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<strong>Seeds</strong><br />
of Change<br />
2015<br />
GRATITUDE<br />
REPORT
Dear Friends,<br />
2015 was a courageous year at Agros. You have done so much to materialize our mission. Through your<br />
generosity this year Agros supported 755 families in Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Guatemala on<br />
their path toward hope and opportunity. In El Salvador we have accelerated our efforts to realize our<br />
dream of providing land titles to families in four villages – a process we are close to finalizing.<br />
This year you invited 50 impoverished families to build new futures by launching La Bendición.<br />
You partnered with Engineers Without Borders to increase coffee profits in Tierra Nueva with a<br />
new wet mill, helped tilapia farmers in Piedra de Horeb organize an LLC to cooperatively buy<br />
and sell their fish, and achieved remarkably low child malnutrition and high school attendance<br />
rates in many of our communities.<br />
To celebrate this year, I asked my team to gather their favorite photos, scrapbook-style, to share<br />
our gratitude with you here. They highlight your achievements, because we couldn’t help a<br />
single family without your partnership. There’s also a map and financial report to give you the<br />
big picture overview of your impact in 2015.<br />
Before I go, I wanted to share a peek into what the next year holds. We’ve been talking a<br />
lot lately about the idea of prosperity: what it looks like for farmers, how we get there, and<br />
how we measure it. Prosperity is multi-faceted – you see it in our families’ clean homes with<br />
running water, excellent school attendance, and chubby, well-nourished babies. But prosperity<br />
is also fundamentally economic. Once families’ basic needs are met, we need to equip them<br />
to generate consistent income on their own. In 2016, we will continue building a road to<br />
economic prosperity for our families by partnering with private agricultural companies and<br />
local businesses. These partners build on the stability that your investments are establishing<br />
to turn our families’ farms into profitable businesses.<br />
Not only will this market-driven approach accelerate land loan repayments, it will also leverage your<br />
donations by recycling some part of your investments into the next project. Our business plans for each<br />
of our six active communities are ready to share with you. So please, check those out! We look forward<br />
to showing you the transformative results you are making possible.<br />
With gratitude for your partnership & excitement for a great year ahead,<br />
Have you heard? Skip Li, Agros<br />
founder, has rejoined our board. We’re<br />
thrilled to have his wisdom and visionary<br />
commitment to ending rural poverty<br />
back on our leadership team.<br />
Alberto Solano<br />
Executive Director, AGROS
Helping landless farmers<br />
develop thriving communities<br />
How does my investment transform<br />
families’ lives with Agros?<br />
Our work with families is uniquely holistic and<br />
participatory, helping them sustainably change<br />
their trajectory from poverty to prosperity and<br />
build better futures for<br />
generations to come.<br />
RECOVER<br />
We stabilize<br />
desperately poor families<br />
in new villages with shelter,<br />
clean water, food, and<br />
basic healthcare.<br />
BUILD<br />
Families begin<br />
developing their community<br />
and livelihoods, accessing<br />
education and basic credit,<br />
and working for themselves<br />
for the first time.<br />
GROW<br />
At this stage our<br />
focus shifts to economic<br />
development as families grow<br />
more valuable crops, develop<br />
business skills, and harvest<br />
a predictable crop surplus to<br />
sell within established<br />
markets.<br />
PROSPER<br />
At the culmination of<br />
5-7 years, families manage<br />
profitable agribusinesses with strong,<br />
independent market connections to<br />
provide consistent, year-round income.<br />
Families become titled land-owners<br />
within a self-governing<br />
community.<br />
LAND<br />
Land is the foundation<br />
of our approach to<br />
ending poverty. We help the<br />
rural poor gain access to land<br />
and launch agriculturally-based<br />
businesses, empowering families<br />
to acquire productive assets and<br />
generate income.<br />
MARKET-LED<br />
AGRICULTURE<br />
Highly-skilled<br />
