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Fifth Anniversary Edition (2003-2008) annual report 2007-2008
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“Through this work, people are reconnected to themselves, their relationship to place, and their reliance on a larger circle of care and heart.” —Toby Herzlich, Faculty Member
“I have implemented changes “I have never witnessed
to my daily routine that relate
a nonprofit organization that
directly to the issues
provides proof of its utility on both
and discussions that came up
the vast and micro scale.”
during my visit to the Center for
—Craig Anderson, 2007 Alumnus
Whole Communities.” —Claudette Grant, 2007 Alumna
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F O R W H O L E C O M M U N I T I E S creates a more just, balanced and healthy world by exploring, honoring, and deepening the connections among land, people and community. We are activists in a new land movement that integrates conservation, health, justice, spirit and relationship. Toward this end we offer the Whole Thinking Retreats and Workshops, an Alumni Program and Whole Measures. Our programs emphasize several core skills including dialogue, contemplative practice, collaborative approaches, story and creativity; and they highlight the value of healthy, sustainable food systems, the importance of renewable energy and the role this work plays for the future of our children.
A N N UA L R E P O RT C O N T E N T S A Timeline of the Past Five Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Letter from Co-Founders Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Look to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Letter from Board Chair Gil Livingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Stories from the Whole Thinking, Alumni and Whole Measures Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 “Expanding Our Reach� Campaign Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Honor Roll of Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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A TIMELINE
OF THE
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WHOLE COMMUNITIES
2001
Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow buy Knoll Farm from the Vermont Land Trust
2002
First retreats held for 23 participants; John Elder dedicates the refuge; Historic barn grant awarded
2003
Center for Whole Communities is created as a nonprofit; Mountain Yurt is built; Budget is $25,000
2004
Paul Winter performs and David Orr speaks at Knoll Farm; First major grants awarded; Budget is $150,000
2005
Begin Whole Thinking Workshops for leaders across the U.S.; Over 200 fellows have participated in retreats; Budget of $475,000
2006
Whole Measures launched as a web platform; We adopt a statement on becoming an anti-racist organization; We now serve over 400 diverse alumni in 38 states; Budget of $589,000
2007
We now have a diverse faculty of 22, full-time staff of 6 and serve 650 alumni; Budget of $757,000
2008
We begin the capital project to renovate our offices and go to renewable energy; Organizational budget of $1,060,816 and Campaign budget of $650,000
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Dear Friends and Supporters, What an honor it is to have your trust in this work. Spreading out from a farm in Vermont, our collective endeavor now touches 45 states and thousands of leaders working in more than 450 organizations and communities. It's hard to believe we have come this far in just five years. This spring, we convened our faculty and staff in the hills of Tennessee to explore how, amid the deep divides and fragmentation of our country, we might co-create a multicultural curriculum, one that helps all of us see and feel a new way of being in relationship to one another and the land. By profession, the faculty of Center for Whole Communities are teachers, scientists, facilitators, faith leaders, artists and writers, of many different races and ethnicities, who range in age from 24 to 58. This is our work: helping all movements for change in this country to imagine our country whole again, to move beyond sustainability to relationship. What began five years ago as a way to help conservationists re-imagine the power of their work is now an arc of learning that strengthens diverse leaders from multiple disciplines by helping them to explore difference; seek a broader, more inclusive vision; and see that their success is bound up in the success of others. With your trust and faith in us, Center for Whole Communities has earned a national reputation for being the place where difficult conversations can lead to transformative change, leader-to-leader, week after week. The core of the work remains the same, but what has evolved is the growth of our own relationships, our ability to model what we teach, and the readiness of ouralumni to implement a "whole communities" approach more powerfully in their work.
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The ripples of their collective work are now clear. Whole communities work is the commitment to be inclusive and to work for both cultural and biological diversity. It's transformational leadership that includes listening, cultural competency, adaptation and flexibility, making room for others and cultivating a moral voice. While holding this annual report, we hope you will reflect with us on the near future, and partner with us in any number of ways. We have never walked alone in this work. It has always been a collaboration between our board, faculty, alumni and supporters. And that is what gives it growing strength.
