Our Supporters

Individuals:

Stacy Abramson, Juliette Adams, Anonymous, Ardea Cares, Elizabeth Arnold, Matthew Welz Aubin, Sarah Baker and Tim Albright, William Bancroft, Brad Bateman, Jenifer Berman, Merritt Birnbaum, Richard Blum, Gwendolyn Bock, Jane Bock, Marlen Bodden, Lesley Bodzy, Brent Bovenzi, Markley Boyer Fund, Nancy Schieffelin and Carl Brauer, Braun Giving Fund, Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler, Stephanie Burkhartsmeyer, Leanne Burney, Mariam Brillantes and David Bushman, Wellington Chen, Patrick Chin, John Chow, Liana Chow, Angus Davol and Jason Casolari, Anna and Peter Davol, Leslie and Sam Davol, Ferriss and Willard Donham, Laurie Dornbrand and Bernard Lo, Andrea and Jared Eigerman, Fagan and Schindelheim Giving Fund, Alison Fallon, Samara and John Fangman, Robert and Laura Fleder, Kevon Fleming, Don Fels, Angel M. Flug, Jerise Fogel, Mark Foggin, Salome Galib, Patricia Glazer and Richard Mittenthal, Genevieve Goelet, Claudia Gonson, Gail Gordon, Magda and Ken Gordon, Mary Sipp Green, Margaret Haley, Yolanda Hardy, Peter Harvey, Margaret Heilbrun, Jacob Herald, Judith and Marc Hilton, Brenden Hussey, Gail Inaba, Belinda Kaye, Fred Kent, Martha King, Ellie Hearne and Will Klebenov, Ivan Kreilkamp, Heather and Jerry Lammers, Lager Chin Family Fund in honor of Jane Bock, Donna Lee, Helen Lee, Jessica Lee, Terry and Geoffrey Lewis, Derong Li, Zara Mannan, Jillian Marcus, Susan P. Martin and Alan Belzer, Mazzone Hardware, Stephin Merritt, Marina Metalios, William Middleton, Amanda Morretti, Sarina Tcherepnin and James Morris, Niclas Nagler, Amanda Nichols, Rebecca Nichols, John Addy and Jane McNamara, Yukie Ohta, Jeremy Osborn, Nancy Oudet, Victoria Pao, Jeannie Park, Anne Parker, Eric Parker, Susanne Beck and Bill Parker, Katherine Perls, Jennifer and Ellyn Polshek, Sharon E. Pope, Gabriella Radujko, Nancy A. Risser, Peter Frishauf and KC Rice Donor Fund, Red and Grey Fund, Holly Robbins, Karen Robinson, Lauren Romano, Andrew Ronan, Chris Rowe, Ryan Russo, Ellen Ryan, Laura Ryan and Peter Cavanagh, Elizabeth Schmidt and Eric Liftin, Eileen J. Shields, Elis Shin, Neal Shulman, Wendy Shum, Maria Striar, Myles Striar, Eva Siri Striar Charitable Gift Fund, Diana Tanaka, Adele and Ronald Tauber, Karen and Daniel Taylor, Joycelyn Te, Jennifer Terry, Jon Thompson, Eytan Tigay, Rachel Tiven, The Barney and Sandy Weinstein Fund, Pamela Ho-Wong and Randall Wong, The Tomford Family, Shari and Robert Thurer, Dana Vermilye and Morgan May, Sally Walther, Niobe Way, Michael Williams, Andy Wiley-Schwartz, Hanne T Wolf, Joya Wolf, Lucille Wolf, Ruth Yang, Margaret Yee and Glenn Ikeda, Karen Yilmaz, Maxwell Zorick

A history of public support

Our first pop-up reading room was built with the support of 250 individuals in August 2011 via Kickstarter.

Founding Sponsors

Susanne Beck and Billy Parker, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, Leaves of Grass Fund, Sam and Esme Lee, Karen and Daniel Taylor

Founding Donors

Anonymous, Sarah Baker and Tim Albright, Sarah Anderson, Bernice Broyde, Susannah and Tommy Clark, Barbara L Cohen, Angus Davol and Jason Casolari, Anna and Peter Davol, Ferriss and Willard Donham, Martin Dunn, Andrea and Jared Eigerman, Stephanie and John Fan, Laura and Robert Fleder, Yvonne Brown and Josh Goldfein, Ken and Magda Gordon, Siri Striar and Francisco Hernández, David Kaiser, Elizabeth Schmidt and Eric Liftin, Laurie Dornbrand and Bernard Lo, Ann and Michael Loeb, Hope Nguyen, Allison and Craig Schlanger, Lise and Myles Striar, Adele and Ronald Tauber and Family, Duane Valz, The Venkatraman Family, Yun Soo and Adrian Vermeule.