agronomists provide<br />
families with the technical expertise,<br />
business development, and market<br />
information needed to successfully<br />
cultivate, harvest and market their<br />
crops. This enables families to<br />
integrate with the economic value<br />
chain for true wealth creation.<br />
HEALTH &<br />
WELL-BEING<br />
Human development<br />
officers provide emotional,<br />
psychological and spiritual<br />
support while fostering<br />
community ownership of<br />
preventive healthcare, good<br />
nutrition and proper sanitation<br />
and hygiene.<br />
FINANCIAL<br />
EMPOWERMENT<br />
Credit officers customize<br />
financial products to meet<br />
the cash flow and seasonal needs<br />
of the families to ensure business<br />
success and to teach basic<br />
financial literacy like budgeting,<br />
saving and investing.<br />
EDUCATION<br />
Our educational<br />
and adult training<br />
programs focus on lifting<br />
an entire family out of poverty<br />
through knowledge. Education for<br />
children reduces poverty, ends wasted<br />
potential, and creates a pathway<br />
for civic participation, and economic<br />
choice for the next generation.<br />
AGROS 2015 GRATITUDE REPORT PAGE 1
La Bendición<br />
This spring, with your help,<br />
we partnered with 50 families<br />
to launch La Bendición, our<br />
first new community since<br />
Tierra Nueva.<br />
La Bendición launches 50 new families<br />
on the path out of poverty<br />
The master plan for La Bendicion incorporates 30 years of<br />
learning into a model that tackles past challenges, like lack of<br />
water and family attrition. This spring The Global Studio, our<br />
design partner, helped us select fertile, well-positioned land<br />
and engage families in a participatory design process. Families<br />
helped make key decisions around lot size and housing<br />
placement in one of the final community layouts, shown here.<br />
They’ve nearly completed housing, water, and community<br />
infrastructure construction, laying the foundation to build<br />
the community of their dreams.<br />
“I’m so happy to be here,” says Walter, one<br />
of the founding partners of La Bendición.<br />
“This is a fertile land… We know that if<br />
we plant corn we will harvest corn and if<br />
we plant beans we will harvest beans. It is<br />
a blessing. I feel happy and at peace here.”<br />
NICARAGUA REGIONAL PROJECT<br />
BECOMES LA BENDICIÓN<br />
After weighing our resources and commitments, we have<br />
curtailed our work with regional families to focus on the families<br />
in La Bendición. Rather than overreach, we’re committed in<br />
2016 to delivering quantifiable results to you and our families.<br />
By focusing this next year on agricultural market development,<br />
we can help our six current villages develop sustainable<br />
farming businesses and develop a more sustainable<br />
funding model by treating crop cycles as investments.<br />
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Tierra Nueva Beneficio<br />
We partnered with Engineers Without Borders this year to build a<br />
beneficio so families can efficiently depulp, ferment, wash, and dry<br />
their own coffee. The more farmers process their coffee, the higher a<br />
price they can command in the market for their crop. Plus dried coffee<br />
beans can be sorted by quality and size, allowing farmers to sell their<br />
best beans for a premium. Advances in technology like this beneficio<br />
leverage community resources to help farmers move up the value<br />
chain from survival subsistence farming to profitable and dignified<br />
agribusiness ownership.<br />
Beneficio means<br />
“benefit” in Spanish.<br />
Thanks to you, that’s<br />
just what this new<br />
beneficio – a coffee<br />
wet mill – will do<br />
for Tierra Nueva’s<br />
150 coffee-growing<br />
families.<br />
Victor’s wife Candida worked in<br />
the coffee fields from age 14.<br />
For his three children, Tierra<br />
Nueva offers a different life:<br />
village school, playtime with<br />
neighbors, and the promise of<br />
inheriting land and a thriving<br />
agricultural business.<br />
AGROS 2015 GRATITUDE REPORT PAGE 3
Piedra de Horeb<br />
Nueva Esperanza<br />
Fishy business in Piedra de Horeb<br />
Five years ago, farmers in Piedra de Horeb like Germán<br />
were forced to work for giant haciendas, without any control<br />
over their futures. Now, well-organized, they’ve created<br />
their own sustainable, registered and profitable business.<br />
