2015 1st Annual Marin Founders Celebration
The 1st Annual Marin Founder’s Celebration on April 26, 2015 at the Buck Institute in Novato, CA brought together over 40 Marin County nonprofit founders to publicly acknowledge and celebrate the work they have done for the community. A documentary trailer produced by Spirit House Productions shown at the event highlighted the collective stories behind Marin County’s nonprofit’s founders and their exceptional organizations.
2015 Marin County Nonprofit Founders Honored
Brigitte Moran, Agricultural Institute of Marin
Phyllis Thelan, Art Works Downtown
Marty Griffin, Audubon Canyon Ranch
Marty Weinstein, Bay Area Community Resources
Margie Belrose, Belrose Performing Arts Center
Carol Normandy, Beyond Hunger
Karen G. Schurig, Brain Injury Network of the Bay Area
Denise Brusseau, Bridge the Gap
Gary Giacomini, Buck Institute
Murray & Harriet Richard, Buckelew Programs
Carol Friedman, Dance Palace
Robert Wain-Becker, Golden Gate Opera
Mary Teverna, Hospice By the Bay
Larry Beggs, Huckleberry Youth Programs
Barbara Lee, Image for Success
Elliot Katz, In Defense of Animals
Daniel & DeRuth Collins represented by Chuck Collins, Lifehouse
Dale Borglum, Living – Dying Project
Mae Wygant, Love is the Answer (LITA)
Phyllis Faber & Ellen Straus (posthumous), Marin Agricultural Land Trust
Joan Brownstein, Marin County School Volunteers
Martha Wall, Marin Girls Chorus
Suzie Pollack, Marin Nexus (Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership)
Kay Carlson, Marin Open Studios
Robert Currier & Lesley Schisgall Currier, Marin Shakespeare Company
Lucien Garrett Mitchell, Jean Marie Mattos Maguire Mitchell, Charles Allen Meacham, Virginia Ojeda, Maestro Gaston Usigli, Hugo Rinaldi, Marin Symphony
John Rumsey, Marin Ventures
Anna Latta, Bonnie Rose Hough, Nancy Nakai & Ann Kennedy, Marin Women’s Hall of Fame
Patricia Arrigoni, Paul Wellman, & Lloyd Smalley, Marine Mammal Center
Nancy & Ed Boyce, Mary O’Mara, MarinLink
Suzie Pollack, MarinSpace
Barbara Alexander, Ning Douglas & Joan Kilburn, Matrix Parent Network and Resource Center
Susan Gilmore, North Bay Children’s Center
Rube Kaylor & John Steuber & Dr. John Elloway, Novato Rotary
Marian Schinske, Novato Spirit
John Bell, Okizu Foundation
Felecia Gaston, Performing Stars of Marin
Linda Crossman Fitzpatrick, Senior Access
Jan Pedersen Schiff, Singers Marin
Doug Ferguson, Slide Ranch
Dr. Jane Spahr, Spectrum LGBT
Cyane Dandridge, Strategic Energy Innovations
Peggy Hewett, The Redwoods
Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids
Bill Hamm, Warm Wishes
Jean Burroughs, West Marin Senior Services
Vera Schultz, Whistlestop
Robert Plath, Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
Marianne Locke, Young Imaginations
Outstanding Contribution to the Nonprofit Sector:
Joan Brown, Civic Center Volunteers & Denise Lucy, Institute for Leadership Studies