Founding Contributors

Adam, Ravi Ahmad, Aimee, Alexandra, Lulu Almana, Matt Amory, Derek Attig, Samuel Baker, Casey Bauer, Nicholas Benson, Claudia Bernheim, Suzanne Besser, BibiAndFriendsTV, David Bither, Sheri Bjornson, Shantel Blakely, Jane Bock, Clara Bohrer, BookMortician, Nancy Schieffelin and Carl Brauer, Zana Briski, Nathan Brown, Kathleen Burlingame, Polly Carpenter, Tobias Carroll, Mairead Case, Laura Ryan and Peter Cavanagh, Betsy Cavanaugh, Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell, Chris Chambers-Ju, Arthur Chandler, Vincent Audette-Chapdelaine, Ksenia Cheinman, Amy Cheung, David Cicconi, Brian Clancy, Elizabeth and Robert Clark, Jennifer Clark, Carrie Cleary, Henri Clinch, John Cohen, Kathleen Comeau, Confusedcious, Eric Connally, Jennifer Cooke, Betty Chen and Peter Coombe, Garen Corbett, Mark and Sylvia Cord, Elaine Cory, Laura Costello, Gail Courtney, John Cramer, Elizabeth Currans, DJ Fusion – FuseBox Radio Broadcast, D.J. Trindle, Sophie de Rakoff, Stewart Desmond, Bill Dillon, Priscilla and Brett Donham, Deirdre Donohue, Aaron Dornbrand-Lo, Rainer Dunkel, Evan Didier, Owais Diyan, Meghan Dowell, Doug Eklund, Helen Elder, Elizabeth, Caterina Fake, Fiona, Nicole Fonsh, Tom Frawley, Freemecene, Anthony Fresina, Emma Straub and Mike Fusco, Elizabeth Gardner, Jurn Glazenburg, Claudia Gonson, Laurence Vanleynseele and Jared Green, Mary Sipp Green, Nick Green, Brian Greene, Sharon French and Harpreet Grewal, Alexa Hamilton, Michael Hearst, Eric Hellman, Barbara Herman, Linsey Herman, Orin Herskowitz, Nate Hill, Teresa Hill, Allie Hirsch, Jan Holmquist, Connie Coburn and James Houghton, Gil Hova, Robin Howson, Brenden Hussey, Isaac, Alice and Phillip Isenberg, Joahna Kuiper, Janet Jai, Erica Jablon, Joshua James, Jeannie, Ranti Junus, Karen Kaletka, Khoisan, Victor Kim, Kimberly Kinchen, Erin Kissane, Sam Klein, Sarah Pearce and Ivan Kreilkamp, Juliette LaMontagne, Jeffrey Lange, Nancy and John LeGates, Lenny, Terry and Geoffrey Lewis, Ursula Liang, Stephanie Lin, Beile Lindner, Darlaine Gardetto and Clarence Lo, Theresa Loong, Helen Luan, Pattie Maes, Ben Mahnke, Roxanne Marcil, Kevin J. Maroney, Jayson Mazziotti, Molly McInerney, Robert McInerney, Fran Mentch, William Middleton, Rebecca Miller, Susan Vincent Molinaro, Lee Moreau, Courtney Moy, Ursula Murphy, Mary-Liz Murray, Mark Nowotarski, Meaghan K O’Connor, Fiacre O’Duinn, Yukie Ohta, Kristin and Jeremy Osborn, Amber Pannell, Paul Parkhill, Katherine Perls, Tom Perrotta, Tom Petty, Plainclothes Tracy, Laura Wolf-Powers, Deborah Putnoi, Sheila Quinlan, Richard Rabinowitz, Red Trillium Press, Hallie Rehwaldt, Ann V. Reilly, Nancy A Risser, Chris Robison, Amy Stasuk Rocco, Rockhouse Mountain Productions, Roger, Susan and Malcolm Rogers, Charles Rothbart, Ashley Salzberry, Sally Schwarzlose, John Sell, Erik Selz, Gideon Fink Shapiro, Amy Sloper, Alexa Smith, Jill Smith, Helen Sobolik, Laurie Spivak, Alexandra Quinn and Mark Spolyar, Stephanie, Stephanie, Deb Steytler artist, Patrick Polski Stelmach, Ayres Stiles-Hall, Susan and Peter Straub, Maria Striar, Marie Sundström, Michael T, Leslie Tamaribuchi, Lisa Tauber, Leith ter Meulen, Martin Thörnkvist, Brian Thompson, Shari and Robert Thurer, Timmy, Tina, Alice Tinkley, Sharon Tomasulo, Sophia Tzeng, Sameer Vasta, Victoria, Kevin Walker, Sandy and Barney Weinstein, Jennifer D. Wells, Anita Wharton, Brian Willen, Rebecca Parkhill and Robert Willett, Mita Williams, Cheryl Wolf, John Woo, Noelle Wright, Paola Yanez, Corinne Zimmermann.