They consistently supply in-demand tilapia to markets that<br />
guarantee a steady income. That stable income, combined<br />
with safe housing, healthcare access, and education for their<br />
children, has changed the trajectory of these families’ lives.<br />
Witnessing the success<br />
of Piedra’s small scale<br />
business operation is<br />
an encouraging and<br />
promising glimpse at what<br />
the future can look like for<br />
all of our communities if<br />
we implement this marketdriven<br />
strategy on a much<br />
larger scale in 2016.<br />
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Fish farmers in Piedra are<br />
generating a prosperous living<br />
through the business of fish<br />
– a market-driven model that<br />
we’re ready to replicate.<br />
Healthy babies in<br />
Nueva Esperanza<br />
When Carlito was born, his<br />
mother Yaris knew breastfeeding<br />
was crucial to ensure<br />
healthy development. But<br />
her milk made him sick.<br />
Agros staff helped Yaris<br />
identify that Carlito was<br />
allergic to breast milk and<br />
taught her how to use a<br />
powder to make soy milk<br />
instead. It worked. Carlito’s<br />
chubby cheeks are evidence<br />
of Nueva Esperanza’s low<br />
rate of child malnutrition –<br />
the result of a holistic<br />
program of maternity<br />
support, child weighings,<br />
nutrition training, and<br />
help accessing resources<br />
like powdered soy milk<br />
for Carlito.<br />
The proof is in the pudge – Carlito<br />
is one of more than 50 healthy<br />
children in Nueva Esperanza,<br />
where your support has<br />
beaten back child malnutrition.<br />
“We didn’t have the opportunity to<br />
grow up in a good environment,<br />
to study or to have nice things,”<br />
remembers Carlos, Carlito’s father.<br />
“Our dream is to give these things<br />
to our children.”<br />
SEEDS OF CHANGE | www.agros.org
Where are Agros communities?<br />
This year you partnered with 755 families in 11 communities and supported the<br />
transition of four villages from direct Agros support to full self-governance.<br />
NICARAGUA:<br />
Nueva Esperanza, 33 families*<br />
San José, 29 families<br />
Tierra Nueva, 150 families<br />
San Marcos, 15 families**<br />
Luz del Mañana, 25 families<br />
La Bendición, 50 families<br />
Nicaragua Regional, 218 families<br />
HONDURAS:<br />
Piedra de Horeb, 24 families<br />
Bella Vista, 32 families<br />
Nuevo Amanecer, 10 families**<br />
GUATEMALA:<br />
La Providencia, 150 families<br />
MEXICO:<br />
Nueva Ilusión, 19 families*<br />
* Transitioned from direct support in 2015.<br />
** Transitioned from full support in 2014.<br />
Agros provided technical agricultural<br />
assistance through 2015.<br />
tvvvv<br />
MEXICO<br />
Chiapas<br />
“Land isn’t just a seed from an economic point<br />
of view. It is also a seed of hope. I believe that<br />
hope is the first thing that must be planted in<br />
people so that we can have a better future.”<br />
– Jaime Arauz, Mayor of El Tuma-La Dalia, Nicaragua, where Tierra<br />
Nueva, Nueva Esperanza, San José and La Bendición are located<br />
GUATEMALA<br />
Guatemala City<br />
San Salvador<br />
EL SALVADOR<br />
San Pedro Sula<br />
HONDURAS<br />
39<br />
A family living outside<br />
of Nueva Esperanza is 4x<br />
more likely to experience<br />
domestic violence than a<br />
family within the village.<br />
Source: INIDE: National Institute<br />
of Development Information<br />
San Pedro Sula is the murder<br />
capital of the world. Our<br />
Honduran communities help<br />
families escape urban violence<br />
as well as rural poverty.<br />
Source: NAUH: Violence Observatory,<br />
National Autonomous University of Honduras<br />
Tegucigalpa<br />
The average corn harvest<br />
in Nicaraguan Agros<br />
communities was 4x the<br />
national average this year.<br />
Source: FAO: Food and Agriculture<br />
Organization of the United Nations.<br />
NICARAGUA<br />
Managua<br />
AGROS 2015 GRATITUDE REPORT PAGE 5
Agros Fiscal Year 2015 Financials<br />
2015 SOURCES OF REVENUE<br />
OPERATING REVENUES<br />
Unrestricted Gifts $ 1,517,103<br />
Gifts released from restrictions $ 2,028,347<br />
In-Kind contributions $ 38,689<br />
Other income $ 48,607<br />
Total Operating Revenues $ 3,632,746<br />
OPERATING EXPENSES<br />
Program $ 2,319,471<br />
Resource Development $ 870,392<br />
Administration and General $ 323,544<br />
Total Operating Expenses $ 3,513,407<br />
63%<br />
