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 The Legacy Project
Honoring the lifetime achievements of pioneering women and men by investing in the future of women's leadership.
  Susan N. Wilson Legacy Fund
 
 General Support
  Anonymous
Linda Barter
Muriel Berman
Darlene D. Borromeo
  in honor of Lucille A. Joel
Susan L. Boughn
Brazile and Associates, LLC
Muriel Burman
The Honorable Judith C. Chirlin
Janet Clark
John J. Cohen
Henry Coleman
Joan Crowley
Highland Park Area Chapter, Alliance
   for Retired Americans
Candice P. Howard
Jimmy D. Jackson
Grace Kaminkowitz
Katherine E. Kleeman
Penelope Lattimer
Maurice DuPont Lee
Tanya M. Melich
Shelly Jacobs Mintz
Gilda M. Morales
Candace L. Straight
The Donald and Susan Wilson Fund of the
  Princeton Area Community Foundation
Joan Getaz Zumoff
  in honor of Margaret Getaz
 
 CAWP 40th Anniversary
  Executive
Charlene Brown
  AT&T

Caucus
Madeline Ferraro
  Atlantic Health
   
Anniversary Donors

Phyllis Alroy
Natalae N. Anderson
Nancy H. Becker
Dorothy Bedford
Mary W. Blanchard
Darlene D. Borromeo
Margueritte Chandler
Henry A. Coleman
Community Without Walls, Inc.
Ruth B. Cowan
Kathleen Crotty
Madeline M. Dale
Joseph V. Doria, Jr.
Zulima Farber
Irwin and Alice Gertzog
Election Fund of Thomas P. Giblin Inc.
Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan
Gail Gordon
Melanie S. Griffin, Esq.
Patricia Griffith
Mary Ellen Higgins
Suzanne C. Iverson
Ilene S. Katz
Mary S. Knowles
Jan M. Koehn-Selman
Miriam W. Lampen
Sandra Lanman
Maurice DuPont Lee, Jr.

 
 
Joanne M. Linderoth
Laura A. Liswood
Julia MacDermott
Anna Mahoney
Ruth B. Mandel
   in honor of Ida F.S. Schmertz
Carol A. S. Meier, Esq.
Stewart R. Mott Foundation
  on behalf of Anne B. Zill
Maureen Ogden
Joy Picus
The Honorable Deborah T. Poritz
Dorothy P. Romaine
Lynn C. Scheffey
Eva Schlachter
   in memory of Henry Schlachter
Candance Straight
Patricia Todd Campaign Account
Jessica Tomalo
Christy Van Horn
  in honor of Debbie Walsh
Vas Law, LLC
Election Fund of Weinberg for Senate
Betty Wilson
Eleanor Winslow
Adelaide S. Zagoren
Joan Getaz Zumoff
  in honor of Margaret Getaz
 
 CAWP Endowment
  Kathleen Bartholomew
 
 The 2012 Project
 

Diamond
Estate of Phyllis Kornicker

Platinum

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation*
Hess Foundation, Inc.
 
Gold
The Carstens Family Fund at The San Diego Foundation*
Rachel's Network*

Silver
Altria Client Services Inc.
Alice V. Chetkovich*
Katherine M. Flaherty
The Grove Foundation
Gruber Family Foundation*
Hellman Family Foundation
The Fund for Highland Park*
Elsie H. Hillman Foundation*
Laura and Gary Lauder
   Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish
   Community Endowment Fund*
Barbara Lee Family Foundation
Paulette J. Meyer and David A. Friedman*
Nestlé USA*
Kimberly C. Oxholm*
Silicon Valley Community Foundation*
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*denotes member of Founder’s Circle

Bronze

Jennifer W. Allyn
Armstrong Painting Roofing Windows
The Hon. Patricia “Pan” Godchaux
Rhondda L. Grant
Eva K. Grove
Martha E. Hackett
Louise D. Hilsen
Judith H. Kramer
Marian S. Pillsbury
Price Family Charitable Fund
Joanna Rees
The Hon. Susan J. Rose
Mary Beth Salerno & Denise Kleis
Ida F.S. Schmertz
D.J. Soviero
Gina Torres
Judith B. Wagner
The Hon. Corinne Wood
Jean and Richard Zukin

