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annual report 2007-2008

center for whole communitiesFifth Anniversary Edition (2003-2008)

annual report 2007-2008

“Through this work, people

are reconnected to themselves,

their relationship to place,

and their reliance on a larger circle

of care and heart.”

—Toby Herzlich,

Faculty Member

“I have never witnessed

a nonprofit organization that

provides proof of its utility on both

the vast and micro scale.”

—Craig Anderson,

2007 Alumnus

“I have implemented changes

to my daily routine that relate

directly to the issues

and discussions that came up

during my visit to the Center for

Whole Communities.”

—Claudette Grant,

2007 Alumna

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C E N T E R F O R W H O L E C O M M U N I T I E S creates a more just, balanced and healthy world by exploring, honoring,

and deepening the connections among land, people and community. We are activists in a new land movement that integrates

conservation, health, justice, spirit and relationship. Toward this end we offer the Whole Thinking Retreats and Workshops,

an Alumni Program and Whole Measures. Our programs emphasize several core skills including dialogue, contemplative

practice, collaborative approaches, story and creativity; and they highlight the value of healthy, sustainable food systems,

the importance of renewable energy and the role this work plays for the future of our children.

A N N U A L R E P O R T C O N T E N T S

A Timeline of the Past Five Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Letter from Co-Founders Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

A Look to the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Letter from Board Chair Gil Livingston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Stories from the Whole Thinking, Alumni and Whole Measures Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

“Expanding Our Reach” Campaign Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Fiscal Year 2007-2008 Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Honor Roll of Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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A T I M E L I N E O F T H E PA S T F I V E Y E A R S AT C E N T E R F O R W H O L E C O M M U N I T I E S

2001 Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow buy Knoll Farm from the Vermont Land Trust

2002 First retreats held for 23 participants; John Elder dedicates the refuge; Historic barn grant awarded

2003 Center for Whole Communities is created as a nonprofit; Mountain Yurt is built; Budget is $25,000

2004 Paul Winter performs and David Orr speaks at Knoll Farm; First major grants awarded; Budget is $150,000

2005 Begin Whole Thinking Workshops for leaders across the U.S.; Over 200 fellows have participated in retreats;Budget of $475,000

2006 Whole Measures launched as a web platform; We adopt a statement on becoming an anti-racist organization;We now serve over 400 diverse alumni in 38 states; Budget of $589,000

2007 We now have a diverse faculty of 22, full-time staff of 6 and serve 650 alumni; Budget of $757,000

2008 We begin the capital project to renovate our offices and go to renewable energy; Organizational budget of $1,060,816 and Campaign budget of $650,000

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Dear Friends and Supporters,

What an honor it is to have your trust in this work. Spreading out from a farm in Vermont, our collective endeavor now touches

45 states and thousands of leaders working in more than 450 organizations and communities. It's hard to believe we have come

this far in just five years.

This spring, we convened our faculty and staff in the hills of Tennessee to explore how, amid the deep divides and

fragmentation of our country, we might co-create a multicultural curriculum, one that helps all of us see and feel a new way

of being in relationship to one another and the land. By profession, the faculty of Center for Whole Communities are teachers,

scientists, facilitators, faith leaders, artists and writers, of many different races and ethnicities, who range in age from 24 to 58.

This is our work: helping all movements for change in this country to imagine our country whole again, to move beyond

sustainability to relationship. What began five years ago as a way to help conservationists re-imagine the power of their work

is now an arc of learning that strengthens diverse leaders from multiple disciplines by helping them to explore difference;

seek a broader, more inclusive vision; and see that their success is bound up in the success of others.

With your trust and faith in us, Center for Whole Communities has earned a national reputation for being the place where

difficult conversations can lead to transformative change, leader-to-leader, week after week. The core of the work remains

the same, but what has evolved is the growth of our own relationships, our ability to model what we teach, and the readiness

of ouralumni to implement a "whole communities" approach more powerfully in their work.

