Our Friends & Partners
The Project came together in 2015 in partnership between the University of California, Berkeley, English Department, the world’s foremost English Department, in the world’s leading public university, and altruistic community leaders in the Bay Area. Our networks have since grown tremendously—below is a non-exhaustive list of our community.
Donors
DONORS 2017 - PRESENT
SURREAL
James Bell 📚 ⭐
Bell Investment Advisors 📚 ⭐ Patti James 📚 ⭐
Simpson PSB Fund:
Sharon Simpson 📚 ⭐
System Property Development Company 📚 ⭐
The Wood Family Foundation 📚 ⭐
EPIC
Anonymous 📚 ⭐
Jen & Mario Di Prisco 📚 ⭐
Lafayette Library & Learning Center 📚
Literary Arts Emergency Fund 📚
Mellon Foundation 📚
Richard Morrison & Marie Seed Lichauco 📚 ⭐
Lizzie & John Murray 📚 ⭐ Janet & Norman Pease 📚
Ginny & Mike Ross 📚 ⭐
Saint Mary’s College of California 📚⭐
Salesforce Foundation
Jean Shuler 📚⭐
Carey & Frank Starn 📚 ⭐
UC Berkeley Foundation 📚 ⭐
Kathy Garrison & David Wood 📚 ⭐
NOVEL
Miner Anderson Family Foundation
Shanti & Matthew Ariker 📚 ⭐
Lela & Jim Barnes 📚 ⭐
Tracey Borst & Robert Menicucci 📚 ⭐ Hiroko & Peter Chastain 📚 ⭐ Ellen & Joffa Dale 📚 ⭐ Diane Del Signore & Scott Strait 📚 ⭐ Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Liz & Ralph Long 📚 ⭐ Karen & Tom Mulvaney
Joyce Carol Oates 📚 ⭐
Penguin Random House 📚
Jeannie Simpson 📚 ⭐ U.S. Small Business Administration 📚
LYRIC
Diane Ariker, in memory of Walter Ariker Linda Bacon 📚 Laura Cogan & Chris Svenson 📚⭐ Kevin Delucchi & Joanne Slaboch 📚 ⭐
Dodge & Cox 📚
Bob Egan 📚 ⭐ Roberta & Mark Emerson, in memory of Etta Lee Wong 📚 The McBurney Foundation 📚
Ben & Sharie Fountain 📚 Deborah and Lawrence Hamilton 📚 Cynthia James 📚 Kathy & Anthony Laglia 📚 ⭐
Katherine & James Moule
Dr. David Nathanson
Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir 📚 Retzlaff Vineyards Simon & Schuster 📚
NOVELLA
Andrea Alfano & Charlie Freiberg 📚
Jim Baldocchi & Carolyn Tawasha 📚 ⭐ Michael Barbee & Lisa Morbidelli 📚 ⭐
Benevity 📚 Amy Berger 📚 ⭐ Heidi & Josh Bersin 📚 ⭐
Erin Bydalek & Patrick Bengtsson 📚 California Shakespeare Theater Carolyn & Greg Call 📚 ⭐ Susan & Bill Caplan 📚
Natalie Compagni Portis 📚 ⭐
Anne Cook & Chris Wornum 📚 ⭐ Cathy & Rob Curtis 📚 ⭐ Cindy & Brian Deans 📚
Ian Duncan 📚 ⭐ Deb & John Edack 📚 ⭐
Lauren & Daniel Forman 📚 Ann Goldsmith
Diane & David Goldsmith
Graywolf Press Janie & Jeff Green 📚 ⭐
Anne & Marshall Grodin
Melinda Haldeman 📚 JT Hanley & Rosemary Casey 📚
HarperCollins Publishers George Holmes 📚 ⭐ Kristin Hull 📚 Jonathan Kleid 📚
Doris & George Krevsky
Monya Lane & Bob Bryant 📚
J. Lohr Vineyards 📚 Lawrence & Emily Lohr 📚 Ian Maloney & Lauren Grandante 📚 ⭐ Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Sue & George Miller Toby and John Nady 📚 Carol Olson 📚 ⭐ Genaro & Maria Padilla 📚
Jacinta Pister & Richard Whitmore 📚 ⭐ Pat & Craig Pratt 📚 Katie Ricklefs & Chuck Lutz 📚
Christina & Peter Reynolds 📚 ⭐
Pat Rudebusch 📚
Pat Scott 📚 ⭐ Kristina Sepetys 📚 Christina Shih 📚 ⭐ Kate Stechschulte & David Cost
Anna & Steve Strait 📚 ⭐ Donna Williams Hertha Dawn Sweet Wong 📚
📚: Multi-year Donors.