 
Friends

Anne and Lee Anderson
Anonymous
Anonymous
   in memory of Mary K. Ellis
Linda Auerbach Allderdice
The Honorable Jennifer M. Belcher
Halley Bonoma
   on behalf of Margaret Getaz
Linda Barter
Carola M. Barton
Lara L. Bergthold
Judy Gold Bloom
Alison Boldero
Maria Dante Brown
Beverly B. Bryant
Judith Bullitt
Kathryn Busby
Joan T. Casale
Marguerite Chandler
Judith C. Chirlin
Ellen Clear
Claudine Cmarada
Janet B. Cook
Patricia J. Cooper
Noel R. Congdon
Dorothy A. Corbett
Alison L. Cormack
Dolores Corona
Nancy E. Cotton
Elizabeth A. Coulson
Cassaundra Miller Croel
Joan Crowley
Stephanie Cubba
  in honor of Mount St. Mary's College
Mary I. DiMartino
Michelle P. DiMartino
Virginia Dimpfl
R & L Donner Trust
  on behalf of Lauren Shuler Donner
Shefali Razdan Duggal
Julie Durk
Bettina Duval
Lisa D. Hensley Eckert
Rebecca Hartman Edwards
Trudy Eiron
Bonnie Ettinger
  in honor of Margaret Blackshere
Richard and Happy Fernandez
Jan M. Fenwick
Megan S. Fogarty
Catherine C. Foster
Roberta Francis
Giselle Galper
Kathleen Elizabeth Garretson
Leslie Garvin
Karen Getman
Nancy E. Cotton & John P. Given
The Hon. Patricia A.K. "Pan" Godchaux
Kelly Goode
Dorothea M. Gordon
Kat Gordon
Mark Gordon
Martha Hackett
Katherine Halpern
in honor of Mary V. Hughes
The Hon. Debbie Halvorson
Miriam S. Hinds
Susan Mayer Hirsch
   in honor of Mary V. Hughes
LIsa Honig
Candice P. Howard
Jean Huang
Dina Jacobson
Christine K. Jahnke
Tina Jen
Kahn Brothers, LLC
Grace Kaminkowitz
Judith and Ira Kanter
   in honor of Nancy Pelosi
Kathleen A. Karpilow
Andrea Kieffer
Susan C. Kirk
Barbara Klein
Laura Koffsky
Celinda Lake
Dorothy V. Lamm
Nancy J. Lanham
Susan Leal
  in honor of Mary V. Hughes
Diane Legreide
Kelly Leight
Carole A. Leland
Sari R. Levine
Kay LiCausi
Kate Lowry
Loretta M. Lynch
  in honor of Mary Hughes

 

The M Fund of the National
   Philanthropic Trust
Loretta L. Macconi
  in honor of Mary V. Hughes
Audrey Anne Maiese
Ruth B. Mandel
The Hon. Emmy McClelland
Molly L. McClure
Diane Mills McKay
Tanya Melich
Mason's Miles
Elinor Miller
Melissa A. Millsaps
Gilda M. Morales
Mary Lynn Moser
Sue Nemeth
Susan Ness
The Hon. Dawn Clark Netsch
Lynne Newhouse-Segal
   in honor of Gabrielle Giffords
The Hon. Maureen B. Ogden
Nedra Oren
Carol R. Orton
Michele Palermo
Michelle Parente
Roxanne "Sandy" Parker
   in honor of Debbie Walsh
Judith A. Patrick
Steve Pattenson
Francine Newsome Pfeiffer
PHAZ2
Jeanette M. Pilak
Mary F. Platt
Dorothy Podhurst
Danielle R. Pritchett
Kimberly Quinones
Barbara Rackes
Teri Raffel
Marjorie Randolph
Judith Rattner
Ingrid W. Reed
Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, LLP  
Randy Rice
Rogers Family Foundation
Marla E. Romash
Rachel Roper
Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber
    in honor of Elaine F. Rohr
    and Eileen Kirchgraber
Susan J. Rose
Lisa Rosenthal
Karen Rozenberg
Marci Rubin
    in honor of Betsy Cotton
Run Women Run
Kathryn M. Sandow
Jennifer Schneider
Nell Scovell
Carolyn Kay Shining
Susan V. Smartt
Susan Sprung
Roberta Steele
Nancy Stephens
Judith M. Stern
Greg Stewart
Leslie Stiles
Eric Stockel
Penny Stroud
Alison R. Taylor
Tracy Thompson
    in honor of Mary V. Hughes
Emily F. and James P. Thurber, Jr.
Nancy S. Ticktin
Sarah Timberman and Edward Redlich
Rosemary Tisch
Kathy Torgersen
Helen Torres
Preeva A. Tramiel
   in honor of Helene Hughes
Aisha Tyler
Valdez Productions Inc. 
Susan C. Varga 
Debbie Walsh
Sharon L. Weiner
Karen Weinstein
Kate Wiley
    in memory of Ann A. Mullen
Melanie L. Willoughby
Dan Winter
Dawn F. Wood
    in honor of Judith Wagner
The Hon. Martha J. Wong
Jane A. Zimmy