Individuals<br />
20%<br />
Foundations<br />
6%<br />
Businesses<br />
8%<br />
Churches<br />
NET ASSETS AT JUNE 30, 2015*<br />
Unrestricted net assets, invested in land & equipment $ 142,719<br />
Unrestricted net assets, designated for land purchases $ 169,094<br />
Other unrestricted net assets $ 455,083<br />
Temporarily restricted net assets $ 1,989,063<br />
Permanently restricted net assets $ 692,667<br />
Total Net Assets $ 3,448,626<br />
3%<br />
Other Income<br />
Our fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30.<br />
*Net Assets include the net assets of Land Hope Life, an affiliate of Agros,<br />
which holds recent land investments on behalf of Agros.<br />
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SEEDS OF CHANGE | www.agros.org
Thank you. Agros is deeply grateful for the generous support of our individual, corporate, and foundation donors.<br />
In addition, our families benefit from partnerships with local governments, hospitals, and businesses in Central America.<br />
INDIVIDUAL DONORS<br />
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John and Debra Lisa<br />
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Sandy and Gail Alderfer<br />
Brad and Ann Allen<br />
Justin Allen<br />
Aaron and Randi Allred<br />
David and Carol<br />
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Sarah Andersen<br />
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Burnett<br />
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Burns<br />
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Mark Busto and<br />
Maureen Lee<br />
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Kari and Curtis Calvert<br />
Matthew and Hazuki<br />
Camp<br />
Chris Campbell<br />
Jon and Jackie Campbell<br />
Mark and Anne Marie<br />
Canlis<br />
Kristen and Benjamin<br />
Carlson<br />
Sarah Carpenter<br />
Matthew Carpenter<br />
Inger and Richard<br />
Carriere<br />
Colin Cary<br />
Susan and John Cary<br />
Ross and Julie Case<br />
Barbara Cathcart<br />
Tobin Cattolico<br />
Ken Cervellin<br />
David and Marian<br />
Chambers<br />
Natalie Chapin<br />
Larry and Ginny<br />
Chapman<br />
Mary Lou Childs<br />
Mark Chinen and<br />
Ruby Takushi<br />
Lance and Valerie<br />
Chisum<br />
Jerry Cholewinski<br />
Stephanie and Peter Choo<br />
Julie and Ryan Church<br />
Ken and Cathy Churchill<br />
Bill and Doris Clancy<br />
Sandy and Michael<br />
Clarke<br />
James and Rachel Clifton<br />
Peter and Linda Cline<br />
William and Betty Code<br />
Amanda Coffield<br />
Mitchell and Marsha<br />
Cogdill<br />
Jan Coleman<br />
Gregory and Patricia<br />
Collins<br />
David and Betsy Cook<br />
Bryan Cook<br />
Thomas and Nancy Jo<br />
Cook<br />
Laura and Greg Cootsona<br />
John Corder<br />
Patrick and Judith<br />
Cornelius<br />
Debbie Cornett and<br />
Jon Semke<br />
John and Patty Coster<br />
Brad and Gretchen Covey<br />
Shelly Crabtree<br />
Ruth and Gerald Cravens<br />
Paul and Patricia<br />
Creelman<br />
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Cunningham<br />
Linda and Michael Dailey<br />
Kurt Dale and<br />
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Marc McClure<br />
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Darlington<br />
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Synnove Davidson<br />
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Jan DeLacy<br />
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Megan Ellison<br />
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Laura and Harry Emil<br />
Amber Emslie<br />
Todd and Natalie<br />
Erickson<br />
Bruce and Elizabeth<br />
Erickson<br />
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Santiago and Margaret<br />
Etchevers<br />
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Mike and Barbara Evans<br />
Jan-Roelof Falkena<br />
Larry Farren<br />
Anne and Jerry<br />
Faulkenburg<br />
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Ed and Kristin Feitzinger<br />
Caroline and Al Fiedler<br />
Peter and Stephanie<br />
Filipiuk<br />
Adam Finch<br />
Stephen Fish<br />
David Fisher<br />
Sean and Krista Fleming<br />
Melodie Fleming<br />
Nathan Fleming<br />
Jason and Lisa Fligor<br />
Robert Forgette<br />
Karl D. Forth<br />
Randy Fout and<br />
Mary Weis-Fout<br />
Candace Frankinburger<br />
and David Hooper<br />
Win and Dianne Franklin<br />
Ben and Jenni Freeburg<br />
Tina Freed<br />
John and Melissa Friedery<br />
Lauren Frye<br />
Bob Fuller<br />
Ben Gaffney and Stacey<br />