The ripples of their collective work are now clear. Whole communities work is the commitment to be inclusive and to work for

both cultural and biological diversity. It's transformational leadership that includes listening, cultural competency, adaptation

and flexibility, making room for others and cultivating a moral voice. While holding this annual report, we hope you will reflect

with us on the near future, and partner with us in any number of ways. We have never walked alone in this work. It has always

been a collaboration between our board, faculty, alumni and supporters. And that is what gives it growing strength.

With deep appreciation,

Peter Forbes and Helen Whybrow

Co-founders

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A L O O K T O T H E F U T U R E

Our future plans and efforts to make our work more far-reaching, inclusive, and resilient, include:

• A Whole Communities network that allows alumni to communicate regularly and better help one another

• An Alumni Program that links people, places, and innovative projects around the country for mutual support and learning

• A new “implementation” curriculum to support our alumni to go further with whole communities work

• Workshop topics on Conservationists Confronting Racism, Finding One’s Voice, and Story

• Whole Communities alumni to reach 5,000 by 2013

• New web-based trainings to help organizations use Whole Measures

• A Spanish translation of Whole Measures

• An expanded annual Whole Thinking Journal that includes essays and perspectives on Whole Communities

work for a broad audience

• Publishing titles on community-based conservation, conservation and food security, dialogue, cultural competency,

movement-building, and best innovations of Whole Communities work

• The launch of a national story project

• The release of Night Rain, a recording of the songs and sounds of Knoll Farm

• A Knoll Farm campus that operates on sun, wind and wood

• Building new solar dining commons at Knoll Farm campus

• Securing new permanent campuses for Whole Communities in an east coast city, in the mid-west, and/or on the

west coast to run more retreats and workshops away from Knoll Farm

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Dear Friends of Center for Whole Communities,

I count myself among the very fortunate who have shared in the Center for Whole Communities’ five-year journey, and I have

had the opportunity to watch the organization’s growth from a variety of perspectives. Several staff members from my

organization, the Vermont Land Trust, have attended Whole Thinking retreats at Knoll Farm and have been enriched by that

experience. I have shared in the growth of the Center’s board of directors, which is now a compelling collection of thoughtful,

innovative people who challenge themselves and the Center to confront the most difficult issues at the nexus of land, justice,

opportunity, inclusion, democracy, and sustainability. I have observed the birth of a faculty and a curriculum which, like all births,

involves both joy and pain. And I have admired the ever-maturing staff at the Center, and the wisdom and equanimity with

which both Helen Whybrow and Peter Forbes incrementally step back as the Center grows in its autonomy.

Like many of you, the Center has been the North Star guiding much of my recent personal and professional growth. The

relationships developed, the skills learned, and the ethics nourished in me through the Center are enduring. Most important,

I have learned courage, both from observing the big leaps the Center itself has taken into uncharted waters, and from the

stories of other alumni whose response to challenges has been breathtaking.

So I thank all of you who participate in and contribute to the essential work of the Center for Whole Communities. I also ask

that you continue to challenge our thinking, insist that we rigorously honor the values we teach, and help us learn by telling us

both when you are disappointed and when we serve you well.

Gil Livingston

Board Chair, Center for Whole Communities

President, Vermont Land Trust

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W h o l e T h i n k i n g P r o g r a m

• What does it mean to act for and from the whole? • How might our work be strengthened by paying attention to the whole

as well as our own, specialized part of that whole?

Through our Whole Thinking Retreats, we help individual leaders from the environmental and social justice movements come

together in community to consider these and more questions. Through our Whole Thinking Workshops, we help strengthen the

work of organizations, coalitions and communities by helping them consider how their work relates to the larger picture of land

and social change. The Bay Area Open Space Council is an example of an organization that has benefited from both programs.

