Schlitz Audubon 2016 Annual Report

Inviting Discovery 2016 Annual Report

Board of Directors as of June 30, 2016 Board Officers John Grunau President Sanderson S. ‘Andy’ Read Treasurer Meg Kinney Secretary Jane B. Bell VP – Development John E. 'Jack' Gebhardt VP – Governance

Current Board Past Presidents Aliah M. Berman John H. Kopmeier, Jr. Jonathan T. Bloom Philip R. Smith Shane Delsman Dennis L. Fisher Margarete R. Harvey Terrence K. Knudsen Kevin J. Kane Thomas J. McCutcheon Eva Osborne Thomas B. Fitzgerald Justin K. Patrick Randolph H. Dean Arthur T. Phillips Stephen F. Geimer Benjamin F. Rikkers Thomas J. Drought Carol Wolcott David K. Hoover Mai Der Yang John S. McGregor Margarete R. Harvey

Director Emeritus Dorothy K. Vallier (1920-2013) Honorary Directors Polly H. Van Dyke (1934 – 2014) Edwin P. Wiley

Timothy J. Gerend Past President

Staff as of June 30, 2016 Carrie Becker Jonathan Boettcher Jennifer Booth Jessica Buehler Patricia Darby Diana Davis Elizabeth Davis Cameryne Dziewik Nora Fardella Dinese Farrington Jason Festerling Thomas Finley Zoe Finney Danielle Fleischman

Brooke Gilley Lisa Greco Rachel Hahn Carrie Hiestand Stephanie Hughes Christina Hughes-Schmid Jim Hyatt Collette Jarvela-Kuhnen Nicholas Johnson Jackie Keltner Jessy Knox Catherine Koons-Hubbard Jennifer Leibham Laurie Lukaszewicz

Ed Makowski Sandy Manning Rosie Marotz Joycs Michelstetter Elizabeth Mittelstadt Moya Mowbray Harrison O'Brien Megan O'Grady Julie O'Neill Lindsay Obermeier Stevie Otap Corinne Palmer Nancy Quinn Don Quintenz

Lisa Randerson Cassie Rincon Shelly Rollins Jill Schanon Macek Drew Shuster Sara Sloan Nathan Smallwood Jean Strelka Lisa Trost Megan Van DeKreeke Diane Visty Julia Weinberg Jill Wesloski Marc White

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center connects people with nature and inspires them to become responsible stewards of the natural world.

Cover Photo The Magnolia Warbler is one of 35 warblers that have been observed at the Center during migration, inviting discovery among bird watchers. Research on the Magnolia Warbler verified that within its genes is a map of the constellations of the Northern hemisphere, one of the tools they utilize while navigating during migration.

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Thank you for inviting discovery to the natural world!

Throughout the past year, everyone at Schlitz Audubon has worked to improve the ways we invite people to discover the natural world.

In the following pages, you’ll learn about how your generosity has helped us increase our value to the Milwaukee community.

Your support has strengthened our

John Grunau, Board President

Preschool Urban Outreach Program. Our

new Raptor Exhibit introduces visitors to our birds of prey. Significant trail improvements ensure that everyone has access to wilderness. Our conservation efforts at Mystery Lake increase the habitat for wildlife.

We take great pride in our stewardship of this land. In partnering with Schlitz Audubon, you’ve helped us create, and begin to realize, an innovative 15-year land management plan. This plan has many components, including addressing Emerald Ash Borer and reducing encroachment by invasive species. The plan also works to conserve wildlife populations of greatest need and reduce storm water impact to Lake Michigan and surrounding communities.

The land is the foundation for all we do at the Center, including our nationally-recognized environmental education programming. This year we grew our reach with new afterschool, homeschool, preschool, and citizen science offerings. We also partnered with Milwaukee Public Museum to host the area’s first BioBlitz, a 24-hour species inventory completed by both scientists and volunteers. As a part of the event, families engaged with the scientists and participated in educational activities.

Your generosity empowers us to create both natural and educational habitats that sustain life throughout our 185 acres. Because of you, we invite people to discover the wonderment of nature.

Onward,

John Grunau Board President 1

Inviting Discovery | Creating a Ripple Effect

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ature provides children with some of their most profound formative experiences. From learning about shapes and colors through arranging fallen leaves, to exploring the tactile

differences between angular rocks, smooth lake stones, and wet and dry sand, nature has many lessons to teach. But what about children who may not live near a park or nature center, or aren’t able to visit natural spaces on a regular basis?

