Friends of 826
We’re incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community. The list below represents those who have donated to 826 Valencia. We thank each and every one of you who have donated your time, goods, and money. We couldn’t do it without you.
Thanks!
Patron of the Pen, 50,000 +
- Anonymous Charitable Trust
- Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
- San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families
Patron of the Pen, 30,000 +
- City Arts & Lectures
- GGS Foundation
- Stephen O'Leary
- The Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- Yahoo! Employee Foundation
Patron of the Pen, 20,000 +
- Anonymous
- Anonymous Foundation
- Fitzpatrick Foundation
- The Heinz Family Foundation
- David J. Klein, Jr. Foundation
- Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Patron of the Pen, 10,000 +
- Anonymous Fund
- David B. Gold Foundation
- Dr. Martens Airwair USA LLC
- The Joseph R. McMicking Foundation
- The La Fetra Foundation
- The Severns Family Foundation
- The Starbucks Foundation
- The Stocker Foundation
- Kim Webb
Epic Donation, 5,000 +
- Alexander M. and June L. Maisin Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Isabel Allende
- Thomas Mellon
- Lara DellaRocca and James Erwig
- The Fleishhacker Foundation
- Barbara Gicquel
- Larry and Jackie Gutsch
- Hewitt Associates Foundation
- Harriet Heyman and Michael Moritz
- Isabel Allende Foundation
- June Jackson
- Judy Blume and The Kids Fund
- Steven Merrill
- Rex Foundation
- Scandling Family Foundation
- Amy Tan and Lou deMattei
- van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation
- James and Karen Wagstaffe
- Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon
Epic Donation, 2,500 +
- Chapman and Associates Foundation
- Clowes Fund, Inc.
- Noah Hawley
- Nick Hornby
- Gail and Ian Jardine
- Miranda July
- Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
- Jordan and Tara Kurland
- Merge Media Ltd.
- Mary Schaefer
- Whole Foods SoMa
Novel Donation, 1,000 +
- Maria Baird and George Cotsirilos
- Gary Belsky
- Cassandra Benjamin
- Jeffrey Bluestone
- Barry and Sylvia Bunshoft
- Jennifer Bunshoft and Ruggero Pergher
- Books by the Bay
- Gregoire and Kathy Calegari
- The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation
- Cornfield Foundation
- DrumStick Fund
- Eleven Inc.
- Jacob Farkas
- Ajay Godhwani and Nita Chatwani
- Linda and Roger Goossens
- Anthony and Caroline Grant
- Brian and Susan Gray
- Hilary and Tom Hoynes
- Elizabeth Jane Kert
- Jeffrey P. McKee Foundation
- Melind Joseph John
- Louise Keegan
- Magowan Family Foundation
- Bonnie Matlock and Todd Francis
- Risa Nye
- Barbara Parkyn
- Paul and Catherine Rosenberger
- Will Scullin
- Shauna and Mike Stark
- Andrew Strickman
- Tiburon Research Group, Inc.
- Marjorie and Barry Traub
- Inger and Paul Vida
- Rick Wolfgram
Novella Donor, 500 +
- Books, Inc.
- Tom and Elise Carlaccini
- Ernest W. Chow and Gwenith A. Hinze
- Dawn Dobras and Eric Swergold
- Victoria Emery
- Employees of Peet's Coffee and Tea
- Suzanne Farmer and Geoffrey D. Flynn
- Grey San Francisco
- Stephen Hermanos
- Jeremy Hinman
- Florence Hochman
- Hockett Family Fund
- Hume Jacobs Charitable Gift Fund
- Kahle/Austin Foundation
- Jon Kiefer
- Susie Kramer
- Ivory Madison
- Marin Country Day School
- Alexandra Quinn and Mark Spolyar
- Maureen and Albert Robinson
- Raja Shah
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Sonnenschein, Nath, & Rosenthal LLP
- Mary Taugher and F. Martin Booth
- Ted Weinstein
- Elizabeth Wake
Short Story Donor, 250 +
- Adam and Deidre Abrons
- Christopher Beckmann
- Kristen and Michael Beckwith
- Frish Brandt
- Dutchess Marden
- Lucia Eslawa
- Adam Ettinger
- Michal Ettinger
- Cheryl Feiner
- Astrid and James Flood
- Fraenkel Gallery
- Krista Gettle
- Michael Ginther and James O'Donnell
- Green Apple Books
- Catherine Hollis
- IDEO
- Paul and Kelly Jacobson
- Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Kotas Family Foundation
- Rosemary and John Lehman
- Joshua Mahoney
- Maureen McGraw
- Thomas McNeil
- Amy Petrolati and Phil Kohlmetz
- George Pfau
- Quadra Foundation, Inc.
