Founders Library

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Thank You Founding Friends!

We are grateful to all our “Founding Friends” who helped make our new Founders Library website a reality! This new platform is the only resource of its kind to record the 30-year history of chartering across the nation in the original words and documents of chartering pioneers. Over 20 leading pioneers have already made the library home to preserve the legacy of the true chartering idea. And we are just getting started!

Founding Friends

We're so grateful to everyone who is helping us fund this project! We appreciate your support!

$1,000+ (inclusive of in-kind contributions)

California Charter Schools Association |  CA

Center for Education Reform |  DC

CharterFolk, Jed Wallace |  CA

Charter Schools Development Center  |  CA
(in honor of Hon. Gary K. Hart)

Charter Schools Development Corporation   |  DC

Clarke Historical Library  |  MI

Jim and Theresa Goenner |  MI

The Governor John Engler Center for Charter School at CMU  |  MI

Grand Valley State University Charter Schools Office |  MI

Highmark School Development  |  UT

Independence Institute  |  CO

Michigan Association of Public School Academies (MAPSA) |  MI

Momentum Strategy & Research, Jim Griffin   |  CO

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools |  DC

Piper Sandler & Co.  |  MN

Skilling and Andrews Foundation, Ann Andrews |  MI

Tom Nida  |  DC
(in honor of Josephine Baker)

Truist Securities  |  PA

Progressive Policy Institute, Will Marshall  |  DC

Gerard Robinson  |  VA

$100 - $250 (inclusive of in-kind contributions)

Josephine Baker  |  DC

Carl Bistany, SABIS  |  MN

Mary Bradley  |  MI

Larry Brannan  |  MI

Linda Brown  |  MA
(in honor of the brave and bold souls who took the chance and felt the urgency)

Yvonne Chan  |  CA

Don Cooper  |  MI

Dr. John Curran  |  MN

Michael Curran  |  DC

Hon. Gary K. Hart  |  CA

Marilyn and Willie Hicks  |  TX

Ted Kolderie  |  MN

Wendy Larvick  |  MI

Alex Medler  |  CO
(in memory of Eric Rofes)

Minnesota Historical Society  |  MN

Jackie and Doug Mullikin  |  MI

Joe Nathan |  MN
(in honor of Hon. Ember Reichgott Junge, Howard Fuller, and other courageous pioneers)

Ray and Melissa O'Laughlin  |  MI

Hon. Bill Owens  |  CO

Gerry Pall |  IN

Michael Patterson  |  MI

Eric Premack  |  CA

Hon. Ember Reichgott Junge |  MN
(in honor of Hon. Peggy Kerns)

John Romine  |  MI

Katie Schenkhuizen  |  MI

Cheri Shannon  |  MO

Tom and Mary Kay Shields  |  MI

Nelson Smith  |  VA

Sid and Judy Smith  |  MI

Candace Sorensen  |  MI

Sheree Speakman |  IL
(in memory of John Walton)

David Stuit  |  MI

Sarah Tantillo  |  NJ

Jill and Joe Urban  |  MI

Mark and Susan Weinberg  |  MI

Founding Team

Thank you for helping us to implement the Founders Library!

Ember Reichgott Junge

James N. Goenner, Ph.D.

Don Cooper

Darlene Chambers, Ph.D.

Wendy Larvick

Become a Founding Friend

You can still become a Founding Friend of the National Charter Schools Founders Library for the 30th anniversary year! Founding Friends kindly support the Library with a $1000 organizational or foundation gift or $100 or more individual gift we will add you or your organization to the Founding Friends list.

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