Gifts listed were received January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023. Note that in the event of multiple gifts, they have been totaled within the related sections. Benefit ticket, raffle ticket, and auction purchases are not included in this listing. Please accept our sincere apologies for any unintentional errors or omissions. Let us know if we have made an error by calling (269) 405-1006 or emailing us at COL@chikamingopenlands.org so that we may correct the listing.
Gifts Restricted to Land Protection and Stewardship Projects
Special thanks to the following donors, whose contributions made several projects possible.
Marla Baker
Betsy & Jim Benoit
Lon Berkeley
Beth, Mike & Danielle Csazar
Julie Dorfman & Jerry Herst
Stephen Heller
Anne Krantz
Lakeside Cabins Resort
Barbara Peltin
Ryan J. Postema
Joel & Liliana Rosenthal
Ruth Van Nice Saddow
Leslie Shad
Paul & Susan Van Nice
Gifts in Memory of Peter Van Nice
Lindsey & Merrick Axel
Alan & Cynthia Berkshire
William & Cindy Ellis
Ron Farina
Laura D. & Marshall B. Front
Martha Gingrich
Stan & Ann Dudley Goldblatt
Hall & Anne Healy
Frederic & Katherine Hickman
Peter & Donna McKinney
Michal Miller
Dori Noah
John Notz, Jr.
Point Harbor Fund at Maine Community Foundation
Frank & Theresa Richter
Ruth Van Nice Saddow
Susan Schwartz
Sophia Shaw
Henry & Lucy Ullman
Paul & Susan Van Nice
Justine Wardrop
Gifts to the Board Designated Endowment Fund
Errett & Julia Van Nice
Grants Received From
Dellora A. & Lester J. Norris Foundation
Earl & Brenda Shapiro Foundation
Frank G. & Gertrude Dunlap Fund
Lakeshore Rotary Club
The Land Trust Alliance
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Kathy Pick
Point Harbor Fund at Maine Community Foundation
Rotary Club of Harbor Country
Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
STS Foundation
Founders Circle
Founders Circle members make unrestricted gifts of $10,000 or more to Chikaming Open Lands.
$10,000+
Alan & Cynthia Berkshire
Anonymous
David & Susan Eblen
Susan Flynn & Ted Buzby
Scott & Rosemary Gunnison
Victoria J. Herget & Robert Parsons
Michael & Rosalind Keiser
Steve & Peggy McCormick
Randy Mitchell & Lisa Gregg
Chris Pfauser & Rob Gow
Larry Shulman & Rhonda Rochambeau
Richard & Nancy Spain
Nancy & Michael Timmers
Jeanie Van Nice
The Conservation Circle
Conservation Circle members make unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more to Chikaming Open Lands.
$5,000-9,999
Lee & Lisa Bloom
Robin Carroll
Emily & Andrew Coolidge
Janis Kanter & Tom McCormick
Robert LoPrete & David Germaine
Dr. Paul S. Russell
Gregg & Susan Wilson
$2,500-4,999
Eugene & Meredith Clapp
Patricia M. Curtner & Timothy V. McGree
Michele & John Donley
Stan & Ann Dudley Goldblatt
Meryle M. Merritt
Mary Anne Mullins
Bruce Murphy
Caro Parsons
Donald & Muffy Parsons
Linda Puvogel & Michael O’Halloran
John & Jeaneane Quinn
William & Nancy Racine
Stephen & Jean Smith
Errett & Julia Van Nice
Bob & Vickie Wagner
Donna Wetzler & William Webb
Paul Zeller & Leslie Jones
$1,000-2,499