Since 2009, our Preschool Urban Outreach Program has provided opportunities for early learners to enjoy nature-based experiences that they may not otherwise have. Through this program, children from low-income neighborhoods have access to forests, ponds, prairies, and Lake Michigan shoreline. Classes spend their time exploring trails with Schlitz Audubon teachers, playing outdoors, and engaging in nature.

Our Preschool teachers work closely with partner educators to tailor our nature-based programs to meet the specific needs of their classes. As a result, partner teachers develop greater confidence teaching natural science topics. Center teachers also visit partner schools twice a month, bringing hands-on natural materials, books, activities, and detailed lesson plans. This helps their teachers build on, and continue, the curriculum that began while visiting Schlitz Audubon.

“Now our kids are so much more comfortable in nature,” said Sandy Gadzichowski, Education Manager for Next Door’s Educare Milwaukee. “They think about nature, they talk about it, and they enjoy it.”

Funding from the Herzfeld Foundation provides the opportunity for children from Malaika Early Learning Center, in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood, and students from Next Door's Educare, located in the Metcalfe Park neighborhood to participate in the Preschool Urban Outreach Program.

This consistent nature-based learning has a more lasting impact than occasional visits could provide. These regular nature experiences create a ripple effect where children go on to share their adventures with family and friends.

With your support, we can invite more children to discover nature.

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Inviting Discovery | Improving Access at Mystery Lake

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agical. That’s how Wendy Sopkovich described the first time she was able to hike Mystery Lake with her children and grandkids.

“To be able to go on these trails, now, it’s really special,” said Wendy. “My grandchildren are very excited that I’m able to join while they lay on their tummies and see the creatures in the pond.”

Wendy, pictured left, uses a powered wheelchair to get around. Prior to the boardwalk’s completion, she wasn’t able to admire the bountiful wildlife and scenic backdrop of Mystery Lake. The boardwalk was completed in June 2016, and since then, Wendy has accompanied her family hiking and exploring the trails at Schlitz Audubon.

With the goal of improving access, Margarete and David Harvey issued a matching challenge grant to other potential donors to help fund the creation of the Mystery Lake Boardwalk. Forty-three generous friends responded with gifts, and together they exceeded their goal by raising more than $46,000. The result is a stunning natural wood structure that complements the contours of Mystery Lake, while linking two previously upgraded hard-packed gravel trails. With these paths connected, Schlitz Audubon can now offer visitors a wider array of wheelchair-accessible trails.

Now, countless explorers of any age or ability can experience the rich hues of autumn’s multicolored palette, witness frogs sitting on lily pads, turtles sunning on logs, and geese and ducks gliding through the water. Since the boardwalk’s completion, families and individuals piloting wheelchairs, and strollers have been able to explore new trails together–or at their own pace.

As for Wendy, getting out in nature with family has been an amazing adventure, while the joy of experiencing nature on her own has been equally fulfilling. She lives just a couple of miles away and visits much more often now to hike the Mystery Lake boardwalk and surrounding trails.

With your support, we invite all explorers to discover new places.

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Inviting Discovery | Meeting Our Raptors

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he Raptor Exhibit has quickly become one of the ways that visitors are first engaged when visiting the Center. The Exhibit is located just outside of the main building, and is an experience

unique to visiting Schlitz Audubon. Since spring, through the Raptor Exhibit, children and adults have been able to develop a connection with Sky Walker, the Center’s resident Red-tailed Hawk.

Visitors, Preschoolers, and school groups stop by to watch and wave and say, “Hi Sky Walker!”

“It’s such a gift to see a hawk so close,” said Sondra Salgado, a member of Schlitz Audubon. “Every time we visit, my husband, son, and I pause to watch and listen to this beautiful animal. Sky Walker is lovely.”

Schlitz Audubon created the Raptor Program as a way to help educate the public about these birds of prey, and their importance to the ecosystem. The program started with one Great Horned Owl in 1987, and has grown into a nationally renowned program that has provided 31 birds with their forever home.

Each of our 16 current resident raptors is not releasable to the wild, and serve as feathered ambassadors educating the community. These powerful and graceful birds make an enormous impact, providing a connection to, and an appreciation for, all wildlife and the habitat we share.

Until the completion of the Raptor Exhibit, it was only during Center programs that the public was able to engage with our birds.