Fitzpatrick<br />
Shari Gaffney<br />
Shannon Gallagher<br />
Carlos Garcia Jurado<br />
Suarez and Alicia<br />
Moreno Gonzalez<br />
Russ and Rhonda<br />
Garrison<br />
Linnea and Brian Gaskins<br />
Jennifer Gebhart<br />
Lauren Geertsen<br />
Patrick and Mollie<br />
Gemma<br />
Richard and Mary Beth<br />
Gemperle<br />
David and Elizabeth<br />
Gerlach<br />
Ashley Giesa<br />
Peter and Kristi Gilbert<br />
Becky and Vic Gilliam<br />
Robin Gilson<br />
David and Cynthia<br />
Glancy<br />
Donald and Andrea<br />
Glassett<br />
William and Barbara<br />
Glenn<br />
Jean Gochenour<br />
Dan Goering<br />
Avery Gorter<br />
Jeanette Gotz<br />
Herman and Bea Gray<br />
Angela and Rod<br />
Greenshields<br />
David Grieger<br />
Crystal and Rob Griffin<br />
Austin Grisham<br />
Emily Groves<br />
Alvin Grubbs<br />
Carol Gruen<br />
Barbara Gumprecht<br />
Dawn Hagen and<br />
Anton Schwartz<br />
Carolyn and Rolf Hahne<br />
Michael and Jodi Hailey<br />
Andriette Hall<br />
David and Debby Hall<br />
James Hall<br />
McClure and Regina Hall<br />
Shelly Hall and<br />
Steven Rogers<br />
Richard and Jeanette<br />
Hamilton<br />
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Phillip and Janet Hamre<br />
Glen and Susan Hanket<br />
Lindsay Hanna<br />
Ann Hanscom<br />
Wayne and Carolyn<br />
Hansen<br />
Janet Hanthorn<br />
Hylton and Lawrence<br />
Hard<br />
Richard and Kathryn<br />
Hardesty<br />
Deborah and Gordon<br />
Hardy<br />
Joan Harlow<br />
Kathryn Harra<br />
Jamie and Joseph<br />
Harrison<br />
Tim and Saranell<br />
Hartman<br />
Luke and Annie Hartsock<br />
Charles and Lynn<br />
Hartung<br />
Allan and Paula Harvey<br />
Philip and Christine<br />
Harvey<br />
Timothy and Jenny Haser<br />
Mali and Rylan Hawkins<br />
Dorothee Hayman<br />
Caren and Daniel Hazen<br />
Mike and Lisa Hedley<br />
Ginny and Neil Heinitz<br />
Jerold Heller and<br />
Susan Heller<br />
David Hellman<br />
Anja and John Helmon<br />
William Herkes<br />
Aaron and Loni<br />
Hernandez<br />
Adam and Jamie Hestad<br />
Brian Hicks<br />
Charles and Marlana<br />
High<br />
Jonathan Hiser<br />
Libby and Edwin Hlavka<br />
Charles and Linda Hodge<br />
Robert and Belva<br />
Hoffman<br />
Kathryn Hogue<br />
Steve and Susanna Hoke<br />
Frank and Patti Holman<br />
Kara and Michael<br />
Holmlund<br />
Tina Hoover<br />
Maura Hoss<br />
Ron and Joanne Hostetter<br />
Jesse and Marla<br />
Hostetter Kropf<br />
Christian Houck<br />
Burt Hovander and<br />
Patricia Oppenheim<br />
Sheryl Hudson and<br />
Jim McConville<br />
David and Wendy Hunt<br />
John and Britta Hunt<br />
John and Maureen<br />
Hurley<br />
Bruce Hutchison and<br />
Judy Friedman<br />
Marc Hutchinson<br />
Daniel Ichinaga and<br />
Allison Cook<br />
David Ingalls and<br />
Dara McKinley<br />
Michelle and Steven<br />
Ingalsbe<br />
Jean Ingebritsen and<br />
Joe Chrastil<br />
Paul and Sher Ireland<br />
Heidi and John Isaza<br />
Danette and John Ivie<br />
Audrey and John Jackson<br />
Brent Jackson<br />
Zach Jacobson<br />
Jim Jansen<br />
Christi and Tim Jenkins<br />
Guillermo and Anna<br />
Jimenez<br />
Andrea John-Smith<br />
Paul and Lisa Johnson<br />
Russ and Melissa Johnson<br />
Stacie Johnson<br />
Brian and Allison Jones<br />
Jonathan Jones<br />
Kermit Jorgensen<br />
Megan Judge<br />
Cynthia Kaapana<br />
Timothy Kaczocha<br />
Deborah and William<br />
Kalmbach<br />
Kyle Karpack<br />
Jim and Sheila Kaufman<br />
Larisa Kaukonen and<br />
Derek Rodrigues<br />
Aaron and Annie Keating<br />
Charles and Carolyn<br />
Keck<br />
Marcie and Marsh<br />
Kellegrew<br />
Ali and Christopher<br />
Keller<br />
Kristen and Brad Kelln<br />
Stephen and Michelle<br />
Kelly<br />
Jennifer Kelly and<br />
Gerry Scully<br />
Jim and Nancy Kenagy<br />
Lew Kendall<br />
Patrick Kennedy and<br />
Melissa Ries<br />
Karen Kershaw<br />
Brian Kester<br />
Pat and Karen Kilgannon<br />
Tim and Monette King<br />
James King and<br />
Joan Nathan<br />
Robin Kiuttu<br />
Rose Kline<br />
Dede and Craig Knapp<br />
Ryan Knicely<br />
Ian Knox and<br />
Manon Cypher<br />
Michael and Sarah Koch<br />
Fletcher and Kathy Kolb<br />
Inez Kollmar<br />
Art and Janet Kopicky<br />
Adam Kopp<br />
Alex Kopp<br />
Lauren Kopp<br />
Robert and Deborah<br />
Kopp<br />
Andrew and Emily Koth<br />
Jesse Kropf<br />
Tom and Dixie Kroupa<br />
Don Kunze<br />
James and Judy Kutz<br />
Janet and Mark<br />
Labberton<br />
Connie Lacey<br />
Doug and Karen<br />
Lacy-Roberts<br />
Janet Lafferty<br />
