On behalf of the JCL Foundation Board of Directors and the Johnson County Library Staff, thanks to everyone who invested in the Johnson County Library in 2023. We appreciate your generosity and your love for our libraries.
Your donations made a lot of dreams and learning possible in 2023.
The JCL Foundation worked with the Johnson County Library to:
- Purchase hundreds and hundreds of extra books, large print books, audiobooks, e-books, and DVDs for the collection that serves all 14 libraries.
- Support additional equipment for the Black & Veatch MakerSpace.
- Empower Race Project KC’s advisory committee to explore options for future programming and expansion.
- Access to Brainfuse, an online program to help students get homework help, or get prepped for the ACT or SAT, or use the writing lab to assist with creating papers.
- Publish elementia – the literary arts magazine published to represent and uplift young adults.
- Give books to the library at Adult Incarcerated Services.
- Create ‘Memory Lab’ with the Johnson County Genealogy Society to digitally save your photos and videos.
- Host the 2-day Joan Berkley Writer’s Conference.
- Purchase the early literacy interactive unit for the Merriam Plaza Library children’s section.
- And so much more.
Thank you to all 2023 Donors!
$25,000 or more
Black & Veatch Foundation
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Estate of Marjorie Sams
$10,000+
Carol & Fred Logan
Regnier Family Foundations
$5,000+
Anne & Bill Blessing
Louis & Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable Foundation
Hope & Tyler Harms
The Kirk Foundation
Susanne Shutz
Stinson, LLP
Vickie & Dale Trott
$2,500+
Friends of the Johnson County Library
Henderson Engineers, Inc.
R.A. Long Foundation
Leigh Anne and Bill Neal
Stepp & Rothwell, Inc.
Village Presbyterian Church
$1,000+
Chris Anderson & Lyn Buckley
Jon & Sarah Baum
Emily D. Berkley
Judy & Gerard Bukowski
Randall & Penny Burdge
John & Kay Callison
Campbell Family Foundation
Charles & Virginia Clark
James & Carolyn Clemons
Creative Planning, Inc.
Randall & Helen Duncan
Jon & Lisa Fewins Family Fund
Janet Filkel
Josephine Foote
Paula Frankel
Mark & Nancy Gilman
Zack & Susan Hangauer
Steve & Kristen Hansen
Robyn & Kelly Hart
Johnson County Community College Foundation
Kansas Gas Service
Lisa Larson-Bunnell & Nicholas Bunnell
Lathrop GPM — Ben Struby
Chris & Bonnie Limbird
Cindy Martin
Royceann Mather & Andy Prosser
Maureen McGinty
Chris & Barbara Nichols
Ada Niedenthal
Shelley Rogers O’Brien
PGAV Architects
Betty Robinson
Nathan & Rachelle Schmachtenberger
Randell L. Sedlacek
Shawnee Mission Post
Chuck & Kay Sipple
Burton & Barbara Smoliar
Ben & Shannon Sunds
Stann Tate & Ann Smith-Tate
Walmart Foundation
$750+
Erwin & Phyllis Abrams
Clark & Enersen
Country Club Bank
Dake Wells Architecture, Inc.
Dysart Taylor McMonigle Brumitt & Wilcox, P.C.
Paul & Suzanne Koontz
Brad Korris & Missy Bruhn
Shamita & Rajiv Mahajan
Midwest Tape
Multistudio
Nitin Pai
Anjali & Prashant Pandya
Mike & Janice Perkins
Roger & Mitra Templin
Titan Built, LLC
Warren Samms & Erica Bakota
Julie Steiner
Greg & Stephanie Stollsteimer
Amanda Vega-Mavec & Ethan Mavec
$500+
Kimberly Baker
G. Kenneth & Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund
William & Maureen Berkley
Catherine & James Brazeal
Gary & Kathy Bussing
Cynthia Chandler
Ava & Mike Christie
Patti Greenbaum
Joanie & Evan James
Bryan & Linda Johnson
Johnson County Bar Foundation
Coco Johnston
Jennifer & Jamie Kappeler
Adrienne Kilbride
Asher & Audrey Langworthy
Fiske Miles
Rick & Denise Mills
Sherry Nelson
Charles & Jane Olsen
Carolyn Pitts
Dan & Sherri Robeson
John & Fern Rosenberg
Jackie Rudolph
Stephanie M. Smith
Tricia Suellentrop & Shaun Gregory
Super Family Foundation
Claude & Bertina Thau
Patrick & Kathy Townsend
Cindy Wallis-Lage & Kent Lage
$200+
Shirley Allenbrand
Erik & Heather Anderson
Janet Arensberg
Amy Barclay
Tom & Tricia Bath
Judie Black Becker
Amber Bourek Slater
Shelee Brim
Mark Burdolski
Jennifer Burklund
Chris & Rhae Burt
Peter & Joan Cabell
Gabrielle Cacy
James & Lori Cessna
Maggie Collins
John & Deidre Conley
Richard & Morgan Cook
Jay & Kit Culver
Jim & Lainie Decker
EPromotions – Leila Gallagher
Steve Eckman
Christine Evans Hands
Valinda Fisher-Hobson & Michael Hobson
Denise Gaddy
Kristy Gibson
Shelby Giesler
Kathy Hance
Sandra Hannon
Mel & Alice Hawk
Suzanne Heffner
Mary & Clarke L. Henry
Meg & John Holloway
Bill & Marguerite Humenczuk
Elisabeth & Brian Hunt
Marcia Hurlow
Barbara Hurst
Lisa Janati & Earle J Stemm
Caroline John
Valery Johnson
Donald Kehres
Kelly Kilgore
Rachel Krantz & Edward Goldstein
Ruth Leiter
David & Beverly Lewis
Sharad Mathur
Doug & Jennifer Mahnken
Penelope Massa
Daniel McCartney
John & Dinah McClymonds
Zan & Sharma McKinney
Jeffrey & Elizabeth Mendoza
Mary E. McCoy
Kathy McMiller
Mid-Continent Public Library
John & Ellen Miller
Richard E. Moore
Stephanie Neu
Thomas & Tracey Oltjen
Karen & Mike O’Mara
Sarah Page
Michael & Jamie Paget
Zulma Perez-Estrella
Rhonda Philpott
Michael & Usha Rafferty
Ragtag Film Society
Ann Renne
Kinsley Riggs
Cynthia Robinson
Robin & Doris Royals
John & Amy Ruo
Mike Sherry
John Siceloff
David & Heather Sims
Leonard & Jill Singer
Connie Strand & Donald Skinner
Danielle Stebbins
Sarah & Adam Struby
Steve & Lori Tesdahl
Jennifer Tsiames
Mike Varel
Janice Vartuli
David Vratny
Joe & Nancy Waters
Adam Wathen
Stephen Werts
Lucinda White