Our dedicated supporters provide a strong base of resources for Legal Aid to continue securing justice in the Northeast Ohio area. Your steady support helps over 25,000 people with low incomes in over 7,000 cases annually and we are proud to call you a friend of Legal Aid. Consecutive year giving society members and other financial supporters are recognized in our Annual Reports.
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Consecutive Year Giving Societies: Your consistent, generous support shows you believe in Legal Aid’s mission, and we are grateful for your partnership. With gratitude, we honor you through our consecutive year giving societies as listed below.
Our Giving Societies:
Your consistent, generous support shows you believe in Legal Aid’s mission, and we are grateful for your partnership.
With gratitude, we honor you through our consecutive year giving societies.
Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of this information.
If a correction is needed, please contact Erik at erik.meinhardt (at) lasclev.org. Thank you.
The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 20 years or more as of 12/31/2024.
A
Anonymous (3)
B
Jeff and Elaine Bomberger
C
Diane Citrino
Magistrate Gregory Clifford and Karen Bryant-Clifford
Retired Judge Colleen Conway Cooney and John Cooney
Colleen Cotter
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William Doll and Carolyn Buller
Carl Draucker and Claire Burke Draucker
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Katherine Friedell
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David Goodman and Barbara Hawley
Judge Burt Griffin and Bunny Griffin
Richard and Jessica Gurbst
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John and Susan Hersch
Ralph and Christine Higgins
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz
Lee and Candace Hutton
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Michael Anne Johnson
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Amy E. Kellogg
Jules and Lani Koach
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Wilbur Leatherberry and Diane Phillips-Leatherberry
Donald Levy
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Rita and Charles Maimbourg
Jeffrey Marks
Kathryn and Guy Mercer
Kenneth Moore and Cynthia Holland
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Richard Pogue
R
Dorothy Reichenbach
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Donald and Toni Scherzer
Charna Sherman
Todd Smith
Philip Star and Jane M. Peterson
Therese Sweeney Drake and James Drake
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Mark Wallach and Karla Bell
David Weiner
Stephen and Lisa Weingrad
Jerome Weiss and Judith Salomon
Perdexter Williams
The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 15-19 years as of 12/31/2024.
A
Anonymous (6)
Ilah Adkins
David and Phyllis Alden
Jason and Shruti Aring
B
Kevin Barnes
Nancy M. Barnes, Esq.
Brian and Megan Bash
Susan Beck
Todd and Stacey Behrens
Suzanne and Adam Blum
Matthew Brady
Molly Brudnick
Judge Janet Burnside
C
Jeremy and Brooke Campana
Peter and Rita Carfagna
Michael and Christina Chase
Jennie Church
Deborah Coleman and Judge Dan Polster
Michele Connell
James Cooper and Dina Elboghdady
John Corlett and Doug Van Auken
Dale and Susan Cowan
Michael and Kim Cullers
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Eric and Jacquelyn Daniel
C. Lynne Day
Frank and Wendy DeSantis
Maureen Doerner and Geoffrey White
Michael and Nancy Donnelly
Daniel and Paula Dreyfuss
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Nadine and David Eames
Traci Ext and Loren Toplitz
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Philip and Dana Fastenau
Stephen and Jennifer Fazio
Retired Judge Stuart Friedman and Arthur Kane
Judge Nancy A. Fuerst and Dr. John F. Burke, Jr.
William Fulton and Jeffrey Duber
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Stephen Gariepy and Nancy Sin
Leslie A. Gentile
Kathleen Gharrity
Karen Giffen
Rosemary Gold
Steven and Gail Goldfarb
Calvin Griffith
Brian Grube
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Douglas and Dr. Judith Haas
Daniel Haymond
Stephanie and Bruce Hearey
William Heine and Kathy Moore
Laura Hoag
David and Nancy Hooker
Herbert Hoppe, Jr.
