Our Supporters
As a nonprofit organization providing programming to youth and youth-serving organizations, Lake Erie Ink relies on the philanthropic support of our community. We would like to offer our sincerest appreciation to everyone who has supported Lake Erie Ink, including the following foundations, individuals, and businesses.
Foundation and Government Support
Baldwin Wallace’s Jacket Philanthropy Program
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Cedars Legacy Fund
Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation
City of Cleveland Heights, Community Development Block Grant Program
Cleveland Foundation
The Cull Family Foundation
Dan and Ellen Zelman Family Foundation
Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation
Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation
Geoffrey Michael Heller Memorial Fund
Greater Cleveland Community Shares
The Hawkins Project
Joyce M. Stielau and Herbert W. Stielau Foundation
Joseph Mendes & Mollie Mendes Charitable Giving Fund
Lincoln Healthcare Foundation
Literary Cleveland
Peggy and John Garson Family Foundation
Puffin Foundation West
Seigel & Schuster Society
Stacy Miller and Todd Clark Giving Fund
The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Foundation
The Tabor Family Fund
The Wolpert Fund
Thomas Mildred Taylor Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
William M. Weiss Foundation
Youngstown Area Jewish Foundation
Corporate Support
Anonymous
City Buddha
GIE Media, Inc.
Grants Plus
Made Cleveland
McDonnell and Associates LLC
Network for Good
Nordson Corporation
Open Doors Academy
OverDrive
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Sly Flourish
In-Kind Support
Carol & John’s Comic Book Shop
Cleveland International Film Festival
Cleveland Cinemas, Cedar Lee Theatre
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Heights Libraries
Individual Donors
Inkwell Salon – Your gift of $1000 or more provides a sustainable resource for young writers in our community.
Gay Cull Addicott
Astrid Moise & Javier Alvarez-Tostado
Christopher J. Garson
Frances Heller
Nance Hikes
David Pilkey
Gretchen Reynolds
Dallas and Bill Schubert
Jack and Blanche Valancy
Stephen and Joan Werber
Susan Wolpert
Publisher – Your gift of $500 or more promotes student writing with quality publications.
Stacy Miller and Todd Clark
Char and Chuck Fowler
Pat and Bill Hanavan
Jack Hubbard
Lisa and Jedd Koops
Patty and Paul Larsen
Claire McBroom
Barbara Mendes
Jeanne Shatten and Lawrence Oscar
Lisa and Todd Rosenthal
Robert J. Slanine
Scribe – Your gift of $250 or more provides stipends for professional writers to work with student writers.
Barbara Estrada
Jane and James Finley
Susan Kaeser
Robert and Sue Lebby
Clara and Joseph McHugh
Leslie Myrick
Shelly Pink
Gloria Plevin
Barbara and John Schubert
Jane Peterson and Phil Star
Ayelet Travis
Ann Witt
Underwriter – Your gift of $125 or more supplies enrichment programs for 25 participants.
Mary Adams
Pamela Bertaud
Tonya Briggs
Tom Finucane at Compass Business Services
Ellie Hitzrot and Stuart Forman
Annette Helm
Charniece Holmes
Marc and Karen Jaffe
John and Elizabeth Jarvey
Karen Kozinets
Diane and Arthur Lavin
Christie Limbert
James and Claire Robinson May
Joseph Miller
Kari Mirkin
Barb and William Morgan
Caroline and Edward Oberndorf
Paul Porter
Diana Prufer
Mary Roberts
Annette and Mark Sutherland
Christopher Walla
Jane Winik
Scholar – Your gift of $50 or more pays registration for one student to attend Lake Erie Ink for a quarter.