Roger Lageschulte<br />
Henry and Jennifer Laible<br />
Greg Landis<br />
Katherine Langer<br />
Joyce and David Langley<br />
Mina and Ray Larsen<br />
Hazel Larson<br />
Lee Lauckhart<br />
Katherine and Joshua<br />
Leach<br />
Armando Leal<br />
Barbara Lee<br />
Christopher Lee<br />
John and Liz Lee<br />
Anna Lehn<br />
Patricia Lenssen<br />
Gene and Nancy<br />
Leonardson<br />
Tara and Daniel Leung<br />
Don Levens<br />
Derek and Farlis Lewis<br />
Peter and Susan Li<br />
Skip and Cyd Li<br />
Susan Li and Joseph Li<br />
Alexander Lindsey and<br />
Lynn Manley<br />
Wesley and Merrilyn<br />
Lingren<br />
Virginia and Jeremy<br />
Linzee<br />
Steven Loeppky<br />
Jon Loflin<br />
Timothy Long<br />
Al and Kathy Lopus<br />
Tim Losch<br />
John and Lauri Losinski<br />
Kent and Carin Lottis<br />
Edmund and Karlin Love<br />
Oscar and Vienna Lucas<br />
Steve and Patti Luchte<br />
David and Nancy Lynch<br />
Laura Machado<br />
de Wright<br />
Kathy Machuga<br />
Alexander and Lucinda<br />
Mackie<br />
Patricia Malone<br />
Scott Mannering<br />
Cynthia Manning<br />
Edgardo Marquez<br />
Barb and David Martin<br />
Deborah Martin<br />
Eugene Martin<br />
Jonathan and Emily<br />
Mason<br />
William Mathias III<br />
Penny and Kurt Mattson<br />
Michael and Anna<br />
Matysik<br />
Marc and Teresa Mayberg<br />
Wade Mayer<br />
Maureen and Keith Mayo<br />
Sarah and Zack<br />
Mazzoncini<br />
James and Judith McAteer<br />
Dan and Cathy<br />
McCauley<br />
Pollie and Steve<br />
McCloskey<br />
Sally and Dave McCray<br />
Kevin and Kristin<br />
McCuistion<br />
Kelly McDonald<br />
Dave and Carol<br />
McFarland<br />
Karen McGaughey<br />
Garrett McGowan<br />
Micky McKinley and<br />
Samuel Green<br />
John and Alex McMillan<br />
Terry and Ken McNichols<br />
Maury and Donna<br />
Medlen<br />
Chris Megargee<br />
Ana Melica<br />
Richard Michelson<br />
Meredith Middlebrooks<br />
Andrew and Cherie Miller<br />
Anne Miller<br />
Dana and LaNeal Miller<br />
Ed Miller<br />
Kim and Ken Miller<br />
Lincoln Miller and<br />
Nancy Sapiro<br />
Gary and Lorraine<br />
Minshull<br />
Gary and Margaret<br />
Mitchell<br />
Jack Mitchell<br />
Joel Mitchell<br />
Samuel and Beth Mitchell<br />
Shari and Craig Monson<br />
Jorge Mario Moreno<br />
Benjumea<br />
Donna Morris<br />
Corliss and Richard<br />
Morse<br />
John Moss<br />
Susan and Paul Moulton<br />
Eric and Jacqueline<br />
Mowat<br />
Linnea and Bernard<br />
Mulder<br />
Betsy and Jeffrey Mullen<br />
Andy and Janet Munter<br />
Steve and Vicki Murphy<br />
Robert Muschner<br />
Michael and Leslie Muto<br />
Judy and Richard Myers<br />
William and Kim Naber<br />
Philip and Lauren<br />
Neiswender<br />
Tyler Nelsen<br />
Jennifer Nelson<br />
Karen Nelson<br />
Sandy and Kyle<br />
Netterfield<br />
Marilyn Newcomer<br />
Stan and Lois Newell<br />
Scott and Sharon Nichols<br />
Pat and Sue Noon<br />
Jeff and Susan Nopper<br />
Tom and Sandy Norris<br />
Robert and Laura Norton<br />
James B and Renee<br />
Notkin<br />
Kent and Judith Nowlin<br />
Dan Nyblad<br />
Phil and Phyllis Nyce<br />
Michael and Cindy<br />
O’Brien<br />
Jim and Mariette<br />
O’Donnell<br />
William and Rebekah<br />
O’Donnell<br />
Dennis O’Grady and<br />
Tino Venezia<br />
Sumee Oh<br />
Pam Okano<br />
Gregg and Cathy Oliver<br />
Jennifer Olsen<br />
Steven and Debra Olson<br />
Carol and John Overbeck<br />
Dr. Christian and Kathy<br />
Overman<br />
Diane Palachek<br />
Harry Pallick<br />
Larissa Palmer<br />
Alexa Parker<br />
Eric Parker<br />
Ronnie and Nancy Patton<br />
Mark and Andrea Patzer<br />
Amy and Jun<br />
Paulson Young<br />
Jan and Virgil Pearce<br />
Daniel and Nola Pearson<br />
David and Susan Pease<br />
Marian Peiffer<br />
Michael and Rebecca<br />
Pelletier<br />
Steve and Alicia Pelton<br />
Matt Penning<br />
Kevin and Annie Pepper<br />
Rosemary Perera<br />
Christopher and Brooke<br />
Perisho<br />
Bill Perman<br />
Bill and Barbara Perman<br />
Robert Perman<br />
Jenna Perryman<br />
Tim and Margaret<br />
Petersen<br />
Susan Peterson<br />
George and Alyssa Petrie<br />
Ligia Pettit<br />
Jill M. Phillips<br />
Lance and Monica Piatt<br />
Alissa and Norm Picker<br />
Paul Picton<br />
Noah Pieper<br />
Stan and Wilma Pilon<br />
Geoffrey and Stephanie<br />
Piper<br />
Skylar Piro<br />
Jay Pittenger<br />
Craig and Gail Poindexter<br />
Priscilla Pope-Levison<br />
Clyde Powers and<br />
Betty Dean<br />
Terry and Kathy Proctor<br />
William Pugh<br />
Kristie Putnam<br />