Anna Maria & Kenneth Adair
Shirley Anderson
Craig Andree & Frank Quinn
Leah & John Barnes
Michael & Elayne Bednar
Barbara Bermudez
Berrywood Farm- Jeff Brown & Ashley Phillips
Heiji & Brian Black
Cathleen & Peter Bottini
Kathryn Clarke & Bill Kaplan
John & Carmen Cordogan
Maureen Culp
Allison & Fred Daley
Margaret Dickerson & Bob Fliegelman
Julie & Jeff Diermeier
Richard & Vicki DuFour
Shannon & Don Ensing
Jospeh & Patti Jo Farago
Ron Farina
Burton & Anne Fishman
Ted & Sharon Flint
Jean Follett
Peter & Megene Forker
Ellen Frankle
Barry & Rebecca Friedland
Laura D. & Marshall B. Front
Martha Gingrich
George Goehl & Ai-jen Poo
Melvin & Sue Gray
Richard & Clare Harris
Hall & Anne Healy
Jerome & Mary K. Kelly Hines
Julia & Marty Hughes
Dan & Sharon Hunter-Smith
Rebecca Johnson
Jean & Cynthia Joho
Allan Kayler & Deborah Hall-Kayler
James Kartheiser & Katherine Kennedy-Kartheiser
Eric & Adrienne King
Eileen & Richard Kochanny
Peter Levy & Jill LeBoyer
Robert & Mary Litchfield
Brooke & Stephen Long
George Lucas
Lynn & Eva Maddox
Adam Marton & Julie Steinberg Marton
Don Meckley & Rose Parisi
Mike & Sherri Miske
Patricia Mulcahy & Elijah Vaughn Gordy
Larry & Linda Mura
James Parsons
The Prairie Club
Louis & Barbara Price
William & Mary Purdy
Jack Querfurth & Stephen Price
John Michael Rafkin & Anita Levin
Frank & Theresa Richter
Clay & Barb Robinson
Jo Anne Rydholm
Mark & Katherine Seaman
Gerald Seizert & Margaret Overton
Steven Shevell & Jeanne Marsh
Thomas & Carole Shortlidge
Frank & Joanne Sims
Geoffrey Smith & Catherine Stewart
Laura Sova
Marge Spears
Mary Strahota
Karen Strohl
Robert Tomes & Cynthia Zeltwanger
Michelle & Ronald de Vlam
Janice E. Walsh
Julie Yost
$500-999
Linda Anderson & Paul Cromheecke
Stephanie & Dana Arnett
Kelly Austin & Scott Hurwitz
Lindsey & Merrick Axel
Erika & Alan Bartelstein
Kate Blomgren
Jackie & Stephen Bossu
Richard & Brenda Carlson
Deborah & John Chipman
Jeannine Cleary & Frank ten Brink
Elizabeth Clough
Mary Kay Czerwiec & Cynthia Homan
Joseph & Jill DeCamp
Jeri Devereaux
John Dodderidge
Tom Everill & Joan Christ
Meredith George
Elizabeth Malkin Haviland & Jordan Haviland
Steven Herwick
Hannah Alphs Jackson
Leo Krusack
Jurate & Carl Landwehr
Richard & Georgia Lyman
William & Shari Massey
Robert McDermott & Sarah Jaicks
Scott McKee
Peter & Donna McKinney
Barbara Melcher
John Notz, Jr.
Catherine Nowacki
Benjamin & Barbara Parker
Martha Richards
Ron Rohde
Susan Schwartz
Leslie Shad
Berta Shapiro
Maureen & Jerry Shekleton
Reid & Franki Smith
Harold Streator
Timothy Sullivan, DVM & Mike Humphrey
Bob Tatina & Nancy Baird
Jennifer Thompson
Henry & Lucy Ullman
Jennifer Wright
$250-499
Lloyd & Jo Ellen Anderson
John Asplin & Christine Orders
Molly Carl
Rich Carrigan
David & Dale Clarke
Phyllis & Dan Collins
Robin & Robert Cronin
Mark De Lancey
Colleen Duke & Kieran Ronayne
Tom & Linda Dunne
Anne Durkin
Deirdre Egan & Tom Schmitz
Lois Elia & Scott Sarran
David Foster & Melissa Wynne
Melissa Foster
Michelle Geoga
William Gibson & Steve Jenkins
