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2008 Donors, Grants and Matching Gifts

The following people and organizations contributed to The Poynter Institute in 2008:

$10,000 AND UP
AARP Florida
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Ford Foundation
James L. Knight Foundation
McCormick Tribune Foundation
Newspaper Association of America
St. Petersburg Times Foundation

$1,000 - $9,999
KSL-TV
Trevor R. Brown
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
Karen B. Dunlap
Lauren Rich Fine
Gannett Foundation/10 Connects
Harnisch Family Foundation
Anne Hull
Orage Quarles, III
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
Todd Schurz
Scripps Howard Foundation
South-Western Cengage Learning
Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists
Paul and Karyn Tash
Matt Thompson
Maria D. Vesperi
Julia Wallace
Butch Ward
Kinsey S. Wilson
Jean Wittner
Keith Woods

UP TO $999
Phil Adler
Bonita Agan
James Albright
Jonathan Alderson
Bobbi Alsina
Helen Ames
Elizabeth Armas
Michael Arrieta-Walden
Aracelis Asendorf
Danforth and Gail Austin
David Barnard
Linda Barnette
Michael Barody
Lionel Barrow
Susan Baughman
Jack Beary
John Becker
James and Aimee Bennett
Kevin Benz
Howard Berkes
Michael Bice
Rebecca Blanco
Walter Blenner
William Bleyer
Donald R. Bliss, Jr.
David Block
Mary Anne Boone
Fanua Borodzicz
Lorene Bourque
Elizabeth Bower
Brian Bracco
Matthew and Margaret Breslin
Donna Brewer
Jane Briggs-Bunting
Robert Bruso
Nancy Bryant
Fred Buckman
Mark Bullock
Marci Burdick
Judy Burke-Bynum
Benjamin J. Burns
Robert S. Burns
Karen Burns
John Burton
Maria Bush
Judy Busk
Stephen Buttry
Joseph Cahill
Ruth Campagna
Catherine Campbell
Nikki Capehart
Paul Carder
Suzanne Carney
Amaris Castillo
Steve Church
Cheri Cipperley
John and Lynn Cissna
Jeannette M. Clark
Linda Clark
Karen and Dave Coale
Anne Conklin
Susan Cooper
Thomas W. Cooper
Kamala Corbett
Caroline E. Couig
Susan Crain
Carol Creighton
Anita Verna Crofts
Frank Crum
Bart and Maria Curcio
John Cutsinger, Jr.
Mary Jane Dameron
Patricia Daniels
Phillips Davis
Earl Davis, Jr.
Araceli De Leon
Herbert Dieck
Richard Dimatteo
Kathryn Dixon
Sonya Doctorian
Julie E. Dodd
Ann M. Donnelly
Donovan Data Systems Inc.
Rush Dozier
Thomas Churchill Dunn
Norman P. and Nancy P. Dusseault
Thomas Dyer
Ron Dzwonkowski
Dana S. Eagles
Betty Eddeagir
Colleen Eddy
Richard R. Edmonds
David and Jane Egbert
Ellis Communications KDOC, LLC
Susan Englar
Aila Erman
Rita Estrada
Rosalyn Estrin
Casey Evans
Donald Fallati and Ruth Pachman
Gregory and Beatrice Favre
Clare Ferraro
Mary and Harold Ferris
Ricardo Ferro
Howard and Kate Finberg
David and Sheryl Fitz
Maurice Flood
Christopher T. Fong
Thelma Footman
Paula and Stephen Francis
Marty Freedman
Don Fry
Jon Funabiki
Valerie Gallina
Allene Gammage-Ahmed
Lucia Garsys
Donald Garver
Jill Geisler
General Electric Company
Joan Gessler
James R. Gillespie
Janice Gin
William K. Glauber
Lilly Gonzalez
Patricia E. Gras
Agnes Green
Patricia Greim
Mary Griffith
Angelo Grima
Joe Grimm
Katherine and Hector Guenther
Susan Guise
Blayne Gumm
Lynda Gurvitz
Susan Haig
Bob Haiman
Elizabeth Hunter Haley
Mary Beth C. Hamilton
Hampton Inn and Suites
Tara Hands
Helen Harman
Joy Harris
Rosemarie Harris