Joel Quaid<br />
Caroline and Tom Quinn<br />
Dennis Quiring and<br />
Susan Carrier<br />
Jack and Marilyn Rafn<br />
James and Rose Ragan<br />
Rebecca Barrett and<br />
Pat Rawson<br />
Dorothy Redick<br />
Michael and Kathryn<br />
Redman<br />
Benjamin Reed<br />
Steven and Cynthia Reed<br />
Randall Reedy<br />
Jeffrey Reid and<br />
Dawn White<br />
Sam and Sara Reid<br />
David Reigel<br />
Jim and Jan Rettig<br />
Arliss and Eric Rey<br />
Richard Reynolds<br />
Randy and Tina Rhoads<br />
Ginger Rich<br />
Judy Richards<br />
Carl B. Richards<br />
Christopher and Crystal<br />
Rieger<br />
Heather and Dan<br />
Ringoen<br />
Kathy and John Riper<br />
Rachel and DJ Rippl<br />
Annie and Driscoll<br />
Robbins<br />
Kostia Robert<br />
Paul and Kathy Robinson<br />
George and Holly Roe<br />
Ruth Roetcisoender<br />
Brian and Veronica<br />
Roetcisoender<br />
Michael and Jean Rogers<br />
Stuart and Lee Rolfe<br />
Ervin and Andrea Roorda<br />
Cheryl Rosato<br />
Gerry and Doris Rosellini<br />
Henry and Charlotte<br />
Rosenberger<br />
Julie and Kent Ross<br />
Tom and Ruth Ross<br />
Barry and Linda Rowan<br />
Robert and Mary Russell<br />
Daphne Ryan<br />
Bill and Janet Safstrom<br />
John and Harriet Salathe<br />
Perry and Melinda<br />
Satterlee<br />
Chuck Schilling and<br />
Laura Giddings<br />
Evan Schmidt<br />
Sara Schmidt<br />
Peter and Judy Schnebele<br />
Tim and Melissa Schober<br />
Mary Jo Schrade<br />
David and Frances<br />
Schroedl<br />
Greg and Kay Schroedl<br />
Bruce and Suzanne<br />
Schwarze<br />
Heidi Scott<br />
Tania Scutt<br />
Paul and Jaime Seibert<br />
Joan and Dave Selvig<br />
Paul Serenbetz<br />
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Rebecca Settlemyer<br />
Paul and Barbara<br />
Shackelford<br />
Martha and David<br />
Shearer<br />
Steve Shearer<br />
Ray and Barbara Shiffer<br />
Craig and Signe Shuck<br />
Jennifer and Brian Shuck<br />
Shannon Sigler<br />
Todd and Teresa Silver<br />
Basant and Sheila Singh<br />
Martin and Marilyn<br />
Sippy<br />
Stephen and Amy Sirich<br />
Stephen and Litishia<br />
Skatrud<br />
Kevin Skillestad<br />
Amanda Smith<br />
Bradley and Deborah<br />
Smith<br />
Dan Smith<br />
Julie and Sam Smith<br />
Justin and Sarye Smith<br />
Kathy Smith<br />
Ken Smith<br />
Norma Creighton Smith<br />
Sharon Smith<br />
Barbara and Stan Snow<br />
Janice and Arthur Snyder<br />
Lyle and Andrea Snyder<br />
Alberto Solano<br />
Angela and Brian Solecki<br />
Adrian Solis<br />
Charles Somerville<br />
and Billie Eiffert-<br />
Somerville<br />
Stephen Spare and<br />
Susannah Taylor<br />
Heath and Cynthia<br />
Spencer<br />
Dave and Marti Spicer<br />
Mick Spillane and<br />
Phyllis Stabeno<br />
David and Abby St.<br />
Hilaire<br />
Thomas and Marilyn<br />
Stacy<br />
Janet and Jon Stafford<br />
Todd Staheli<br />
Benjamin Stangland<br />
Deborah Starr<br />
Brad Stave<br />
Alberta and David Stave<br />
Esther and Timothy<br />
Steege<br />
Ken and Betty Steffa<br />
Nancy Steiner<br />
Eva Stender<br />
Sharon Sterling<br />
Bradley Stevenson<br />
Hannah Stinson<br />
Katie Stock<br />
Melyssa Stone<br />
Leslie Studdard<br />
Christopher and Wei<br />
Sturman<br />
Renee and Henry Suhr<br />
Jill and Sean Sullivan<br />
Scott and Heather Sund<br />
Ken and Sarah Sundin<br />
Lee Sundquist<br />
Robert Sutton<br />
Paul and Heidi Sweeney<br />
Robert and Elizabeth<br />
Swenson<br />
Dan Taylor<br />
Daniel Taylor<br />
Jennifer Taylor<br />
Steve and DeYonne<br />
Tegman<br />
Tiffany Teichrow<br />
Ellen Tennis<br />
Daniel and Carla Thieme<br />
Arun and Julie Thomas<br />
John and Misty Thomas<br />
Ryan and Alysson<br />
Thomas<br />
Kim and Geoffrey<br />
Thompson<br />
Trent Thompson<br />
Jacqueline Thompson<br />
Jennifer and Brad<br />
Thompson<br />
Lynn Tienken<br />
Jennifer and Matthew<br />
Tilghman-Havens<br />
Charles and Janice<br />
Timbers<br />
Maryann and Charles<br />
Timchalk<br />
John and Teresa Tippett<br />
Rick and Susan Titcomb<br />
Chris Tobey and<br />
Jalayne Boni<br />
Raymond Tong<br />
Margaret and James Toop<br />
Mark Torrance<br />
Steve and Patricia Trainer<br />
David Tschetter<br />
Richard Tschetter<br />
Robert and Cindy<br />
Tulloch<br />
Johnny Valencia<br />
Heather Valencia<br />
Eric and Meg Valentine<br />
George and Dee<br />
Van Leeuwen<br />
Michael Van Maren<br />
Judith Van Nice<br />
Keith Vandegrift and<br />
Lana Bell<br />
Martha VanGenderen<br />
Tony and Becky Vaught<br />
Milton Vine and<br />