The Raptor Exhibit, which was generously funded by the Buchanan Family Foundation, features a mesh barrier designed to appear transparent to people and raptors alike. Most raptors spend about 85% of their day perched, so the Raptor Exhibit is a safe and familiar environment for Sky Walker.

Encountering Sky Walker through the Raptor Exhibit, every day from 10:00am - 3:00pm, provides visitors with a greater understanding of her wild relatives that perch along our tree tops, fence posts, and roadways, and soar above our rivers, lakes, and prairies.

With your support, we invite all visitors to discover our raptors.

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Inviting Discovery | Growing Vital Habitats

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eople come to Schlitz Audubon to experience our abundant wildlife, and one of the most treasured places to do so is Mystery Lake. Throughout the warm weather months, families visit

to spot turtles surfacing and sunning, tadpoles swimming in the shallows, and water insects jetting about. In spring, birders scope the lake for both Blue and Green-winged Teal, Wood Ducks, and Solitary Sandpipers.

Part of our mission is to create habitats that attract and sustain both year-round and migratory animal populations. When muskrats burrowed through the southern bank of Mystery Lake, the leakage created by their holes threatened the entire ecosystem. As water levels dropped, so did the lake’s oxygen levels, devastating sensitive fish populations in winter. Mystery Lake was seeping through to the southern ravine, exacerbating the erosion of a vulnerable bluff.

Thanks to a generous donation by the James E. Dutton Foundation, Center staff restored lake water levels by repairing the dike and adding a muskrat barrier. The project was further advanced when Wacker Neuson Corporation loaned an excavator to core and re-pack the dike, creating a less permeable barrier. Raising Mystery Lake’s water level increased the oxygen level, offering the opportunity to restore and sustain fish populations, and ensuring that more animals can survive winter.

Once lake levels had been restored, installation of a wheelchair-accessible boardwalk could begin.

The boardwalk now winds along Mystery Lake. Following the boardwalk’s completion, we began to transform more than 2,500 square feet of compacted, bare soil trails into native ground and shrub layers featuring species such as Zigzag Goldenrod, Viburnum, and Wild Geranium. This rejuvenation was funded in part by the James E. Dutton Foundation.

The Mystery Lake restoration is part of Schlitz Audubon’s 15-year land management plan laid out

by Director of Conservation Marc White, pictured left. While improving the landscape, these and many other plants provide cover for Blue-spotted Salamanders and Blanding’s Turtles, and nesting material for thrushes and other resident breeding birds.

With your support, our habitats invite visitors to discover native wildlife.

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Inviting Discovery | By the Numbers CONSERVATION

# of RELOCATED

MUSKRATS because of the dike repair

@ Mystery Lake:

IMPROVING

A LOT.

HABITAT

23

for

5

460

species on Center’s vascular plant list

land management

interns

40 MANAGED

acres of invasives

Buckthorn, Dames Rocket, and Garlic Mustard

BIOBLITZ | DISCOVERIES DURING THE 24 HOUR SPECIES INVENTORY

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BIRD SPECIES:

402

fish species

273 species of insects

73

SPECIES

plant species including

BLUE-STEMMED

GOLDENROD

a state endangered plant

17 mammals

9

amphibians & reptiles

31

invertebrates

Inviting Discovery | By the Numbers EDUCATION

169

SCHOOLS

SERVED

98 STEPS TO

THE TOP

OF THE

5,167 seasonal event

18,932 TOWER

visitors

students given access to nature

PRESCHOOL

10,108

MILES HIKED in one year by our 139

preschool students

VOLUNTEERS

RAPTORS

1,027 446,760

# of Center volunteers

5,668

HOURS

41 .2 676 GRAMS pounds: Grebe’s Donuts enjoyed on Tuesdays

by the Ray Team

of food consumed

volunteered by 55 Raptor Volunteers

TOTAL WEIGHT

annually by the raptors of ALL 16 BIRDS in the Raptor Program

2015-2016 Financial Summary Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center operates under a ground lease and management contract with the National Audubon Society (NAS). Under these agreements, the land and buildings remain the property of NAS, however, the local board of directors has legal independence and fiduciary responsibility for the Center and its employees.

