The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness

04/28/2026

We've been busy! We're wrapping up our school programs for the year and send out a HUGE thank you to all the schools who hosted our inclusion programs this year. Now we turn our attention to our 2026 Celebrating INCLUSION Dinner & Auction on June 18. Check out all the info on our event website https://secure.qgiv.com/event/inclusion26/ Of course we'd love your auction item donations if you'd like to support this fundraiser, such as arts and crafts, jewelry, resturant gift certificates, Maine outings, etc.:

Fundraising and disabilities awareness event to support school programs that build inclusion and respect in Maine classrooms

07/01/2025

Our annual auction is always a blast, but it's also a great time to highlight our mission and to hear the "why" behind our classroom disabilities awareness and inclusion programs. This year we were honored to hear from three people about their own reasons. In addition to our board chair Dr. Kate McCrann, we loved hearing personal "whys" from two guest speakers: Jane Kilbride Dupuis of the Cumberland/North Yarmouth school system, and Dana Bigelow, a Syracuse University student from Falmouth whose younger sister has a rare genetic disorder. Thank you to Jane and Dana for sharing your personal thoughts on why respect and inclusion matter.

07/01/2025

Our guests came ready to bid, bid, BID!

06/30/2025

It was WONDERFUL to have the support of so many guests, volunteers, and sponsors at our Celebrating INCLUSION Dinner & Auction! Please tag yourselves! (More pics to come)

06/30/2025

Our Celebrating INCLUSION Dinner & Auction was a great success! We'll post pictures shortly, but in the meantime we send a huge THANKS to our Silver and Bronze sponsors:

SILVER:
Atlantic National Trust
Berman & Simmons
Combined
Maine Marathon
Kaplan & Grant
Wipfli

BRONZE:
Austin Associates
Baker Newman Noyes
Carlin & Shapiro
Deb Whitworth, in memory of her sister Diane Vickery
Harvard PIlgrim Health Care
Kate McCrann & Bo Bigelow
MEMIC
PortMA
One Stop Event Rentals
Roberta Lipsman
Scott Liston
Sevee & Maher Engineers
Solidarity Law
Verrill
Vertical Harvest

Thank you all for your commitment to respect and inclusion!

05/28/2025

Before you check out our online auction item preview (bidding opens June 7), we want to give a public thanks to our Gold Sponsors, Judy Glickman Lauder and Martin's Point Health Care and to our Silver Sponsors: Atlantic National Trust, Combined, Maine Marathon, Kaplan & Grant, and Wipfli.

Fundraising and disabilities awareness event to support school programs that build inclusion and respect in Maine classrooms

05/21/2025

We can't wait for June 12 and our Celebrating INCLUSION Dinner & Auction! Please join us, sponsor the event, or donate an auction item to help support our classroom disabilities aawreness and inclusion programs!

Shoutout to our Title Sponsor, Unum; our Media Sponsor, WMTW-TV Channel 8; our Diamond Sponsors Jamie Kaplan & Suzanne Meeker; and our our Platinum Sponsors: Les Otten/Maine Energy Systems (MESys) and Public Consulting Group (PCG)!

Fundraising and disabilities awareness event to support school programs that build inclusion and respect in Maine classrooms

04/25/2025

As we spread the word about our Celebrating INCLUSION Dinner & Auction on June 12, we are grateful to have the support of WMTW Channel 8, our long time media sponsor, and all the other local companies and individuals who sponsor this event. We believe that people with disabilities deserve respect and inclusion, and we look forward to a fabulous evening raising funds for our disabilities awareness programs in Maine schools that help students become more inclusive, kind, and respectful.

Check out WMTW's event promo:

12/30/2024

Help Foster Awareness, Inclusion, and Respect!

Did you know that our unique programs in Maine schools foster kindness, build more respectful and inclusive classrooms, and reduce teasing and bullying of students with disabilities?

Through these programs, classmates become more aware, empathetic, and inclusive. They learn how their words and actions matter. They develop connections and friendships that they didn’t have before. Most of all, they come to understand that they have the power to create and support more respectful schools and communities right here in Maine.

To continue this vital work, we need your help. Your donation of any amount ensures that we can keep providing these free programs in schools so that children with special needs are treated with the kindness and respect that we all deserve.

Please make your easy, secure online donation today!

08/19/2024

We send a huge thank you to Sue & Jeff Welton and Kate & Jeff Putnam for hosting a fun and fabulous winetasting party on Great Diamond Island to benefit The Cromwell Center on Friday night. Thanks as well to the GDI community for turning out to sip wine, hear about our work, and donate to support our school programs!

07/15/2024

Our final batch of pics from our Celebrating INCLUSION auction. Thanks to all involved for helping fund our disabilities awareness programs in Maine schools! As a page we can only tag those who are following us, so please tag yourselves.

07/11/2024