With deep appreciation,
Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow Co-founders
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A LOOK
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FUTURE
Our future plans and efforts to make our work more far-reaching, inclusive, and resilient, include: • A Whole Communities network that allows alumni to communicate regularly and better help one another • An Alumni Program that links people, places, and innovative projects around the country for mutual support and learning • A new “implementation” curriculum to support our alumni to go further with whole communities work • Workshop topics on Conservationists Confronting Racism, Finding One’s Voice, and Story • Whole Communities alumni to reach 5,000 by 2013 • New web-based trainings to help organizations use Whole Measures • A Spanish translation of Whole Measures • An expanded annual Whole Thinking Journal that includes essays and perspectives on Whole Communities • • • • • •
work for a broad audience Publishing titles on community-based conservation, conservation and food security, dialogue, cultural competency, movement-building, and best innovations of Whole Communities work The launch of a national story project The release of Night Rain, a recording of the songs and sounds of Knoll Farm A Knoll Farm campus that operates on sun, wind and wood Building new solar dining commons at Knoll Farm campus Securing new permanent campuses for Whole Communities in an east coast city, in the mid-west, and/or on the west coast to run more retreats and workshops away from Knoll Farm
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Dear Friends of Center for Whole Communities, I count myself among the very fortunate who have shared in the Center for Whole Communities’ five-year journey, and I have had the opportunity to watch the organization’s growth from a variety of perspectives. Several staff members from my organization, the Vermont Land Trust, have attended Whole Thinking retreats at Knoll Farm and have been enriched by that experience. I have shared in the growth of the Center’s board of directors, which is now a compelling collection of thoughtful, innovative people who challenge themselves and the Center to confront the most difficult issues at the nexus of land, justice, opportunity, inclusion, democracy, and sustainability. I have observed the birth of a faculty and a curriculum which, like all births, involves both joy and pain. And I have admired the ever-maturing staff at the Center, and the wisdom and equanimity with which both Helen Whybrow and Peter Forbes incrementally step back as the Center grows in its autonomy. Like many of you, the Center has been the North Star guiding much of my recent personal and professional growth. The relationships developed, the skills learned, and the ethics nourished in me through the Center are enduring. Most important, I have learned courage, both from observing the big leaps the Center itself has taken into uncharted waters, and from the stories of other alumni whose response to challenges has been breathtaking. So I thank all of you who participate in and contribute to the essential work of the Center for Whole Communities. I also ask that you continue to challenge our thinking, insist that we rigorously honor the values we teach, and help us learn by telling us both when you are disappointed and when we serve you well.
Gil Livingston Board Chair, Center for Whole Communities President, Vermont Land Trust
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Whole Thinking Progra m What does it mean to act for and from the whole? • How might our work be strengthened by paying attention to the whole as well as our own, specialized part of that whole? •
Through our Whole Thinking Retreats, we help individual leaders from the environmental and social justice movements come together in community to consider these and more questions. Through our Whole Thinking Workshops, we help strengthen the work of organizations, coalitions and communities by helping them consider how their work relates to the larger picture of land and social change. The Bay Area Open Space Council is an example of an organization that has benefited from both programs. Bettina Ring attended a Whole Thinking Retreat at Knoll Farm in 2005. That gathering helped her find her voice and, as she says, “get really clear about my truth.” Since then, she has “felt a constant urge to move toward wholeness and a passion for evolving [her] work.” Through her leadership, the Bay Area Open Space Council (BAOSC) in San Francisco has been expanding the vision of its early leaders to take the work of conversation beyond acres saved to relationship, justice and connecting land and people. In her first year at BAOSC, she named the council’s annual conference “Building Whole Communities,” and there, began to “shape an agenda that introduced and built on the concepts of whole thinking.” At the same time, the council was launching its “Green Vision” collaborative with partner organizations in the Bay Area. Bettina invited Whole Communities to convene the Green Vision group in a Whole Thinking Workshop in early 2007. “It was amazing to me to see the shift that happened after that gathering,” she says. In the workshop, participants developed a draft statement of principles for their work together, informed by whole thinking, inclusiveness, and justice.
