2021 Membership & Community Support

You make this vital work possible.

It’s been 32 years of protecting the lands and waters you love! In 1989, KELT was founded by a handful of committed community members looking to conserve the wild, scenic beauty of the Kennebec Estuary. Today, our members…individuals, families, businesses, and foundations…are the reason we continue to be successful. We are deeply grateful for your support!

 

2021 milestones

  • Over $130,000 in membership donations

  • Over 650 membership donations made by 411 members

  • 68 new members

  • Over $400,000 in grant support

  • 27 generous Evergreen Circle donors who give on a recurring basis

 

KELT thanks the following individuals, foundations, and businesses who made generous gifts to support our conservation programs in 2021.

We made every effort to ensure the accuracy of these lists; please notify us of any errors or omissions.


Rising Tide Society

This group of generous donors is vital in ensuring KELT's financial sustainability for robust and enriching programs into the future. Members who donate $500+ are part of the Rising Tide Society.

*Evergreen Circle donors ♥Given for 5+ consecutive years ✿In memory: donor who recently passed away


$2500+: High Tide Donors

 

Anonymous (4)

Susan Bateson & Stephen Fuller ♥

Franklin & Susan Burroughs ♥

Dennis & Carole Dunbar ♥

Joseph & Pamela Hanson

Julia Kahrl ♥

Michelle & James Rines ♥

 
 

$1000 - 2499: Spring Tide Donors

 

Stephen & Marcia August ♥

Lori Benson & Ken Borgendale ♥

Costello Family

Mike & Peggy Curran ♥

Paul Dumdey ♥

Miles Epstein & Dr. Susan George

Mike & Betsy Fear ♥

Robert & Katharine Gravino ♥

Rebecca Halbrook & Sam Jones ♥

Betsy Ham & Warren Whitney ♥

Dr. Stemple & Catherine Johnson

Kathleen Kasparek

Carrie & Jack Kinne ♥*

Dayle & Raymond Kolak ♥

Debra Lipscomb ✿ & Denham S Ward MD, PhD *

Vicki & Paul Skydell ♥

Shannon Slattery & Jerome Grafe

Pat Smith & Richard Tucker ♥

Karen & Neil Stanton

Dixie Stedman & J.R. Phillips ♥

John Swenson & Nancy Nellis ♥

Michael Tetreault & Neera Harmon

Eric & Laurie Van Loon ♥

Laurel Walsh & Justin Schuetz ♥

David & Sandra Weiss ♥

Jack Witham & Jody Jones ♥

Loren & JB Wright ♥

Nancy Zugehoer ♥

 
 

$500 - 999: Neap Tide Donors

 

Bill & Sally Haggett

Lawrence Hobel & Diana Staring ♥

Avery Hunt

Rich & Debbie Lorenson ♥

Timothy & Linda Lotz

Robert & Connie McChesney ♥

Sue McLeod ♥

Nancy & Bill Milam ♥

Lisa Muller Jones

Pia & Will Neilson ♥

Jackson & Susan Parker

David & Susan Avery ♥*

Timothy Blair & Kate Dempsey

Paul & Janet Cappers

Jeffrey & Deborah Christie ♥

Allan & Carol Clarke ♥

Carolyn & W. Robert Connor ♥

Gladys & Stephen DeWick ♥

Susan Fenn & Bill Nickerson ♥

Bob & Ann Fox

Gregory Gale & Maria Rader

Maria & Chris Grill ♥

Jean ✿ & Ralph Pope

Peter & Rhoda Segerstrom

David B. Soule Jr. & Patricia J. O'Reilly ♥

Amy & Fred Wesson ♥

Sandy Whiteley & Russel Maylone ✿

Stephen Williams & Lisa Reece ♥

Reeve Wood & Hannah Burroughs ♥*

Al & Julia Wurglitz

Peter & Julia Jenks Zorach

 

KELT Membership

Our members make it happen! Thanks to these generous individuals and families, KELT can continue our work protecting the land and water throughout the Kennebec Estuary today and for future generations.

