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​Donors

Thank you!
Over 600 donors contributed to the Foundation’s success last fiscal year.  To all, thank you! 
We recognize and appreciate the following individuals, businesses, foundations and community organizations that contributed. Contributions were received between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2020.
A § symbol designates that the donor has given every year since the Foundation’s inception in 2015.  A ǂ symbol designates that either part or the entire gift was for the Foundation’s Endowment.
Leadership Annual Giving Donors
Literary Light $10,000+
Anonymous Donor (2)
Janet Axelrod and Tim Plenk §
Brooks Family Foundation
Cambridge Trust Company
Amy Domini § ǂ
Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund
Paul Funk
Katie Lapp
Shippen Page and Anne St. Goar §
Lia and William Poorvu §
Debbie Porter and Nicholas Negroponte ǂ
Manuel Rogers, Jr. ǂ
Verizon


Novelist $5,000-$9,999
Anonymous Donor
Ed Belove and Laura Roberts §
Carly and Sam Berk
Kay Calvert and Jim Manzi
East Cambridge Savings Bank
Luise Erdmann §
Kate and Benjamin Flaim
Richard Miner and Corinne Nagy
Christian Nolen and Susan Denny
Susan Poverman (deceased)
Stan and Susan Twarog §
Nancy and Fred Woods § ǂ


Poet $2,500-$4,999
Anonymous Donor
Cathy Chute §
Donna Davis § ǂ
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Suzanne Ogden
Betsy Rudnick and Bruce Posner §


Storyteller $1,000-$2,499
Anonymous Donor (4)
Glenn Batchelder and Candace Young
Barbara Boger
Missy and Marshall Carter, Sr.
Juliana Castedo
Kelly and Liz Conlin
Jared and Lauren Cosulich
Kristina Dakos
Lulu and Thad Davis
James and Nancy-Ann DeParle
Lisa Drapkin
Jean Entine
Dena B. Feldstein
Susan Flannery §
Marnie and Seth Gale
Andy Goldberg and Suzi Wojdyslawski
Tunie Hamlen §
Bob and Kristine Higgins
Carol and Michael Hirsh
Lauren Holleran and Katie Salter
Rosemarie and Stephen Johnson
Joseph Kahan and Claudia Davidoff
Edward Kerslake and Melinda Gray
Ellen Kramer
Bill and Elisabeth Laskin
Jane and Wayne Li
Jane and George Metzger
Kyra and Coco Montagu
Celeste Ng and Matthew Fox
The Patricia Weiland Stavely Memorial Book Fund
Karen Richards
David Sandberg and Dina Mardell §
Carol Sandstrom and Christopher Small
Ellis Seidman and Jenny Netzer
Jill Slosburg-Ackerman
The Steinert Family
Saul Tannenbaum and Genevieve Berumen
Katie and Ryan Welch
Leah and Brian Williams 

$500 - 999
Anonymous Donor (5)
Judith and David Barrett
Paul and Joyce Barringer
David Bass and Susan Hall
Catherine Bird and Jonathan Delgado
Grace and Lawrence Bouton
Stefanie and Anish Dhanda
Frederick and Kimiko Ek
Martin Elvis and Guiseppina Fabbiano
Julia and Lansing Fair
Elissa Freud and Steven Willis
Jeffrey Garland
Erin Graves and Brian Carey
Kathleen Hayes
Wendy Holding and Lindsay MacIndoe
Jaqueth Hutchinson §
Isaiah and Helen Jackson
Martin and Marci Karplus
Kirk Documentary Group
Jane Knowles
Sonia Kowal and James Wildash
Deborah Krieg
Sally and Stuart Lesser §
John and Kristin Macomber
Maria and Micah McCauley
The Louis Foundation
Lynne and Neal Miller
Jane and Robert Morse §
Michael Norton
Tonya Orme and Orhun Muratoglu
Susan Paine
Patricia Pratt (deceased)
Gail Roberts
Abby Rockefeller and Lee Halprin
Ann and Jim Roosevelt, Jr. §
Edye Rulin
James and Susan Russell
Joshua Sanes and Susan Corcoran
Ellen Semonoff §
Julia Sheehan and Errol Morris
Nancy and Rae Stiening
Alice and Robert Wolf
Susan B. Wood