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“My experience at Whole Communities retreat has changed forever my approach to problem solving. I wouldn't say it made my job easier, but it has made the results much better.” —Senator Susan Bartlett, 2007 Alumna
So successful was the workshop that Bettina invited us back to facilitate another one in early 2008 with an expanded group. Bettina paints a picture of a web of relationships growing stronger and more complex as time goes on. She points first to one organization and then to another in her area that is shifting its focus as a result of these gatherings. One participant joined another’s board and is now bringing the city’s voice to a regional organization; another participant invited Bettina to join her on a panel at the EcoCity World Summit to talk about building whole communities; another went back to pour energy into an urban park and garden initiative that brings diverse members of a community together. Not long after the second workshop, the BAOSC had a strategic planning meeting. “We had 100 percent participation from staff and board,” Bettina says, “and there has just been an amazing shift in thinking about how we do our work. We did a visioning exercise and it came out loud and clear that we want to focus on integrating land and water conservation with transportation, housing, health and education and making ‘nature within reach’—connecting land and people and ensuring that we’re reaching all people.” Other organizations we supported in 2007 through our Whole Thinking workshops and mission retreats include: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, D&R Greenway Land Trust, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Greenbelt Alliance, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Maine Coast Heritage Trust, The Nature Conservancy, The Trustees of Reservations, and University of Vermont. And for the Next Generation Retreat, we partnered with Common Fire Foundation, The Ruckus Society and Stone Circles. ◆
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alumni network At the end of our 2007-2008 Fiscal Year, the alumni of our Whole Thinking program numbered 650 leaders working in more than 450 organizations and communities—in the coming year, we plan to count nearly 1,000 leaders among our alumni. The Whole Thinking retreats and workshops represent only the beginning of the ongoing benefits participants receive from our program. All retreat participants become part of our Alumni Network, with whom we communicate regularly, highlighting best practices and sharing new tools and resources. We also provide frequent peer-to-peer learning experiences, such as last October’s “Council of Fellow Travelers,” which brought together alumni from around the country who are pioneering exemplary “whole communities” work. This past year, we launched “Voices,” a speaking bureau that helps our alumni to strengthen their message and voice around the issues that matter most to them. Alumni are offered support in adopting Whole Measures as an organizational evaluation tool. And, we offer them the chance to convene a two-day workshop on their home turf to help them engage their staff, board and community partners in these theories of change. All alumni are eligible for small grants that we award each year to projects demonstrating “whole thinking.” Finally, this fall, we are hosting our first-ever alumni research, learning and service trip to the Black Freedmen’s Living Historical Farm for Children in Furman, Alabama. Through this field program, we hope to deepen our collective understanding of history, land, people and community. We’re pleased to announce the award of our 2008 grants supporting alumni projects that demonstrate whole thinking. This year’s grantees and their projects were:
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“The faculty and staff at Center for Whole Communities create an experience that nurtures practitioners and teaches them to shape their ideas, opinions and dreams into an inclusive message.” —Helen Chin, 2007 Alumna
Mark Ackelson, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, and the Dubuque Outdoors Club, which is designed to give city kids experiences in nature. Ernie Atencio, Taos Land Trust, and “De La Tierra,” a radio program that covers topics such as the Mobile Matanza: a mobile livestock slaughtering unit that will help smallscale ranchers and farmers direct-market their meat. Andrea Freeman, The Trustees of Reservations, and the Leominster Trail Leader Program, a new micro-initiative that will invite diverse youth to learn about Leominster’s trails, become Trail Leaders, and, finally, lead a group hike. Stef Frenzl, Foundation for Sustainable Community, and the Snohomish Peace Village, a camp for community gathering, learning about cultural competency, connecting with the land and honoring relationships. Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, Climbing PoeTree’s “Hurricane Season” Tour, a multi-media two-woman show that…”explore(s) critical issues facing humanity through the kaleidoscope of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.” Deborah Mendelsohn, Duncan, Arizona, and the new “Saturday Market,” to promote local food, artists and craftspeople; and to nurture greater public awareness of nutrition and the many other advantages of local food sourcing. Irene Shen, Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Greenbridge Program, for a high school internship program focusing on issues related to social and environmental justice, especially around food issues and sustainability. Courtney White, Quivira Coalition, and the “Atlas of the New Western Range,” which will help join together diverse individuals and organizations working on land issues in the West. ◆
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whole measures What are we for? Wearing t-shirts that asked that very question, Center for Whole Communities staff rolled out the sixth edition of Whole Measures at the October 2007 Land Trust Alliance Rally in Denver. Quickly hundreds of conservationists were roaming the convention center, sporting buttons that proclaimed their answer to “What are we for?” Justice and Fairness. Relationships between Land and People. Community Building. Healthy Ecosystems. Healthy Habitat for People. Stewardship. Economic Vitality. Community Resilience. Power of Story. Being in Service. This evaluation and planning tool has been in development for seven years, authored with the input of more than one hundred individuals, and field tested by many organizations, culminating in this publication. Whole Measures is really a device that guides collaborating organizations to bring about environmental and social goals together. It is a method that successfully integrates those disparate goals with the diverse people and groups working toward them. Whole Measures is helping groups to address root problems instead of symptoms, to foster deeper collaborations with groups very different from themselves, and to rediscover their moral voice. For example, a number of our alumni organizations, such as Aquidneck Land Trust, have started micro-loans to help farmers convert to organics, thereby “saving” land without buying it. Others, such as the Vermont Land Trust, are partnering with affordable housing groups, harvesting wood sustainably from their conserved lands to build houses. Others, such as California’s Big Sur Land Trust, have rewritten their vision statement for their work based on Whole Measures and are now beginning to work with new partners, such an organization that serves
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Center for Whole Communities is helping to redefine on a national
Latino migrant workers in Salinas. In all cases, this broadening of horizons, through the use of Whole Measures, has ultimately helped organizations to become much more vocal and effective public citizens.