 
Briefings Hosts
The Women's Leadership Board of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy
   School of Government – Cambridge, MA          
Nancy Cotton, Sarah Timberman, Kathy Garmezy and Lara Bergthold
   – Los Angeles, CA
Stanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service – Palo Alto, CA
Susan Rose – Santa Barbara, CA
Sophie Hahn – Berkeley, CA
Kim Pimley – Princeton, NJ
Susan Harriman and Keker & Van Nest LLP – San Francisco, CA
Judith Kantor – San Francisco, CA
Jane Levikow and the Tides Center – San Francisco, CA
Lynn Gangone, Kathy Lawless, Eve Powell, Theresa Solano,
  Suzanne Arkle Wilson,Bobbi McKenna and The Women’s College of
  the University of Denver’s Merle Catherine Chambers Center for the
  Advancement of Women– Denver, CO
Josie Heath and The Boulder Community Foundation, Linda Shoemaker
  and the Brett Family Foundation – Boulder, CO
Lulu Flores and the National Women’s Political Caucus – Austin, TX
Sandy Barnes and Rosemary Tisch – Saratoga, CA
Hunt Alternatives Fund – Washington, DC
Wendy Mackenzie, Beth Salerno, Kathryn Finney, Ellen Chesler,
   Gena Lovett and the New York Junior League – New York, NY
Marsha Kwalwasser and the Women’s Political Committee – Los Angeles, CA
Kay Allaire – New York, NY
Sarah Timberman, Nancy Cotton, Kathy Garmezy, Lara Bergthold,
   Tracy Gray, Susan Sprung and Rene LaBran – Los Angeles, CA
Barbara Bry and Run Women Run, Ladies Who Launch – San Diego, CA
Deb Dubin, Vivian Eveloff and the University of Missouri’s Sue Shear
   Institute for Women in Public Life – St. Louis, MO
Bernis Kretchmar – Los Altos, CA
Stacy Mason – Palo Alto, CA
Golden Seeds™ – New York, NY, Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA
Center for American Women and Politics, National Conference of
  State Legislatures – Louisville, KY
 
  Hunt Alternatives Fund
 NEW Leadership New Jersey 2011
 

The Comcast Foundation
  for major program support

Susan N. Wilson Legacy Fund
  for program support

Julia Fishelson Internship Fund
  for providing paid internships for NEW Leadership™

General and Program Support
AT&T
Darlene D. Borromeo
The Honorable Candice P. Howard     
Kelly Leight  
Brandi Mercurio
Shelly Jacobs Mintz 
The Honorable Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson
Edna R. Ranck   
Lonabelle “Kappie” A. Spencer   
And the many friends of the Center whose general support is applied to this project.
 
 Ready to Run™ 2011
 

The Fund for New Jersey
  for major program support for the Ready to Run™ Diversity Initiative

The New Jersey State Legislature
  for providing scholarships for Essex County women and program
  support for Ready to Run™ through the Senator Wynona Lipman
  Chair in Women’s Political Leadership

General and Program Support
Anonymous
AT&T
Linda Barter
Muriel Berman
Darlene D. Borromeo
Susan L. Boughn
Brazile and Associates, LLC
Muriel Burman
Janet Clark
John J. Cohen
Henry Coleman
Joan Crowley
Martha Griffin
Candice P. Howard
Jimmy D. Jackson
Grace Kaminkowitz
Lori Kidwell
   in memory of Christina Taylor Green
Katherine E. Kleeman
Penelope Lattimer
Maurice DuPont Lee
Tanya M. Melich
Shelly Jacobs Mintz
Gilda M. Morales
Cynthia Murray
Roxanne E. Parker
Candace L. Straight
Verizon Foundation
The Donald and Susan Wilson Fund of the
   Princeton Area Community Foundation

And the many friends of the Center whose general support is applied to this project.

 Ready to Run™ National Expansion
  W.K. Kellogg Foundation
 Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women’s Political Leadership
  The New Jersey State Legislature