*Evergreen Circle donors ♥Given for 5+ consecutive years ✿In memory: donor who recently passed away

 
 
 

Anonymous (4)

Susan S.R. Alexander

David & Libby Anderson

Karl Anderson

Ruth and Jonathan Appleyard ♥

Rosalie Arienti

Scott & Janet Armington

Ellen Asherman

Karen Balnis

Nancy D. Barber ♥

Richard Barker

Thomas & Judith Barrington ♥

Pamela Barry

Martha Baum

John & Lynne Baxter ♥

David & Shawn Bebko

Jeffrey & Rosalind Benton ♥

Kris Berglund & Joanna Torow ♥

Terri Bilodeau & Edward Schmuhl ♥

Darice Birge & Michael Handel ♥

Edie & Gil Birney

Luther Black & Christina Wright

Will & Halcyon Blake

Mary Louise K. Blanchard

Howard & Nancy Bliss ♥

Bill & Lucinda Bliss

Harvey Boatman

Phyllis & Aaron Bock

Steven & Eileen Bonine *

Margaret Helm Bonney

Alan & Kathleen Bouchard

Carla Boussen

David Boyle ♥

Michael Branca *

Lauren Bray *

Kristin Breder ♥

Carol & Robert Briselli

James Brokaw

Carol & Baird Brown

Natalie Bruno

Sam Brush & Courtney Culley

William & Jean Buermeyer

Craig & Anita Burgess ♥

Barry & Mary Lou Burke

Donna Burkhardt

Paul Burns & Kristin Jhamb

Susan Caldwell

Steve Campbell

Suzanne Carr & Jan Loeb ♥

Donald & Patricia Carter

Aldo Cerutti & Sandra Johnson

Henry & Audrey Cheetham ♥

Anna Christie-Carnicella & Robert Carnicella ♥

Tom & Carolyn Church ♥

Jennie & Campbell Clegg

Jeremy & Sally Cluchey *

Nananda Col & Bob Arledge ♥

Keely Colby *

David Collings & Terri Nickel ♥

Melissa Comiskey

Garrett Corbin *

Ned & Vickie Crankshaw ♥

Kendall & Andrew Crosby

Brenda Cummings & Tim Richter ♥*

Constance Cummings ♥

Mimi Curran

Donna Curry

Margaret Thompson Curtis

Andy & Kate Cutko

Tom Dahlke

C.R. & Marla Davis ♥

Peter Day

Jan Day

Jan & Jeffrey DeBlieu

Sally ✿ & Jim DeMartini ♥

Sara & Michael De Pesa ♥

John G. Desjardins

George & Lois Dole ♥

Alicia Dole

Dave & June Dorion

Norma Dreyfus & Stan Lane ♥

Martin Drost ♥

Maggie Dumais

John & Karin Duncan

Charles Durfee & Jennifer Oddleifson ♥*

Elizabeth Durrell ♥

Eugene Dutton

Dwight & Jacqueline Dwinal ♥

Bob & Gayle Edson

Linda Edwards

John Edwards

Sue & Rick Elsaesser

Reginald & Penny Elwell

Rodney Emerick

Ellen A. Endter *

Arthur & Betty Jo Evans

Josephine Ewing & Don Hudson ♥

Falencia Ezendu

James & Amy Fagan

Cindy & Mike Fahay ♥

Mark Farrow & Peggy Kapisovsky

Alyssa Finn & Lisa Vinikoor *

Jeff Fischer & Ellen Baum

James & Kathryn Flannery ♥

T. Corwin & Cynthia Dunn Fleming ♥

Tim Forrester, Bethany Atkins & Lily Forrester ♥

Karen Freedman & David Rawson ♥

Rick Freeman ♥

Walter & Anne Gamble ♥

Wayne Garceau ♥

Cory Gardiner & Terry Kungel ♥

Allen & Barbara Gaul ♥

Greg Gerritt

Carol Gillespie

Livy & Marty Glaubitz

James & Lee Graham *

Sally Greene

Stephen Hadley & Irena Zadonsky ♥

Tom Hallenbeck ♥

Malcolm Hamilton

Matthew & Amina Hanna

Gary & Kathleen Hanning ♥

Tim & Eileen Harkins

Anne & Eldon Harris ♥

Elizabeth Hartung-Cole & Peter Cole

Patrick Harty

Susan & Tom Hayward

Roger & Sukey Heard ♥*

Sandy Hempe