Patty & Rick Gretsch
Frederic & Katherine Hickman
Luci Huhn
John Karas
Susan Kavanaugh
S. Michael Kozubek & Mary Swanton
Jan Kruisbrink
Michael & Susan Levine
Thomas & Martha Lindeman
Mary McPherson & John Gunner Gooch
Tom & Gina Meyers
Rob Miller & Diana Maldonado
Dori Noah
Jack Raba & Suzanne Muellman
Karen Ristau
Terry & Bev Scully
Sabina Shaikh & Joe Deal
Sophia Shaw
Ann & Steve Smith
Barbara Smith
Lewis & Ellen Smith
Lowell & Kim Smith
Daniel Toft
Tana Vaughn & Donald Meyer
Tim & Anne Walsh
Jennifer Alter Warden & Robert Warden
Justine Wardrop
Gary & Leslie Wood
Jeanne & Errol Zimmerman
Up to $249
Sally Alatalo
Carlos & Frances Alcantara
Arthur Anderson
Barbara Arsenault
Don Ashley
Marla Baker
Ed Bancroft & Patricia Collins
Melissa Barber
JoAnne & Jack Beertema
Lon Berkeley
Ingrid & Philip Berman
Joel & Carole Bernstein
Michael & Carol Bilder
Marc & Gail Bilka
Petras & Reda Blekys
Karen Bloom
Nicholas & Sally Bogert
Merry Bolt
Anne Born
Mike & Brigid Braden
Sherry Brenner
Carol Brotherton
Steven Brown
Carol Brunkowski & Robert Blitstein
Karen Brunner
Chuck Bueter
Shirley Bumba
Adam Burck
Mr. & Mrs. Edmond M. Burke
Megan Carney
Walter & Mary Carr
Sandhya Chandrasekhar
Margaret Kohring Cichon & Ron Cichon
Jack & Ann Clough
Eleanor & Fred Coe
Sally Cook
Peg & Andy Cooper
Brooke Corkran
James & Rita Crimmins
Beth, Mike & Danielle Csazar
Bernie & Beth Dahl
Bill & Mary de Jonge
Charles & Beth Deuser, II
Kathleen DeVine
Steven Diller
Teresa Douglass
Jan Novak Dressel
Anthony Dunn
Thomas Dunn
Joy Durham
Robert Easley & Mary Beth Dickey
Len Edgin
Frank Edwards & Ann Williams
Nancy Ehrhardt
William & Cindy Ellis
Douglas & Ellen Elrick
Richard Emrich
Barbara Englebert
Luz & David Engman
Paula & Dan Everett
Falatics Meat Market
Robin Falconio
The Freedman Stillerman Family
Tom & Sherry Farnham
Cookie Ferguson
Jeanne Fields
Diane Fitzgerald
Bob Flannery
Ann & Bob Flesvig
Mark Forrest
Four Flags Garden Club
Thomas Francia
Jaime Frankle
Martha Franta
Becky Frederick
Paul Freske
Jeanne & Bob Ganchiff
Ryan & Beth Gandre
Nathan Geisler
Jayne Gibson
John & Shelley Giesecke
Sandra Gill
Timothy Gilfoyle & Mary Rose Alexander
Marianne & Richard Glosenger
James & Georgiana Gormley
Ralph & June Grandle
Carol Grant
Charles Greenleaf
Denise Hazaga
Stephen Heller
Charles Herbst
Helping Harbert Merch
Kristin Hughes
Becky Huinker
Greta & Bill Hurst
Ann Ingersoll
Anita Jacobson & Edward Feldman
Jackie Jensen
Laurie Kagann
Bob & Jan Kallberg
Lucy Kamau
Demetrius Karos & Valerie Kokoris
Catherine Randall Kelso
Kregg Kiel
Geraldine & Patrick Kilcoyne
Nancy Klos
Michael Koch-Weser & Kristin Vondruska
Sue Koenigsberg
Kathryn Krawczak
Jason & Michelle Kropp
Kevin Kutsch
Cristy & David Laier
Eric & Audrey Lester
Mark & Madeline Lewis
Maureen & Sheldon Light
Elizabeth Lindau & Jeff Dunlap
Kent & Lauri Lindquist
Jane Lohmar
Jim Long
Penny & Matt Longo
Bill Lucas
Jerrold Marks
Marge Mauer
Ken & Barb Maziarek
Robin & Mariele McBride
Susan & Jack McGrail
John McKee
Nick Mearsheimer
Diana Meckley
Erin Meggyesy