John Hutchinson
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Carl Jenks
Alana Jochum
Linda Johnson and R. Mark Jones
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Ellen Keller
Richard and Mary Kenney
Matthew and Linda Klaben
Lenore Kleinman
John Kluznik and Jeanne Cunningham
Dena Kobasic
Lee and Margery Koosed
Lee and Melissa Korland
Deanna and Elroy Kursh
William and Jeanne Kurtz
David and Martha Kutik
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Brian and Shelly Lamb
Stephen and Ellen Lazarus
Robert and Maureen Loesch
James Lowe
Heather and Jason Lutz
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Raymond and Nancy Malone
Richard Manoloff and Molly Clark
Jeffrey and Rosemary Margulies
Claire Robinson May and James May
Lynda and Charlie Mayer
John and Mary McGowan
Hugh and L. Sue McKay
Douglas and Jani McWilliams
Donald and Sally Messinger
P.J. Milligan and Dayna DePerro Milligan
Robyn Minter Smyers and Bertrand Smyers
Leslee and David Miraldi
Ed and Kim Moore
Stanley and Paulette Morganstern
Norma Mudry
John and Mary Mulligan
Douglas Musick
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Aaron O’Brien
Stephen and Bonnie O’Bryan
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Judge Diane M. Palos
Richard and Jacqueline Panza
George Peters IV
Daniel Petricig and Greta Fifner
Richard and Alice Petrulis
Stacey Picard and Mark Maus
John and Victoria Polito
R. Jeffrey Pollock and Martha Brandt Pollock
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Julie Rabin Falck and Joel Falck
Sarah Rathke
Jan Roller and David Abbott
Barbara Roman and Richard Dorman
Charles Royer
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Maurice and Bernadette Salada
Patricia Scanlon
Charles and Linda Schaefer
Brigitte Schiffer
Zach Schiller and Gail Long
Barbara Schubert
J. Gary Seewald
Ralph and Laura Skonce
Jill Smialek
Randall Solomon and Nancy Glick
Justice Melody Stewart
Judge Joan Synenberg and Roger Synenberg
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Brian Toohey and M. Elizabeth Monihan
Representative Daniel Troy
Tracey Turnbull
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Neil Vakharia and Michael Mumford
Nancy and Terrence Valentine
Hon. and Mrs. William F.B. Vodrey
George and Barbara von Mehren
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Mary Warren
Mayor David E. Weiss
Christopher Williams and Cynthia Mog
Cheryl Wills
Nicole Wilson
Robert Wolff and Paula Silverman
Margaret Wong
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James and Kathleen Young
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Richard and Marcie Zeiger
Tom and Beth Zych
The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 10-14 years as of 12/31/2024.
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Anonymous (20)
Jennifer and Daniel Adams
Harlin and Laura Adelman
John Allerding
James and Karen Aronoff
Jurgita Ashley
Keith Ashmus
Steven and Elise Auvil
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Clifford and Monica Babcock
Brent and Ann Ballard
Lynn Ballard
Geoffrey and Maryann Barnes
Blair Barnhart-Hinkle and William Hinkle
Karl and Amanda Bekeny
Virginia Benjamin
Cipriano and Gina Beredo
Neil and Kavitha Bhagat
Councilperson Kim Bixenstine and Barton Bixenstine
Magistrate Stephen Blake
Darrell and Abigail Blanks
Howard and Deborah Bobrow
Kip and Catherine Bollin
Kenneth Bossin
Nicole Braden Lewis and Zach Lewis
Julie and Ben Brouhard
Leslie Brown
Donald and Sara Bulea
Eileen M. Burkhart
Thomas Butchko
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Julie Callsen and Brad Pohlman
