Our Supporters
Catalyst Chicago thanks the foundations, corporations and members who make our work possible. For questions or changes, please contact Vicki Jones at (312) 427-4830 or vjones@communityrenewalsociety.org. If you are interested in becoming a member, click here.
- The Boeing Company
- Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
- Joyce Foundation
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- McCormick Foundation
- McDougal Family Foundation
- Oppenheimer Family Foundation
- Pierce Family Foundation
- Polk Bros. Foundation
- The Chicago Community Trust
- Steans Family Foundation
- United Way of Metropolitan Chicago
- Woods Fund of Chicago
Group Member
- Gary Comer Youth Center
- University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education
- University of Illinois Urbana Library
Benefactor ($1,000+ level)
- Laurence and Doris Ashkin
- Baskin Family Foundation
- Timothy King
- The Koldyke Family Foundation
- Linda Lenz and Marshall Froker
- Robert and Carol Lenz
- Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation
- Rev. Calvin Morris
- Diana Nelson
- Diana and Bruce Rauner
- Adele and John Simmons
- Robin Steans and Leonard Gail
- Beth Swanson, Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
- N. Don Wycliff
Advocate ($500 level)
- Alternative Schools Network
- The Brinson Foundation
- Randall and Sally Doubet King
- Priscilla Kersten
- Ted and Susan Oppenheimer
- Bernice Weissbourd
Enthusiast ($250 level)
- Paula Baron
- John Beven
- Dawn Clark Netsch
- Joan Dameron Crisler
- Gary Gephart
- Cornelia Grumman
- Susan Karlinsky
- James Lytle
- Edna Lee Pardo
- Robert Runcie
- Beverly Shaw
- Donald Stewart
- Karen Stoll
Friend ($100 level)
- Jacqueline Barge
- Cynthia Barron
- Chris Brown
- John Butterfield
- Chicago Teachers Union
- Community TV Network
- James Donnelley
- John Easton
- Steve Edwards
- Walter Erikson
- Murray Fisher
- Roger and Madelon Fross
- Betsy Gidwitz
- Jennifer Gierat
- Vinni Hall
- Norman Hodgson
- Marvin Hoffman
- Fuzz Hogan
- Alejandra Ibanez
- Shirley Jaffee
- Martha Jantho
- Janet Knupp
- Nancy Kosobud
- William Lawlor
- Leap Learning Systems
- Della Leavitt
- Susan Lyons
- Haves McNeal
- Katherine Menendez Cherry
- Matthew Morgenthau
- Kay Nalbach
- Peace and Education Coalition Alternative School - Dugan Campus
- Peace and Education Coaltion Alternative School - Second Chance Campus
- Betty Phillips
- Stanley Pollock
- Retired Teachers Association of Chicago
- Sendhil Revuluri
- Roosevelt University
- Ralph Rydholm
- Shelley Sherman
- Dorothy Shipps
- Ann Shorey
- Alysia Tate
- Bobbie Taylor
- Lisa Vahey
- Arie van der Ploeg
- April Verrett
- Steven Viktora
- Patricia Watkins
- Kathleen Weaver Hytros
- Maria Whelan
- Kim Zalent
- Brian Zehr
Supporter ($50 level)
- Michelle Abington
- Martha Alexakos
- James A. Alexander
- Allan Alson
- Charles Asiyanbi
- Jane Averill
- Molly Bartlett
- Senator Arthur Berman
- Timuel Black
- Keilan Bonner
- The Brinson Foundation
- Kirby Callam
- Jeanne Chaney
- Lawrence Choate
- Diana Conley
- Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago
- Jason Coulter
- Marrice Coverson
- Paul Curtin
- Betty Dayron
- Judy Erwin
- Daniel Foertsch
- George M. Pullman Educational Foundation
- Katherine Goetz
- Paul Goren
- Frank Greco
- Martha Guerrero
- Holly Hart
- Elizabeth Hawthorne
- Mary Hicks
- Homan Square
- Joanne Howard
- Erica Hunt
- Wayne Issa
- Susan Klonsky
- John Kretzmann
- Dennis Lacewell
- Latino Policy Forum
- Robin Lavin
- Sara Loevy
- Carlene Lutz
- Sarah Makela
- Stacy McAuliffe
- Felipe Mejia, College Orientation Program Manager at Midtown Center
- Mikva Challenge
- Zoe Mikva
- Jacqueline Mitchell
- Karen Morris
- Rev. Otis Moss, III
- Clare Munana
- Lynn Narasimhan
- Johnnie Newton
- Pedro Noguera
- Sylvia Ortiz
- Kenneth Perkins
- Diane Ravitch
- Bruce Ray
- Badonna Reingold
- Lauren Rich
- Ken Rolling
- Margaret Romano
- Jonathan Russom
- Ellen Schumer
- Elaine Schuster
- Deborah Shefner
- Winnie Slusser
- George Smith
- Laurence Stanton
- Joan Staples
- Hazel Steward
- Debbey Thomas
- Amy Treadwell
- Barbara Valerious
- Lori Vallelunga
- Lisa Wiersma
- Marc Wigler
- Betty Willhoite
- Yvonne Womack
- Shelby Wyatt
- Arlene Zielke
Member ($20 level)
- Michelle Abington