- Martin and Maria Quinn
- Jeffrey and Kelly Reine
- RSF Innovations in Social Finance
- Nancy Schachtner
- Jeremy Stone and Paul Matz
- Jeffrey and Evelyne Thomas
- Steve Turney
- Karine Aghajanian and Christopher Roque Versace
- Vendela Vida
- A. Schneider
- Maggie Wooll
Short Story Donor, 100 +
- Absolutely Books
- Gerald Ambinder and Audrey Ferber
- Lisa Amick
- Meg Beaudet
- Paula Benton
- Barbara Bersche
- Dean Blackketter and Kathleen Wydler
- David Blaschke
- Natasha and John Boas
- Gray Boyce and Thomas Bliska
- Sue Breedlove
- Robert Bradley Byrd
- Patricia Cain
- Rachel Caplan
- Stephanie Case
- CaseAbst Architects LLC
- Cathy Cirimele-Hansen
- Sian Clark
- Marian Cocose and Ken Bock
- Andrew Curry and Katie Hogg
- Marie D'Amico and Steve Capps
- Jonathan Dearman
- Jean D'Eliso and Adam Weiss
- Joe Doctor
- Daniel Donahoe and Kathryn Alexis Woods
- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Foundation
- Electric Works
- Jillian Elliott and Miranda Yaver
- Michael Fong
- Lisa Freeman
- Jen Wulfstat and Andy Gadiel
- Linda Gebroe
- Michelle Geller
- Amelia Gersema
- David Gibel
- Michelle Glasco
- Courtney Graham
- Bonnie Gross
- Joe and Barbara Gurkoff
- Yosh Han
- Lauren Higgins Hancock and Brad Hancock
- Sandra and Lou Handler
- Howard Harband
- Elliot Harmon and Erin Cornelius
- Sarah Hart
- Ellen and Aaron Hathaway
- Miranda Heller
- Audrey Heller
- Meaghan Henry
- Randy Hershkowitz
- Wendy Hill
- Linda and Kit Hinrichs
- Greg Hitz
- James and Anna Hsu
- Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott
- Barry Jacobs
- Cameron and Michele Janes
- Myla Jolley
- Lawrence and Christina Kane
- Vishal and Colleen Kapoor
- Charles Katz
- Megan Kavanaugh
- Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons, Farrise & Greenwood Foundation, Inc.
- Keith and Kirsten Knight
- Cathy Kornblith
- Jason Krasko
- Karen Kriendler Nelson
- Carol Krop
- Meredith Laban
- Virginia Lacy
- Jane Lang
- Brian Larson
- Cynthia Lee
- Peter Lemon
- Phred Lender
- Joe M and Martha Blake Linhares
- Jonathan Marlow
- Karin McClune
- Ira McEvoy
- Tessa and John Melvin
- Burt and Sandra Meyer
- Gary Meyer
- Katherine Michiels
- Abner Morales
- Peter Morgan
- Katrina and Tim Morshead
- Stephen Mulcahy
- Bita Nazarian
- Jean Nidorf
- George O'Connor
- Sarah Ostendorf
- Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz
- Jonathan Parker
- Murray and Anne Marie Peretz
- Ruggero Pergher
- Isabel and Dickon Pinner
- PLectric
- Wirasukmana Pradjinata and Srililyani Wangsanata
- Sally Randel
- Rebecca Richardson
- Kali Rosenblum and Kevin Smith
- Neil Sachs
- Chelsea and Jonah Sachs
- San Francisco Mime Troupe
- Sarah Graham Metalsmithing, Inc.
- Catherine and Patrick Sendegeya
- Sherri Shaffer
- Vaughn Shields
- Beverly and Costanzo Silvestre
- Colleen and Cory Smith
- Nancy Spector
- Barbara Spicer
- Tania Stepanian
- Aaron Stern
- David and Marsha Stone
- Thompson Suskind L.P.
- Jack Sylvan
- George Szakall, III
- Jill Tarlau
- David Teitel and Helen Loeser
- Yakira and David Teitel
- The VanCheng Fund
- Megan Van Linda and Doug Rappaport
- Michael and Raynor Voorhies
- Jennifer Walden and Corey Hastings
- Rebecca and Ethan Watters
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Sarah Woodward
- Sarah Woolley
- Robin Wright
- Vivian and Tony Zaloom
- Larissa Zimberoff
Haiku donor, 50 +
- AEC Research, Inc.
