ALLIANCE DONORS DONOR PROFILE DONOR PROFILE EVERY DOLLAR MATTERS Thank you to the many generous donors who supported us in our 2015 fiscal INSIDE year (Sept. 1, 2014 - Aug. 31, 2015). Listed below are our donors $1,000 and above. *Thank you to our 2015 Taste of the Great Lakes Sponsors TOXIC ALGAE BYE-BYE BEADS FROM SHORE TO SHORE Region looks to land to clean Victory: Great Lakes to be free Volunteers on front lines of Great FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS Anonymous Drs. Robert and Beth Krippendorf & ORGANIZATIONS The David and Debbie Chizewer Charitable Fund Howard A. Learner* up Great Lakes water of microbeads Lakes protection $300,000+ Dewoskin/Roskin Foundation Andrew and Janet Lubetkin Aveda Dominion Foundation Sarah Solberg Ludden The Joyce Foundation EarthShare Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Martin, Jr. $100,000 - $299,999 EarthShare Ohio Ann McGill Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Eckroth Planning Group, Inc.* Katherine Newhouse The George Gund Foundation Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc.* Nicholas and Susan Noyes ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Grand Victoria Foundation ERM Group Foundation, Inc. John and Katie Palmer WaterMarks McDougal Family Foundation Fuzzy Math, LLC Clifford and Cheryl Pixler Metabolic Studio G. William Walker Trust David Reinisch and Julie Kiefer Fund* Shaw and Betty Walker Foundation Harmann Family Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Anthony and Jacquelyn Sartoris Photo courtesy of Deborah Ramstorf $50,000 - $99,999 Foundation Pamela Schaefer Photo courtesy of James Dagg Anonymous Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Rachel Schneider Deborah Ramstorf’s passion for Lake Michigan The Brookby Foundation Kornblith and Lasser Family Fund of the Jewish Theresann and David Seeger* is rooted in memories of childhood beach Paddle Relay organizer James Dagg, left, with Greg The Crown Family Communal Fund Sanjiv Sinha and Ana Sirviente visits there with her father. Barton, a two-time Olympic gold medalist kayaker from Deschutes Brewery Lundquist Charitable Fund Chad Solberg Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Mark Mihalo Family Dentistry* Duncan Stuart and Kathryn Eckhoff-Stuart* Michigan who donated the event’s flagship vessel. Fund for Lake Michigan Miller, Cooper & Co., Ltd.* Robert and Hope Taft The Weissman Family Foundation Mission Accounting, Inc. Frank L. Washelesky $10,000 - $49,999 My Great Lake Jennifer and Allen Weaver Lake Michigan is part of Alphawood Foundation Ostrow Reisin Berek & Abrams, Ltd. Lyman and Deana Welch Altair Engineering Patricia Smith Wilmeth Fund Virginia A. Welch her family — and legacy Altria Group Pepper Construction Group* Mr. and Mrs. Ziemba* Paddle relay has Anonymous PepsiCo Employee Engagement Fund IN MEMORIAM When Deborah Ramstorf looks out over Barefoot Wine & Bubbly R.L. Morris & Sons Construction Cookie Canonizado Lake Michigan, she thinks of her father and Bell’s Brewery* The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company* Noel Ruth Gersonde grandfather scanning the same waters in years many winners The Boeing Company Sheldon & Pearl R. Leibowitz Foundation Charlotte Hagelberg Brunswick Public Foundation, Inc. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP* Nancy Herbert gone by. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane James Dagg wanted to coastline,” says Dagg, Buchanan Family Foundation Starbucks Coffee Company William H. Jackson “I look at the lake and think, ‘Wow, it’s so foster enjoyment of the About 120 paddlers Climate Ride Warner Wells Charitable Fund Hank McHale The Comer Foundation Fund Wells Fargo cool that my grandfather looked at it. My father Great Lakes in a “non- signed on for the trek, John Orosz LOVING THE LAKES FROM SHORE TO SHORE Dr. Scholl Foundation Winnetka Garden Club Robert Paddleson looked at it. I look at it,’” she says. motorized way” that many which launched from Earthwatch Institute INDIVIDUALS Hope Ryde So when it came time to plan her estate, Alliance volunteers were on the front could appreciate. Detroit’s Belle Isle in June Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelley Foundation $100,000+ Michael Schlaack GLISA Estate of Marion Witte Patricia Wilmeth the path was clear. As lines of Great Lakes protection in 2015. So last summer he and came full circle at the Grosvenor Capital Management, L.P.* $50,000 - $99,999 MATCHING GIFT DONORS Ramstorf puts it, she has Sheboygan Falls Middle School combined two loves — end of August. Herman Miller Cares Anne and Stephen Bent Charles Stewart Mott Foundation The Longview Foundation-William and Nathalia $10,000 - $49,999 GE Foundation three loves: Lake Michigan, students planted 7,000 dune-grass plants kayaking and endurance Dagg also worked to Dolan Henry T. Chandler and Chris Chandler* John Deere Foundation the local library and local in Wisconsin, and a group of teachers relays — to create a raise awareness of Great Michigan Coastal Management Program, Kay Hoida Dawson Family * Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Department of Environmental Quality Dennis and Connie Keller* land conservation. She from Detroit Public Schools learned how 13-week relay-style tour Lakes issues by partnering The Joyce Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Joan Rothenberg and Kenneth Walchak* The Judy Family Foundation takes nothing for granted to bring local ecology into their classrooms of Michigan’s celebrated with and raising funds Administration $5,000 to $9,999 Kraft Foods Foundation - Matching Gifts Program when it comes to the in Michigan. coastline. The Paddle Relay for seven local charities. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Sustain Larry Bell Northwestern Mutual Investment Services our Great Lakes Stephen and Alisoun Brewster* Great Lakes, so including All told, nearly 15,000 volunteers Around Lower Michigan His employer, Altair Outten & Golden LLP National Parks Conservation Association Jonathan R. Cooper and Rebecca Hartman Robert R. McCormick Foundation the Alliance in her estate cleaned up beaches, restored wildlife was open to anyone who Engineering of Troy, Mich., NOAA and the Illinois Coastal Management Aaron and Whitney Fershee* Ramstorf Salesforce.com Foundation Program Robert and Linda Lanphier plans was a natural way to habitat and connected communities with wanted to join for all or sponsored the event and IN-KIND DONATIONS Paul Bechtner Foundation The Pitruzzelli Family Baker & McKenzie LLP continue to care for the lakes after she’s gone. the Great Lakes — including students part of the 1,100-mile donated $10,000 to the Prince Charitable Trusts Marilyn G. Salon Joshua Basofin Lake Michigan is, after all, “part of the from Chicago’s Truman College, Senn journey as long as they Alliance for the Great REI Joyce and Charles Solberg Big Delicious Planet SC Johnson Jon Subak family,” says Ramstorf. High School and Boy Scout Troop 3894. Photo by Katie Larson came via kayak, standup Lakes. All totaled, some Dale and Judy Bryson Sehgal Family Foundation $2,500 to $4,999 CBD Marketing* It played a starring role in family memories paddleboard or other $50,000 was raised. Solberg Manufacturing Inc.* Anonymous Columbia Yacht Club* University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Nick Bothfeld and Bobbie Brown that range from family picnics on the beach to human-powered vessel. Who won? The Great Peter Eckroth Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. Matthew C. Brett and Emily Monnelly her honeymoon 24 years ago. “I thought it would be Lakes, local charities and all Great Lakes Environmental Law Center Wisconsin Coastal Management Program and Linda Cronenwett Thomas P. Healy, Jr. And it’s with her today, just a block from her fun to try to do two things the participants. “It wasn’t NOAA Bob and Janet Helman* Jeffrey B. Hyman, staff attorney at the $5,000 to $9,999 Peter and Dorothy Marks* home in Beverly Shores, Ind. — joining her on at once: promote the more a race,” says Dagg. “It was Anonymous Arthur Mead Martin* Conservation Law Center walks, bike rides and glorious weekend dune green usage of water really just to celebrate the Anonymous Denise Marx* Jenner & Block, LLP Burning River Foundation Susan and Mark Mihalo* Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP hikes. resources here through coastline and for the water Charles R. Evenson Foundation Sarah Morrison and Bill Rogers Law Offices of Frederic C. Goodwill, II Most important, it reminds her of her father, kayaking, and give people sports community to come North Shore Transportation Services, Inc. EarthShare Illinois Meredith Oliver who loved the water, waterskiing and lying in an opportunity to see the together and have fun.” Healing our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition Tina Rongers Quill.com John Dykema and Michelle Maly-Dykema Travis Solberg Rachlis Duff Adler Peel & Kaplan, LLC the sun. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane Family Foundation $1,000 to $2,499 Rhine Hall Distillery* Ramstorf is the newest member of the newly Dawn on Lake Ontario, near the Salmon River in Upstate New York. Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Cindy Ackerman* Frank Skiba Lumpkin Family Foundation Anonymous* University of Chicago Abrams Environmental formed Lee Botts Legacy Society, named for Marshall and Jamee Field Family Fund of the Anonymous Law Clinic the woman who founded the Alliance as the few of you will make it a point to visit your putting us at risk of losing the lakes unless we get serious Chicago Community Foundation Anonymous Thomas Van Dam former Lake Michigan Federation back in 1970. favorite lake when it is most unsettled by about solutions. Moosejaw Sarah and Nathan Arnold Michael Wiese, Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge NOAA Marine Debris Program and NOAA Jack and Janis Bails William and Ann Zeiler Members of the society include the Alliance in Anature and awesomely disrupted, to soak in the There are right sides to these debates: Lake Erie should Restoration Center Amy Biewen Robert Zolna their charitable estate plans and are recognized spellbinding moments that make you thankful that your not be toxic all summer, there are clear ways to stop TRIBUTE LIST Belgium Brewing Mr. James J. Blanchard* for their visionary generosity. feet remain on solid land. invasive species, and everyone should expect and receive Oppenheimer Family Foundation Paul R.