Revenue Contributions & Memberships Programs & Admissions

$1,076,357 $910,816

Retail (net) & Rentals

$455,989

Investment Income

$476,500

Other $70,458 Total

$2,990,120

Expenses Education

$1,187,540

Conservation $561,516 Preschool $559,877 Administrative $358,415 Fundraising & Membership

$224,671

Rentals $97,465 Total

$2,989,484

Assets & Liabilities Total Assets

$5,098,253 *

Liabilities $850,702 Net Assets

$4,247,551

*Includes the Friends’ Investment Fund, which is managed

by BMO Harris Bank N.A. and had a year-end market value of $4,409,980. Funds in the amount of $254,818 are either temporarily or permanently restricted.

Other Funds (Not Included in the Center's Assets) The Center is the income beneficiary of an endowment owned by NAS and managed by BMO Harris Bank N.A., value of $3,972,760, and a trust fund owned/managed by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, value of $2,500,406.

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Thank you for making a difference!

Connections to the natural world have the power to create truly transformative experiences. With your generosity, we've invited the community to discover nature. Your gift is valued and directly supports our mission-driven work. Gifts listed are for $100+ and were given during our 2016 fiscal year. $20,000 +

$2,500 - $4,999

Estate of Mary J. Forecki

Anonymous (2)

Fund for Lake Michigan

The Augustyn Foundation Trust

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Benjamin and Kristin Checota

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Pearl Weller Fund

Chipstone Foundation

Margarete and David Harvey

Bob Dohmen

Northwestern Mutual Foundation Margery H. Uihlein Revocable Trust

$10,000 - $19,999 Anonymous (2) Antonia Foundation BMO Harris Bank, N.A. James E. Dutton Foundation Four-Four Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation Mary Jane Ziska Memorial Fund Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Johnson Controls Foundation, Inc. Joy Global Foundation Victoria K. Mayer Patti and Jack McKeithan Pollybill Foundation, Inc. The Riverbend Fund We Energies Foundation Caryl Zaar

$5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous BDO Seidman Jim and Jane Bell Jonathan and Abbey Bloom John C. Bock Foundation Don and Sallie Davis Michael Fowler Greater Milwaukee Foundation Kopmeier Family Fund

Crum & Forster Insurance

Kay Fine Foley & Lardner, LLP Galactic Dreams John Gebhardt and Deborah McKeithan-Gebhardt Tim Gerend and Sandy Hellman

Kevin and Margaret Kinney

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Thekla Brumder Charitable Trust Cottrell Balding Fund Cottrell/Jacobs and Housiaux Family Fund Asher and Susan Nichols Family Fund Claire and Robert Pfleger Charitable Fund

Terry and Carole Knudsen

Adrienne and John Grunau

Krause Family Foundation

Sandra Grung

Arthur and Nancy Laskin

Dorothy J. Hall

John and Debbie McGregor

A. L. Hentzen Family Foundation

Patrick and Piper Mehigan

Al and Kathy Hentzen

Eva and John Osborne

Howard and Susan Hopwood

Nicole and Daniel Renouard

Kenneth and Mary Lee Jacobs Charitable Trust

Daniel H. and Marie-Anne Ewig Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Evan and Marion Helfaer Foundation Kevin and Molly Kane

Benjamin and Maria Rikkers Service Club of Milwaukee Stratton Foundation University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Judy Van Till We Energies Lee and Carol Wolcott Michael and JoAnn Youngman

$1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous (2) A.O. Smith Foundation, Inc. Janie and Cliff Asmuth Badger Meter Foundation, Inc. Robert W. Baird & Company Foundation Leslie Barbi Drs. Brian and Laurel Bear Boswell Book Company

Dorothy Inbusch Foundation

Joan E. Brengel

M&I Foundation, Inc.

Suzy and John Brennan

Steve Milner

Carol A. Carpenter

Outpost Natural Foods

Jack Carroll

Puelicher Foundation, Inc.

Marjorie L. Christiansen Foundation

Kara and Andy Ramer

Jack and Nicole Cook

Speaker Family Foundation

Randolph and Kathleen Dean

David and Julia Uihlein Charitable Foundation, Inc.