$250 - 499
Anonymous Donor (3)
Peter and Mary Lee Aldrich
Holly and David Ambler
Adam Baratz
Jerry Bernhard
Dorian Bowman
Anri and David Brenninkmeyer
Barbara Bristol
Federico Capasso and Paola Salvini-Capasso
John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mary Cornille
Dennis and Maura C. Colling
Elizabeth Coxe and David Forney
Monica and Matthew Curtis
Jessica Daniels and Paul Blackborow
David and Katharine Davis §
Tamara and Tony Rogers
Anne Ellsworth §
Meade Fasciano
Micheline Federman
John and Linda Felter
Carol L. Fishman
Debra Fox
Joan Friebely and Elliott Bursack
Frontline WGBH
Margaret and Bruce Gelin
Neva Goodwin
Lindsay and Garth Greimann §
Betsy Groban
Timothy Groves
Sally and Theodore Hansen
Susan Hartnett and Wayne Raila
John and Catherine Henn §
Jill Herold
Arlyne Jackson
Saj-Nicole Joni
John and Sharon Koch
Judy Kramer and Mark Wagner
Wynn Lee
Tom Lehrer
Winifred Lenihan
Hambleton and Michelle Lord
Yo-Yo Ma and Jill Hornor
Andre Mayer and Joan Krizack
Mack and Donna McLarty
Sue-Ellen and Douglas Myers
Martha and David Osler §
The Perkins Charitable Foundation
Barbara D. Petery §
Susan Pharr and Robert Mitchell
Gail and Jeremy Pool
Jacqueline Potus
Barbara and Art Powell
Mary Pat and Gervasio Prado
Peter and Helen Randolph
Miriam Reeder
Gabriela and Bob Romanow
Leslie Rose
Rich and Jane Rossi
Roberta Rubin and Don Abrams
Ellen Sarkisian §
Susana Segat
Nancy Seidman and Claude Barden
Mary Ann Serra
Robert N. Shapiro
Janet St. Goar
Steven J. Stadler and Ginny Roth
Fredericka and Howard Stevenson
Robert B. Straus §
Patty and David Straus §
Charles M. Sullivan and Susan Maycock
Tadhg and Edith Sweeney
Natashia Tidwell
Ellen and Derek Van Bever
Andrew Verardo
Alicia and Robert Von Rekowsky
Lilla Waltch
Toni Wolfman
Laura Zimmerman and Joe Shay
Elizabeth Zucker

