Donors to the Maine Community Foundation are devoted to supporting many different causes for just as many different reasons. We are pleased to be able to offer profiles of some of them.

Twenty years ago, Deborah Pulliam came to Maine to work at the Castine Patriot. Then her father died, and four years later, she and her mother inherited a fortune. Literally. Yet even friends close enough to share holidays with Pulliam did not know this. To them, she was a rather quiet woman who loved animals, cared deeply about textiles and history...
Deborah Pulliam: Giving Without Recognition

As a psychiatrist who has worked in Maine’s prisons, Diane Schetky knows that illiteracy is more than just embarrassing. It can ruin lives. So when her father, died a few years ago, Schetky sought to honor him in a way he would appreciate: through a fund for literacy ...
Diane Schetky: Enhancing Literacy, Honoring a Father

Catharine Guiles sits in her living room on the crown of Gloucester Hill, the highest point in Cumberland County. A former science editor and avid gardener, with a special interest in ferns, this woman’s soft, plainspoken directness comes right out of Our Town — and with some reason. Guiles’ uncle, Thornton Wilder, wrote the play...
Catharine Guiles: Practicing Personal Philanthropy

A love of skiing brought Bill Kieffer and Jim May to Bethel, Maine, 18 years ago. A love of Maine, with its sense of community and close connections, has kept them...  
Bill Kieffer and Jim May: Roots in the Community

Henry says getting involved in the community was a given. “It’s a lawyer’s responsibility,” he states. Commendations on the wall of his office testify to years of public service by him and his late wife, Judge Harriet P. Henry...
Merton Henry: An estate lawyer makes recommendations

Allen and Sally Fernald have a bird’s-eye view of the Maine coast from their home in Rockport, with the Camden Hills in the foreground and the islands of Penobscot Bay beyond. This special perspective strengthens their commitment to the community...
Allen and Sally Fernald give back to their state

Just after World War II, when Jack and Anne Spiegel were young Boston-area newlyweds, they decided to do something quite surprising: embark on their new business of making moccasins in Maine...
Jack and Anne Spiegel: A Portland couple's life journey leads to a family legacy