Bettina Ring attended a Whole Thinking Retreat at Knoll Farm in 2005. That gathering helped her find her voice and, as she

says, “get really clear about my truth.” Since then, she has “felt a constant urge to move toward wholeness and a passion for

evolving [her] work.” Through her leadership, the Bay Area Open Space Council (BAOSC) in San Francisco has been expanding

the vision of its early leaders to take the work of conversation beyond acres saved to relationship, justice and connecting land

and people. In her first year at BAOSC, she named the council’s annual conference “Building Whole Communities,” and there,

began to “shape an agenda that introduced and built on the concepts of whole thinking.” At the same time, the council was

launching its “Green Vision” collaborative with partner organizations in the Bay Area. Bettina invited Whole Communities

to convene the Green Vision group in a Whole Thinking Workshop in early 2007. “It was amazing to me to see the shift that

happened after that gathering,” she says. In the workshop, participants developed a draft statement of principles for their

work together, informed by whole thinking, inclusiveness, and justice.

So successful was the workshop that Bettina invited us back to facilitate another one in

early 2008 with an expanded group. Bettina paints a picture of a web of relationships

growing stronger and more complex as time goes on. She points first to one organization

and then to another in her area that is shifting its focus as a result of these gatherings.

One participant joined another’s board and is now bringing the city’s voice to a regional

organization; another participant invited Bettina to join her on a panel at the EcoCity

World Summit to talk about building whole communities; another went back to pour energy

into an urban park and garden initiative that brings diverse members of a community

together. Not long after the second workshop, the BAOSC had a strategic planning

meeting. “We had 100 percent participation from staff and board,” Bettina says, “and there

has just been an amazing shift in thinking about how we do our work. We did a visioning

exercise and it came out loud and clear that we want to focus on integrating land and

water conservation with transportation, housing, health and education and making ‘nature

within reach’—connecting land and people and ensuring that we’re reaching all people.”

Other organizations we supported in 2007 through our Whole Thinking workshops and

mission retreats include: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, D&R Greenway Land Trust,

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Greenbelt Alliance, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation,

Maine Coast Heritage Trust, The Nature Conservancy, The Trustees of Reservations, and

University of Vermont. And for the Next Generation Retreat, we partnered with Common

Fire Foundation, The Ruckus Society and Stone Circles. ◆

“My experience at Whole

Communities retreat has changed

forever my approach to problem

solving. I wouldn't say it made

my job easier, but it has made

the results much better.”

—Senator Susan Bartlett,

2007 Alumna

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a l u m n i n e t w o r k

At the end of our 2007-2008 Fiscal Year, the alumni of our Whole Thinking program numbered 650leaders working in more than 450 organizations and communities—in the coming year, we plan tocount nearly 1,000 leaders among our alumni. The Whole Thinking retreats and workshops representonly the beginning of the ongoing benefits participants receive from our program.

All retreat participants become part of our Alumni Network, with whom we communicate regularly,

highlighting best practices and sharing new tools and resources. We also provide frequent peer-to-peer

learning experiences, such as last October’s “Council of Fellow Travelers,” which brought together alumni

from around the country who are pioneering exemplary “whole communities” work. This past year,

we launched “Voices,” a speaking bureau that helps our alumni to strengthen their message and voice

around the issues that matter most to them. Alumni are offered support in adopting Whole Measures as

an organizational evaluation tool. And, we offer them the chance to convene a two-day workshop on their

home turf to help them engage their staff, board and community partners in these theories of change.

All alumni are eligible for small grants that we award each year to projects demonstrating “whole thinking.”

Finally, this fall, we are hosting our first-ever alumni research, learning and service trip to the Black

Freedmen’s Living Historical Farm for Children in Furman, Alabama. Through this field program, we hope

to deepen our collective understanding of history, land, people and community.

We’re pleased to announce the award of our 2008 grants supporting alumni projects that demonstrate

whole thinking. This year’s grantees and their projects were:

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Mark Ackelson, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, and the Dubuque Outdoors Club,

which is designed to give city kids experiences in nature.

Ernie Atencio, Taos Land Trust, and “De La Tierra,” a radio program that covers topics

such as the Mobile Matanza: a mobile livestock slaughtering unit that will help small-

scale ranchers and farmers direct-market their meat.

Andrea Freeman, The Trustees of Reservations, and the Leominster Trail Leader Program,

a new micro-initiative that will invite diverse youth to learn about Leominster’s trails,

become Trail Leaders, and, finally, lead a group hike.

