Giving Thanks to Our Donor Community

YES! is blessed with many partnerships in the work we do. Thank you to each of you who are bringing your resources and gifts – whatever they may be – into our collective journey towards a brighter future for generations to come.

YES! programs are committed to empowering, inspiring and connecting young leaders. If you are interested in contributing to YES! and helping young visionaries to build a better world, click here to donate on-line or find out how to give in many other ways including pledging with stock, company matching, and through your will, trust or estate plan.

If you have any questions, please contact Nga Trinh-Halperin, Development Manager, at nga@yesworld.org.

2008-2009 Donors (listed alphabetically)

A Well Spring of Natural Health
Aaron Lehmer
Aaron Snegg
Adrienne Miller
AEPOCH
Aerin Dunford
Ainsley-Hicks Fdn.
Al  & Lynne Dover
Alberts Organics
Alexandra Snyder
Alissa Hausen
Alli Starr
Allison Quaid
Amida Cary
Amira Diamond
Amita & Kishan Shenoi
Amy & Glenn Bacheller
Amy & Neal Levin
Amy Katzenstein
Andre Angelantoni
Angela Sevin & Mark Stafford
Ani Moss - Moss Fdn.
Anonymous
Aqeela Sherrills
Ariana Jostad-Laswell
Ariel Nessel
Arjan Stephens
Atma Enterprises
Aveda Corporation
Barbara & Christopher Wilson
Barbara and Mike Getz
Barbara Martin
Barry Adelman
Be Present Inc.
Belvie Rooks
Ben and Ruth Hammett
Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S.
Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts and Abby Aresty
Beth Lemke
Betsy & Jack Rix
Bill Graham Supporting Fnd. of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
Billy Holliday, Blackwater, LLC
Black Nature  and Elizabeth Lapan
Brad  Drury
Brenda Davis
Bright Horizon Fund at the Community Fdn. of Santa Cruz County
Britt and Adriano Bravo
Bruce and Rossana Eisendorf
Bruce Hamilton
Burt Family Fdn.
Burt Family Fdn.
Byron Belitsos
Carli & Steve Szymanski
Carol & Don Dow
Carol Martin
Carol Merwin
Carolyn Cavalier Rosenberg Philanthropic Fund - a donor advised fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsular and Sonoma County
Carolyn Honey
Cary  Zakon
Casey O'Connor
Cecilia Crocker
Chenstein O’Malleysven Fdn.
Cheryl Haley
Chris  Beach Rehner
Chutzpah Fund of the Philadelphia Fdn.
Clare & Bob Holzman
Clarissa Springer
Claudia Welss
Clear Compass Media
Colleen Peterson
Common Future Fund of RSF Social Finance
Cory Ritchie
Courtney Hull
Cyd Jenefsky
D.B. Grazie Fund of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Dan Edmond
Dan Wagner, Nutri Farmacy
Darian Heyman
David  Ergo
David and Staci Bernstein
David Harrington
Debbie Rennels-Salkind
Deborah Drysdale
DEF Fund, A Donor Advised Fund of Combined Jewish Philanthropies
Delia Brinton
Denise and Daniel Pliskin
Dennis Karas
Deo and John Robbins
Deshaye Faughtner
Destiny Williams
Diane Troderman
Director's Discretionary Fund of the Jessie Smith Noyes Fdn.
Dorka Keehn
Drew Morgan
East Bay Community Fdn., David Brown Fund
Elaine Seiler
Elizabeth Doty
Elizabeth Rankow
Ellen Furnari
Elspeth Gilmore
Emily Reilly
EnviroKidz
Erika Straus-Bowers
Esther Campos
Eva Auchincloss
Eve Cohen
Evelyn & Nelson Lehrer
Falcon Trading Company
Fdn. for Global Community
Felicia Chavez
Fetzer Institute
Firedoll Fdn.
Francis & Carol Sue Janes
Fred Gellert Family Fdn.
Frederic  Wiedemann and Marika Baris
From th Directors’ Discretionary Fund  of the Jessie Smith Noyes Fdn.
Gabe Stratis
Gabrielle Stocker
Galaxy Gayle Hasley
Gary Stewart
Gautam Barua
Gemma Bulis
Govinda Quish
Greg Cortapossi
Gretchen Leavitt
Guy Chammas
Gwen Gordon
Hans Schoepflin
Helen Gemmill
Hidden Leaf Fdn.
Howard Lanoff
Howard Rosenfeld & Sheryl Leach
Ian Thiermann
InJoy Productions
Jade-Netanya Ullmann
Jamari Evans
James and Gretchen Sandler
James Hanusa
Jan Landry and Bob Stahl
Janaki LeFils
Janel Ray
Jason Franklin
Jasper Eiler and Brook Lowell
Jay Levin
Jayni Chase
Jeanne & Michael Morency
Jeffrey Leifer
Jenna Hullerman
Jennifer & Jay  Wood
Jennifer Barr
Jennifer Wylegala
Jeremiah Adler
Jia Patton
Jidan Koon
Jill Reber & Robert C. Hamer iii/Primitive Logic
Jim Hanson
Joan Brown
Joanie Misrack
Joaquin Phoenix, c/o Frattali & Salem, LLP
Jocelyn Lehrer
Joe & Barbara Kresse