level both "conservation" and the "environmental movement" by working to dismantle embedded racism and other forms of oppression.” —Lauret Savoy, Board Member
After completing a major revision last summer, we handed the new edition to 2,000 Land Trust Alliance conference participants. With its accompanying DVD, Whole Measures documents the “best practices” of our leading collaborators. By April 2008, over 3,000 copies of the Whole Measures guide and DVD had been distributed, and each day the electronic version is downloaded many times from www.wholemeasures.org. Given the great diversity of projects and collaborations to which Whole Measures is being applied, we are planning the next set of tools that will bring about greater dissemination and adoption of Whole Measures by new organizations, and deeper levels of support for those that are using it. Coming soon is a book, What Are We For? that documents the best Whole Measures/Whole Communities practices, and a web-based training platform where help with implementing Whole Measures will be only a few clicks away. ◆
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E X P A N D I N G O U R R E A C H — Office Renovation and Renewable Energy Campaign Demand for our work is such that we are rapidly outgrowing our physical capacity. Moreover, with hundreds of environmental, social change and community leaders coming through Knoll Farm, our base, every year, we feel it is necessary to more fully “walk the talk” and model a truly sustainable operation that will inspire our alumni to “walk their own talk” at home. Over the next eighteen months, we hope to renovate an historic barn into new office space while simultaneously converting all of our energy needs to run on sun, wood, and wind. Our renewable energy campaign will utilize green design and renewable energy practices brought to us by Jeff Schoellkopf and Andy Shapiro, national leaders in biophilic architecture and engineering. This renewable energy program will educate thousands of leaders about the practical possibilities of running a national nonprofit on renewable energy as well as demonstrating the possibilities of adapting a two-hundred year old farm to the current realities of a post peak oil world. As of July 2008, with the help of a $100,000 challenge match from Kendeda Fund, we have raised $530,000 in gifts and pledges toward our goal of $650,000. Our deepest appreciation goes to the following individual and foundation donors:
Anonymous (2) The Rev. Mary Abele Argosy Foundation Scott and Megan Chaskey Comercia Legacy Foundation— Wendling Charitable Fund Jeff Cook
Alan Day Estate Ann Day John and Rita Elder Hank Herrera Olivia Hoblitzelle Andy Kendall Kendall Foundation Kendeda Fund
Lintilhac Foundation Gil Livingston and Amy Wright LZ Francis Fund Merck Family Fund Roger and Margot Milliken Danyelle O’Hara and Marc David
Kinny Perot and Richard Czaplinski Lauret Savoy Charlie & Mima Tipper Wendling Fund Tom Wessels Yestermorrow Design & Build School
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FISCAL YEAR 2007-2008 FINANCIAL REPORT Our 2007-2008 fiscal year saw noteworthy growth in our programs and funding. In the year spanning April 2007 through March 2008, Center for Whole Communities was awarded $735,000 in operating grants from fifteen different foundations. $558,392 of that sum was used in fiscal year 2007-2008 and the rest is allocated to fiscal year 2008-2009 programs. We are deeply grateful for the support and confidence that these foundations have placed in us. The Kendeda Fund offered a generous matching gift of $50,000, encouraging individual donors to increase their support. They rose to the challenge with gifts totaling $117,000, an increase of 54 percent from the previous year. These bighearted gifts from 351 individuals have been instrumental to the work we accomplished last year. On this our sixth year, we will be working with our first million dollar budget. With bold programmatic goals, a proven staff and committed supporters, we look forward to continuing our groundbreaking work. EXPENSES