Shane and Keri Delsman

David V. Uihlein Foundation

EarthShare Wisconsin

Jeffrey Drope and Victoria Teerlink

Jerome I. Case High School Suzette and Steven Kappes Michael and Billie Kubly Land Trust Alliance Joan Lubar and John Crouch Bill Lynch and Barbara Manger Patricia Marek Marlo Foundation Elaine D. Marshall Greg and Rhonda Oberland David Olson and Claire Fritsche Nick and Joyce Pabst Justin and Meghan Patrick John and Debbie Pearce Peck Foundation Milwaukee, LTD. Denise and Arthur Phillips Gwen Plunkett Pieper Electric, Inc./Ideal Mechanical Andy Read and Suzy Hauske Jeff Rusinow and Jen Ellis David Snow State of Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources James and Joan Stone Rich and Anna Teerlink Michael and Peg Uihlein Mai Der Yang

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$500- $999

Robert and Joan Goodman

Jerry and Katie Parent

John and Rosemary Graham

James and Stacey Pezzino

Paul and Wendy Greeney

Russ and Mary Margaret Pilling

Paul Grunau and Jeanie Hart-Grunau

Tom and Sheri Price

Jon and Ann Hammes

Alan Purintun and Jane O'Meara

David Heiny

Gordana and Milan Racic

Sue B. Holcomb

Jay and Stephanie Radtke

Kathy and John Housiaux

Lee Riordan

Kay Jensen

Lynn and Paul Rix

Kathryn and Matt Kamm

Mason and Julie Ross

Moshe and Debra Katz

Lorette Russenberger

Caesar and Grace Castroverde

Mary and Ted Kellner

F. William and Peggy Russo

Chipstone Foundation Stanley and Polly Stone Fund

Robert and Maryglen Kieckhefer Tom and Linda Kinney

Scott and Peggy Sampson Charitable Fund, Inc.

Adam Hayes Christian and Rachel Bloch

Mary Krall

Barbara B. Collings

Al and Kathy Krug

John and Sasha Comissiong

Margaret Layde

Shelly and James Culea

Brie and Michael Lindemann

Dick and Dayle Dieffenbach

Richard and Sherry Lundell

Tom and Bette Drought

Justin and Danielle Machata

John Dyer and Theresa Skrivseth

Ann Ross MacIver

Henry J. Eckstein Family

Thomas and Renee McCutcheon

Albert J. and Flora H. Ellinger Foundation

Pam Mehnert and Lisa Malmarowski

Pamela Ellis

Laura and Nick Meyer

Anonymous (3) John and Kathlyn Albert William and Marianne Arpe Donald and Donna Baumgartner Steve and Susie Bell Blue's Egg Deanna Braeger Peter and Roberta Buening James Butz Lauren Casey

Paul and Patsy Ellsworth Barbara Farhad RaneĂŠ and Brenton Field Anne and Dean Fitzgerald Suzy and Byron Foster Michael Franks and Julie Wojcik Joanne M. Gardner Greater Milwaukee Foundation Coddington Family Fund Frank and Elsa Sterner Family Fund 14

Bill Meier MGIC Investment MLG Capital, LLC Bill and Peggy Mulligan Jean and Hilton Neal Cindy and Jim Nelson Jon Neumann and Laura Shipley Susan Nichols Mark Olson Richard and Kathleen Osborne

Dorie and Sandy Sand Thomas and Kathleen Schrader Cathy Schulz and Gerry Ochoa Steve and Janet Silverman David and Jean Simbro Craig and Hope Siverhus Nathan Smallwood Bruce and Janine Smith Greg and Nancy Smith Susan and Dick Stoll Christine Symchych and Jim McNulty Thomas and Patricia Towers Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein Thomas and Mary Uttech Van Dyke Family Robert and Ellen Venable Richard and Kathleen Wirtz Claudia and Daniel Wiske

$250- $499 J. Stephen and Barbara Anderson Kathie and Tony Asmuth Pat Bakula Jeff and Anne Ballentine Barney Family Foundation Libby Barrow Barbara and Stephen Becker Elizabeth Bedwell and Greg Capper Aivars Bergmanis

Andrew Kastenmeier

United Way of Greater Milwaukee

Mr. Lane A. Kistler

Usinger Foundation, Inc.

