Funders Since 1997
Friends of the Confluence

Funders Since 1997
The Confluence Greenway Partners express our gratitude to all of the donors who are making this legacy project possible. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the fundamental support of The McKnight Foundation, which sustains us in our day-to-day work of "incubating" the Greenway through project coordination, management, and relationship building. To learn more about the McKnight Foundation, you may view their website at www.mcknight.org.

This list reflects pledges, gifts, grants and in-kind donations
of $10,000 or more from 1997-2004.

Guarantors
Great Rivers Greenway District
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
The McKnight Foundation
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Missouri Department of Transportation
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

Conservators
AmeriCorps Corporation for Community Service
Larry and Terri Callahan
Civic Progress
Commerce Bancshares Foundation, William T. Kemper Foundation,
Norman J. Stupp Foundation: Commerce Bank Trustee
Edward Jones Co.
Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis
Environmental Strategies / Greenway Network
Gateway Foundation
Grace Hill Settlementment House
Pat Jones
William A. Kerr Foundation
Richard and Nancy Marston
Metro-East Park & Recreation District
Southwestern Illinois Resource Conservation and Development, Inc.
St. Louis Brewery and Tap Room
Judge William Stiehl: Community Service Award
Trailnet
Trigen-St. Louis Energy Corp.
The Trust for Public Land
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Waste Management
Whitaker Foundation

Benefactors
Ameren Smart Lights Program
William A. and Gertrude Bernoudy Foundation
Ted Curtis and Celia Bouchard-Curtis
Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Foundation
Robert Fredholm
Grand Victoria Foundation
Richard and Lotsie Holton
Koman Properties
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mahoney
Missouri Department of Economic Development
Monsanto Fund
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
National Park Service
Michael and Christine Normile
Gyo and Courtney Obata
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation
Nicholas and Linda Penniman
Pulitzer Foundation / St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Regional Arts Commission
Thomas and Ulrike Schlafly
St. Louis Community Foundation
Bruce Stoliar
The Synergy Group / Mary Schanuel
Thompson Coburn LLP
TYCO/Healthcare/Mallinckrodt
USDA: Natural Resources Conservation Service

Patrons
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
ADM Growmark
AT&T
Bellwether Foundation
Paul Borghart
Carboline Co.
William Coleman
James and Martha Conzelman
Raymond and Cheryl Dalton
The Danforth Foundation
John David
Robert and Deborah Dolgin
William and Linda Dosenbach
Leo and Kay Drey
Pat and Joan Esserman
Ralph Fournier
David R. Francis Society
Phillip Galang
Gannett Foundation
Joseph and Shana Grasso
Grasso Brothers Land Company
Greater East St. Louis Community Fund
Alan and Sharon Greenberg
The Harlan Company
Robert Harmon
James and Anne Jesse
Warren and Susan Lammert
The Lawrence Group
Mitchell Markow
Andrew and Ann Martone
Meridian Technology Corporation
Millstone Bangert
Missouri Natural Resources Conservation Service
James and Kathy O'Donnell
Joseph and Marianne Ojile
Open Space Foundation
David Pickerill
Publication Printing
Walter Reisinger
Frederick and Kim Scherrer
The Siedlund Company
Eli and Renni Shuter
St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste
John Sweet
The Trio Foundation of St. Louis
U. S. Bank
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Georgia Van Cleve
Henk and Lenita Van der Werff
Emma Ware

Friends of the Confluence
(updated 1/16/07)
The Friends of the Confluence was launched in 2004.   Through their annual unrestricted support for the project, these leadership donors provide an important supplement to the investments in facilities being made by corporations, foundations and government agencies.

If you would like to become a Friend of the Confluence, please contact Laura Cohen, Project Director, at 314/436-1324 ext. 108. 

We wish to acknowledge the generosity of the following Friends:

Platinum Level
Nancy and Ken Kranzberg

Gold Level
Laura Cohen
Ginny and Jim Eckhoff
Patricia and Clinton Lane
John Sweet and John Forti

Silver Level
Lionelle and James Elsesser
Marilyn and Sam Fox
MaryLee and Robert Hermann
Maureen and John Niemeyer
Cynthia and Sandy Peters
Mr. and Mrs. T. Randolph Potter Jr.
Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Peggy and Jerry Ritter
Jane and Chip Wiese

Bronze Level
Dianna and Joe Adorjan
Mr. John W. Bachmann
Mary Randolph and Walter Ballinger
Henry Bangert
Mary and Morton Bearman
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Berges
Stephen F. Brauer and Camilla T. Brauer Charitable Trust
Ken Capps
Sally and Thomas Cohn
Martha and Jim Conzelman
Celia Bouchard-Curtis and Ted Curtis
Mrs. Donald Danforth Jr.
Gale and R. Hal Dean
Juliette and Frederick Douglas
Kay and Leo Drey
Yvette and John Dubinsky
Mrs. Ernest A. Eddy, Jr.
Betty and David C. Farrell
Alison Nichols-Ferring and John Ferring
Dr. and Mrs. Ira Gall
Jane and Wayne Goode
Mr. Frank Guyol III
Carolyn and Rusty Hager
Signa and Robert Hermann
Polly Hohlt Jones
Lotsie and Rick Holton
Bettie Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Johnston
Roger Kepner
Dr. Robert Kleiger
Marti Lanese
Mary Ann and Des Lee
Cliff Leonard/Accipiter Exploration
Rosalyn and Charles Lowenhaupt
Jan S. Mackey
Ms. Karla Marshall
Carla Marshall
Louise McKeon Belt
Constance and John McPheeters/Bascom Family Trust
Susan and David Mesker
Cynthia and Walter Metcalfe
Helen and I.E. Millstone
Irene Morrill
Cathie and Birch Mullins
Stella Pettus
Gordon and Susie Philpott
Mabel Purkerson
Barbara and John Roberts
Ivette and Andrew Rothschild
John T. Sant
Ulrike and Tom Schlafly
Adelaide Schlafly
Doris Schnuck
Dwight Seward
Ann and Bill Sullins
Elizabeth and Timothy Swank
Barbara and Andrew Taylor
Jessie Ternberg
Debbie and Jack Thomas/Coin Acceptors, Inc.
Polly O'Brien and Barrett Toan
Marjorie Tooker Patton
Robin and J. Ellwood Towle
Ellen and John Wallace
Linda and Peter Werner
The Eugene F. Williams Charitable Fund
Heart of Oak Foundation
James Holloway Woods Foundation

Additional Gifts
Marjorie and John Cassidy
Dolly Darigo
Mary Rose and George Desloge
Carol McCarthy Duhme
L. Shepley Hermann/Hermann Oak Leather Co.
Suzanne Lawless Johnson and Jim Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson III
C. M. Kaser
Doris and David Lichtenstein Foundation
Richard and Joan Millman/Great Central Lumber Company
Christy and Randall Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mug
Kim and Bruce Olson
John S. Ross Family Foundation
Nora and Walter Stern
Perry and Don Streett
James Tobias
Susan and Ben Uchitelle
Margaret and Blanton Whitmire