INCOME Donations from Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . .$117,216
15%
Retreats, Workshops, Knoll Farm Events . . .$ 259,320
34%
Grants for FY08 Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .558,392
73%
Whole Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120,427
16%
Program Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66,272
9%
Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12,287
2%
Speaking Fees and Publication Sales . . . . . .12,499
2%
Dismantling Racism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,942
6%
Miscelllaneous Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10,596
1%
Alumni Support and Networka . . . . . . . . . . .19,083
3%
Total Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$764,975
Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19,403
3%
Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73,673
10%
Program support, Administration, Misc. . . 163,186
22%
Facilities improvements and repairs . . . . . . .47,413
6%
Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$756,733
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HONOR ROLL
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Our work would not be possible without your support and the support of our many generous donors like you. Thank you. Key: Alumni in Bold, Gifts-in-Kind in Italics. 2003-2008 DONORS Because every gift, regardless of size, is important to the work we do, this first segment honors those 2007-2008 donors who have been supporting us since Center for Whole Communities’ beginning in 2003 (and, in many cases, even earlier). Steve Blackmer and Kelly Short Darby Bradley Katie Breckheimer Susanna Colloredo Sally Fink and Michael Horner Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow Ephraim and Dagmar Friedman Olivia Hoblitzelle and Keith Taylor Kurt Hoelting Alix Hopkins Tom Johnson Sue Ellen Kingsley and Terry Kinzel Marion Leonard Gil Livingston and Amy Wright Elise Miller and Dan Neumeyer Kinny Perot and Richard Czaplinski Chris Recchia and Julie Iffland Marianne Spitzform
Peter Stein and Lisa Cashdan Tara Tracy and Tom Brightman Jan Waterman and Andy Robinson Rand and Sue Wentworth Ruth Whybrow and Kate Siepmann
2007-2008 DONORS Following, we honor all of those who gave unrestricted or programmatic support during the 2007-2008 Fiscal Year: $10,000+ Anonymous (4) Compton Foundation Jeff Cook Foundation for Global Community Frances Fund Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Kendeda Fund LZ Francis Foundation Tom Johnson Merck Family Fund Margot and Roger Milliken, Jr. New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Scott Russell Sanders Surdna Foundation
Town Creek Foundation Vermont Community Foundation $5,000 to $9,999 Adelard A. Roy and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation Argosy Foundation David and Nancy Borden Nancy Spencer Smith Peter Whybrow $2,500 to $4,999 Lisa Cashdan and Peter Stein Cashdan/Stein Great Grandmother Fund at Vermont Community Foundation Carl and Judy Ferenbach High Meadows Fund at Vermont Community Foundation Alix Hopkins Nathan Wilson and Megan Gadd $1,000 to $2,499 Anonymous (2) Susan Atwood-Stone Michael Baldwin Betsy and Jesse Fink Fund at Fairfield County Community Foundation Scott Boettger
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Sonnhild Chamberland Elizabeth Courtney Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Betsy and Jesse Fink Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow Ephraim and Dagmar Friedman Kenny and Iantha Gantt-Wright Charlotte Metcalf Norcliffe Foundation Linda Poole Ina Smith Tom and Kitty Stoner F. Jerome Tone and Martha Wyckoff Tom Wessels Ruth Whybrow Julia and Nigel Widdowson Wood River Land Trust $500 to $999 Kathy Abbott