Lawrence and Andrea Carlini
Erica Carpenter
Christopher and Kelley Caryl
Robert and Melanie Casarona
Jillian Charles
Vincent and Carolyn Cheverine
Elaine Chimo
Sarah and Andrew Cleves
Patrick Clunk
George Coakley
Thomas and Victoria Collin
Lawrence Corman
Thomas and Maria Coyne
Michelle and Richard Creger
Julie and Joshua Crocker
Mallory Curran and Keith Romer
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Richard Dean
Gregory DeGulis
Maria Del Monaco
Kathleen DeMetz
Steven Dettelbach and Karil Bialostosky
Michael and Amy Diamant
Dominic and Julie DiPuccio
Susan Dirks
James Dixon
James and Sara Doan
William Doyle
J. Michael Drain, Jr.
Emily Drake
Jeffrey and Amy Dunlap
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Gary and Pamela Ebert
S. Stuart Eilers
Gary Ellsworth
Sherry Epstein
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Andrew and Leigh Fabens
Tom and Brooke Feher
Sally Feldman
Timothy Fiorta
Mark Fischer
Sarah Flannery and Philip Slaght
Robert and Laura Fogarty
Richard Foote
Traci Forrester
Francis Fungsang
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Richard and Robbin Garcia
Mark Gardner
Michael and Kathryn Garvey
Lisa Gasbarre Black
Carol Gobel
Steven Goldberg
Joyce Goldstein
James Graham and David Dusek
Cathryn Greenwald
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Patrick and Ruth Haggerty
Jeanne and Matthew Hammerstrom
James Henderson
Donald Herbe
Shelly Hillyer
Alan Hochheiser
Laura Kingsley Hong
Emily and William Hubbard
Maura Hughes
Laurie Humphrey
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Stephanie and Dennis Jackson
Bryan Jaketic
Vanetta Jamison
Jim and Terry Juliano
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James Keating
Kris Keniray
William Kerner, Sr.
Lisa Khoury Leszynski
Eduardo and Jessica Kim
Elizabeth Kimmel
Reed King and Judith Fazekas King
John and Dolores Kirn
Jonathan and Abbie Klein
Adrienne Knauer
Alan and Susie Kopit
Martin and Nancy Kosmin
Patrick Krebs
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Monica Lacks
Julie Lady
Samuel and Deborah Laferty
Dennis and Kim Lansdowne
Kenneth Lapine
John and Janet Larson
Robert and Kathleen Lawry
Lynn Lazzaro
Edward Leader
Thomas Lee
Richard and Polly Legenza
Alan and Barbara Lepene
Scott Lepene
Diane Leung
John and Diane Lewis
John and Cassandra Lewis
David Lindner
Raymond and Wendy Ling
Janet Lowder and David Kinkaid
Lisa Lowe Denker and Steven Denker
Sandra Lucas
Michael Lyford and Sonja Rajki
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Kevin and Sheila Margolis
Dante Marinucci
Stephen and Nancy Markus
Lindsay Maxwell Venizelos and James Venizelos
Mark and Karen McCarthy
Robert and Dorothy McDonald
Patrick and Martha McGraw
Conor and Mary McLaughlin
Brian McMahon
Daniel McMullen
Jean McQuillan
E. Sean Medina
Lesya Melnyk
Brian and Kristen Mikelbank
Brett Miller
Donna Mitchell
Joseph Morford
Peter and Kristin Morrison
Marian Morton
Gordon and Barbara Moser
Patrick and Carlene Murphy
Brian and Heidi Murray
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Matthew Nakon
Jenifer Novak and Timothy Spirko
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Matthew O’Connell
Philip Oliss and Rachel McQuade Oliss
Lawrence Oscar and Jeanne Shatten
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Zack and Debby Paris
Drew Parobek
Jacqueline Pasek and Michael Quinlan
Judge Ralph J. Perk
Patrick and Sharon Perotti
Rachel Perry
Taylor Pierce and Eric Zell
Lori and Joseph Pinjuh
Lester and Esther Potash
Amy Price
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Susan Racey
M. Neal and Madeleine Rains
Gladys Reed
Alexander and Allison Reich
Sonja Rice
Thomas and Grace Robenalt
Retired Judge Kenneth Rocco
Mark Rodio
Ann Rowland and Gordon Kinder
Judge Anthony Russo
Amy Ryder Wentz
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Joel and Carie Sacco