Stef Frenzl, Foundation for Sustainable Community, and the Snohomish Peace Village,

a camp for community gathering, learning about cultural competency, connecting with

the land and honoring relationships.

Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman, Climbing PoeTree’s “Hurricane Season” Tour,

a multi-media two-woman show that…”explore(s) critical issues facing humanity through

the kaleidoscope of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.”

Deborah Mendelsohn, Duncan, Arizona, and the new “Saturday Market,” to promote

local food, artists and craftspeople; and to nurture greater public awareness of nutrition

and the many other advantages of local food sourcing.

Irene Shen, Brooklyn Academy of Science and the Environment, and Brooklyn Botanic

Garden’s Greenbridge Program, for a high school internship program focusing on issues

related to social and environmental justice, especially around food issues and sustainability.

Courtney White, Quivira Coalition, and the “Atlas of the New Western Range,” which will

help join together diverse individuals and organizations working on land issues in the West. ◆

“The faculty and staff at Center

for Whole Communities create

an experience that nurtures

practitioners and teaches them to

shape their ideas, opinions and

dreams into an inclusive message.”

—Helen Chin, 2007 Alumna

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What are we for?

Wearing t-shirts that asked that very question, Center for Whole Communities staff rolled out the sixth edition of Whole Measures at the October 2007 Land Trust Alliance Rally in Denver. Quickly hundreds of conservationists were roaming the convention center, sporting buttons that proclaimed their answer to “What are we for?” Justice and Fairness. Relationships between Land and People. Community Building.Healthy Ecosystems. Healthy Habitat for People. Stewardship. Economic Vitality. Community Resilience. Power of Story. Being in Service.

This evaluation and planning tool has been in development for seven years, authored with the input of more

than one hundred individuals, and field tested by many organizations, culminating in this publication. Whole

Measures is really a device that guides collaborating organizations to bring about environmental and social

goals together. It is a method that successfully integrates those disparate goals with the diverse people and

groups working toward them. Whole Measures is helping groups to address root problems instead of symptoms,

to foster deeper collaborations with groups very different from themselves, and to rediscover their moral voice.

For example, a number of our alumni organizations, such as Aquidneck Land Trust, have started micro-loans to

help farmers convert to organics, thereby “saving” land without buying it. Others, such as the Vermont Land

Trust, are partnering with affordable housing groups, harvesting wood sustainably from their conserved lands to

build houses. Others, such as California’s Big Sur Land Trust, have rewritten their vision statement for their work

based on Whole Measures and are now beginning to work with new partners, such an organization that serves

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Latino migrant workers in Salinas. In all cases, this broadening of horizons, through the

use of Whole Measures, has ultimately helped organizations to become much more vocal

and effective public citizens.

After completing a major revision last summer, we handed the new edition to 2,000 Land

Trust Alliance conference participants. With its accompanying DVD, Whole Measures

documents the “best practices” of our leading collaborators. By April 2008, over 3,000

copies of the Whole Measures guide and DVD had been distributed, and each day the

electronic version is downloaded many times from www.wholemeasures.org.

Given the great diversity of projects and collaborations to which Whole Measures

is being applied, we are planning the next set of tools that will bring about greater

dissemination and adoption of Whole Measures by new organizations, and deeper

levels of support for those that are using it. Coming soon is a book, What Are We For? that documents the best Whole Measures/Whole Communities practices, and

a web-based training platform where help with implementing Whole Measures will

be only a few clicks away. ◆

Center for Whole Communities is

helping to redefine on a national

level both "conservation" and

the "environmental movement"

by working to dismantle

embedded racism and other

forms of oppression.”

—Lauret Savoy, Board Member

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E X PA N D I N G O U R R E A C H — Office Renovation and Renewable Energy Campaign

Demand for our work is such that we are rapidly outgrowing our physical capacity. Moreover, with hundreds of environmental,

social change and community leaders coming through Knoll Farm, our base, every year, we feel it is necessary to more fully

“walk the talk” and model a truly sustainable operation that will inspire our alumni to “walk their own talk” at home. Over the

next eighteen months, we hope to renovate an historic barn into new office space while simultaneously converting all of our

energy needs to run on sun, wood, and wind. Our renewable energy campaign will utilize green design and renewable energy

practices brought to us by Jeff Schoellkopf and Andy Shapiro, national leaders in biophilic architecture and engineering.