Under $250
Anonymous Donor (32)
Gretchen Adams and Robert Hayes
John and Leslie Akula
Arthur and Elaine Alexander
Rosanna and Gustavo Alfaro
Louise Ambler
Peter Ambler and Lindsay Miller
Kumkum Amin
Elissa Arons
Silvia Arrom and David R. Oran
Janet and Bernard Aserkoff
Jeannette and Charles Atkinson
Steven Atlas and Lestra Litchfield
Jeannette Austin and Richard Lazarus
Deborah Avant
Emily Axelrod
Lawrence Bacow
H. Whitney Bailey
Maria Balinska and Wojciech Szczerba
Melania Barange
Joel and Betsy Bard §
Joyce and Peter Barkin
Kim Barnette and Glendon Foley
Monica and Michael Bennett
Jane Bernstein
Jean Berry
Michael and Elizabeth Bierer
Alfred B. Bigelow
William Bitopoulos
Robin Bledsoe
Joanne Blondin
Larry Blum and Judy Smith
Peggy and Gene Blumenreich
Salvatore J. Bonacci, Jr.
Rustam and Maggie Booz
Anne Bove
Alexandra Bowers and James Liu
Lillian Bowers-Liu
Cynthia and Joel Bradley
Valerie Bradley
Annie and Cameron Brandt
Ann Braude and Andy Adler
Louise H. Bray
Stephen and Joanna Breyer
Carol Brown
Jennifer Bump
Charles and Kim Burke
Phil and Hilary Burling
Jill Burrows §
Lewis Bushnell and Karen Davis
James Butler and Kayoko Shimura-Butler
Dave Butler
Daniel Calano and Kate Thompson
Cathleen Carceo
Ralph Chapman
Robert Chew
Celia Chin
John and Ann Cobb
Nathan and Margery Cobb
Polyxane S. Cobb
Armond Cohen and Emily Dexter
Dayl Cohen
Lindsay Leard Coolidge and Charles A. Coolidge,III
David Cooper and Adelaide MacMurray-Cooper
Paula Cortes
Nancy Cott
Liz Cox
Genevieve and Joseph Coyle
Ann and Alfred Crompton
Allison Crump and David Solomon
Ann Curby
Mark L. Curby
Kathleen Curran and Lawrence Chen
Barbara and Richard Currier
Margaret Curtis
Taylor Curtis and Jessica Rosenblatt
Richard Daly
Alice Daniel and Harold Jarmon
Adam Pool and Kristina Gjerde
Mary-Catherine Deibel
Alice DeLana
Jan Devereux and Peter Johnson
Phillip Devlin
Nancy and Tom Dingman
Estelle Disch
Ruby P. Donohue
Elsa Dorfman and Harvey Silverglate
Michael Downing and Peter Bryant
Jill Drew
Eleanor Duckworth
Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy
Julie Duncan
Alan and Suzanne W. Dworsky
Suzanne and Leo Dworsky
Mary and Felton Earls
Cynthia and Peter Ellis
Judy Elstein
Cynthia Enloe
Jean Evans
Paul and Mimi Ezust
Sandra and Toby Fairbank
Iris and Robert Fanger
Lenore Feigenbaum and Simon Klein
Helen and Richard Fein
Daniel Feingold
Katherine Fernelius
Sylvia Fine
David Finkel
Stefanie Fisher-Pinkert
Jerry Flannelly and Dorothy King
Merton Flemings and Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Lanita Foley and Kaija Langley
Virginia and William Foote
Karen Forslund Falb and Peter Falb
Donald and Marjorie Forte
Marian Fox
Kate Frank
Emily Friedman
Shanti Fry and Jeffrey Zinsmeyer
Charles and Constance Gagnebin
Sarah and Gopal Gallivan
Nancy Galluccio
Henry and Jacqueline Gates
Pam and Don Giller
Elizabeth and John Gilmore
Susan Glassman
Alison Goldberg and Jon Lewis
Max Goldberg
Eve Golden and Kenneth Kronenberg
Judy Ann Goldman
Myra and Roy Gordon
Kristin Goss
George Goverman
Denise Granowitter and Vicki Volz
Tracy Grant
Geralyn and Rob Gray
Linda and William Green
Mary Greer §
Sharon Grollman and Nathaniel Novod
Pam Haltom and Harry Irwin
Bill and Nancy Hammer
Jim Hammons
Suzanne and Easley Hamner
Ned and Margaret Handy
Fay and David Hannon
Richard Harriman and Kristen Wainwright
Ellen Harrington
Gregory Heidelberger
Glenn Heinmiller and Cathy Pate
John and Candace Hembrough
David Herder
Dudley R. and Georgene Herschbach
Cornelia Herzfeld
John and Genevieve Hewson
Alejandro Heyworth and Frederica Tuner
Patrice Louis-Rene Higonnet
Joanne Hilferty
Roger J. and Ruth Hobeika
Annette and Paul Hodess
Dan Hogan
Gerald and Nina Holton
Madeleine and Marc Holzer
Thomas Horrocks and Elizabeth Carroll-Horrocks
Arch Horst
Jennifer Howland
John Hubbell and Kathleen Reist
Keith L. and Catherine B. Hughes
Elizabeth Hurwit and Mark Muro
Craig and Katherine Hyland
Jean Jackson
Nancy Jacobson and Ann Parks
Betty Jake
Elizabeth A. Jameson
Gish Jen and David O'Connor §
Vida and Dean Johnson
Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison
Ileana Z. Jones
Robert Kaiser and Hannah Jopling
Anne Kaplan and Susanna Donahue
Madge Kaplan and Patsy Baudoin
Herman Kensky