Patricia Schraff and Jerome Micco
Nancy Schuster and David Cimperman
Karen Seawall and Greg Warren
Richard Selby II
J. Chris Sestak
Farhad Sethna
Terry Shilling
Harry Sigmier
Bernard and Mary Smith
Maria A. Smith and Rev. Charlie Hurst
Christine and Donald Snyder
Emily Spivack
David Sporar
Kathleen St. John
Christopher St. Marie
Susan Stephanoff and George Haddad
Jennifer Sullivan
K. James Sullivan and Gabrielle Brett
Annette and Mark Sutherland
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Kevin Tabor
Jennifer Teeter and Ken Palko
David and Maryann Thomas
Chris and Aimee Thorman
James Timmerberg and Tiptunya Senaphadung
Judge Mary Jane Trapp
Curtis and Marisa Tuggle
Roy and Deborah Turnell
Geoffrey Turoff
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Michael Ungar and Deborah Warner
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Suzannah Valdivia
Rinda and John Vas
Jonathon and Andraea Vinocur
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Thomas C. Wagner
David Wallace and Sharon Sobol Jordan
Douglas and Holly Wang
James and Jessica Warren
Brandi Weekley Ermisch
Kyle Weigand
Rosie Wenstrup
Christopher Wick
Scott and Erica Wilkov
Amelia Workman Farago and Michael Farago
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Michael Yaksic and Barbara Friedman Yaksic
Georgia and Jason Yanchar
Joseph Yonadi, Jr.
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Sandra Zagarell
Eric and Amanda Zalud
Peter Zawadski
Ted and Diane Zawadski
Michael and Rachel Zbiegien
Robert and Eva Zunich
The following people have provided annual support to The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland for 5-9 years as of 12/31/2024.
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Anonymous (44)
Daniel Abrams
Nancy Adams
Raj Adlakha
Julie Adler Raskind and Peter Raskind
Charles and Maureen Adler
Jonathan H. Adler
Joanie and Tom Adler
Ronald Adrine
Atossa Alavi and Bahman Taheri
Martha Allee and Jonah Grabelsky
Jessica and Scott Allen
Joan U. Allgood
Joseph J. Allotta
Antoinette Anders
Stephen and Amanda Anway
Kemper and Julianne Arnold
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Matthew and Samantha Barbara
Thomas Barnard, Jr. and Laura Coen Barnard
John Batt and Mara Cushwa
Blake Beachler
David Bell
Judge Richard Bell and Andrea Bell
Nancy Benacci
Susan Berger
Daniel and Mary Berick
Karl Beus
William and Ann Beyer
John Bianco
R. Jeffrey and Kathleen Bixler
Dominic Bonacci
Chet Bonner
Kelley Boole
Anthony Brancatelli and Gail Glamm
Jeffrey Brancato
Anna Brandt
James and Mary Bright
Carolyn Brown
Daniel Bryan
Stephen Buffo
Patrick and Brandy Burke
Alexander and Jennifer Burlingame
Janet Burney
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Hannah Caldwell
Alexander Campbell
Ann Caresani
Angela Carlin
Ruth Anna Carlson and Albert Leonetti
Maria Carr
Matt Carroll and Laura Kleinman
Elizabeth Cassella
Noelle Celeste
Diana Centeno-Gomez
John Cernelich
Charles and Karen Chaikin
Subodh Chandra and Meena Morey Chandra
Stephen and Sherri Chavez
Dawn Chmielewski
Anastasia Christman
Quo Vadis Cobb
Nan Cohen
Julie Conrad
Alex and Michelle Constable
Steven Cook
Joseph Corsaro
Claudia Coulton and James Corrigan
Andrew Cox and Michelle Dietz
M. Judith Crocker and Ronald Crocker
Gail Cudak
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Manohar and Chandra Daga
Sarah and David D’Amore
LeAnn Davis
Anne Demanelis
Daniel DeMarco
Gary and Andrea Desberg
Cletus Diener
Karen Doubrava
Stephanie Douglas
Kyle and Kevin Dreyfuss-Wells
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Margaret Echols
Marcia Egbert and Jeff Hagan
Keven Eiber
Howard Eisenhardt
Deena and Dick Epstein
Jeffrey and Leah Epstein
Christopher Ermisch
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Denise Fahey
Catherine and Bruce Fallick
Gregory and Toni Farkas
Robert Fedor, Jr.