This renewable energy program will educate thousands of leaders about the practical possibilities of running a national

nonprofit on renewable energy as well as demonstrating the possibilities of adapting a two-hundred year old farm to the

current realities of a post peak oil world. As of July 2008, with the help of a $100,000 challenge match from Kendeda Fund,

we have raised $530,000 in gifts and pledges toward our goal of $650,000. Our deepest appreciation goes to the following

individual and foundation donors:

Anonymous (2)The Rev. Mary AbeleArgosy FoundationScott and Megan ChaskeyComercia Legacy Foundation—

Wendling Charitable FundJeff Cook

Alan Day EstateAnn DayJohn and Rita ElderHank HerreraOlivia HoblitzelleAndy KendallKendall FoundationKendeda Fund

Lintilhac FoundationGil Livingston and Amy WrightLZ Francis FundMerck Family FundRoger and Margot MillikenDanyelle O’Hara and Marc David

Kinny Perot and Richard CzaplinskiLauret SavoyCharlie & Mima TipperWendling FundTom WesselsYestermorrow Design

& Build School

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F I S C A L Y E A R 2 0 0 7 - 2 0 0 8 F I N A N C I A L R E P O R T

Our 2007-2008 fiscal year saw noteworthy growth in our programs and funding. In the year spanning April 2007 through March

2008, Center for Whole Communities was awarded $735,000 in operating grants from fifteen different foundations. $558,392 of

that sum was used in fiscal year 2007-2008 and the rest is allocated to fiscal year 2008-2009 programs. We are deeply grateful

for the support and confidence that these foundations have placed in us.

The Kendeda Fund offered a generous matching gift of $50,000, encouraging individual donors to increase their support.

They rose to the challenge with gifts totaling $117,000, an increase of 54 percent from the previous year. These bighearted

gifts from 351 individuals have been instrumental to the work we accomplished last year. On this our sixth year, we will be

working with our first million dollar budget. With bold programmatic goals, a proven staff and committed supporters,

we look forward to continuing our groundbreaking work.

INCOME

Donations from Individuals . . . . . . . . . . . .$117,216 15%

Grants for FY08 Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .558,392 73%

Program Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66,272 9%

Speaking Fees and Publication Sales . . . . . .12,499 2%

Miscelllaneous Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10,596 1%

Total Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$764,975

EXPENSES

Retreats, Workshops, Knoll Farm Events . . .$ 259,320 34%

Whole Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120,427 16%

Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12,287 2%

Dismantling Racism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,942 6%

Alumni Support and Networka . . . . . . . . . . .19,083 3%

Outreach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19,403 3%

Fundraising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73,673 10%

Program support, Administration, Misc. . . 163,186 22%

Facilities improvements and repairs . . . . . . .47,413 6%

Total Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$756,733

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H O N O R R O L L O F D O N O R S

Our work would not be possible without your support and the support of our many generous donors like you. Thank you.

Key: Alumni in Bold, Gifts-in-Kind in Italics.

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Because every gift, regardless of size, is important to the work we do, this first segment honors those 2007-2008 donors who have been supporting us since Center for Whole Communities’ beginning in 2003 (and, in many cases, even earlier).

Steve Blackmer and Kelly ShortDarby BradleyKatie BreckheimerSusanna ColloredoSally Fink and Michael HornerPeter Forbes and Helen WhybrowEphraim and Dagmar FriedmanOlivia Hoblitzelle and Keith TaylorKurt HoeltingAlix HopkinsTom JohnsonSue Ellen Kingsley and Terry KinzelMarion LeonardGil Livingston and Amy WrightElise Miller and Dan NeumeyerKinny Perot and Richard CzaplinskiChris Recchia and Julie IfflandMarianne Spitzform

Peter Stein and Lisa CashdanTara Tracy and Tom BrightmanJan Waterman and Andy RobinsonRand and Sue WentworthRuth Whybrow and Kate Siepmann