Jon & Rosemary Hentz

Emily Herman & Dave Polito

Rodger & Jillian Herrigel

Herb & Lois Hewlett

Alicia & Henry Heyburn

Bill & Kathy Higgins

Sue Hill

Linda Hjortland & David Fluharty ♥

Ted & Linda Hoch ♥

Laurie Holland

Barry & Ginger Holland

Lisa Holley & Jim Arsenault

Karin Hoppenbrouwers

Paul & Jean Horn

Sara Ann Howe ♥

Randy Howell & Peggy Duhamel ♥

Denise & David Hoyle

Thomas H. Hughes ♥

Judith Hughes

Neil & Martha Hulbert ♥

Lucy Hull & Bart Chapin ♥

Jim & Susan Hummer ♥

Andrew Hutchinson

Jack & Sally Ijams

Lisa & Steve Indrick

Charles Ipcar ♥

Nancy Ishihara

Nick & Cynthia Islin

Victoria Hope Jackson ♥

Rob & Mary Carol Jarmusz *

Paul & Carole Johnson ♥

Rob & Kimberly Jones ♥

Jens Jorgensen

Mark Jorgensen

Elnora Joseph-Bijhouwer & Jim Joseph

Steven & Leslie Kalisz

Marnie & Paul Kalkstein ♥

Carolyn Kauffunger ♥*

The Kauffungers ♥

Lynn Kay & Douglas Bates ♥

Myra & Rob Keeble

Janet Kehl & Damian Sokol ♥

Kevin & Karen Kelly ♥

Gail & Cyrus Kendrick

Amy & Robert Kerr

Mitchell Kihn & Barrie Brusila

Angela Kimberk

David King

Steve & Silvia King ♥

Elizabeth King

William King Jr. & Jayne Palmer

Eric Kingman & Joyce Devine

Robert & Ruth Kingsbury

David Kinne

Becky Kolak *

Hannah Kolak ♥*

Anne Krebsbach ♥

Michael Kreindler & Michele Gaillard ♥

Caroline Kurrus

Brock Kwiatkowsky

Harley Laing

Sarah Lambertson

Marty & Robert Landorf

David & Sarah Langdon ♥

Victor Langelo & Jeanette MacNeille

Nicholas Larocca & Rosalind Kalb ♥

Susan Lemp

John Lichter & Kathleen Claerr

Thomas Lincoln

Wayland Linscott & Susan Fuller

Suzanne Lovett ♥

Carol & Henry Lukas

Bill Luth & Nancy Randall

Jessi R. MacLeod ♥

Rachel & James Madsen

Alyson Magian & Raymond Houlihan

Chris & Roz Magnuson

Ann Groves Manson

Lisa Margonelli & Clarke Cooper

John & Anne Marsh

Don & Cindy Marsh

Dorsey Mathews

Richard & Pamela Mayo ♥

Jack McBride

Joanne McCartan

Scot McFarlane & Molly Seaward

Judy McGuire

John McKee ♥

Megan McOsker

Kathryn & Richard Meade

Pamela Meader

Kat Mead-Von Huene & Andreas Von Huene ♥

Antoinette Mercadante ♥

George Mercer

Martha Merson

George & Judy Metcalf

Marc & Julia Meyers

Susan Mikesell

Mark & Mary Milam

Philip Miller & Courtnay Malcolm

Allen Miller ♥

Stephen Milliken

Sheila & Jeffrey Mohler

Stanley & Michelle Moody ♥

Bill & Cathy Morrison

Bill & Gail Moulton ♥

Heather Moulton

Elizabeth H. Muench

Judith & Gerald Mullins

Dustin & Theo Nelson

Joan Newkirk & Kevin Shute ♥*

Deirdre O'Callaghan & Timothy Lukas

Ken & Sharon Oehmig ♥

Connie Ostis ♥

Susan Paluska

Richard Papetti

Cathy & Dave Paris

Deborah Patten

James Peavey & Kathy Smith ♥*

Andrew & Kimberly Perry ♥

Kit Pfeiffer & David Elliott

Joseph & Crystal Pietrowicz ♥

Barbara A. Pike

Sarah Poriss & Paul Spirito ♥

Lon & Ilissa Povich

Harold Prins & Bunny McBride

Megan Pryor *

Nathaniel Pulsifer

Bryan Quigley *

Gwynneth Rayer

Sarah Rebick

Mary Poyner Reed

The Reissmans ♥

Anne Reiter

Carla Rensenbrink ♥

Julie & Thomas Rice ♥