Founding Sponsors of Programs

Spin (PLAY), Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler (WRITE), zen.digital (SOLVE), Burning Man (DRAW), Blick Art Materials (DRAW), Betty Chen and Peter Coombe (DRAW), Romy and David Cohen (DRAW), Laura and Robert Fleder (DRAW), Evgenia Peretz (DRAW), Fabiola Salmán (DRAW), SHoP (DRAW), Susanne Beck and Billy Parker (READ), Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown (READ), Leaves of Grass Fund (READ), Sam and Esme Lee (READ)

In-Kind Donations

Arnold & Porter, Bill Bancroft Design, Alex Ching, Buro Koray Duman, ChildrensHaus, Design Across Scales Lab Cornell AAP, Empire Rent A Car, FileMaker Inc, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, Hannah Berkin-Harper and The Pratt Center for Community Development Taconic Fellowship, HBH Design, Inc., Herschel, HYPOTHEkids, Lawyers Alliance for New York, Modern Tribe Software, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, NYDesigns, NYC Dept. of Transportation, Open Architecture Collaborative New York, Notion, Pratt Institute, Tableau Foundation, The Drawing Center

Donors of Program Materials

A.rt R.esources T.ransfer, 3Dux/Design, 826NYC, Asian American Arts Centre, Blick Art Materials, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Karen Benke, Samantha Berger, Blast Books, Jane Bock, Yvonne Brown and Josh Goldfein, Alejandro Bruzzese, Barbara Buff, Candlewick Press, Veronica Chambers, China Institute, Jo Clark, Barbara Cohen and New York Bound Books, Sarah Crichton, Leslie and Sam Davol, Design Trust for Public Space, Kristy Di Cario, Will and Ferriss Donham, The Dornbrand-Lo Family, The Drawing Center, Abby Drucker, Feminist Press, The Fire!! Press, Furnace Press and Place in History, Joel Greenberg, Beth Greenwald, Chelsea Gunn, Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, HarperCollins, Ethan Herschenfeld, Terry Hill, Imagination Playground, Imago USA, Yukiko Ishii, Island Press, Rossana Iturbide, Marni Katz, Embassy of Republic of Kazakhstan (Ambassador Erlan Idrissov), Alexandra Kepner, Karen Kulvin and family, Lego Foundation, T.J. Lee, Beatrice Liu, Yanyan Liu, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Magna-Tiles, Ken McCarthy, Employees of Merkle, Inc, Amy Morilla and Family, James Morris, Museum of Chinese in America, Museum of Modern Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, NYC Dept. of Design and Construction Community and STEAM Initiatives, NYC Dept. of Transportation, New York Hall of Science, Jeffrey Oing, Adrienne Onofri, Christine O’Heron, Yukie Ohta, Kristin and Jeremy Osborn, Out Books on Wheels, Jeannie Park, Andrea and Kevin Pivnick, Penguin Random House, Monica Price, Progressive School of Long Island, Deb Putnoi, Reading Group Choices, Kathleen Salley, The Parkhill Willett Family, Ellie Ransom, Rosemary Rivera, Sesame Workshop, Lauren Salem and family, SYNLawn, Carla Torres, Uprise Book Project, Lou-Anne Williams.