Jane Melnick & Ellen Willenborg
Gabriella Meredith
Paul Meredith
Lynn Metzger
Clayton C. Miller
Mark Miller
Michal Miller
Sue Miller
Wyatt Allen Miller
Paul & Karen Miret
Christopher Misener
Christina Mociuk
Dawn Moore
Betsy, Hunter, Hayden & Sally Morgan
Doug Morris
Melody Muckenfuss
Robert Mueller
Stephanie Mullins-Wine
Zina Murray
Joanne Nadelhoffer
Scott & Lindsay Namestnik
Niles District Library
Paul Oostenbrug & Dr. Jeremiah Kelly
Adam Orcutt
Julie Osborne & Timothy O’Hagan
Chuck Osgood
Claudia Parish
Jill & Garnet Patterson
Nelson & Phyllis Pelletier
Barbara Peltin
Susan Phelan
Kurt & Pauline Philipps-Zabel
Bonnie & Ken Pletcher
Joanne Postema
Patricia Putnam
Karen Rao
Susan & Ed Ravine
Judith Ray
Brendon Reidy
Robert & Deborah Render
Lee Riley
Mary Fran Riley & Frank Maggio
L. Vern Robinson
Lynn Romero
Joel & Liliana Rosenthal
Jeffrey Ross
Phyllis Russell
Carlos & Kathy Salinas
Katherine Saller
Laurel Salvador
Sage Santana
Gary & Becky Schaffer
Peggy Schaffer
Marcy & Daniel Schlessinger
Debbie & Joel Schreier
Julie Schwarz
Lynne Scott
Marla Seibold
Lisa & Andy Sharmat
Matthew Shirrell
Albin & Barbara Sikora
Nancy Sheila Simonian
Marie & Thanasi Sinioris
Warren & Lisa Solochek
Birute Sonta
John Sorenson
Julie Stagliano
Ronald Steeves
Frederic & Nikki Stein
Charles & Rosanne Stewart
Houston & Diana Stokes
Susan & Errol Stone
Kingman Strohl
Paul & Anne Stumpf
Linda Sucich
Gene & Carole Svebakken
Karen & Tom Tarpley
Chris & Kendra Theriot
John & Susan Tingle
Nancy Trainor
Edward & Adrienne Traisman
Annie Tucker
James & Lorraine Veldman
Lorna Wallin
David Wallingford
Marty Wambold
Richard & Donelle Weiss
Mary Jane Welter
Pat Werhane
Mary & Jim White
Philip & Paula White
Richard & Jamee Wiet
Robin Wold
Susan Wolz
Susan Woodrow
Sheila Wright
Jon Wuepper
Norris & Sharon Young
Shelley Young
Annual Benefit: Cocktails in the Garden Partners
Sponsors:
Antero Group
Maureen Culp, RE/MAX Harbor Country
Rob Gow & Chris Pfauser, Berkshire Hathaway|HomeServices
Dawn McKenna Group
Harbor Country Storage
Journeyman Distillery
Michael & Rosalind Keiser
Midwest Biological Survey
Pizzo & Associates
Point Blue
Red Arrow Roadhouse
Laura Sova
Stantec
Verdant Hollow Farm
Whistle Stop Grocery
Auction/Raffle Donors:
Brookwood Golf Course
Flatwater Farm/River St. Joe
The Historian
Frank Kurland
Lost Dunes Golf Club
Adam Marton
Pizzo & Associates
Ray & Als Lunchroom
Red Arrow Roasters
Sky Bird Yoga
Mary Strahota
Terrace Room
Verdant Hollow Farm
Special thanks to Steve & Cindy Mitchell for hosting the event.
#10Trail Challenge Partners
Abonmarche
Antero Group
Arriba! Taqueria
Biggby Coffee
Burn ‘Em Brewing
Converge Community Church
Episcopal Church of the Mediator
Edgewater Automation
Forte Coffee
Harbor Country Hikers
Lemon Creek Winery
The Nature Conservancy of Michigan
Nola Roux
Point Blue
Scoops
Third Coast Paddling
Unsalted No Sharks
Villwock’s Outdoor Living
Viola’s Café
Wanderlust Outfitters
StoryWalk on the Preserves® Sponsor
Horizon Bank
Enchanted Forest Partner
Rotary Club of Harbor Country