William and Linda Koenig

Charley Weber and Elissa Lenkin Weber

Louie and Francine Kostopoulos

Benjamin and Brittany Wesson

Kuhl Family Charitable Fund

Jim and Libby Wigdale

William & Mary Lacy Foundation

Edwin Wiley

William and Missy Levit

Kathy and David Yuille

Richard and Meredith Lincoln John and Martha Lunz Gerald and Elaine Mainman

$100- $249 Anonymous (5)

Jill and Jasun Macek

Richard A. Albert

Ray and Dawne Manista

Mary Albrecht

Vince and Jan Martin

Kristy Altland

Mike and Babs Mortl

Robert and Anne Anderson

Hart Moss

Kevin and Lizanne Armstrong

Lisa and Landon Naffin

Bettina Arnold

Michael and Anne Marie Bula

Barbie and Chad Nelson

Susie and David Arnold

Kathleen Burchby and Dennis Christiansen

David and Gail Nelson

Steve and Amy Bachman

Robert and Christine Nuernberg

Mary Lou Bailey

Don and Betty Carlson

Alyssa and Will O'Connor

Diane and John Balsley

William and Nancy Carpenter

Geri and Marvin Olson

Kenneth Barczak

Mark and Terri Chelmowski

Kris and Katie Petitt

Andrew and Donna Barnes

Kelly Condon and Jim Hoy

Jim and Sharon Petrie

Jan and Pete Baumler

Dan and Paige Conley

Jan Pritzl and Karen A'Rowan

Heather and Charles Bechthold

Kellie and Jim Doll

Edward and Harriet Purtell

Ann Becker

Art and Rhonda Downey

Bob Raffel and Christi Jost

Carolyn Belcher

Cathy Drexler

Jane and Hari Ramanujam

Julianna Ebert and Frank Daily

John and Jane Reidy

Edward Benck and Kathleen Egan-Benck

Lois Ehlert

Katie and John Robinson

Tom and Patti Benson

Duane and Julie Faber

Jim Rosenbaum

Melanie Berg

Barbara Fuldner

Erna Schatzman

Andrea and Avi Bernstein

Steve Giles and Jennine Pufahl

Christine Schlosser

Jean Bernstein and Matt Jensen

Julie and Brian Gilpin

Terrence and Karen Schmahl

Janie and Joe Besharse

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Kathleen M. and Randolph H. Dean Fund JayKay Foundation Fund Joseph R. Pabst Fund

Thomas and Judy Schmid

Dan Bieser

David and Sarah Schroeder

Bruce and Melissa Block

Patricia Schroeder

Greg Boicourt

Gail Schumann and Michael Switzenbaum

Steven and Janet Bomba

Ellen R. Shear

Kevin Boyd and Meg Tolentino Boyd

Jane J. Shero

Arlene Brachman

Erika and Jeff Siegel

Joe and Karen Branch

Catherine Singer

Kent and Jennifer Brase

Richard Slater

Cissy Bryson

Will and Sarah Slaughter

Julie Bryson

Julie Smallwood

Richard and Sandy Buchman

Phil and Katie Smith

Francis C. Buss

Nita Soref

Bruce Butterfield

Rob and Debbie Stern

Jim and Bobbi Caraway

Richard and Linda Stevens

Janice and Lloyd Chastant

Rita and Phillip Hulstedt

Paul Stillmank and Maggie Cain

Eric and Elizabeth Cherveny

Jewish Community Foundation Abigail & David Nash Donor Advised Fund

Streich Family Foundation

Amy Chionchio

Gus and Alden Taylor

Gerry and Heidi Connolly

Lisa Trost

Marilyn W. John

Mary Jo and Joiner Conroy

Peter and Pam Uihlein

Joan and Ron Cook

Robin and Larry Berk Marilyn Bontly Randall and Whitney Borchardt Jeff and Laura Bray Mark and Cheryl Brickman Jim and Diane Brown

Sarah and Jim Gramentine Greater Racine Avicultural Society James R. Grill Daniel Haller and Alicia Pilarski Barb Hamm Michael and Lisa Hatch Peter and Amy Hellman Herbert H. Kohl Charities Karl Hokanson Mark and Mary Horowitz Betsy Horsfield Judith Huf

Catherine Bostwick

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$100 - $249 continued Michael Curley and Janaki Shah G. Allen and Elizabeth Daily Victoria Dargis Diana David and Todd Smith H. Lou and Jacqueline Davit Fred Derr and Nina Look Stuart Desmond Nancy and Gary Donaldson Sofia Dorsano and Stephen Williams Nancy Drewek Ellen Drought Steve and Buffy Duback Michael and Kathy Dwyer

Jackie and Al Keltner

John and Catherine Gordon

Carolyn Kenney-Carter and Richard Carter

Dan Goyette and Kathy Falk Lisa Greco and David Kocol Tom and Linda Griggs Mary and Andy Gronik Norman C Gunder Helene and Steve Gyarmaty Christine and Howard Gygax Rachel and Dennis Hafemann Robert Hahn Laurie Haig David Haight Sue and Dan Haislmaier