John Bernstein Big Sur Land Trust David Dion Real Estate David Dion John and Rita Elder Evergreen Fund at Adirondack Community Trust Sally Fink and Michael Horner Michael D. Griffin Stephanie Kaza and Davis TeSelle William H. Leahy Gil Livingston and Amy Wright Christopher Lloyd Lucy McCarthy Ray Mikulak and Robin McDermott Prince Communications Janet Prince and Peter Bergh Joan Rae and Paul Sipple Jennifer Sims Stifler Family Foundation Lawrence Stifler and Mary McFadden Thomas B. Williams $250 to $499 Mark Ackelson Carol K. Andrews Beth Binns and Jeff Schoellkopf Kathy Blaha J. Blaine Bonham, Jr Darby Bradley Ferris Buck and Ned Kelley Anne Burling Louise and Ashley Cadwell William Capps Susanna Colloredo
Marshal Compton John Cook Jay and Page Knudsen Cowles Strachan Donnelley Ann Fowler Wallace Tom and Jill French Joy Garland Lisa Haderlein David Hartwell Ethan and Elise Hoblitzelle Jamieson Insurance Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Kannenstine Renee Kivikko Mike LaMair Gretchen Long Stuart MacNaught David Marvin Meghan McGeary Andrea Morgante Nancy Turkle Design David Nelson and Cyndy Whiteford Kathryn Porter Peggy and Sparky Potter Will and Lynette Raap Sudeep Rao Mark Scallion Eric Stiles Sandy Tassel and Craig Lee Matthew G. Trifiro Nancy Turkle Polly and Sandy Wakeman Jan Waterman and Andy Robinson
center for whole c ommunit ies $100 to $249 Ron and Melissa Madura Altmann Craig Anderson Judy Anderson Jane Arbuckle Jan and John Auleta Maud Ayson Bill Badger and Jenepher Lingelbach Peter Barnes Tom and Marty Bisbee Kathy Boyden Katie Breckheimer Laura and Duncan Brines Katherine Brown Daryl Burtnett Michele Byers Dave Cain and Nancy Turner Majora Carter Helen V. Chin Avery Cleary
George Cofer Janet Coit Wrenn and Yves Compere Ed Connelly Jennie Cramer Jayne Cronlund Matt Daly Elizabeth Ehrenfeld Jay Espy Herb Ferris Glenn and Jamie Forbes Jameson French Alan French Tally Garfield Nancy Goodman Claudette Grant Larry Grinnell John Halsey Roy Hoagland Kurt Hoelting Charles and Carol Hosford James S. Hoyte Junji Itagaki Wendy Johnson-Rudnick and Peter Rudnick Suzanne Jones Brett KenCairn Andrew Kendall Melissa and Dale Kent Margaret Kessel Gerard and Jen Kiernan Sue Ellen Kingsley and Terry Kinzel Matthew Kolan Bill Kunze Leo and Liz Laferriere
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Chuck Roe Bobbi and Mac Rood Marty and Joan Rosen Lauret Savoy Deborah Segal and Beau Wright Carolyn Servid Gordon H. Shaw April Smith and John Connell Alcott Smith Richard Smith Julia Somers Blake Spalding Alan Spears Gus and Cameron Speth Sal Spinosa Taz and Maria Squire Randy and Nancy Taplin Dijit Taylor Carl Taylor Margot Taylor
Clare Walker Leslie Jim Waltman Rand and Sue Wentworth Dove White Harry Wiland Arthur and Hanne Williams Florence and Jamie Williams Kate and Rob Williams Helen and Sumner Winebaum Jeanne and Peter Yozell Sally Yozell $35 to $99 Eric Allen Karen Arsenault Ian and Margo Baldwin Bob and Nancy Baron Andrew Kang Bartlett Jerry and Gay Bird Steve Blackmer and Kelly Short Lauren Bornfriend Tom and Susanne Byrne Donald and Margaret Campbell Tovar Cerulli Scott and Megan Chaskey Susan Connolly Nancy Everhart Gene Fialkoff Eric and Lisa Friedman Jennifer Grace Gita Gulati-Partee Jeremy Gulley and Sally Kendall Brian Hart Karen Hatcher
Julie Hinman Harvey and Ethel Horner Tom Howe and Sarah Thorne Bob Hyman Heather Little King Susan Knight and Glenn Lamb Joyce El Kouarti Stephen Long Bill Maclay Barbara McKay Ms. Lilla McLane-Bradley Brian McNitt Curt Meine Donna Meyers Jen and Eric Moffroid Richard Nelson OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc. Terry Osborne Leah Penniman Kevin Peterson Joshua Porter
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Kimberly Roberts Amy Robinson Suzanne Sawyer and Jay Leshinsky Dan Schwab Mistinguette Smith Marianne Spitzform Andy and Jullian Stone Carol Thompson Dorothy Tod Tara Tracy and Tom Brightman Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim William Maclay Architects Up to $35 Tad Ames Deb Barnes Matt Brown Starling W. Childs, II Connie Colman Beverly Colston