Robin Agen-Blausey
Manuel Alvarado
Aaron Babcock
Brandon Baker
Christopher W. Ball and Joyce L. Roper
Bill and Susan Barack
Nick Barich
Elaine Bayless
Andrew Beard
Joanie Berger and Robert Nosanchuck
Rachel Bernstein
Deborah Bridwell
Michael Buescher and Kari Elsila
Louise Butler
Julie and Robert Carmichael
Emily Cherney
Lee and Tuni Chilcote
Eric Coble
Nate Cordwell
Marjory and Carolyn Craft
Margot Damaser and Malia Lewis
Jacquelyn Daniel
Bethany Dare
Michael and Jan Devereaux
Kevin Devine
Krissy Dietrich-Gallagher
Lara Troyer and Jeffrey Dyck
Ashley Everett
Jonathan and Rosemarie Fairman
Donna and Richard Ferris
Hugh and Deanna Fisher
Susan and Adam Fleischer
Barbara and Roger French
Chelsea Frey
Marty Friel
Judith Ryder Frumker
Karstin Olofsson and Jon Goldman
Benjamin Greenberg
Tom and Kirsten Hagesfeld
Dan Heintz
Lizzie Hemmis
Brett and Annette Himes
Jodi Hutton
Alana Jochum
Mary Pat Jolivette
Katie Solender and Willie Katzin
Erick Kauffman and Lucene Wisniewski
Dianne Konishi
John Kuder
Noah Lamprecht
Rachel Leackfeldt
Alexander and Emily Leslie
Sherri Leslie
Nancy S. Levin
Jill Levin
Sonja Rajki and Michael Lyford
Donna and Tony Marchetti
Dante Marinucci
Kimberly and Sherwood McBroom
Stacey McKinley
Lee McKinstry
Marilyn and Tom McLaughlin
Diana Medalie
Joseph Mendes
Chris Mihos
Ann Millette
Shane Millette
Andy Mirkin
Kenneth Mirkin
Tony and Suneeta Mutter
Louisa and the Hon. Solomon Oliver
Aphrodite Papadakis
Nancy Peppler
John and Marri Petrucci
Jessica Pinter
MiMi Plevin-Foust
Joyce Braveman and Jim Posch
Sarojini and Sridhar Rao
Kauser Razvi
C.A. Reed-Mundell
Bill and Jan Resseger
Myriam Ribenboim
Martin Roberts
Michael and Jane Roberts
Elizabeth Rohring
Wes Roj
Barb and Bob Rosenbaum
Kara and John Schellenberg
Michael Shea
Robin and Jon Siff
Lawrence Sollisch and Krista Hawthorne
Joan Spoerl
Linda Springer
Peggy Mendes-Stern and Barry Stern
Elizabeth Sullivan
Anne Sweeney
Jimmy Sweetman
Sony Ton-Aime
Ms. Jo Anne Ullman
Douglas and Vivian Vail
Deborah Van Kleef
Megan Walsh
Summer Watterson
David Weber
Matt Weinkam
Larry Weiss
Katie and Dustin Wieser
Edna Williams
Carol Womack
Lisa M. Wood
Anne Zaleski
Julia Zook
Kal Zucker
Free Thinker – your gift in any amount supports Lake Erie Ink in all of the above ways plus others we haven’t thought of yet.
Ellen Barrett
Asher Benedict
Susan Berger
Dan and Maria Blakemore
Carolyn Bowman
Victoria Bedt
Jacqui Brown
Kari Elsila and Michael Buescher
Keisha Bullard
Dana Buzzelli
Jeanne Cherney
Delaney Clark
Lindsey Clark
Hilary Colles
Karen Cover
Richard J. Fernandez
Ben Forman
Tim Fox
Emily Fox
Bill and Jill Frankel
Renauta Griffin
Jazzmin Hardman
Doc Harrill
Alicia Hemphill
Emma Hubbard
John Hubbard
Ranelle Huber
Cindy Illig-Lum
Brian Iorio
Gwendolyn Isoke
Gilbert Jones
Daniel Kampman
Jewel Moulthrop and Evan Komito
Kara Krawiec
Sarah Kristeller
Cynthia Larsen
Susan Larsen
Sarah Lehmann
Jessica Leslie
Laura Lewis
Eric McKee
Eve McPherson
Anne Miano
Eli Millette
Alan and Lori Mirkin
Michelle Moehler
Judy A. Moore
Cicely Philpot
Halle Preneta
Quentin Quereau
Becky Rinaldi
Lydia Margaret Rose
Amy Rosenbluth
Hilary Rossen
John and Sara Schellenberg
Judith Schiller
Kristen Schmidt
Kim Schmitz
Sue and Ken Schneider
Brian Smith and Marjorie Edguer
Joshua Sowers
Abby Star
Laurie and Max Stark
Elizabeth Stiles
Robin Van Lear
Susan Yao
Gary and Gerri Zaleski
Judith Zelis