Dorothy B. Kerr Asim and Andrea Khan Marian Kieckbusch David and Karen Kinnamon Nancy Kirtley John and Connie Kittleson Klingers Chili Cook Off Candice Klug W. David and Dedi Knox II Nathaniel and Erin Kogler Marie Kohler and Brian Mani

Sarah J. Hammes

Kathy and Victor Kornis

Edward J. Hammond and Marcia P. Brooks

David Korr and Jessica Franken Bob and Sue Kowalsky

Elizabeth Handle

Jim Krahn and Marjorie Schaefer

James and Mary Hanin

Laura and Joseph Kremer

Jerry and Cathy Harrison

Kathleen Kretzer

John and Grace Haydon

Stanley Kritzik

Brad and Wendy Heintz

Christine Krueger

Paul and Lois Heiss

Ken and Lori Krueger

Lynn Herms

Dennis Kuecherer

Jeremy Herrscher

Biff Kummer

Eric and Linda Hersh

Alan and Patty LaFreniere

Jonathan and Julie Hershey

Steve and Addye Largent

Cathy and David Higgins

Scott and Antonella Larson

Christine Hill

Victor J. Larson

Cecilia and Douglas Hillard

Norm and Judy Lasca

Jenny and Bob Hillis

Roland and Vickie Lascola

Emily G. Hirsch

John and Marti Laubach

Jeanne and John Hoff

Brett and Helena Laven

John Hoff

Tracy Lazarus

Will and Rana Holbrook

Eleanor Lee

Barbara Hollenback

John Levendusky

David Hoogerland

Patti and Doug Levy

David and Beth Hoover

Paula and Jay Lewein

Penny Howland

Earl and Mary Lillydahl

Gail and Tom Hoyum

Mike and Abbey Line

David Hurlbutt

Janet Loos

Fran and Eliot Huxley

Mr. and Mrs. Marcus C. Low, Jr.

Nancy Jacobs

Bill Lund and Janet Palmatier David and Helen MacGregor

Lori and Bruce Gendelman

Jewish Community Foundation Margery H. and Irvin M. Becker Donor Advised Fund Beatrice and David Harkavy Donor Advised Fund Jack and Barbara Recht Fund Samuel and Virginia Saffro Donor Advised Fund

Judy Gertsma

Thomas and Pauline L. Jeffers

Kristin and Mike Gies

Curt Joa

Cari Giles

Patricia Kaminski

Nancy and Dave Glassner

Christopher Kasper

Greg and Sandra Gleisner

Jon and Marilyn Kay

Mary and Pat Goebel

Sarah and Michael Keefe

Dr. Harry and Carolyn Easom William Eastham Geoffrey and Krisstina Ebner Sarah Edgerton Chris and Kirstin Eichmann Carl Eisenberg Cynthia Ellwood and Robert Lowe Margaret Ely Charles and Susan Engberg Don and Pat Engelbert Carrie Engelbright Carlton A. Ericksen Elizabeth S. Ericson Evelyn Ericson Mark and Heather Erlandson Neda Esmaili and Michael Stadler Wes and Bonnie Falk Laurel and Paul Favret Karen Fee Alex Feix Peter and Elizabeth Fetzer Karl and Christina Fiasca Katie and Douglas Fisher Elizabeth and Jeff Fitzsimmons Marcia Flanagan John and Lauren Focht Erika Fowler Howard Frankenthal Family Foundation Sue and Tim Frautschi David and Karyn Frick Peter Friedlander John and Paula Friedman Kathleen Fuller Tim Garland

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Mark and Jackie Gold

Nancy and Larry Maciolek Danny and Rosalind Markstein Bruce and Ann Markuson Christopher and Maryann Marowski Sue Martin Scott Maul and Anne Chapman Peter and Amy Wejksnora Michael A. Mazius and Deborah A. Herz-Mazius Vincent and Susan McBride Pat and Bethany McCurdy Jere D. McGaffey

$100 - $249 continued

Joseph and Bernadette Rein

Eva and Paul Stefanski

John and Jennifer Reisel

Jeremy and Amanda Stein

Eric Resch and Melissa Perez

Chad and Alyson Stepke

Jeff and Nancy Riedeman

Sally Stevens

Meetings & Incentives Worldwide, Inc.

