Anne de la Blanchetai Donahue is an American politician from the state of Vermont.

She is also editor of Counterpoint, a quarterly mental health publication distributed for free throughout Vermont.

[1][2] Starting in 1981, Donahue worked as a program director for the New York City location of Covenant House, the largest privately funded childcare agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youths.

Whereas in New York the youths she helped consisted largely of urban poor street youths, the young people she served in California came originally from middle- and upper-middle-class homes from all around the country, but who had been living in the California streets for as many as three years and become exposed to psychological damage and AIDS.

[8] Donahue was instrumental in amending the bill to clarify a distinction between civil and religious marriage.

[2] She is Roman Catholic, and is a member, lector and extraordinary minister of Holy Communion at the St. John the Evangelist RC Church in Northfield.