Roger and Lisa Hart
R.L. and E.P. Heinkel
Gordon Helberg
Lisa Henderson
Courtney Herrig
Judith Hill
Barbara B. Hines
Sharon Hockers
M. Diane Hodson
Robert and Jennifer Hogan
Angela Holan
Dennis Hughes
Martha Hunt Huie
David Hutman
Kenneth F. Irby
James S. Jackson
Kathleen Lapp James
Rhonda James
Mary Lou Janson
Kenneth Wayne Jobe
Barbara Johnson
Mona Johnson
Jana Jones
Walter Jones
Don Jones
Carol Justice
Demetria Kalodimos
Ruth Kamide
Mike and Peggy Kanter
Philip Kegler
Billie and Earle Keirstead
Suzanne Kelley
Mike Kelly
Maxene Kleier
Susan Knabeschuh
Krystal Knapp
Stephen Koch
Benjamin Koski
Robert Landstra
Paul R. LaRocque
Leadership Academy 2008
Denise Leary
Albert Lee
Betty Faye Lowe
Gayle MacKinnon
Rebecca Malone
Kimberly Mangun
Gary and Renee Mantz
Lisa Marco
Mary Ann and Bruce Marger
Barbara Marshall
Kelly B. McBride
Barbara McCall
Eileen McClay
Regina McCombs
Lisa McGinley
Tim McGivern
Lisa J. McGonigle
Lisa Mets
Sam Metz
Louis and Carol Michalik
Jacqueline Middleton
Betty Jean and Tom Miller
Junia and Mike Milvain
Bill and Carol Mitchell
Logan Molen
Robert Monroe
Macklyn Moorhead
Lawrence Morehouse
Dawn Morgan
Harvey and Betty Morgenstein
Katleen Mossing
John Murphy
Steven Myers
James and Diana Naughton
Michael Neely
Jeffrey Neustadt
Mary Nickens
Jeanne Nissenbaum
Hank Nuwer
Timothy P. O'Connor
John Ondriezek
George Orndorff
Steve Padilla
Albert and Phyllis Palmer
Christine Parker
Charlie Parker
Lee Anne Peck
Cheryl M. Pell
Julius Perlman
Marty Petty
Ruth F. and Robert F. Pittman
Paul Pohlman
Robert Sean Prior
Iris Quigley
Karl Rabeneck
Mohan and Diana Rao
Judith Reed
Kenton and Susan Reed
Debra Reeser
Jane Regan
Betty Ann Rhodes
Jan and Jack Rhodes
Ronald and Nancy Rhodes
Pat Richardson
Richard E. and Susan E. Riggins
Patricia Riggs
Les Rose
Rita C. Rose
Arlene Fillinger Rothman
Jeff Rowe
Willi Rudowsky
Robert and Connie Ruggles
Margaret Ruley
Julie Ryczek
Patricia Salmon
Gay L. Salvin
Stanley Sanders
Kathleen Sanford
Kerry Schofield
Christopher Segal
Robert Segall
Covington Sharp
David B. Shedden
Neil Sheehan
Alicia C. Shepard
Karen Sher
Barbara Sheridan
Jean Sheridan
Tiffani Sherman
Richard and Marla Short
Hitwant Sidhu
Curtis Simic
Gregory Simpson
Michael Smilnak
Juel Smith
Ian Smith
Jennette Smith
Michael S. Smith
Opal Smith
Brittany Smith
Sharon Snow
Stu and Bonnie Soman
Dianne Speights
Terrence Stapleton
Gus and Frances Stavros
Robert and Carol Steele
Peter M. Steinhaus
Bonnie Stewart
Dorothy Stiles
Christopher S. Stiles
Carol and Robert Stoller
Lynda Stolzman
Diana K. Sugg
Susan Sullivan
Alecia Swasy
Mark Tatge
Barbara Taylor
Melinda Techler
Bonnie Tefft
Eugenia Terrell
The Jelks Family Foundation, Inc.
The Jobsite Theater, Inc.
The Lima News
The New York Times Company Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Susan Tifft
Colleen Tilbe
Al and Sidney Tompkins
Kathleen Tucker
Mary Turney
Deborah Tuthill
Robert and Susanna Versandi
William and Sara Wallace
Wendy Wallace
William M. Wareham
Lyman Warner
Harold Warren
William West
Susan A. Wiese
James S. Wightman
Robert Wigton
Robert Wiley
Alvin Wolfe
Jean Wood
Loretta Wood
Gary L. Wood and Associates
Fred and Judith Young
Josh Zimmer

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