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Following, we honor all of those who gave unrestricted or programmatic support during the 2007-2008 Fiscal Year:

$10,000+Anonymous (4)Compton FoundationJeff CookFoundation for Global CommunityFrances FundGeraldine R. Dodge FoundationKendeda FundLZ Francis FoundationTom JohnsonMerck Family FundMargot and Roger Milliken, Jr.New Hampshire Charitable FoundationScott Russell SandersSurdna Foundation

Town Creek FoundationVermont Community Foundation

$5,000 to $9,999Adelard A. Roy and Valeda Lea Roy FoundationArgosy FoundationDavid and Nancy BordenNancy Spencer SmithPeter Whybrow

$2,500 to $4,999Lisa Cashdan and Peter SteinCashdan/Stein Great Grandmother Fund at VermontCommunity FoundationCarl and Judy FerenbachHigh Meadows Fund at Vermont CommunityFoundationAlix HopkinsNathan Wilson and Megan Gadd

$1,000 to $2,499Anonymous (2)Susan Atwood-StoneMichael BaldwinBetsy and Jesse Fink Fund at Fairfield CountyCommunity FoundationScott Boettger

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Sonnhild Chamberland

Elizabeth CourtneyFidelity Charitable Gift FundBetsy and Jesse FinkPeter Forbes and Helen WhybrowEphraim and Dagmar FriedmanKenny and Iantha Gantt-WrightCharlotte MetcalfNorcliffe FoundationLinda PooleIna SmithTom and Kitty StonerF. Jerome Tone and Martha WyckoffTom WesselsRuth WhybrowJulia and Nigel WiddowsonWood River Land Trust

$500 to $999Kathy Abbott

John BernsteinBig Sur Land TrustDavid Dion Real EstateDavid DionJohn and Rita ElderEvergreen Fund at Adirondack Community TrustSally Fink and Michael HornerMichael D. GriffinStephanie Kaza and Davis TeSelleWilliam H. LeahyGil Livingston and Amy WrightChristopher LloydLucy McCarthyRay Mikulak and Robin McDermottPrince CommunicationsJanet Prince and Peter BerghJoan Rae and Paul SippleJennifer SimsStifler Family FoundationLawrence Stifler and Mary McFaddenThomas B. Williams

$250 to $499Mark AckelsonCarol K. AndrewsBeth Binns and Jeff SchoellkopfKathy BlahaJ. Blaine Bonham, JrDarby BradleyFerris Buck and Ned KelleyAnne BurlingLouise and Ashley CadwellWilliam CappsSusanna Colloredo

Marshal ComptonJohn CookJay and Page Knudsen CowlesStrachan DonnelleyAnn Fowler WallaceTom and Jill FrenchJoy GarlandLisa HaderleinDavid HartwellEthan and Elise HoblitzelleJamieson Insurance Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. KannenstineRenee KivikkoMike LaMairGretchen LongStuart MacNaughtDavid MarvinMeghan McGearyAndrea MorganteNancy Turkle DesignDavid Nelson and Cyndy WhitefordKathryn PorterPeggy and Sparky PotterWill and Lynette RaapSudeep RaoMark ScallionEric StilesSandy Tassel and Craig LeeMatthew G. TrifiroNancy TurklePolly and Sandy WakemanJan Waterman and Andy Robinson

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$100 to $249Ron and Melissa Madura AltmannCraig AndersonJudy AndersonJane ArbuckleJan and John AuletaMaud AysonBill Badger and Jenepher LingelbachPeter BarnesTom and Marty BisbeeKathy BoydenKatie BreckheimerLaura and Duncan BrinesKatherine BrownDaryl BurtnettMichele ByersDave Cain and Nancy TurnerMajora CarterHelen V. ChinAvery Cleary