F. Drexel Feeling
Robert and Marcia Fein
Pietrina and Johnny Fillinger
Rosalina Fini
Nancy Fioritto
Courtney Flowers
Charles and Charlotte Fowler
Barry and Karen Freeman
James French
Michael French
Adam Fried
Joshua Friedman
Steven and Lisa Friedman
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Krista Gadzala
Michael Gall
Steven and Marilyn Garfunkel
Mary Anne Garvey and A.J. Cianflocco
Gordon Gibb
Teresan Gilbert
Thomas Gilbride
Barbara Ginn
Roger Gold and Deborah Rukin Gold
Julia Gordon
Angela Gott
Daniel and Sarah Gourash
George Graham and Michael Fleenor
Leslie Greenhalgh and Kurt Miller
Councilperson Susan Grodek
Marc and Nadia Groedel
Sister Joanne Gross
Patrick Guder
Julie and Todd Gurney
Brian and Lindsay Guscott
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David Haba
Arthur Hall III
Thomas Hamilton
Patricia and William Hanavan
Andrew Hanna
Roberta and Jon Hardacre
Peter and Carolyn Hardin-Levine
Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin
Richard and Gail Hartman
Ruth Hartman and Joshua Davis
Gregory Harvey
Susan and Jeffery Hastings
Rebecca and Joseph Haverstick
William Hayden
R. Scott Heasley
Mary Beth Hegedus
Jessica Hendricks
M. Kristi Henzel, MD, PhD
Gwen Herman
Franklin Hickman
Stephen and Amy Hoffman
Andrew and Debra Hoffmann
Scott and Sharon Holbrook
The White Barr Fund
Bruce and Beth Hutton
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Susan and Stanley Jaros
Gerald Jarzabek
Christopher Johnson
Frances Johnson
Mary Anne Joyce
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Allen Kacenjar, Jr.
Stephen Kadish
Ronald L. and Susan H. Kahn
Sheila and John Kale
Bernard Karr
Kendall Kash
Tara Kastelic
Lynn Kelley
Alexis Kim
Patrick Knoth
Gary Kornblith and Carol Lasser
Ursula Korneitchouk
Kathiann Kowalski
Jessica Kress
Michael and Christina Krnac
Melissa Kunder
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James Lang
Lynn Larsen
Timothy and Patricia Laskey
Paul Lauritzen
John and Bonnie Lazzaretti
Earl and Ellen Leiken
Jonathan and Erika Leiken
Pingshan Li
Bonita and Lawrence Lindberg
Luke and Rachel Lindberg
Charles Lissauer
Nora Loftus and Michael DeAloia
Aliza Lopes-Baker
Magistrate Joanna Lopez Inman and Ramsey Inman
Mary and Carl LoPresti
Alan and Lisa Lufkin
Kurt Lunsford
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Josiah Madar
Amy Main Morgenstern and Marc Morgenstern
Edward Mamone and Lisa Roberts-Mamone
E. Daniel and Kim Mamrack
Dr. Mary Beth Manning and Cormac Somerville
Michael and Linda Marhofer
Rob and Jennifer Matousek
Nancy and Jim McCrickard
Sean McGrane
John McGuire
Patrick McIntyre
Thomas McKee
Nina McLellan
Molly McNally
Barbara McWilliams
Michael and Ellen Meehan
Erik Meinhardt and Andre Ross
Joseph Meissner
Matthew Mendoza
Thomas and Anne Merriman
Michael Meuti
Trent and Irene Meyerhoefer
Hilary Michael
David and Lisa Michel
Deborah Michelson
Chelsea Mikula Zygadlo
Michael and Hedy Milgrom
Jean and Howard Miller
Peter and Mary Lou Miller
Robert and Lynn Miller
Richard and Lisa Millisor
David Mills
Megan Mitchell
David V. Monateri
Justin and Chaundra Monday
Kathryn R. Moody-Arndt
Sean Moorhead
John Moran
Hugh Morgan
Pat and Hadley Morgenstern-Clarren
Stephanie Morrison Hrbek
Adam Munson
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Peter Nagusky
Robert Needlman and Carol Farver
Charlotte and Jack Newman
Bernard Niehaus
Elizabeth Niño de Rivera
Kathleen and Donald Nitschke
Michael Nowak
Michael Nunnari, Jr.