- Ajay and Anupa Arora
- Amy Autry and Gavin Jacobson
- Christina Ballard
- Particia Barroll
- Kerstin and Boris Bastian
- Chris Baty
- Anthony and Kimberly Boyd Bermingham
- Avi Black
- Karen and Ross Boylan
- Kiara Brinkman
- Elizabeth Brittain
- Dalyce Bubemyre
- Audrey Byrne
- Judy Chen
- Sandra Chu
- Clarendon Elementary School
- Susan Colen and Kenneth Fowler
- Mark Conrad
- Joseph Cotsirilos
- Teresa Cotsirilos
- Sheilah Cummings
- Lisa Delcarlo and Dominic Mantua
- Dana Demange
- Cynthia Ehrlich and Ron Nagle
- Gupta Etwaru and Cherry Lin
- Stacy Fuchs
- Alphie Garcia
- Michael Gates
- Julie and Allen Arthur Gebhardt
- Maria Gonzalez
- Robert Graham
- Shawn Grunberger
- Margo and Mark Hanne
- Claire Harrison
- David and Cindy Heitzman
- Eva Helgeson
- Christina Henry de Tessan and Richard Wilson
- Allison Heskin
- Catherine Hobbs
- Teri Hu
- Virginia Hubbell
- Kevin Hutchison
- Gerry and Krista Keegan
- Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
- Christina Kotowski
- Elizabeth Kroboth
- Barbara Kuecker and Bruce Helmberger
- David Kurapka and Merl Ross
- Michael LaMorte
- Susan Leach
- Peggy Lee
- Normal Lee
- Deanna May Toy and Donald Lim
- Syida Long
- Benjamin Lundholm
- Cheryl Maeder
- Katarina Menotti
- PK and Jeff Moebus
- Maria Jesus Moraga and Miguel Joshua de Avila
- Sarah Moser
- Gayle and Michael Murphy
- Gina Neff
- Joy Nestor
- Miriam Ortua
- Mary and Julio Penate
- Kenneth Peters
- Kathleen and Donald Philips
- Ozzie Pippenger
- Lori and David Preiss
- Harold Reynolds
- Teri Roah Hu and Samuel Gifford
- Regina Rodgers
- Jonathan Root
- Brad Rosenberg
- Sarah Schindler
- Joel Schipper and Shawn Pournaras
- Nancy Smereski
- Lorann Stallones
- Michael Susi
- Christy Susman
- John and Carol Tateishi
- Bjorn Antonio Teheran
- David Vinas
- Mandy Wells
- Eric Wilinski
- Catherine Willis and Peter Rowson
- Lorraine Woodruff-Long
In-kind Donors
- Abbey Rentals
- Steven Adams
- Mark Andrews and Bonita Hart
- Artisan Confections
- Naheed Attari
- Edward Barbera
- Mario Bazan
- Christopher Beckmann
- Bi Rite Market
- Bloomsbury USA
- Marsha Calon and Robert Feyer
- Cha Cha Cha
- Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
- Clubcard Printers
- Dolores Park Cafe
- Jerome C. Draper, Jr.
- Kathleen Duncan
- Fran Durr
- Ian Evans
- Mike and Julie Farrah
- Beth Girshman
- Golden Gate Express
- Guadalupe PTA
- Yosh Han
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Hatchett Book Group USA
- Lee and Sarah Henderson
- The Hilton
- Linda and Kit Hinrichs
- Manic D Press
- Max Hufnagel
- Ibarra Brothers
- Abigail Jacobs
- Gail and Ian Jardine
- Katherine Michiels School
- Erika Kelly
- Kent State University Press
- Jo Keroes
- Kimpton Hotels
- Leanne Konjin
- Cathy Kornblith
- Sharon Leong
- Kristin Loewenthall
- Lurie Foundation
- Dan Mayer
- Ted and Kate McCagg
- Maria McCann
- Karin McClune
- Leon McNeely
- Milkweed Editions
- Morning Due Cafe
- Omni Hotel
- The Onion
- Pacific Heights Limo
- Papalote
- Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
- Joan Quan
- Sean Quigley
- Ravenswood Winery
- Recchiuti Confections
- Ritual Roasters
- San Francisco Wine Exchange
- Alan Schacter
- Ashwin Seshagiri
- SF Chocolate Factory
- Stem Flowers
- St. Supery Winery
- Tartine Bakery
- Garen Torikian
- The W Hotel
- Karen and Jim Wagstaffe
- Tamara Weiss
- Westin San Francisco
- Francis Yiu
- Simon Zhang
- Zipcar
Matching Gifts Programs
- American Express Gift Matching Program
- Barclays Global Investor Matching Gifts Program
- Global Impact
- Macy's West G.I.F.T.
- Charles Schwab and Co.
- Electronic Arts Matching Gifts Program
- Gap Foundation Gift Match Program
- Gap Inc. Giving Campaign
- Google Matching Gifts Program
- Mal Warwick Associates
- Maverick Capital Charities
- Verizon Foundation
- Working Assets Funding Service
- Yahoo! Employee Charitable Giving Program