George CoferJanet CoitWrenn and Yves CompereEd ConnellyJennie CramerJayne CronlundMatt DalyElizabeth EhrenfeldJay EspyHerb FerrisGlenn and Jamie ForbesJameson FrenchAlan FrenchTally GarfieldNancy GoodmanClaudette GrantLarry GrinnellJohn HalseyRoy HoaglandKurt HoeltingCharles and Carol HosfordJames S. HoyteJunji ItagakiWendy Johnson-Rudnick and Peter RudnickSuzanne JonesBrett KenCairnAndrew KendallMelissa and Dale KentMargaret KesselGerard and Jen KiernanSue Ellen Kingsley and Terry KinzelMatthew KolanBill KunzeLeo and Liz Laferriere

Lance R. LeeBill LeonardStephen B. MacAuslandPamela MayerJulie MayfieldCraig McNamaraJim MerkelElise Miller and Dan NeumeyerStephen MillikenPierre and Mary MoffroidSamuel MygattThomas and Magdalena NaylorDoug NoparDanyelle O’Hara and Marc DavidOpen Space Institute-James Gustave Speth FundAmy OwsleyAndy PitzCarla PryneKeith ReedBettina RingRobert Riversong

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Chuck RoeBobbi and Mac RoodMarty and Joan RosenLauret SavoyDeborah Segal and Beau WrightCarolyn ServidGordon H. ShawApril Smith and John ConnellAlcott SmithRichard SmithJulia SomersBlake SpaldingAlan SpearsGus and Cameron SpethSal SpinosaTaz and Maria SquireRandy and Nancy TaplinDijit TaylorCarl TaylorMargot Taylor

Clare Walker LeslieJim WaltmanRand and Sue WentworthDove WhiteHarry WilandArthur and Hanne WilliamsFlorence and Jamie WilliamsKate and Rob WilliamsHelen and Sumner WinebaumJeanne and Peter YozellSally Yozell

$35 to $99Eric AllenKaren ArsenaultIan and Margo BaldwinBob and Nancy BaronAndrew Kang BartlettJerry and Gay BirdSteve Blackmer and Kelly ShortLauren BornfriendTom and Susanne ByrneDonald and Margaret CampbellTovar CerulliScott and Megan ChaskeySusan ConnollyNancy EverhartGene FialkoffEric and Lisa FriedmanJennifer GraceGita Gulati-ParteeJeremy Gulley and Sally KendallBrian HartKaren Hatcher

Julie HinmanHarvey and Ethel HornerTom Howe and Sarah ThorneBob HymanHeather Little KingSusan Knight and Glenn LambJoyce El KouartiStephen LongBill MaclayBarbara McKayMs. Lilla McLane-BradleyBrian McNittCurt MeineDonna MeyersJen and Eric MoffroidRichard NelsonOpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc.Terry OsborneLeah PennimanKevin PetersonJoshua Porter

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Kimberly RobertsAmy RobinsonSuzanne Sawyer and Jay LeshinskyDan SchwabMistinguette SmithMarianne SpitzformAndy and Jullian StoneCarol ThompsonDorothy TodTara Tracy and Tom BrightmanMary Evelyn Tucker and John GrimWilliam Maclay Architects

Up to $35Tad AmesDeb BarnesMatt BrownStarling W. Childs, IIConnie ColmanBeverly Colston

David and Sally ConradVanessa Crossgrove FryThomas G. DallessioAlicia DanielCarl DemrowGreg DennisDonna DrewesMarci DuBoisBarbara DuncanDorothy EddisKristina EganBob EngelmanPaul, Rhonda, Emma and Drew HardyTed Harrison and Linda J. SpackmanWilliam HeinzerlingLila HigginsChristine Horigan and Jonathan C. KaledinWes JacksonNancy JonesSarah KhanKillington Arts GuildLaurence KoffMaura LaneMarion LeonardPaul LeVasseurRichard MahlerJennifer MarlowCarl and Joan MazzottaLelia MellenLaura MercierEzra MilchmanAl and Sally MolnarJohn MonroeBecky Bremser Nielsen

Roberta NubileRuth PestleGeorge E. PlumbChris Recchia and Julie IfflandJohn RoeJim SchleyPete and Anne SibleyKatharine SterlingGlenn Suokko and Ann BillingsSteve TrimbleDeb VanDykeAnn WallenBonna WielerMatthew Witten and Sherry PachmanAlex WylieAnn YoungMichael Young