⭐: 5x or more Donors.
SHORT STORY
Rose Lynn Abesamis-Bell & Forrest Bell Altrinsic Global Advisors
Alice Benét
Monique Bonjour Kathy & Rick Bowles
Roland Brandel Alice & Bob Breakstone 📚
Karalee Brune Lorne Buchman & Rochelle Shapell 📚
Scott Busby Cahill Household
Patrick Cameron & Thomas Sun Chris Carter
Vicky Chong Jill Conner
John Couch
Mary Ann Cropper 📚
Cathy & Rob Curtis 📚 ⭐ Lucy Day Leticia Del Toro & Michael Gasquy Sarah Dods
Abby & Todd Donahue 📚
Stephen & Cyndy Dustrude Philippa Kelly & Paul Dresher
Susan Driscoll LaMay Diana Dunn Dave Egerter & Janna Tom 📚
Noriko Enderle Taia Ergueta 📚 Andrea Faber
Tony Farrell Silvia Fernandez & Paul Ash Chris Feliciano Arnold
Bridget Flanagan Debbie Goldberg 📚
Kara & Gary Gragg
Charlene Grandfield John Gray 📚
Todd Hallowell Barbara Hardacre Cindy Heer Mary Ann Hoisington 📚
Martha & Eliot Hudson
Audrey Irwin 📚
Blair Jackson & Regan McMahon 📚 ⭐
Lisa Kaplan Father John Kasper 📚
Judy Kelly & Robert Marshak Will Kushner Jennifer Lampimaki Reuben and Stefanie Leder 📚
Maria Lloyd 📚 Peter Laufenberg Jill Leukhardt 📚
Marianne & Michael Lonsdale 📚
Victoria Lorrekovich-Miller & Martin Miller
Sheila & Michael Madary Carla Malden
Rob Malenfant Yoni & David Mayeri
Charlotte McCaffrey 📚 ⭐
Pat McHenry Madeline & Pat McMenamin Christine McQuade Hsu 📚
Molly Metherd 📚 Katharine Ogden Michaels 📚 Martin Miller and Victoria Lorrekovich-Miller
Molly Montgomery & Adam White Tyson Morgan & Selena Anderson 📚 Paul Morris
Frank Munzinger 📚 National Book Foundation
Richard Newman Janine Noel Ethan Nosowsky
Hannah Onstad Karen Plessinger Elizabeth Ragain Orta Anne & Michael Ray
Megan & Mike Riera Anne Rosenthal Peter Sackman 📚 Salesforce.org
Sara and Tom Schiff 📚 Francine Schulberg 📚
Dagmar Serota Tejash Shah Helen Sheaff 📚 Shoresh Foundation
Kay Simon
Octavio Solis Estee Solomon-Gray Deborah & Michael Sosebee 📚
St. Perpetua Church
Stanford Book Club Teri Stevens
Adrienne Strait Suzanne Stuart Carolyn and Eric Svenson A. R. Taylor 📚 Chuck Taylor & Lisa Cannon Taylor
Robert Tembeckjian
Larry Townsend Yen Trac 📚 Maria & Mark Triska Jen Uldricks Ellen Ullman & Elliott Ross Janet & Dave Van Etten 📚 Maureen Vavra 📚
Julayne & Clay Virgil Gail Waldron
Joanne Whitt & David Buechner 📚 Sarah Williams Jamie Woolf & David Green
Audrey Zibelman
Sponsors
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