Gratitudes

Thank you! Donors, 2020-2023

All Whidbey Topsoil, Greater, Kalypso’s Gifts, NW Language and Cultural Center, Queen City Auto Rebuild, Courtney Alampi & Tom Mix, Jim and Deb Alampi, John and Lara Allan, Elizabeth Almengor, Gina Ames, Jamie Anderson and James Attwood, Maryon Attwood, Andrew Baker and Jackie King, Luna Bartholomew, Alf Batiller, Rachel and Edward Bellinger, Karen Benson, Ethan Berkley, Joshua Berkowitz and Leah Flowers, Annabet Berlin, Julie & John Bianchi, John Sherman and Nadia Blood, Leigh Bloom and Michele Sakaguchi, Debbie Borman and Mark Poulos, Davida and Diana Bourgeois, Sally Boyd, Lesley Boyland, Jon and Joy Broughton, Catherine Burke and Justin Maggart, Sarah and Brian Bystrom, Kira Caluza, Chuck and Robyn Canright, Aaron Chaiclin and Isabella Chan, Chanse Cheyne, Kaci Cheyne, Neal and Alissa Collins, Angie Connell and Carissa Morris , Elizabeth and Andy Cook, Charlene Dator, Brian Debronsky and Renee Blair, Linda DiRienzo, willow dolde, Kevin Dunham and Jennifer Goff, Erin and Ross Egge, Carol Elias, Hannah and Molly Elnan-Derse, Ryan and Marthe Elting, Pamela Engler, Judy Feldman, Gena Felton, Craig Fleck and Stephanie Ryan, Carrie Fong and Tessa Huey , James Fowler, Christian and Yumiko Gonzalez, Guillermo Gonzales and Claudia Kiyama, Gabby Guidry, Edson Guimaraes and Mikaela Morgan, Haley and Brian Gutierrez, Cleveland Hall, Melisa and Don Hall, Kelly Hansen and Matthew Daniels, Holly Harlan, Dyanne and Chris Harshman, Gary and Sarah Hess, Ed Hodson and Joan Samson, Kristin Hoelting and Jack Landsbach, Abigail and David Hundley, Chris Hunter and Brook Ott, Hannah Jackson and Eric Jones, Marli and Jason Jenkins, Theresa Mathew and Brock Jenkins, Zinha Jenkins, Kristy and Matt Jewett, Robert and Susan Jones, Jack and Shirley McIntyre Foundation, Linda Kahrs, Tom Kenney and Lisa Siders-Kenney, Richard and Kay Kjellander, Mary Knighton, Mark and Vanessa Kohlhaas, Jeremy and Michele Kyncl, Mary Labovitch, Lance Landquist and Lori Barian, Jesse Levesque & Jonthan Stich, David and Angela Lindstrom, Emma Lloyd and Fred Ruegg, Melanie Lopez Grewal and Miguel Lopez, Justin and Krista MacDonald, Dana MacInnis, Sarah Manchester, Tom and Maureen Marklin, Margaret & Robert Marrowstone, Daria Martel, Heron Lake Press LLC, Jennifer McClain and Ian Dowrey, Trudy and Dylan McDanniel, Jay Miazga and Lisa Stidham, The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, Michael Morgan, Trevor Morgan and Allison Thacker, Daniel Morin, Lina Newman, Amanda O'Banion, Phillina Batiller and Sean Orfila , Susan Orfila, Mikel and Sam Peabody, Andrea Penglase and James Tolan, Arlin and Ruth Peterman, Steve and Michele Poirier, Rachel and Kit Powell, Kent Rasmussen and Renate Schubert, Jeffrey Rhodes and Jennifer Elias, John and Sonoko Rhodes, Kimberly Robinson, Kristina Rodden, Tim and Christi Rosenberger, Joan Samson and Ed Hodson , Virginia Schmidt, Susanne and Ronald Schnippering, Nathaniel and Jenna Scholz, Ronlyn Schwartz, Joseph Sendek and Annastasia Kovscek, Ron and Eva Sher, Joel and Paula Shrut, Nona Sisk, Sarah Sluis, Michael and Holly Soule, Kaylea Souza, Helen and Andrew Stark, Margaret Taylor, Barbara Terao, Terry Starrett and Barbara Kenney, Elizabeth and Matt Thomas, Jay Thomas and Robin Clark, Caleb Thompson, Skip and Carol Thompson, Billy Tierney and Vanessa Rochon-Tierney, Nick Toombs and Franny Kenney, Andrea and Brooke Trisler, Kevin Voigt and Karina Bergen, Hai Anh Vu and Scott Cheshier, Sarah Walston, Julie Ward, Craig and Frankie West, Kim Wetherell, John and Wren Whitman, Gigi and David Wickwire, Ashelyn Wilson, Heather and Eric Winter, Natasha Zimmerman, Scott Sisk , Denis and Cheryl Zimmermann, Aran and Larisa Zontine, Don and Anne Zontine, Kerry Holland.

Gratitude dinners

Thank you to Courtney Alampi, Community and Resource Development Coordinator and WIWS parent, for the idea and creation of the Gratitude Dinner to celebrate WIWS donors and friends. WIWS hosted two such dinners in 22/23, and will host another two in 23/24.

Thank you to Annie Mah, Sarah Bystrom, Renee Blair and Joan Samson for helping to make the Gratitude Dinners last year possible! Thank you to Jesse Young, a new WIWS parent, for offering to take up our Gratitude Dinner this Fall, ‘23!

Ongoing thanks to Judy Feldman and the Organic Farm School for use of the beautiful Feed & Seed building. Thank you to the friends and donors who were there for allowing us to thank and honor you. And thank you to the friends and donors who will be honored and thanked in the future.

Gratitude to the Whidbey Community Foundation

Thanks to the Whidbey Community Foundation for a generous gifting of $2,500 in 2021. That gift was used to continue to diversify our student and parent libraries and student curriculum.

In 2022 WIWS applied for and was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Whidbey Community Foundation (WCF) in large part to bring Kim John Payne, M.Ed, back to our wider community with a WIWS-hosted workshop & talk at the South Whidbey Elementary School.

Other funds from the WCF grant are earmarked for supporting one or two parents in becoming trained to be group leaders and thus become a local resource for ongoing Simplicity Parenting support groups. Also funded by the grant, Payne will train WIWS 7th & 8th grade students in how to be leaders and guides to the younger children in the school. The older children will be prepared to serve as the school’s Student Action Committee (SAC). in 2023.