Nancy & Lynn Rider

Alexandra Rink

Karen Robbins

Jane & Kenneth Robbins

William Robitzek & Barbara Raimondi

Rebecca Roche *

John & Nancy Rogers

Norma Rossel

Tom Rumpf & Annee Tara

Barbara & Dick Russell

Karin Sadtler & Jon Biehler ♥*

Carole Sargent ♥

Joan & William Sartoris

Paul & Mona Schlein

Carl Scovel ♥

Donald & Hope Seeley ♥

Elizabeth Seidel

Joseph Seigh & Virginia Coury

Marianne Senechal

Sue & George Sergeant ♥

Joanne Sharpe ♥

Bennett Sherry

Chet & Evelyn Shuman

George Siatos

Gretchen Sibley ♥

Roland Simard ♥*

Christine Simonson

Catherine Skove ♥

Mary Small

Susan Smith & Charles Mainville

Pat & Faith Smith

Mary Beth & Gordon Smith ♥

John-Joseph & Joyce Smith ♥

Peter Smith

Barbara Southard ♥

James & Joyce Spencer ♥

Anne Spencer ♥

Dagny St. John

Jym St. Pierre ♥

Alex Stadler & Dr. Andy Baker

Veronica Staplefield & Jack Kriskey ♥

Sandy & Seena Stein ♥

Sandra Stenquist

Ronald & Leslie Stoodley

Élise Straus-Bowers & Brian Bowers ♥

Michael Strong

Mary & Raymond Swain

Peter Swift

Jeffery Tarbox

Michael & Wendy Taylor

Luanne Teller

Charlotte Thompson & Skylar Vogler ♥*

Lynne Thompson ♥

Margo & Jon Thurston

Karen Tilbor

Richard & Margaret Totten ♥

Robert & Sharon Trabona ♥

Adelaide & Jotham Trafton ♥

David & Bronwen Tudor ♥

Jennifer & Heidi Turino

Susan & Jim Upham

Elly Urquhart & Frederick Hogan ♥

Brook Vail

Jenifer Van Deusen ♥

Shannon & Adam Van Loon

David & Carleen Vantine ♥

Pam & Derek Vanvolkenburgh

Barbara Vickery ♥

Eloise Vitelli & Robert Kalish ♥*

Roland & Donna Wales

Richard Waltz

Douglas, Elizabeth & Charli Ware

Marianne Warner & Glenn Evans ♥

Michael & Rachel Warren

Thomas Watson

Bill & Molly Webster ♥

Steve & Susan Weems ♥

Barbara West

Sue West

Nathaniel & Genie Wheelwright ♥

Robert Whitney

Scott & Sharon Whittier

Jeff Wickham & Carol Kuempel

Joyce Wilson ♥

Erin Witham & Andres Abreu ♥

Travis & Kendra Wolfel ♥*

Daniel & Linda Wood ♥

Tenley Wurglitz

Francis & Gwen Zaborowski ♥

Steve & Cynthia Zelinka

 

 
 

Businesses, Foundations, and Organizations

♥given for 5+ consecutive years

 

Alfred M. Senter Fund

Bath Savings Trust Company

Bowdoin College

Brackett’s Market

City of Bath

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Davenport Trust Fund ♥

First Federal Savings & Loan

Gabriel Charitable Fund

Harkleroad Fund ♥

Island Institute

Island Surveys

Jackson Landscape Services

KM Robbins Construction LLC

LL Bean Maine Land Trust Program

Maine Community Foundation

Maine Sea Grant

Maine Women’s Giving Tree

Merrymeeting Bay Trust ♥

Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust

Now You're Cooking, Inc.

Onion Foundation

Portland Historic Preservation Board

Quimby Family Foundation

Reichelderfer-Blair Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation

Renys

The Hudson Foundation

The Losam Fund

The Nature Conservancy ♥

Town of Arrowsic ♥

Tracy Cassidy CPA SC

US Fish & Wildlife Service

Westport Island LLC

Whole Kids Foundation