin2
Patricia Kimball2
Cris Lane
Erica Libby2
Karen Mangino
Karen Milliken
Natalie Solotoff
Grants Committee
Georgia Nell Nigro1, Chair
Carol Andreae
Joan Fortin2
Heather Harris
Shelia Jans
Kristine Jenkins
Ariel Kernis2
Donna McNeil
Margot Milliken
Betsy Morrell
Clara Porter1
Michael Rayder
Investment
Committee
Robin Lin Hodgskin1, Chair
Kathryn Dion
Sara Lewis
Janet O’Toole2
Lisa Rideout2
Melinda Shain1
Leadership Gift
Committee
Michaela Cavallaro1
Layne Gregory1
Robin Lin Hodgskin1
Kate O’Halloran1
Clara Porter1
Melinda Shain1
Luncheon
Planning
Committee
Heather Shields, Chair
Kim Anania
Deb Bicknell
Catherine Cleale
Susan Conley
Kate Cox
David Meiklejohn
Peter Monro
Harris Parnell
Cherie Porter
Buffy Whitaker
Luncheon
Sponsorship
Committee
Judy Woodbury, Chair
Nicky Blanchard
Gayle Brazeau
Joan Fortin1
Jennifer Goldman2
Jennifer Harnish
Stephanie Paine
Kathryn Reid
Misty Smalley
Amy Taylor
June Usher
Andy Verzosa
Paula Watson
Marketing
Committee
Michaela Cavallaro, Chair
Laura Tarbox
Desmarais2
Sherry Brown
Marilyn Bronzi1
Jennifer Hutchins
Susan Kimball
Becky McKinnell
Susan Morris
Alison Nason
Jennifer Price
Reneé Smyth
Courtney Spencer
Parke Burmeister
Mark Woodbury
Office and Event
Volunteers
Kim Anania
Susan Bell
Linda S. Buckmaster
Molly Collin
Pam Erikson
Stacy Duguay
Jennah Durbin
Elizabeth Elwin
Torrie Hazelwood
Liesl Helminiak
Kayla Johnson
Ashley Lopez
Olivia Mantsch
Sara McKersie
Niki Morton
Molly Mulhern
Cherie Porter
Barbara Repetto
Margaret Richardson
Leah Rubin
Becky Scott
Heather Singer
Laurel Streeter
Tara Treichel
Merci Ugineza
Amanda Warren
Buffy Whitaker
Nirmala Young
Railey Zantorp-
Zimlinghaus
Regional
Leadership
Rebecca Andreozzi
Sue Mackey Andrews
Linda Buckmaster
Darylen Cote
Torrey Eaton
Laurie Fogelman
Janice Rogers
Misty Smalley
Thank you
for your time,
talent, and
resources.
R E P O R T TO T H E CO M M U N I T Y 2 1
HOW TO GIVE
BOARD & STAFF
2012- 2013 Board of Directors
Layne Gregory, President
Falmouth
Georgia Nell Nigro, Secretary
Lewiston
Melinda Shain, Treasurer
Gorham
Marilyn Bronzi
Yarmouth
Michaela Cavallaro
South Portland
Laura Tarbox Desmarais
Kennebunk
Joan M. Fortin
Portland
Allyson Hughes Handley
Augusta
Robin Lin Hodgskin
Yarmouth
Ariel F. Kernis
Lewiston
Mish Morgenstern
Rockport
Kate O’Halloran
Fairfield
Clara Porter
Portland
We are pleased to welcome the following
new board members as of September 2013:
Rebecca Andreozzi
Bethel
Joyce Clark-Sarnacki
Bangor
Catherine Richards Olney
Freeport
Natalie Solotoff
Portland
Sarah Strickland
Robbinston
2 2 M A I N E W O M E N ’S F U N D
Staff
(as of 10/21/13)
Sarah Ruef-Lindquist
Chief Executive Officer
Lauren Dietlin
Chief Operating Officer
Marcie Parker Griswold
Communications and Events
Coordinator
Kathleen Pinard
Development Coordinator
Katie Allen
Administrative Assistant
Kimberly Crichton, Transform. LLC
Contracted Grants Coordinator
Invest in the Power of Women and the Dreams of Girls
Check or Credit Card (Visa, MC, AMEX)
Make your gift by check payable to Maine Women’s Fund and send to P.O. Box 5135, Portland,
ME 04101. Or make a credit card gift online by visiting www.mainewomensfund.org.
Recurring Gifts
Become a “Kindred Spirit” and sustain the Fund’s work throughout the year by committing to a
recurring monthly or quarterly donation. FMI contact Lauren Dietlin.
Stock
Contribute appreciated securities to provide valuable support to the Fund while receiving taxsaving advantages. FMI contact Lauren Dietlin.
IRA Gifts
Donors 70 ½ and older may make tax-free gifts directly from an IRA to the Maine Women’s Fund.
An annual maximum of $100,000 applies. FMI contact Sarah Ruef-Lindquist.
Bequest or Planned Gift
Support the Fund’s future by including the Maine Women’s Fund in your estate plans. Bequests,
charitable gift annuities and charitable lead and remainder trusts nurture the Fund’s growth
while providing financial and/or tax benefits to you. Consult your attorney or accountant, and
FMI contact Sarah Ruef-Lindquist.
Donor Advised Fund
Maximize current income tax deductibility along with the benefit of our expertise and time to
focus your support where and when it’s needed most. The Advised Fund you create through
a minimum gift of $10,000 may grant to organizations with
missions consistent with that of the Fund. FMI contact Sarah RuefLindquist.
Matching Gifts
Consult your employer to find out if you can increase the value of
your donation through your employer’s Matching Gift Program.
Gifts in Kind
Friends of the Fund have contributed advertising, leadership
training, food and more. Call 207-774-5513 if you have services or
items you’d like to contribute.
Sarah Ruef-Lindquist, CEO
207-975-5165 | sarah@mainewomensfund.org
Lauren Dietlin, COO
207-774-5513 | lauren@mainewomensfund.org
“It just made sense. I could look forward to supporting Maine women and
girls in the future. The Charitable Gift Annuity works for me today and it
works for Maine women and girls tomorrow.”
-Monique Crochet
Donor
R E P O R T TO T H E CO M M U N I T Y 2 3
Maine Women’s Fund
PO Box 5135
Portland, ME 04101
ph: 207.774.5513
www.mainewomensfund.org
thewomen@mainewomensfund.org
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