Janet Barstow-Vine<br />
Dacia Wagnon<br />
Debra and Alan Wahl<br />
Wayne and Florence<br />
Waldal<br />
John and Madeline Wall<br />
Gary and Barbara Waller<br />
Magdalena Wallhoff<br />
Don and Janet Wallis<br />
Richard and Leslie Wallis<br />
Lisa Wallis<br />
Lance and Kelly Walrad<br />
Douglas and Susan<br />
Waltar<br />
Rebecca and Brad<br />
Watkins<br />
Carol Watson<br />
Jack Watson<br />
Bill and Mary Watts<br />
Marilyn Weber<br />
Karen and Mark Weber<br />
Mark and Connie<br />
Weiseth<br />
Jeremy Welch<br />
Janet West<br />
Bradley Wheeler and<br />
Elizabeth Westburg<br />
Scott and Anna White<br />
Paul and Erica White<br />
William and Suellen<br />
White<br />
Brad and Janice Whitney<br />
Richard and Anne<br />
Wiedenheft<br />
John and Remy Wilcox<br />
Jesse and Tara Williams<br />
Kathy and John Willson<br />
Cliff and Carol Wisman<br />
Justin Withrow<br />
Greg Witter and Anne<br />
McGonigle<br />
Susan Worthen<br />
Laura Wright<br />
Aaron and Kimberley<br />
Wun<br />
Anna Wyckoff<br />
Michael Yates and<br />
Jennifer Nusse<br />
Julie Yates<br />
Jeremy and Brigette Yates<br />
Mitch and Gail Yockey<br />
Robert and Carrie Young<br />
Jay and Leslie Young<br />
Bill and Brenda Younger<br />
William and Michelle<br />
Youngsman<br />
Jeff and Amy Youngstrom<br />
Al and Kerei Yuen<br />
Christine Yukevich<br />
Kelly and Michael<br />
Yukevich<br />
Suzanne Zahr<br />
Brenda Zavala<br />
Elliot Zeelander<br />
Chip and Cindy Zimmer<br />
This listing reflects donors<br />
who made gifts between<br />
January 1 and December 31,<br />
2015. We are deeply grateful<br />
for all of our supporters.<br />
Please contact us if you feel<br />
we’ve made an error.<br />
ORGANIZATIONS<br />
AAA Water Purification and<br />
Drainfield Design<br />
Accelerator Industries<br />
Alderfer Auction Co.<br />
Alex McMillan Family Foundation<br />
AMB Foundation<br />
American Ironworks<br />
& Erectors, Inc.<br />
Anderson Family Foundation<br />
Andrew R. and Dorothy L.<br />
Cochrane Foundation<br />
Ball Corporation<br />
Bashey, Hutchinson<br />
& Walter PLLC<br />
Bethany Presbyterian Church<br />
Bidwell Memorial<br />
Presbyterian Church<br />
Bluehawk Consulting<br />
Broetje Orchards, LLC<br />
The Caster Family Trust<br />
Christine Cochrane<br />
Family Foundation<br />
Churchwomen of St. Stephen’s<br />
Clifton Family Fund<br />
Colson Foundation<br />
Community Covenant Church<br />
of the Methow Valley<br />
Costco Wholesale<br />
D.A. Davidson & Co.<br />
Daniel Nyblad Trust<br />
David and Carol Myers<br />
Foundation<br />
David Owen Hastings Design<br />
Driscoll Foundation<br />
Edwards Family Foundation<br />
Ellis, Li & McKinstry PLLC<br />
First Presbyterian Church<br />
of Boulder<br />
Foundry Vineyards<br />
Global Studio, LLC<br />
Greenwood Christian Church<br />
The 2010 James D Groat<br />
Rev Trust<br />
Hayman Family Trust<br />
Holy Spirit Lutheran Church<br />
Impact Assets, c/o<br />
Calvert Foundation<br />
International Foundation<br />
The Joshua Green Foundation<br />
Juniper Foundation<br />
KF Events LLC<br />
Lake Grove Presbyterian Church<br />
Lakeside Industries<br />
LEED, LLLP<br />
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust<br />
Mark Torrance Foundation<br />
Mary, Queen Of Peace Parish<br />
Maverick Chocolate Company<br />
Mazagran Photography<br />
Meadowbrook Church<br />
National Christian Foundation<br />
Seattle<br />
New Community Church<br />
The New Horizons<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
North Valley Community<br />
Foundation<br />
The O’Donnell Family<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
Pacific Continental Bank<br />
Payline Data, LLC<br />
Peter Hawkins Dobberpuhl<br />
Foundation<br />
Presbyterian Church<br />
of Jackson Hole<br />
ProAquaculture, Inc.<br />
PS Flyers Production LLC<br />
Puget Sound Bank<br />
Rescue Response Gear Inc.<br />
Ringoen Family Foundation<br />
Riviere & Associates<br />
Sammamish Rotary Club<br />
Schober Foundation<br />
The Seattle Foundation<br />
Shadle Park Presbyterian Church<br />
Shilshole Development LLC<br />
The Sister Fund<br />
Stewardship Foundation<br />
SWAT Systems<br />
Terex Corporation<br />
TEW Foundation<br />
The Atizan Group, INC.<br />
The Tschetter Group<br />
UBS Financial Services Inc.<br />
University Presbyterian Church<br />
The Valencia Foundation<br />
WaterStone<br />
Weber Marketing Group<br />
ZUM Communications<br />
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