Roger and Ann Riedeman

Norman Stewart and Debra Salvo

John Mellowes and Jan Pirozzolo-Mellowes

Eric and Laura Roberts

Amy and Brett Stone

Julienne M. Rock

Dr. Richard Stone

David and Barbara Merar

Laura Rooney

Richard and Susan Strait

Barbara A. Meyer

David Rosenberg and Sandy Byrne

Tim and Suzie Strane

Dan and Kate Meyer

Chip and Joanne Roska

Susan Strecker

Brian and Ann Miceli

Pamela and Bruce Ross

Jean and Stan Strelka

Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

Robert J. Ruemelin

Carolyn and Rick Strickroot

Donna C. and Wilfred M. Miles

Kelley and David Ruzicka

Martin M. Suchocki

Lisa Miller

Peggy Sampson

Barbara Sullivan

Michael and Donna Miller

Barbara and Jim Sargent

Scott and Mary Sullivan

Richard Miller

Masao Sato

Dave Sunderland

Milwaukee Kayak Company, LLC

Charles and Jane Sauer

Susan Templar

Margaret and Mark Mittelstadt

Jeremy and Debra Scarlett

Richard and Judy Toth

Scott Mittelstadt and Therese Gripentrog

Terry and Kevin Scheu

Suzanne and William Treichel

Thomas and Heidi Schmid

James and Sue Ann Trost

Lance Miyasaki

Mary H. Schmidt

Melinda and Kit Vernon

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Tom and Kathy Schmit

Thora M. Vervoren

Rebekka and John Schneider

Andrea Wagoner and Roger Ruggeri

Rodd and Andrea Schneider

Lisa Waisbren

Jean Schramka

Eido and Michelle Walny

Mary Kay Schuknecht

Tate Walters and Megan Corby

Truman D. and Barbara L. Schultz

Rhonda and Christopher Ware

Charles Schuster

Robert and Audrey Warner

Bob and Sally Schwarz

Jim Watson and Alice Marie Phipps

Eleanor Seaman

Kathleen Waugus

Susan Seeling and Jessica Graesser

Tim and Lorraine Wayman

Julie and Bill Sellars

Marie Weiss

William and Katherine Shaffer

Carol Wessels

John and Rosalie Shier

Adam and Brigid White

Jason and Sydney Shimko

George Whyte

Patricia Shires

Terry and Carol Wilkins

Alan Shlimovitz and Susan Marcus

Michael and Catherine Williams

Gigi and Mark Short

Sonya Williams

Parker and Joan Shriver

Ann Williamsen

Elizabeth Slugg

Peter and Ann Wilt

Cardi and Ken Smith

Joyce Wolburg

Terry Smith

Sharon M. Wolf

Walt Smith

David and Diane Wolfson

Warren and Sue Smith

James and Derethia Wortman

Paul Sortal

Allen Young

Mark and Tricia Spaeth

Raymond Young

Paul and Katie Sparks

Jim and Claudia Youngquist

Thomas and Janet Spero

Mary Jo Zachow

Marie Squire and Jeff Jara

Joseph and Patricia Zancanaro

Donald C. Stahl

Daniel and Nicole Zautis

Barbara J. Stansberry

Andrew and Candy Zimmer

Leonard and Dianne Stecklein

Marc and Janet Zylstra

Kris and Karen McKinney Mark and Nancy McQuide Art and Anne Mees

Barry and Carol Moerke Steven R. Molkentine Susan and John Moore Mary Mowbray and Roland Schroeder Daniel and Natalie Muchin Steve Mullins and Nancy Lepic Margaret Murphy and Jeff Sweetland Rebecca Neumann Dan and Maryanne Niesen John and Lynese Nowak Michael and Kelly O'Brien Joelyn Olen Mark and Lisa Olson Larry and Nancy O'Toole James E. Paschen Joe and Kathy Patton Katherine Paulsen Jill G. Pelisek Kim and Ann Pemble Carol H. Peterchak Dave and Louise Petering Brian Petersdorf and Amy Gleysteen Chris Petherick and Sue Shunta John and Karen Philleo James and Lisa Phillips Tom and Nancy Phillips Efrem and Lisa Powell Larry and Jeanne Prochnow Nancy and Shawn Quinn Marc Rasansky and Beth Kushner Timothy Read Pat and Debra Ready Toby Recht Katherine Recka Richard Reed

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