Loulie and George Kent
Joyce Kline
Karen and John Kosko §
Thomas and Amy Kwei
Jean Kwo and Javier de Luis
Richard Lacoss and Cynthia Oldham §
Bonny Lamb
Annette LaMond and Joseph Moore
Van and Alice Lanckton
Elise Landau
Kathryn Lasky and Christopher Knight
Jennifer Lawrence
Catherine Leamy
Suzette and Robert Levenson
Susan M. Lewinnek
Ann Lewis Austin
Catherine Linardos
Nancy Lippincott
Forbes and Jane Little
Warren and Jean Little
Alba Lopez
Margaret A. Lourie and Joel Couch
Lydia Lowe
Anne Lowell
Kim and Mark Luiggi
Carol and Henry Lukas
Noah Luther
Kenneth Lynch and Emily Talcott
Roseanne MacDonald and Arthur Berger
Wanda and Richard Macnair
Charles Maier
Polly Malcolm
Adam Manacher and Carol Birnbaum
Catherine Mannick
Wendy Mariner and Toby Nagurney
Thomas and Jane Martin §
Jean Martin
Michele Martinez and Peter Nohrnberg
Jean Mason
Laura Matlack and John Dykema
Praxedis Mayr Von Baldegg
Sharon McBride
Gerald McCue and Ruth Fields
Ruth and Victor McElheny §
Hilary and Peter McGhee
Elizabeth McNamara
Susan Mead §
Risa Mednick and David Hildum
Zonda Mercer
Elizabeth Meyer
Elizabeth Miel
Laura Miller
Martin Miller
Marianne and Ronald Mortara
John Moukad
Ann and Joseph Mount
John and Lucia Mudd
Claire Muhm and Rory O'Connor
Margaret Mulkerin
Ellen Murphy
Karen Murphy
Zuzana Nagy §
Alan Natapoff
Jean and David Nathan
Judith Nathans
Ronald Nelson
Allan and Spencer Nineberg
Andres Nino
Carol Noonan
James and Kieran Norton
Beatrice M. Oakley
Pete and Pamela Oldham
Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz
Gerald O'Leary and Rosemary Booth
Elinor and Neil Olken
John O'Regan
Leslie and Joan Ottinger
Sue and Tom Owen
Lewis Patchiavos
Diane Paul
Birch Pavelsky
Laurie Pessah
Amanda Peters and David Emerson
Penny and Jim Peters
Jeanne Petropoulos
Joel and Martha Pierce
George Pillsbury and Mary Tiseo
John and Helina Pitkin
Virginia Popper and Greg Morgan §
Mary and Bradford Power
Praveen Prasanna and Karen Sum
Frances G. and Harry Pratt
Adele Pressman
Sarah Putnam
Daniela Putnam
Cathy and Jim Rafferty
Mallika Randeria
Nancy Raphael
Mina Reddy
Marion Reine
Ed and Dianne Rice
Alison Riddoch-Kennedy
Robert Riordan
Charles Ritz
Arnold Robbins
Martin Roberts
Bridget Rodriguez and George Anderson
Emily Romney and George Hein
Rodolfo and Silvia Rosales
Judith Rosen and Chuck Dresner
Diane Rubin
Kathleen Ryan
Jamie Sabino
Lester Sackett and Virginia Jonas
James Sandler and Judith Opert Sandler §
Judith Saryan and Victor Zarougian
Neil and Carlota Schechter
George Scialabba
Robert Sedgwick
Brinda Sen
Marion Severynse and R.L. Philbrick, Jr.
Sandra Shapiro and John Kirsch
Martha and Tim Shaw
Julie Silberman and Dianne Pearlmutter
Jane S. Sillman
Annie Silverman
Ovadia Simha
Kristina Simmons
Margaret and Tom Simons
Lisa and Murray Smith
Melissa Smith
Anne and Edward Smith
Jo and Mike Solet §
Adam and Phyllis Sonnenschein
Marci and Jonathan Spector
Nathaniel Spiller
Mary Alice and Vincent Stanton
Julia Stearns and Umberto De Ros
Nan Stein §
Barbara and Toby Stein
Alex Steinbergh and Jeanne Bedell
Rosanne and Randall Stern
Carole Stern
Monica Strauss Vangel and Mark Vangel
Ellen Stutman
Joan and Steve Subrin
Michael Sullivan
Eve Odiorne Sullivan
Lucy Sutherland
Tee Taggart and Jack Turner
Virginia Talbot
Theoharis Theoharis
Judy Thomson
Beverly Thornton and Richard Landau
Monika Totten and Joseph Harris
Robert Tove
Rona Troderman-King
Sandra Louise Bunt Uyterhoeven
Judith van Ingen
Janaki Varadhan
Helen Vendler
Judith Vollmer
Jessie and Eric von Hippel
Renata Von Tscharner and Peter Munkenbeck
Eric and Sarah Ward
Ann Ward
Susan and Don Ware
Alvin and Judith Warren
Judith Wechsler
David Wegman
Skip and Angie Weiland
Judy and Doug Weinstock
Oren Weisberg and Tamara Charm
Carol Weiss
Elizabeth Werby
Marjorie Westerman
Sharon and David White
Nathaniel Wice
Louis Wiley
Mary Wilkes
Nora Willcutts and Martha Williams
Andrea Williams
Jane Williams
Steven Winter
Callie Wiser
John G. Wofford
Betty and Gil Wolsky
Ching-Wah Wong
Carolyn Woollen-Tucker and Louis Tucker §
Dalena Wright
Joseph Wright
Marjory Wunsch
Ann and Mead Wyman
Evelyn Wyman
The Foundation makes every effort to list each of our donors accurately.  If we have made an error, please accept our apology and contact our office so we can make corrections immediately. You can reach us through email at info@cplfound.org or by phone at 857-235-9278.
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