- Martha Alexakos
- James A. Alexander
- Allan Alson
- Charles Asiyanbi
- Jane Averill
- Molly Bartlett
- Senator Arthur Berman
- Chiquita Agusto
- James H. Alexander
- American Quality Schools Corporation
- Gloria Archbold
- Argosy University Schaumburg Library
- Russell Armstrong
- Bertha Arredondo
- Asian Human Services
- John Ayers
- Emma Bailey
- Barbara Baldini
- Michael Ban
- Kathleen Bandolik, Principal of O. A. Thorp Academy
- John Beckwith
- William Boline
- E. Brown
- Joanna Brown
- Angela Buckels
- Mandy Burrell Booth
- Kathleen Byrne
- Susan Campbell
- Darden Carr
- Liane Casten
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Library
- Chicago Board of Education
- Chicago Jesuit Academy
- Chicago Public Library - Harold Washington Branch
- Mary Coffey
- Bill Colson
- Columbia College Library
- Communities in Schools of Chicago
- Lometa Cross
- Carol Crum
- Lisa Daleiden-Brugman
- Grace Dawson
- Dominican University
- Donors Forum
- Marie Donovan
- Katherine Doolin
- Leslie Drish
- Arlene Echols
- Robert Echols
- Caitlin Elsaesser
- Robert Embry
- Marsha Engquist
- Epiphany Episcopal Church
- Emelda Estell
- Kevin Evanich
- Elizabeth Evans
- Brian Fabes
- Scott Feaman
- Pat Federman
- Walter Feinberg
- Field Foundation of Illinois
- Warren Fischer
- P. Flanagan
- Jana Fleming
- Deborah Flemister
- Karen Foley
- Nancy Friesen
- Gary Comer Youth Center
- Narineh Gharashor
- James Gilliat
- Phyllis Gray
- Frances Grossman
- Anne Hallett
- Michael Hannan
- Sheila Hansen
- Delores Hardy
- Flavia Hernandez
- Mary Hess
- Kalman Hettleman
- David Hibbs
- Jane Hoffman
- Sarah Howard
- Fred Hunter
- Louverta Hurt
- Juanita Hutchinson
- Illinois AFL-CIO
- Illinois Education Research Council
- Indiana University Libraries
- Iris Krieg & Associates, Inc.
- Alexandra Ithier
- Marlon Jackson
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Library
- Grady Jordan
- Dominique Jordan-Turner
- Joyce Foundation Library
- Robert Keeley
- Dunreith Kelly Lowenstein
- Leigh Anne Kenyon
- Marie Kielty
- Patricia Kilduff
- Patricia Kiley
- Yolanda Knight
- Sharon Kohli
- Katherine Konopasek
- Lanita Koster
- Lane Tech High School Library
- Grace Law
- Pamela Layne
- William Leavy
- Jacqueline Lemon
- Loyola University - E. M. Cudahy Memorial Library
- Bertha Magana
- Kim Marshall
- Rito Martinez
- J. Cyriac Mathew
- McCormick Theological Seminary
- Alfred McDougal
- Jan McDougal
- Nancy McDougal
- Gretchen McDowell
- Melissa McGowan
- Effie McHenry
- Kathleen McInerney
- Barry McRaith
- Sherry Medwin
- Joan Merlin Palmer
- Peter Mich
- Frauline Miller
- Otha Miller
- Samuel Miller
- Cynthia Mlynarski
- Liz Monge-Pacheco
- Marta Moya-Leang
- Krystal Muldrow
- Talmage Mullen Steele
- Chastity Murphy
- Jennifer Nelson
- Ellie Nero
- Wilma Newchurch
- Rosemarie Nicholes
- Tina Nolan
- Erica Noll
- Barbara O'Laughlin
- John O'Leary
- Michael Onofrio
- Organization of the Northeast
- Sandra Ortigoza
- Reina Otero
- Glenna Ousley
- Janice Patterson
- Mark Paye
- Peter Pereira
- Ziomara Perez
- Mark Perry
- Sherrie Phillips
- Mary Ann Pitcher
- David Platt
- Mary Pollett
- Louis Pyster
- Carmela Rago
- Reading In Motion
- Sarah Reardon
- Nikki Rehayem
- Ellen Reiter
- Renaissance Schools Fund
- Janice Resseger
- Barbara Richardson
- Sandra Rigsbee
- Margot Rogers
- Pamela Ronson
Teryl Rosch - Cherie Russ-Chester
- Alice Sabl
- Robert Saddler
- Jackie Samuel
- Kristin Sanders
- Brigid Schultz
- Nancy Searle
- Susan Sebesta
- Barry Shapiro
- Elaine Siegel
- Bettye Smith
- Harvey Smith
- Kenneth Spells
- Rita Stasi
- Steans Familiy Foundation
- Frankie Sutherland
- Jennifer Sutton
- Jean Swanson
- Dennis Sweeney
- Lorraine Sylvester
- Susan Termini
- Nancy Thomas-Donaldson
- Gilbert Thompson
- Camille Tomasello
- Marianne Turk
- University of California Berkeley - Ethnic Studies Library
- University of Chicago Library
- University of Illinois at Chicago Library
- Zalman Usiskin
- Joanne Vena
- Sheila Venson
- Margie Wallen
- Laura Washington
- Mark Watson
- Wednesday Journal, Inc
- Nancy Weeks Singham
- Jacqueline White
- Karen Wilkin-Donachie
- Karen Williams
- Korla Williams
- Yvonne Williams
- Nancy Wolff
- Josie Yanguas
- Lauren Young
- Heather Yutzy
- Steven Zemelman
- Kristin Ziemke Fastabend
- Peter Zimmerman
- Cindy Zucker