John Antonelli
John Densmore
John Lopez and Kimberly Piper Weiss
Jonathan  Kaplan
Joseph Trinh
Josh Sage Thome
Julie Esterly and Eric Morgan
Just Give Fdn.
Jyoti Stephens and Marc Stephenson
Kalliopeia Fdn.
Karen Card
Katharine King
Kathleen Hare
Katz Family Fnd.
Katz-Lapides Family Fund at the Community Fdn. of Santa Cruz County
Kay Lee
Kelly Richardson
Kim Wennesland
Kimberly & Foster Gamble
Kimberly Vossler
Kindle project
Kirsten Moller and Christopher Ho
Konika Ray
Lathan Hodge
Laura Loescher
Lee Slaff
Leonard Kurz
Leslie Meehan
Leslie Neale
Linda Lambdin
Lisa and David Sloane
Lisl Schoepflin
Lois Dribin
Lois Hickman
Louis Fox
Lumpkin Family Fdn.
Lynne & Bill Twist
Lynne Elizabeth
Maeve Taylor
Maitreyee Paula Sarkar
Makani Themba-Nixon
Manauvaskar Kublall
Mani Vafoei
Marc Kasky
Marcelo Bonta
Margaret Carter
Marian "Sun" McNamee
Marian Hunt-Badiner
Mariana Bozesans
Marianne Manilov
Marilyn & William Veltrop
Marion Weber
Marjorie Fasman
Mark & Tisha Hendricks
Marna Broida & Ian Weiss
Martin Tull
Maryrose Dolezal
Max and Anna Levinson Fdn.
Meg & Don Harlor, JH Herz Family Fdn.
Megan McFeely
Meghan  Ryan
Mel Bankoff
Melanie & Mike Mackinnon
Melinda Kramer
Michael  Hannigan
Michael Green
Michael Hannigan
Michael Kilgroe and Patricia Savitri Burbank
Michael Steiner
Mike Beebe and Carol Heinz
Miki Kashtan
Miles Smith & Sue Bingham
Mitch Saunders
Morgan Rudluff
Nalasa Cutler
Nalith Fdn., Inc.
Nancie McDermott and William Lee
Nancy Stetson
Nature's Path Foods inc.
New Visions Fdn.
Nga Trinh-Halperin
Nicole Beland
Nina & Mike Snegg
Noa & Goapele Mohlabane
Not Just Us Fdn.
Nuria Latifa Bowart
Obaboa Fdn.
Olivia Boyce-Abel
One Fdn.
One Fdn.
Panta Rhea Fdn.
Parasol Tahoe Community Fdn.
Patel Fdn.-Project Ahimsa
Patricia  Klauer
Patti Breitman & Stan Rosenfeld
Paul Rucker
Peapod Fdn., a Chaitable Services Fund of the Entertainment Industry Fdn. (EIF), with support from the Adobe Fdn. (AF)
Peter Liebmann
Peter Wong
Phil Kline
Phillip Garrison
Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ
Presidential Life Insurance Co.
Purple Lady/Barbara J. Meislin - a donor advised fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula and Sonoma Counties
Rachel Reichlin
Rachel Seligman
Rajesh Pakkala
Randall Goldstein
Ravi Lau
Raybo
Rebecca Jones
Reem Rahim
Renee Wilson
Revi Sechleinger
Rich Dutra St. John and Yvonne St. John Dutra
Richard McMurtry
Richard Seaman
Rita Marie Archibald
Robert Foster
Robert Nunez
Ron Maysenhalder and Janet Ring
Ronnie Rubin
Rose Feerick
Rowland Rebele
RSF Social Finance
Safiya Bonaventura
Salima Cobb
Sandhya Jha
Sandra & Charles Mendler
Sandy and Gene Davis
Sandy Gottstein
Saori & Mike Kappus
Sara Kinakin
Saul Brown
Sean Place
Sean Sullivan
Serendipity Fund with the Parasol Tahoe Community Fdn.
Seth Tibbott
Seth Weiner
Shams Kairys
Shanti Cliff
Sharon and Jeff Roe
Sharon Marer
Sharon North-Pohl
Sharon Smith
Shelly Errington
Sherry Halperin
Shirley & Paul Dean
Silent Gong Fund - a Calvert Giving Fund
Simmy Makhijani
Sofia Bernal-Morales
Sophia Bowart
Sophie O'Shaughnessy
Southwest Airlines
Stan Katz
Steiner-King Family Fnd.
Stephen Dinau
Steve Fox
Steven Huntsman
Sunridge Farms
Sunshine Fund - Boulder Community Fdn.
Sunshine Smith
Susan Griffin Black
Susan Moon, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Susan Trabucchi, The Fetzer Institute
Tarra Christoff
The Fair Share Fund at the Community Fdn. of Santa Cruz County
The Humanity United Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Fdn.
The Mazal Fdn.
The Mitchel Kapor Fdn.
The Whitman Institute
Theo Ferguson
Thomas & Shelby Reynolds
Threshold Fdn.
Thu Tran
Tides Fdn.
Tiffany Brown
Timothy Huebsch
Todd Koons
Tom  Gegax and Mary Wescott, Gegax Family Fdn.
Tom North
TRA Fund
Tracy Burt
Troy Lush
Tyler Zoanni
United Natural Foods
University of California, Davis
University of California, San Francisco
Victor Tsou
Vinit Allen
Virginia Hughes
Virginia Leddy
William Donner Fdn.
Women's Fdn. Of CA.
Women's Fdn. Of MN
Youth Development Fnd.
Yuko & Dennis Tucker 

 PLEASE NOTE: If we have listed your name incorrectly or you wish to be removed from this list and anonymous please email lorin@yesworld.org or call him at 831.465.1091 ext. 111