David and Sally Conrad Vanessa Crossgrove Fry Thomas G. Dallessio Alicia Daniel Carl Demrow Greg Dennis Donna Drewes Marci DuBois Barbara Duncan Dorothy Eddis Kristina Egan Bob Engelman Paul, Rhonda, Emma and Drew Hardy Ted Harrison and Linda J. Spackman William Heinzerling Lila Higgins Christine Horigan and Jonathan C. Kaledin Wes Jackson Nancy Jones Sarah Khan Killington Arts Guild Laurence Koff Maura Lane Marion Leonard Paul LeVasseur Richard Mahler Jennifer Marlow Carl and Joan Mazzotta Lelia Mellen Laura Mercier Ezra Milchman Al and Sally Molnar John Monroe Becky Bremser Nielsen
Roberta Nubile Ruth Pestle George E. Plumb Chris Recchia and Julie Iffland John Roe Jim Schley Pete and Anne Sibley Katharine Sterling Glenn Suokko and Ann Billings Steve Trimble Deb VanDyke Ann Wallen Bonna Wieler Matthew Witten and Sherry Pachman Alex Wylie Ann Young Michael Young Honorary Gifts
In Honor of Jan and Andy Robinson Amy Robinson In Honor of Marion Leonard Bill Leonard
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Gifts in Memory of Alan Ashley Day On February 6, 2008, we were saddened to lose Alan Ashley Day. Our new office space, which will be created by renovating the barn in which Alan lived for a number of years, will be dedicated in his honor. At the printing of this report, the following people had donated in his memory, with more gifts continuing to come in.
R. Aschenbrenner Hedi Ballantyne Deb Barnes Darby Bradley Terrell Chandler David and Sally Conrad Ann Day Patricia R. Day Marci DuBois Nona Estrin and Charles Johnson Alice Evans Patricia A. Folsom Betty A Gaechter E.M. Goldthwait Bob & Helen Gow William Heinzerling M. Richard Jamieson Killington Arts Guild Maura Lane Marilyn C Leggett John and Betty Little
Kathleen McKinley Harris Nancy Means Wright Shirley Melvin Katharine D Old Ruth Pestle Peggy and Sparky Potter Frances B Quackenbush Lois P Richardson Harriet Riggs Pauline E Schneider S. Douglas Teetor & Rosi Fortna Forrest & Cynthia Tinsley Jane M Tortoriello Emily Tucker Frances & Bethany Viens Ann Wallen Arthur and Hanne Williams Staunton & Barbara Williams Michael Young Sally Yozell Jeanne and Peter Yozell
Thank you to the many donors who made our programming possible during our 2007-2008 fiscal year. While we try our hardest to honor all of our donors accurately, please let us know if we missed you. For any giving related questions, please contact Meghan McGeary at (802) 496-5690 or meghan@wholecommunities.org
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Julian Agyeman, Cambridge, MA Scott Chaskey, Sag Harbor, NY John Elder, Chair Elect, Bristol, VT Torri Estrada, Petaluma, CA Hank Herrera, Rochester, NY Gil Livingston, Chair, Richmond, VT Danyelle O’Hara, Norman, OK Lauret Savoy, Leverett, MA Tom Wessels, Putney, VT Diana Wright, Thetford, VT
Director of Operations Maria Echevarria,* Educational Program Director Peter Forbes, Co-Founder & Executive Director Libby McDonald, Program Coordinator Meghan McGeary,* Development Director Kevin McMillion,* Office Manager Flo Miller, Educational Program Director (Until May ‘08) Taz Squire,* Land Steward & General Contractor Helen Whybrow, Co-Founder & Publications Director
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Adrienne Maree Brown Marge Bruchac Roberto Chene Anushka Fernandopulle Carolyn Finney Steven Glazer Toby Herzlich Wendy Johnson Cynthia Jurs Stephanie Kaza Matt Kolan Melissa Nelson Kavitha Rao Enrique Salmón Scott Russell Sanders Santikaro Deborah Schoenbaum Mistinguette Smith Kaylynn TwoTrees Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey Tom Wessels Larry Yang
Caesare Assad, Head Chef & Food Program Director Julie Erickson, Intern Cordelia Hall, Intern Debbie Krug, Assistant Chef Laura Sackton, Intern
* Staff hired during or since the 2007-2008 fiscal year Designed by Serena Fox Design Company, Warren, VT. Printed by Accura Printing, S. Barre, VT
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