Honorary Gifts

In Honor of Jan and Andy RobinsonAmy Robinson

In Honor of Marion LeonardBill Leonard

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Gifts in Memory of Alan Ashley Day

R. AschenbrennerHedi BallantyneDeb BarnesDarby BradleyTerrell ChandlerDavid and Sally ConradAnn DayPatricia R. DayMarci DuBoisNona Estrin and Charles JohnsonAlice EvansPatricia A. FolsomBetty A GaechterE.M. GoldthwaitBob & Helen GowWilliam HeinzerlingM. Richard JamiesonKillington Arts GuildMaura LaneMarilyn C LeggettJohn and Betty Little

Kathleen McKinley HarrisNancy Means WrightShirley MelvinKatharine D OldRuth PestlePeggy and Sparky PotterFrances B QuackenbushLois P RichardsonHarriet RiggsPauline E SchneiderS. Douglas Teetor & Rosi FortnaForrest & Cynthia TinsleyJane M TortorielloEmily TuckerFrances & Bethany ViensAnn WallenArthur and Hanne WilliamsStaunton & Barbara WilliamsMichael YoungSally YozellJeanne and Peter Yozell

Thank you to the many donors who made our programming possible during our 2007-2008 fiscal year. While we try our hardest tohonor all of our donors accurately, please let us know if we missed you.For any giving related questions, please contact Meghan McGeary at(802) 496-5690 or meghan@wholecommunities.org

On February 6, 2008, we were saddened to lose Alan Ashley Day. Our new officespace, which will be created by renovating the barn in which Alan lived for a number of years, will be dedicated in his honor. At the printing of this report, the following people had donated in his memory, with more gifts continuing tocome in.

STA F F

Adrian Ayson,

Director of Operations

Maria Echevarria,*

Educational Program Director

Peter Forbes,

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Libby McDonald,

Program Coordinator

Meghan McGeary,*

Development Director

Kevin McMillion,*

Office Manager

Flo Miller,

Educational Program Director

(Until May ‘08)

Taz Squire,*

Land Steward & General

Contractor

Helen Whybrow,

Co-Founder & Publications

Director

B OA R D O F TRU S T E E S

Julian Agyeman,

Cambridge, MA

Scott Chaskey,

Sag Harbor, NY

John Elder, Chair Elect,

Bristol, VT

Torri Estrada,

Petaluma, CA

Hank Herrera,

Rochester, NY

Gil Livingston, Chair,

Richmond, VT

Danyelle O’Hara,

Norman, OK

Lauret Savoy,

Leverett, MA

Tom Wessels,

Putney, VT

Diana Wright,

Thetford, VT

FAC U LT Y

Adrienne Maree Brown

Marge Bruchac

Roberto Chene

Anushka Fernandopulle

Carolyn Finney

Steven Glazer

Toby Herzlich

Wendy Johnson

Cynthia Jurs

Stephanie Kaza

Matt Kolan

Melissa Nelson

Kavitha Rao

Enrique Salmón

Scott Russell Sanders

Santikaro

Deborah Schoenbaum

Mistinguette Smith

Kaylynn TwoTrees

Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Tom Wessels

Larry Yang

SU M M E R STA F F— 2008

Caesare Assad, Head Chef &

Food Program Director

Julie Erickson, Intern

Cordelia Hall, Intern

Debbie Krug, Assistant Chef

Laura Sackton, Intern

* Staff hired during or since the

2007-2008 fiscal year

Designed by Serena Fox DesignCompany, Warren, VT. Printed by Accura Printing, S. Barre, VT

C E N T E R F O R W H O L E

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“I don’t think any other single

experience has had as much of an

impact on me as my time at

Center for Whole Communities.”

—Ina Smith

2007 Alumna

“The [Whole Thinking Retreat]

fellowships awarded to us allowed

a realistic and visionary sampling

of the movement’s leaders, so we

could come together irrespective

of our financial health.”

—Sudeep Rao

2007 Alumnus