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Maureen O’Connor
F. Ronald O’Keefe
Judge Solomon Oliver and Louisa Oliver
Susan Organiscak
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Susan Pardee
James and Stacey Patrick
Barbara and Robert Paynter
Robert Pecchio
Charles M. and Helen M. Brown Memorial Foundation
Kathleen Pietro
Lawrence Pollack
Elinor Polster
William and Sandra Powel
Geralyn Presti and John Sedor
Marlon Primes
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Michael Quigley
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Elizabeth Radigan and Christian Coughlan
Ann Randall
Austin and Kristin Ratner
Ronald and Deborah Ratner
Catherine Redhead
Kevin Riddles
Michael and Jo Ellen Rogoff
Dennis Rose
Enid and David Rosenberg
John Rowland
Eugene Roytberg
Patricia Rubin
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Robert and Sloan Sable
Eric Salzberg
Michael Sambrook
James Sandman
Harlan and Lynn Sands
Teresa Santin
Jonnalagadda Sarojini
Benjamin Sattin
Joy Savren
Alan and Deborah Scheufler
Angela Schmitt and Jeff Sugalski
Beverly J. Schneider
Stephen and Nadia Schroth
Kathryn M. Schuessler
Jill Schumacher and Gordon Friedman
Frank Schuschu
Frederic Schwieg
Donald and Patricia Screen
Matthew Seeley
Charles Seitz
Michael and Andrea Sharb
Michael and Lisa Sharon
John Shelley
Chelsea Shenton
Patricia Shlonsky and Steven Hinkle
Mark Silverberg
Marjorie Simon
Adam Slepecky
Joyce Snow
Jeffrey Sobieski
Michael Solecki
Steve and Laura Sozio
Joan Spoerl
Kristofer Spreen
R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton
Natalia Steele
Adrienne Stemen
David Sternberg
Judge Terri Stupica and Donald Bear
Representative Eric Synenberg and Jamie Synenberg
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Rick and Susan Taft
Christopher Tazzi
Jennifer Tharp
Jill and David Thein
Caitlin Thomas
Dynda and David Thomas
Jerry Thomas, Jr.
Michael Thomas
Heather Tonsing Volosin and Matt Volosin
Margaret Toohey
Mary Jo and Mohamed Toumert
Barbara J. Truitt
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Missia and Michael Vaselaney
Elizabeth Vitale
Gregory and Denise Viviani
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John Waldeck, Jr.
David Watson
D.K. Rudy Wehner
Daniel Weidenthal
Larry Weiser
Charles and Lucy Weller
Thomas Welsh
Karey Werner
Rosalie and Ron Wesorick
Cornelius Whitford
Jonathan Witmer-Rich
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David Yeagley
Gregory York and Kelly McMann
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Claire and J. Adam Zangerle III
Dan and Ellen Zelman
William Zigli
The Zimon Family
Jill Miller Zimon and Jeffrey Zimon